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Cars the worst part of modern cities.
People
Nah man, the people are awesome, they make it fun, friendly, interesting, and sometime crazy. Cars though. Everytime I'm waiting for a midtown bus (NYC) and traffic fills the whole block, all I can think is that all of those people would fit on the bus I'm waiting for.
If we banned, or heavily taxed every car that wasn't a taxi/rideshare or work/delivery vehicle, it'd run like clockwork. Why do we let the 45% (greater NYC) ruin it for the the 55% that don't have cars.
ETA: downvoted by a carbro, I feel validated.
Man, we do that in Singapore, and I still think we could do with less cars. Meanwhile the moans everytime the COE goes up...
So, no cars downtown and no bikes outside. Cool? ;)
Bikes are fine. Way more efficient, less dangerous, no pollution.
It’s come to my attention of tire wear = microplastics
Obviously still much much less pollution, but some
Fair enough, and bikes also pollute with oil coming off the chain etc. Although I suspect pollution from a bike is well under 1% of the pollution from a car.
I bet all the bikes in the city are less than 1% of 1 car probably given the entire lifecycle of each vehicle.