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When did driving become a problem that needs to be solved?
TheTribune ^ | 02/06/2019 | Tim Jackson

Posted on 02/07/2019 12:51:55 PM PST by ppaul

A fundamentally American freedom is under attack. The automobile defined the 20th century in the United States. Mass production made cars available to the nation's middle class and helped create the modern suburb, where most Americans now live. Driving became part of coming of age in America...Meanwhile, some cities have put their drivers on forced road diets. They are reducing lanes available to drivers on key arterial streets...The goal is to discourage driving by intentionally reducing capacity and creating traffic congestion by design...The bottom line is they want to force more residents to use alternative transportation by making driving as unpleasant as possible. Since when did the automobile, which helped drive this nation's development and success, become a public enemy?

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KEYWORDS: agenda21; auto; automobile; automotive; climate; roaddiets; traffic; transportation
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This attack on automobiles, and the working poor and middle-class majority who depend on them, is happening in every major city in the US under various guises, such as the "Vision Zero" program - designed to slow traffic to a crawl by getting rid of existing road surfaces for motor vehicles and replacing them with bike lanes (road diets).
1 posted on 02/07/2019 12:51:55 PM PST by ppaul
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When they invented CVT transmissions.

“When is this thing gonna shift?”


2 posted on 02/07/2019 12:55:06 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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Why drive your car when you can on a seat smeared with excrement and smell the homeless progressive sitting - or laying - or vomiting - next to you?

Public transportation. Only for the hoi polloi.

Not for uber leader bimbos - such as Pelosi and Occasional Cortex.

Hopefully, we’ll have a very special guillotine for those two following CW-II.


3 posted on 02/07/2019 12:55:30 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: ppaul

Their goal (GOP and DNC) is to control and tax
and destroy freedom by passing laws
that do not apply to THEM.


4 posted on 02/07/2019 12:57:59 PM PST by Diogenesis ( WWG1WGA)
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5 posted on 02/07/2019 12:58:37 PM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: blueunicorn6

When my Mom got her car with the CVT transmission, she kept speeding up and slowing down trying to make the car shift gears.

It was like riding in a mail truck.

“Mom, this car doesn’t have gears. It has a....well....it’s magic, but it doesn’t have any gears.”


6 posted on 02/07/2019 12:59:06 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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Why one would think that the Leftists don’t believe in global warming or pollution caused by congestion...


7 posted on 02/07/2019 12:59:07 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: Diogenesis

Yeah, the One World crowd would prefer it if us commoners don’t own anything, certainly not our own house and car.


8 posted on 02/07/2019 1:00:24 PM PST by GnuThere
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To: blueunicorn6

The CVT in my car (Subaru) works great, but I just drove a relatively new Nissan this weekend that I am sure had one, and I thought it was a real dog.


9 posted on 02/07/2019 1:01:56 PM PST by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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When did driving become a problem that needs to be solved?

The same year pregnancy was deemed to be a 'health issue' and treated like a disease.

10 posted on 02/07/2019 1:03:07 PM PST by yesthatjallen
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It is all about control.

That’s it.

They cannot directly control your movements in a car for the most part, but they sure can control it on public transportation.

They like to dress it up in environmental fluff, but it is all about steely-eyed control of people.


11 posted on 02/07/2019 1:03:38 PM PST by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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they want the people out of the suburbs and back in to the cities where they can control them more easily.

If you live in NYC (Manhattan) what do you need a car for? This assumes that you never leave a walkable radius from thier mass transit.


12 posted on 02/07/2019 1:03:46 PM PST by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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Huh ... I got one about a year ago (Corolla); it works great. Smooth power from stop to highway speed.


13 posted on 02/07/2019 1:05:22 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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Driving is under assault because the population of the US got too large to sustain the wonderful life styles us older folk grew up with in the 1950s and 1960s.


14 posted on 02/07/2019 1:05:23 PM PST by grania ("We're all just pawns in their game")
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That’s probably because the car you got had a CVT with no overdrive.

Overdrive always goes faster.


15 posted on 02/07/2019 1:05:43 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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In Russia, even if the traffic is completely jammed for the common driver, there is always a special lane reserved for the elite. This is one elite perk that did not disappear with the Soviet Union.

16 posted on 02/07/2019 1:07:02 PM PST by Haiku Guy (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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To: NorthMountain

Yeah, but my Mom wasn’t driving your Corolla.

She’d drive for you, but you’d have to give her a beer.

That’s how we got to school in the morning.


17 posted on 02/07/2019 1:08:46 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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This freedom-killing notion is surely being taught in public skools. I know of a few teenagers that have reached driving age and have no interest in getting a license much less a car.

I can’t understand it. I couldn’t wait to drive. I can still feel the excitment I had the first few times my parents let me borrow their car and go off to the mall or work on my own.

I guess the skools are doing their bit to stomp that desire out of the kids.


18 posted on 02/07/2019 1:11:10 PM PST by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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”When did driving become a problem that needs to be solved?”

When leftists decided that personal freedom was not a foundational American principle, but rather just a peculiar obsession of evil conservatives.

19 posted on 02/07/2019 1:12:46 PM PST by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.`)
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Auto markets are already adjusting. The market for smaller ‘crossovers’ is booming. Same length but roomier than subcompact cars, higher seating position and ground clearance for declining road conditions, AWD and safety features. From cheap to high-performance luxury.


20 posted on 02/07/2019 1:13:32 PM PST by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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