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Commutes Are Faster For Everyone After Buses Got Their Own Lane On Tobin Bridge
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this post was submitted on 11 Sep 2023
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I'm not a fan of the whole "fuck cars" movement, simply because Cars are a central staple of American identity. But I can get behind something like this. Public transportation sucks, it always will, because you're forced to deal with the public. Dedicated lanes for these service vehicles is a good idea, as it lowers the time significantly. I also wish we had road coverings with solar on them. There's about 39 million acres of road in America, and we would only need about 14 million acres of solar panels to power the USA. AND we'd get shade while driving, reducing the need to run A/C.
What made cars so central to being an American? I work from home in a rural area, and I need a car. I can’t walk to the grocery store because they built it too damned far away down a dangerous road. So what could I walk to? “Convenience” stores owned by the same companies that run the grocer except it’s all marked up for the convenience. And My employers downtown office doesn’t make business sense for the one time a month they make me drive down there, and the easiest solution, obviously, is to give me a few days notice that I’ll be in office indefinitely.
From then on there’ll be nothing more American than wasting my life on some stretch of highway with parked cars for miles in front of me, waiting to get to the same exit as everybody else, and then waiting to get through the same lights as they are, so I can get to my house that’s one street away from where they’re going.
Maybe we should critically re-examine what our parents were advertised into believing is the most American thing ever. Before the environmental collapse, please.
FORD, and paying their employees a wage that was enough to be able to afford those cars. Manufacturing in the early 1900s. It's one of the things that Americans enjoy, along with Baseball, Burgers, Blue Jeans, etc.
You've been too entrenched in that "Americans don't have culture" lie that you've been told. Cars are very much a part of American culture. Racing, customization, engineering, speed, freedom to go wherever you want, whenever you want. Cars are central to individualism and a massive part of our culture.
Additionally, we're far less population dense than other nations, with exception of Russia, Canada, and Australia. Individual travel is a necessity for our populace.
Well then, I suppose if it is CENTRAL to American identity, perhaps the climate will take that into account and bypass the USA. The solution was looking us right in the face.
Because cars are the problem and not the technology they run on, right? What is this short-sighted shit take?