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Wales lowers speed limit to 20 mph to cut car use and save lives
(www.euronews.com)
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this post was submitted on 06 Sep 2023
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I wish my neighborhood would do this. 25mph feels really fast on my street. I usually hover around 15-20 when I'm not paying attention to my speed.
Edit: I am surprised that this was my third most controversial comment since I've joined
It's been surprising to see just how many pro-car users seem to lurk on these anti-car/pro-alternative transport communities.
They're probably imagining me as that Prius or something slowing them down in traffic. My neighborhood is basically one lane when people are parked, and there are a lot of kids, so if they drove the road they'd understand.
for all it's worth carbrained people all hate each other, too, but boy are they good at rallying around a common enemy
This community regularly makes it to the front page of Everything. It's really not that isolated from the rest of Lemmy
I guess that's the difference in scale between here and Reddit. r/fuckcars was tiny compared to the whole of reddit, but I guess this is large enough to be prominent in Everything.
I dunno, I didn't subscribe to /r/fuckcars on reddit, but I got their posts all the time on /r/all back in the day. I think a lot of people just don't like having to rely on cars ๐
I live in a super rural area and would have an almost impossible time working, buying groceries or getting medical care without a car and even I think the vast majority of the arguments against this are dumb as fuck and the epitome of car brained.
Fuck cars is regularly in my "everything" feed. And most of these measures aim to reduce traffic, which ultimately benefits the remaining car drivers.
Also lowering it from 30 to 20 realistically means people will now drive 30 instead of 40.