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i have an electric car and electric bicycle (american; suburb - forced car use). having an electric car is so much better than my old regular one not only because of emissions, but i have solar panels at home. free "gas" and never having to go to a gas station is super underrated.
i bike ~90% of the time, anyways, but its nice to never have to do any of that stuff. the car is 2.5 years old and it has ~7.5k miles on it... most of which was my wife driving my car when hers broke, heh.
Electric cars are the best solution available for people who live in car centric areas and can't afford to build their own train line.
We should also be trying to get walkable neighborhoods and adequate public transport, but I will very rarely tell someone not to replace their car with electric. It really is much better than the available alternatives.
Arent roads useful for more things than cars? Biking on a road that is filled with small rocks is not fun
Streets can also allow kids play if there arent cars on them
A road is more than a smooth, flat surface. A road that's designed for cars has to have an extensive roadbed of gravel and soil laid down, as well as a thick base of pavement on which to lay the surface, because of the weight of vehicles. A bike path, or a street where children can play, is comparatively speaking just some asphalt.
ish, but without cars you don't need a 20 lane highway. and streets can also less lanes,
Definitely don't need streets to play. A couple paved areas for basketball, skating, etc is nice - but that's just a park.
This cartoon is almost easy to mistake for satire making fun of the anti-car people.
Y'all have to face the reality that cars are not going away. The roads will outlast every human being that reads these words. People will continue to travel on those roads in vehicles of some kind. EVs are the best option we have yet for making the roads' usage have less environmental impact.
cars will never be green. While cars have their use, we should limit the usage of 1 person per car.
The biggest motivator for cars and wide roads are weekend getaways; there are good options for commute and long-distance travel. Maybe, if you ban private car purchases and have good rail connectivity, people'd get by on rentals.