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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (34 children)

Explain your reasoning, please.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (24 children)

This is a common vibe from urbanists (spoiler alert: I'm an urbanist, myself). The heart of the message is this: in the US, our streets and cities have been designed to prioritize the car above all else, at the expense of all else. In most of the US, if you try to go anywhere by any other means, bicycle, walking, bus, you name it, it's downright hostile. In fact, it wasn't always this way, and we only arrived here after decades of consistent lobbying, political fuck fuck games, and influence campaigns by car makers. So, this is, in part, an effort to reframe people's thinking about streets from something that cars go on to something that cars share with others.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (23 children)

Oh, so you're one of those.

Roads are made for cars, and people shouldn't be walking on them at night with dark clothes on.

They're by definition a road hazard, no matter your personal beef with cars.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

In the UK most roads were made well before cars existed you moron

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And? They're currently made for cars.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I know you are, but what am I?

You see, that's how you sound. Only children resort to insults when they have no legitimate argument back.

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