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submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I was recently held up in absolute dead stop traffic. We were sitting on the tarmac with no movement for well over an hour, in the 80 degree sun, before I felt obliged to leave my car and go see if it was because of roadwork or an accident or what.

I joined a small crowd of onlookers after reaching the head, spectating a row of sit-in protesters. One driver had tried to get around but a few protesters moved tactically so that he couldn't go any further without injuring somebody.

I didn't wait around, although there were people phoning the police and some tempers beginning to flare. So I head back to my car. The dairy groceries that I picked up on the way back from work had begun to spoil.

I was late home by nearly three hours, so no time to unwind. Just enough to pack away some old leftovers before heading off to sleep and restart cycle all over, -1 hour or so of sleep.

Previously, I had no opinion whatsoever on whether cars=good or cars=bad. But after being held up in traffic, wasting money, wasting gas, losing sleep and perhaps a bit of my sanity I am now totally on board with the Fuck Cars movement. I couldn't imagine a more convincing strategy to bring people over to your perspective. Excellent thinking. Good job.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Although when we have focused so much on automotive transit, it does make it as a weakness to protestors and saboteurs.

Right now that conversation (whatever the the issue motivating the issue) are still trying peaceful protest.

Imagine what happens if, instead of blocking the highway with their bodies, they just blow up the tarmac?

Then all those people in traffic are just fucked. That segment of highway is useless until days of emergency repair.

A more versitile transit system would be more resistant to such attacks, but that would mean supporting transit for people who are not rich. People who presently are second class citizens, who might be tired of not having the same representation in society. And who might want to disrupt traffic of the wealthy to let them k ow things suck for those without.

No war but class war.