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Oh look, another anti-car meme from someone who clearly doesn't understand cars. Keep it up, Lemmy. One day your relentless negativity will achieve something, and I'll laugh all the way to my grave because it'll be the exact opposite of what y'all wanted.
Hmmm what future do I want?
I'm guessing a weird and impossible one if you don't accept the obvious benefits of electric cars
Whatever it is, being smug, sour, and ignorant about it is going to get people to oppose you on principle alone.
Sounds like a lot of assumptions on your part about what I think.
I'm referring to the meme you posted, but ok. My statement also applies regardless of what you think, so I don't know what to tell you.
But you understand cars right? Pray tell, what is wrong about this post. We all obviously need your divine knowledge, ofc which I presume will also have cited sources right.
Bike 45 miles each way to work and tell me it's still a viable solution for everyone, everywhere.
Try to build a rail network that adequately covers 3.8 million square miles without driving your country into blinding debt.
Tell me that I need to haul a cello that I value more than my own life in the rain.
Squeeze enough groceries for a family of four to eat for a week into bicycle saddlebags.
But as I mentioned elsewhere, the more smug and sour you act, the more the average person is going to oppose you simply because you're an absolutely insufferable asshole. Then again, if you had social skills, you probably wouldn't be here in the first place because you'd have friends (and maybe a fucking clue).
Go eat uranium, you smug piece of shit.
- 72km is indeed a long distance, but by using bike for travel does not mean using bike to go from your house to your destination unlike how a lot of people think. My usual route (30km) is bike 1km to a bus station where I get on my bus, it takes me almost all the way to my destination. From there, I either get off at a stop which is a 12 minute walk to my destination, if I have plans to travel with my friends who live in the area, or I go to the city center where I take a bus. I do know someone who has to travel 115KM (71 miles) to work, but they just take one train and it brings them within walking distance of their work. And if its raining, I can just walk with an umbrella, get on a tram, and go on from there. By the way, my travel is usually around €150 per month, which is a fixed cost as I have a monthly subscription for the travel. It would be around €500 I think for my friend.
- Assuming you are from USA because of miles. A rail network does not need to be placed on every inch of your land. Public transport follows a hierarchy, same as your roads. You don't have your interstate network taking you to every little corner now do you? Trains are similar. Trains connect major cities. Metro connects up the suburbs and all the distant yet important areas and busses and trams and bikes are for local transport. As for the cost, according to reports from 2016, the total infrastructure costs for rail networks in the EU were €80 billion, while the same for road networks was about €184 billion. Source Am I saying these numbers are conclusive? Absolutely not, European countries in general have prioritised better public transport infrastructure for a long time, and fixing existing infrastructure is a huge undertaking, one which requires a lot of manpower and expert engineers.
- And how are you getting this cello in your car? Also, renting a van to use when moving is pretty cheap if you didn't know! No need to pay quarterly taxes and if the person before you was kind enough, you don't even need to pay for fuel (although you should leave rented cars with the fuel you got it with). Don't tell me you trust 16 year olds who just got their license to not hit your car when you are transporting something worth more than your life in the rain.
- Actually, most families in the Netherlands already do that. We use bakfiets here.
- Maybe you should go talk to your friends or something, have a beer maybe. Walk to the local pub and- oh wait, my bad, I forgot that walking to someplace probably will be lethal where you come from with all those cars. Try to be a bit more positive. And you did not answer my question either, just started insulting me, which was very uncalled for I should say. Its like shooting a man because he stole a $5 sandwich from your store. Anyways, I hope this answer clears your doubts regarding my views on your questions, and I do hope to actually get my question answered instead of getting more stupid questions and insults.