Posted on 09/20/2017 6:56:36 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
For all the talk in California about leading the world in fighting global warming and resisting President Trump’s climate-denial agenda, the state faces one powerful obstacle that limits its environmental activism: Touch their cars and Californians will revolt.
Any effort that limits, constrains or makes driving one’s car more expensive or inconvenient — no matter how civic-minded the proposal — is immediately controversial in California, and often a nonstarter. Getting between Californians and their cars can spell the end of a political career.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and the City Council have committed to help slow climate change and to make the city more sustainable. They’ve adopted policies, including the city’s Mobility Plan 2035, that are designed to encourage people to drive less and take public transit, bike and walk more.
How do you get people to walk or bike more? Making travel easier and safer for non-drivers often means removing traffic lanes and, yes, slowing travel for cars.
Will California lawmakers stick to their climate change goals when drivers threaten to revolt? We certainly hope so.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
You toucha my car...I breaka you face!!!
How do you get people to walk or bike more?...Move to Europe!
Will California lawmakers stick to their climate change goals when drivers threaten to revolt? We certainly hope so. NOT!
Tell the damn so called “lawmakers” to stick a damn bike up their collective asses sideways!!!
So now we are “entitled drivers”...??? You stupid shits! All I want to do is get to my job and make an income! The bike you want me to ride will never cut it you f’ing bubbleheads!
No. We ALL have to hope so. Why? So, those leftist fascist Glo-BULL Warming politicians are dragged out of office en masse.
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