• wieson@feddit.orgEnglish
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      3 months ago

      You (or your society) conditioned your schedule to the car. That has been scientifically studied. People generally accept a journey to work of 30min to 1hr. If they only have their two feet, they settle accordingly. If a train is involved or a car, the urban infrastructure follows.

      So cars are not the meaning of freedom, you (and we all) just built your schedule around it.

      So a bike would be just as fast on your schedule (and it is).

        • Napster153@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 months ago

          Freedom in this context doesn’t seem to make sense because cars are a convenience in a car-centric urban area.

          The convenience is what gives freedom, not inherently the transport itself.

    • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I live in an area where lots of parents have bikes designed to hold two kids in the back.

      I don’t know what you’re rambling about with train travel. Could I just teleport us to the train dimension, where I could lament that cars will never work because we have interstate rail, and no highways? Makes about as much sense.

    • Danquebec@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Most of us understand that and want cities to be improved away from a car-centric design.

      Many in the fuckcars community drive a car.