We don’t even need trains to drive themselves. We just don’t need cars. That’s it. There doesn’t need to be automation. There just needs to be a change in our infrastructure.
Why does every faux leftist want to take out cars away? Is it just cause they’re mostly children online and they’ve never had a job let alone own a car…
Beware anyone who would restrict your freedom of movement
Lmao you think cars are freedom, not just another means of control. That’s hilarious. Henry Ford would be proud of your ignorance.
I’m a grown adult who’s tired of being a slave to my car and my town’s hostile infrastructure. Sorry you’re too much of a dork to get that cars and modern American roads absolutely fucking suck. Sorry you hate poor people and want to force us into constant debt and chain us to useless metal coffins.
I don’t want to take anyone’s car. I want a world where hardly anyone needs a car and therefore get rid of theirs willingly. I want a world where I can walk most places I need to go and can ride a bus or train or my bicycle everywhere else. But ok buddy.
Taking public transit in a place where public transit is well-funded and well-designed is a goddamn delight. You want freedom? I can go wherever I want, I don’t have to park, and there’s a tram or bus every ten minutes so I’m not even worried about my schedule. I don’t even fucking like walking and I would love to live in a city where that was an option.
Naturally this is not an experience most Americans have had because even our best city public transit is blown out of the water by what other countries are doing. It’s not easy to explain how life-changing that level of transit access is!
And if you really must drive, well, the roads are a lot clearer when everyone else is on a train.
There were a handful of different people at the laundromat today who like, acted like they’ve never done laundry before?
At first I found it amusing, bc there’s a few more steps to do at a laundromat compared to your parents at home machines . .
But then I realized most of them were older than me
And that I’m almost 30
And I was reminded that my history teachers glossed over how the great depression wasn’t as bad for ppl who were poor before the crash and spent even less time going over how it was worse for black ppl even after the new deal and things started to get better
I am already so tired, will I really have to start teaching my seniors (not senior citizen but just like, 5+yrs older than me) how to . . fucking live? Because they had always had money or home appliances to do it for them???
seriously don’t understand what is wrong with urban planners in the united states and canada. does anyone actually genuinely think that this shit:
looks like anything but an absolute nightmare? like this is what hell looks like to me
This IS an absolute nightmare, but this isn’t urban planning. It’s real estate development. Some company buys a bunch of land and conspires to put as many detached single-family homes on it as possible, builds them cheap (cutting corners CONSTANTLY), and then sells them at inflated rates. It fucks up the housing market for miles around, all the houses are identical but broken in different and fun ways, and nobody is actually happy except the developer who made a bunch of money while cheating everyone else involved.
i stand corrected! my real question is “what is wrong with real estate developers” and the answer is “capitalist brain poison” as always
When Dracula said “to live in a new house would kill me“ I thought of this kind of neighbourhood and went “yeah, same”.
Most of these suburbs also have Home Owners Associations so you’re literally not allowed to do anything to your yard that might disrupt the neat, tidy look. People have been fined and even taken to court for trying to grow “messy” native plants or even a vegetable garden.
