• StaySquared@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    In Detroit where in some areas, you don’t stop at a red light… you drive right through it and keep going.

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      2 months ago

      If you’re white and driving a decent looking car the cops will just ignore you. At least that’s what I was always told.

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    2 months ago

    It’s not that it’s unsafe to drive in Detroit due to crime, it’s just that the automotive industry lobbied hard to make the country car friendly, and that city faced the worst of it.

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    2 months ago

    You can drive for 16 hours and still be in Texas, the european mind cannot comprehend this! <

    Yeah because driving 16 hours straight is stupid because you would just take the train and be driven 16 hours straight.

    Car centric infrastructure should have never been introduced.

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      While public transport is undoubtedly fantastic, let’s not pretend that it’s a great option in many European countries. I’d love to take the train in the UK, but thanks to the Tories it would cost me more to take the train (when it works) than it would to drive and park.

      The key is public ownership of public transport.