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Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities
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this post was submitted on 21 Jan 2024
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Yeah cars aren’t part of the solution at all
Cars are just the "effect" of the "cause". Vote in your local elections for better zoning laws and stop upvoting these shit articles that blame the people.
We won’t fix the problem until they are gone
I mean, with that logic, if 1/2 of the world population didn't eat and just died, that would also fix the problem too. But that isn't going to happen so your statement is as dumb as mine.
Put a ban in place for 2030 or 2035 and it will be fixed
If you don’t do that then everything will be designed with the existence of cars in mind
Even today they are building new roads, you go to a sub division and there are roads in front of every house
So people like me who can't afford a job near my work have to ride a bicycle for 40 miles one-way for my work because someone in the past made home zoning impossible to scale the population growth.
Please tell me why I have to suffer and those fuckers who is camping in those expensive unattainable homes get to enjoy their home values?
Why do you want people like me to suffer more than I already do by having to drive 80 miles a day?
The point is you won’t fix that if there are cars
Why would you suffer from an issue that only exists because of cars if there weren’t cars?
I disagree. Plenty of countries have converted highways to bike lanes successfully and continued using their cars.
As his concern points out why that won’t work
How many of those countries are as wide as us
They certainly are, they just need to go around city centers instead of through. Cars make a ton of sense for longer trips (way better than an empty bus), they don't make sense downtown.