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New Zealanders stuck in a 'car dependency cycle' as fuel likely to rise to record-breaking prices (www.stuff.co.nz)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A lot of places are stuck on car dependency, it's awful.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not in Europe, wow. I just came back from a trip and you literally can go everywhere on public transport, including to the tiniest weirdest towns you can think of.

It's a dream, and I wish we had something like that 😢

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Europe also has something like 40× our pop density by land mass, and they can.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Of course you got downvoted for pointing that out.