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Of course a super of people would prefer a more convenient way to access anywhere in the city at the expense of everyone else not in a car.

The answer should be: no, you don't have a right to drive everywhere with maximal preference to your desires.

It's a city with many people, not just some local drivers.

Nothing but the basics that way!

The hardest core version I saw someone do that was long ago. My best friend and I were using OpenBSD back in early 2000's. He installed a minimal install. From there he pulled the source tree makefiles. Then he started running make on Mozilla (pre firefox days). He just kept building, patching, fixing, and hammering away. Eventually he built the whole GUI environment, dependencies, and Mozilla which took that computer months to complete it all.

Today, he's the lead engineer for a massive tech company.

The annoying younger sibling?

After a run of RedHat - Fedora - OpenBSD - OSX to about 2007, I gave Debian more of a try in the form of #! Linux. That was a great minimalist distro. Ever since then it's just one Debian variant or another. It does the job with minimal fuss.

It really helps that I don't push the hardware with shiny new equipment or need much in 3D drivers. Linux Mint on desktops, Debian servers, Ubuntu only for driver issues, Raspian/Armbian on SBCs.

Lies + fraud + hurting families serving the nation. It's a Republican trifecta. Medals for everyone!

It's a terrible attempt at bread and circuses in the waning power of a wannabe dictatorship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses

We moved from the US to a developed nation. Sold the car on the way out the door. Haven't looked back. Love living without the car. Our kids are so much safer here. Even the cars that are around driver slower and the roads are human scale so we have wide sidewalks with narrow streets to cross.

I commute by tram and train to work and shopping is mostly done on foot. When we need more, we can always rent a van for a day or do a delivery service. There's also the cargo bike option, which works for upwards of small appliances without much trouble.

When all you have is a car, everything looks like a place to put more roads.

It's worse than that. In the US cars are the #1 non-medical way people die. They're fucking killing people and we've grown so accustomed to just shrugging our shoulders when yet another person is killed by a car that it's weird just how little we notice what's causing our suffering.

I'm up to two dead family members from different car accidents. Another few have been in major accidents and others hit by cars. Once you start looking at just how many people are harmed, both directly and indirectly (family, friends) its scary that these predators are allowed to just roam our cities on the scale they do.

There's no lack of cities, especially in the US, who will gladly tear their inner city neighborhoods down for the chance to drive slightly faster for a bit on a slightly wider road at great expense.

The same construction coat on the interchange of two freeways in my old city is going to top 450 million USD. For the same money they could build a 4 to 8 mile tram network that would move as many, or more, people without really trying. The city has an operational, and well regarded, bus system but it's nothing compared to most developed nations outside of the US. At least they'll have a shiny new interchange and fewer homes instead of building modern transit infrastructure.

I dunno, I think Houston is in the running for similarly stupid infrastructure spending.

Yes.

Build out more metro lines faster too. Add in some trams that don't share lanes with cars. Wall off some serious bike lanes and plow them first during the winter.

The whole point of having fewer cars choking your city to death is to have more people moving around, not fewer. So: reduce the cars and then also enable the people to move and it's a winning strategy. One without the other isn't going to truly help the city.

It's a good price, but should be lowered over time. Drop it below inflation to push people into transit over driving. That said, the pillars of German economic thinking still revolve.around car manufacturing, so it's a tough sell.

May we should make it cost an inverse amount to how badly DB does every year? I don't know, but 63€ isn't killer, but we have five people to pay for and kindergeld isn't going up as fast as the D-ticket is. Nor is my raise, of course.

They're building high density transit to go with the high density housing, right? Cars are not high density transit.