Posted on 05/12/2021 5:43:41 AM PDT by Kaslin
What a stupid article! Maybe I met a friend on the train? Got to read a book? Took a nap?
Maybe the car ride sucked. Got rear ended, late for work or something else?
I had an employee who took public transportation exclusively. He loved it. Lead a totally different lifestyle than I did. I rode a motorcycle almost exclusively and lived a somewhat different lifestyle than someone who drove.
Freedom also means not having some dork tell you that your choices are dumb because it’s not what they would choose.
Oppressing the freedom to travel is a long held Democrat dream.
Also - speech, religion, property, guns, homeschooling, etc...
The brutal annihilation of democracy and Christianity is the goal. Violent oppression is the tool.
It has only existed for a hundred years.
You might stretch it to steam railroads, but they were not generally used for commuting.
Amen and very well put!!
“There is one word that explains why they insist on doing so: freedom.”
Amen to that!!! Except I plan to sit out the next November election, rather than vote for the RINO (you know, to ‘teach the GOP a lesson’), so I guess we’ll have to be moving into an apartment soon, as the Democrats consolidate power (with my help, but who cares, I hate RINOs more). Well, I did enjoy the American lifestyle, very rare in this world...but I guess it’s time for change.
The COVID response made the case that you need your own vehicle with advanced air filtration systems and cannot take mass transit since you’ll get a deadly disease.
Another key concept: economic mobility.
People with cars are more able to take and commute to better jobs than someone limited by public transportation routes. This matters.
Vote NO on every millage for pubic transportation every time.
All pubic transportation does is bring the ghetto to your front door!
If ghetto rats want transportation they can pay 100% of the cost.
Try living in real South Dakota without a means of transportation.
I hate to sit in traffic, plus I like to walk, so I wouldn’t mind seeing some tax money going to making streets walkable, like sidewalks and crosswalks.
In addition, some changes to road standards to allow for sidewalks and some changes to town zoning codes to allow denser urban cores to allow uses to be built close to eachother would be an improvement to the current standard of every use being far apart requiring a car trip to everywhere, i.e. drive to office complex, drive to strip mall for lunch, drive to dry cleaners, drive to post office, drive to bakery, drive to grocery, etc.
They tried that, it's called Blue cities. Feel free to walk and shop, just be wary of the skyrocketing crime on individuals because perps are not punished.
I applied to work at a local competitor several times because I would been able to walk to the office from my former residence.
To each his own...
All pubic transportation does is bring the ghetto to your front door!
I grew up in a very quiet suburban neighborhood. Before we moved the Gold Line extension reached our little town. That was many years ago. They are now constructing a second Gold Line station in my hometown. Still very few "ghetto rats".
They don’t have sidewalks and crosswalks where you live?
Many subdivisions in suburban communities since the 70's are built off major feeder highways and without sidewalks. The development itself may be safe to walk around in because of low volume of traffic but it's impossible to safely cross the often 6 lane road and even if your destination is right across the road from your subdivision you take your life in your hands trying to cross it.
Older towns build before the 60's were built in a smaller scale with interconnecting minor roads.
Even places that are a mix, if your destination is in the later developed part of your town, you probably won't be able to safely walk to it because the road engineers and the town planners deliberately designed it for car access only, so you could have a destination a short distance away that you must get into a car just to cross the street.
This exists all over the country.
“Still very few “ghetto rats”.
Without pubic transportation there would be none!
So you have no crosswalks across six lane highways, and no sidewalks along those roads. Is that what you’re saying?
Also, are there stop lights at any of the intersections of those six lane highways?
If you want to ban people from driving cars, while at the same time move lower income folks out into the suburbs where there's no mass transit ... you might be a Democrat.
“So you have no crosswalks across six lane highways, and no sidewalks along those roads. Is that what you’re saying?
Also, are there stop lights at any of the intersections of those six lane highways?”
Look around when you are driving. Do you see any 6 lane roads that are safe to cross? In florida, for example, the arterial roads are so wide that crossing them is particularly onerous especially for an older person. Moreover, the crossing opportunities might be a half mile apart. They are, by design, for car travel.
In contrast, Disney built a town in Florida called Celebration. It’s walkable by design with lots of smaller streets that inter-connect allowing for traffic flow on multiple streets thus keeping them 2 lane and human scale.
Many states have older towns built in the 1920’s and 30’s that are walkable and highly desirable. Of course, as others have mentioned, many urban cities are violent God-forsaken squalid dumps.
There’s a balance, of course. Building communities that allow for safe pedestrian connections from house to shops, dining, and services is a lot different from building high density many-story low-income government-subsidized criminal incubators connected to crime-ridden trains and buses, in a survival-of-the-most-violent Hobbsian nightmare.
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