• mondoman712@lemmy.mlOP
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    None of the places outside North America mentioned in the video have completely banned cars. The video is mostly talking about reducing car dependence and increasing options for transport rather than banning them completely.

    Also every situation you mentioned can be solved with a taxi or rental car. We can still do those things without having to drive everywhere for everything.

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      Yeah but all taxis look the same, most have a monopoly or at best an oligopoly in major cities. Doesn't that "rob us of our individualism?" and ability to break free of massive corporations/governments?

      Why rely on yet another corporation for a car when I can just use my own at any time on a whim?

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        Again, the point is more about car dependence. Why be forced into driving everywhere when you could have other options available?

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        Gas companies are the biggest oligopoly. How can you "break free" from those corporations when you depend on a car to basic subsistence?

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                I never said roads, I said car centric infrastructure. You can have roads without being car centric. And elaborating on that, car centric infrastructure restrict the movement on everyone who don't drive, for example poor people who can't afford a car, gas, insurance… or younger people who can't drive yet, or older and people with disabilities that can't safely drive.

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                  How does it impede on those who can't drive? Because they're not allowed to move as freely as someone with a car? How would taking away everyone's car help that scenario?

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                    have you ever been to an American city? everything is at the service of roads, cars, and space to park the cars. we have thoroughfares through residential neighborhoods, monstrous intersections that are unsafe to cross by foot, infrastructure that's unsafe to use by any mode of transportation that isn't a car – because the cars will run you over – and it's all wildly more expensive and less efficient than a functioning public transportation system. think of it like this – if more people can get where they need to go by public transit, the roads won't be so congested.

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                    Car centric infrastructure makes everything apart, so you can't walk anywhere, public transit is unfeasible because the low density, and biking is extremely dangerous. They are not only not allowed to move "as freely", they cannot movebat all. I don't know where you get this "taking everyone's car", you're the only one talking about it. You can can have infrastructure that is inclusive to everyone, even people with cars.