It ain’t much, but the idea was causing a traffic jam in my head so I had to get it out here on the information transit grid.
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A series of crudely made car stickers saying:
GET ME OFF THE ROAD
Support public transit :3
I know my driving sucks
We need more buses so I don’t have to
THIS CAR WOULDN’T BE CAUSING TRAFFIC
IF WE HAD BETTER PUBLIC TRANSIT
A comment like this is really out of touch with reality on the ground for many people.
Do you want to have money to eat and a place to live? You need a job, and to have that job you need to get there, and to do that there is no workable public transit.
Possibly in America yes, but not where I live.
Saying “possibly” is quite different from your edit to your earlier comment where you say you’ve been to every corner of the U.S. and there’s workable public transit.
I live here and haven’t been to every corner, and I doubt you have, because if you did you’d know there are many places where public transit is insufficient or non existent.
That’s fair. My main point is that if the USA has irregular and empty buses, and yet highways full of expensive SUVs and giant pickups, fundamentally that’s because Americans are happy with that situation. After all, they’ve had constitutional rights and extremely regular elections since before Henry Ford existed, and yet here they are, stuck in traffic in their little rolling castles. They’ve chosen what’s important to them (and the same goes in Europe to a somewhat lesser degree).
It’s not falsifiable, it’s not a recipe for fixing things, but to me it seems self-evidently true.