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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."

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Let me remind you that there are rural areas where people life in farms and need to drive to the factory they work in, there's no shuttle bus, no train no nothing, and while isolated factories exist this will still be the case. They can't really arrange a bus that goes to pick up their employees, since the roundabout would make it more gax expensive and some people live in places where a bus can't even dream to get in.

I wish things improved, and that this became a reality for cities, there's already cities in holland where getting the car in is prohibited, you need to leave it outside the city, but making car dependency fiscally unsustainable is punishing people that can't have the privilege to work on other stuff. Imagine electrical technitians, they can't take a bus/train/tram with machinery, even in a city. I'm all in for improvement and punishment for whim driving, but it needs to be regulated well not to fuck again poor people, because factory workers of rural areas aren't partcularly rich.

For reference, I live in a mountain area, Europe.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

OP mentioned Urban in their post, City in their comment, why do you need to come in with the "but muh rural" argument?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because apparently I can't read.

Again, for reference, I don't even own a car, I WFH and life in a town where public transport is excellent, but most of my family members live in the situation I described. Anyway, even though this post is about urban areas, there are plenty comments talking about cars as a whole, and usually policies done to fix car usage, things like gas prices and such, affect everyone, not only urbanites like me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In a perfect world/scenario.....which would never happen....

If urban centers immediately dropped their reliance on cars and individual transport systems, then there would be more gas to go to rural centers where individual transportation makes more sense (going to the store) or is mandatory (farm and other industrial equipment) making prices drop for rural gas and urban center be more self sufficient and environmentally friendly.

.....one can dream

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Urban centers dropping their car reliance isn't achieved by making it expensive for everyone, but by banning it's use and increasing the public transport support.