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The absurdity of the proposal is already in the title, and shows how motonormativity is spread all over the world.

Berlin has a very good public transit system, and a few 30 km/h zones cannot be that bad.

I would love to hear opinions from someone who lives there!

crossposted from: https://mastodon.uno/users/rivoluzioneurbanamobilita/statuses/114732266280428499

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[–] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

To explain it quickly: You know Heteronormativity, the fact that many people are hetero and assume others are too. This is a similar normativity. Many people (depends on where you live yadda yadda) always drive everywhere and never consider a world where cars are not their only/primary way to get around. They will fail to imagine cities where cars are not as important or common, because they associate transport=car. This is harmful, because cars are in fact very inefficient for most tasks and have pretty bad side effects such as taking tons of valuable space in a city or noise or pollution.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

No need to explain. I just had to read the word a few times to separate the partial words and understand what was written.