- cross-posted to:
- fuckcars@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- fuckcars@lemmy.world
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/73527199
A marvellous idea!
Send it to your anti-bike lane friends from Toronto. 🤣
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Fat fuck wants Toronto all become fat fucks.
If there are roads that could use a subway, an LRT, and a SkyTrain stacked on top of each other, it’s Yonge Street, Bloor St and Danforth Ave.
As long as they build alternatives that actually work for the people.
Toronto has really decent public transit compared to some of the car obsessed cities of North America but it’s far from being great. We should make sure we don’t end up punishing poor people in the quest to wage a crusade against car dependency.
Some poor people are forced to live in their cars.
I saw a comment from another person on here not to long ago talking about their only car having their engine explode on them.
Anyways the comment was them realizing they did not have $30,000 to $50,000 just laying around to purchase a brand new car. A car that they realized they don’t use much outside of a 50km radius around their house, and that they only purchased the car to be able to get to work because there are not other options avaliable. How is this considered freedom.
Most people don’t realize, but owning a car is in some cases something that can push a chunk of the population into poverty. Or at the very least cause people to choose between purchasing food, or gasoline.
I totally hear you and I agree, cars do push people into poverty quite often. I’m asking to not lose sight of the poor people who’d suffer more due to measures often proposed with good intentions.
If a person cannot get to work without a car, their life becomes more miserable after being unable to afford a reliable means to get to work.
Laws against idling are great but what is a person living in their vehicle supposed to do in the winter?