I used to sit in the backseat of my parents car as we drove downtown, and I looked out the window and pitied all the people walking. I felt lucky to have a car, and felt bad they had to walk.
Now I’m older and moved to South East Asia, and I walk and take public transportation all around. I see people in cars and I pity them, as walking these narrow roads is faster than driving, and they miss the whole experience.
I don’t want to go back to being in a car. I like being able to relax on my phone and take the subway - no need to worry about DUIs, insurance, gas, repairs, or parking.
Anyways, that’s my little story. Cars suck, but it took going somewhere better to realize that. Hope you can all relate!
after driving as little as possible for a while, when I get back in a car, all the close calls get to me way more than they ever did before. Every time I get in one of those things in the city, there’s guaranteed to be some dipshit not paying attention almost causing an accident that could injure me, cost me hundreds or thousands of dollars, etc. Sometimes I’m the dipshit, despite my best efforts.
Cars suck, and they take a toll you don’t even really feel until you’ve tried living without one for a while
I feel this. For some reason lately I’m the only one who consistently ends up driving folks into different sporting events which happen to be in cities and denser areas. I would love to use the train more but everyone complains you have to walk a little bit to the stadiums and whatnot.
I’ve been seeing so much crazy stuff lately because of that I’ve started dreading driving anywhere.
assuming the stadiums aren’t built out in east bumfuck nowhere like the one in phoenix that’s like 10-15 miles from downtown and not even really served by buses let alone a train, they should suck it up
in my city one of the major stadiums has a train station built into it and the rest are more or less directly adjacent to rail transit (one you have to walk across the parking lot but its not bad at all). People still try to drive to everything. it’s not the transit, its just carbrain
Yeah it’s definitely massive carbrain. The dilemma is the stadiums we’ve gone to are probably ~10 - 15 minutes walk from the station. You can use a combination of busses and stuff to get right to the stadium but I always thought it was just easier to walk. Obviously when you can park right next to the stadium and then sit in traffic on the way out which is clearly amazing.
I used to sit in the backseat of my parents car as we drove downtown, and I looked out the window and pitied all the people walking. I felt lucky to have a car, and felt bad they had to walk.
Now I’m older and moved to South East Asia, and I walk and take public transportation all around. I see people in cars and I pity them, as walking these narrow roads is faster than driving, and they miss the whole experience.
I don’t want to go back to being in a car. I like being able to relax on my phone and take the subway - no need to worry about DUIs, insurance, gas, repairs, or parking.
Anyways, that’s my little story. Cars suck, but it took going somewhere better to realize that. Hope you can all relate!
after driving as little as possible for a while, when I get back in a car, all the close calls get to me way more than they ever did before. Every time I get in one of those things in the city, there’s guaranteed to be some dipshit not paying attention almost causing an accident that could injure me, cost me hundreds or thousands of dollars, etc. Sometimes I’m the dipshit, despite my best efforts.
Cars suck, and they take a toll you don’t even really feel until you’ve tried living without one for a while
I feel this. For some reason lately I’m the only one who consistently ends up driving folks into different sporting events which happen to be in cities and denser areas. I would love to use the train more but everyone complains you have to walk a little bit to the stadiums and whatnot.
I’ve been seeing so much crazy stuff lately because of that I’ve started dreading driving anywhere.
assuming the stadiums aren’t built out in east bumfuck nowhere like the one in phoenix that’s like 10-15 miles from downtown and not even really served by buses let alone a train, they should suck it up
in my city one of the major stadiums has a train station built into it and the rest are more or less directly adjacent to rail transit (one you have to walk across the parking lot but its not bad at all). People still try to drive to everything. it’s not the transit, its just carbrain
Yeah it’s definitely massive carbrain. The dilemma is the stadiums we’ve gone to are probably ~10 - 15 minutes walk from the station. You can use a combination of busses and stuff to get right to the stadium but I always thought it was just easier to walk. Obviously when you can park right next to the stadium and then sit in traffic on the way out which is clearly amazing.
I hated game day traffic at my high school, no way in hell am I driving out of a professional stadium.
Cars delenda est
Wow that sounds dystopian.
As someone who has had car culture forced upon me by being poor and unable to afford city life. I can confirm that cars are dystopian af.