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.
Car dependency encourages class stratification.
I’ve been an adult for over thirty years, and I would jump at the chance to take public transit wherever I needed to go, if public transit actually existed where I live. I’ve lived in places with thorough, efficient public transit systems, and there’s nothing like it. I mean, yeah, I’ll still have a car for those times when public transit won’t do, but those times are few and far between.
With public transit, my teens could take the bus or the metro or the train wherever they needed to be, instead of having to rely on me to take them everywhere. They’d be free, and so would I. Car culture and a lack of public transit also gives disabled folks fewer options for getting around. (Yes, I know that there are also major issues with accessibility on public transit, but still.)
Public transit done well makes our lives easier, not harder.
Make sure to cancel/delete your uber account before uninstalling the app.
One Bus Awayis the public transit app I use (Seattle/Puget Sound area, it’s on IOS and Android!), and it works for a few other cities too.
I also recommend saving your local taxi service’s number into your phone just in case. (Seattle Yellow Cabis 206-622-6500, they also have an app on IOS and Android.)
It’s time to make the INvisible VISIBLE by proudly and publicly talking about our experiences as invisibly disabled people.
Despite popular belief and community infrastructures, #InvisiblyDisabledPplExist. This ignorance and reduced community recognition and assistance can cause us lots of unnecessary difficulty, pain, and even death.
This means it’s time to start a movement to end the ignorance about what it “means” to be disabled.
Please use the hashtag #InvisiblyDisabledPplExist to not only make signs over disabled seating and other areas, as mentioned in tweet 4 above.
We must also talk about our many many stories of being invisibly disabled in a world where the public doesn’t recognize our existence (like mine).
I keep meaning to bring this back but I’m always too poor and am a terrible anti-social hermit. I’ve gotta get bigger post-its and better markers, which are surprisingly expensive. I also wanna contact my local news agencies about it as a movement I’d like to start (with their help), but I don’t wanna give away my real identity.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can make a bigger splash with this movement given these limitations???
That said, I’d also very much love it if others would help me by making a handful of these post-its and spreading them around too (especially on public transit).
ETA: Also, if you DO spread these post-its around, pls also take pictures of it and share those photos and perhaps also this link on any and all of your social media (e.g., facebook, instagram, twitter, tumblr, etc! using the hashtag!! PLS!!!)
If public transit has million number of fans i am one of them . if public transit has ten fans i am one of them. if public transit have only one fan and that is me . if public transit has no fans, that means i am no more on the earth . if world against the public transit, i am against the world. i love #publictransit till my last breath.. .. Die Hard fan of public transit. Hit Like If you Think public transit Best invention & Smart In the world
Metro Transit is hosting a Transit Equity through History exhibit at the Minneapolis Central Library during the month of March.
The exhibit shares a timeline of major events in Twin Cities’ transit history and goes into detail about how focusing on equity has become more and more important for the agency since it became public, in 1970.
The exhibit is on view in the first floor atrium display case and can be viewed anytime during the library’s open hours.
‘With no delays or mistakes, it would take him nine hours to get from Rogersville to Fredericton. He could bike that distance in eight hours, and drive it in two.
I haven’t posted in five months! But somehow I’ve still accrued new followers.
Just to update you all, the reason I’m not writing here anymore is because I’m writing about transportation for Untapped New York. Mosey on over there to see my posts about the Transit Museum, Arts for Transit, subway events, photo essays, etc. And Untapped in general is an awesome site for urban-livers and urban-lovers of all stripes, so stick around to read about the hidden gems, undiscovered places, and community activities tracked down by intrepid city pioneers. Thanks for reading!
Did you see the little featureinNew York magazine about the plans for Time Square? I am timidly hopeful, although I still don’t see myself going there willingly.
Bus stops with no places to sit down should be illegal. I mean this in the most genuine literal way possible.
Buses are the last line of defense and way to be independent for people who can’t drive or walk for long distances (me). If I walk to the stop (already painful) and have to stand there for ten minutes waiting with no seats or benches, is that really accessible? And what about people with a lot more pain and mobility issues than me? All I really have to deal with is moderate foot pain, and that still has me leaning on a wall or sitting down on dirty pavement if I miss the bus and have to wait for the next one in 15 minutes/half an hour. There should be at least one seat at every bus stop. Yes, even the non-covered ones. If you’re going to have kneeling buses and priority seating and pretend to care about disabled folks in that way, at least do this too.
