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Calvin (from Calvin & Hobbes) sitting at a lemonade stand, smiling, with a sign that reads, "Trains and micromobility are inevitably the future of urban transportation, whether society wants it or not. CHANGE MY MIND."
I live in a small walkable city in the Netherlands. I ride the bus, the train and my bicycle. I still own a car since those other transport modes don’t cover every need I have. And car sharing is non existent in my town.
I don't think owning a car is necessarily a problem. For me FuckCars mostly means "fuck using a car unless you have to", which means using a car for those kind of commutes that people do every day or very often. Go to your workplace, school or university, go shop groceries...
There will be other context where you are going to need a car. Your holidays, for one. It's not a problem in my book. And of course it also applies to a lesser extent to folks living in the countryside, where it's inherently more difficult and expensive to link communities to transit. Our main concern should be ridding cities of cars and you guys in the Netherlands are already doing an amazing work on that front in many places.
In the United States, I don't know how you'd accomplish this. It would be impossible for almost all rural neighborhoods unless we're going to build a grocery store within walking distance of most homes.
This is one of those liberal (I rarely leave my home) notions whose heart is in the right place but is ultimately stupid.
I love cars way more than the next guy, but the meme clearly says "urban transportation".
I heartily agree, but I'm 67 years old and society is slower than the Antarctic melt. Oh, wait, that's not slow.
The future is as hazy as literally everything else. Do we have cars where they aren't needed? Yes Do we have rail systems that are hot garbage? yes Do we have rural area that are sprawling making rail and micro less possible? yes
Will trains and public trans be a staple of the future just like it is today in larger cities? yes.
When I lived in Philly, I took the train everywhere but the grocery store.... except when I had leisure time then I took my car... and where I went, and a train or self driving care won't take me there.
Actually rural areas usually are connected by rail. At least in Europe.
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