Remove pedestrians, biking and transit because they take up car space. Now everyone drives and you’re 45 minutes stuck in traffic.
People ask me all the time if taking the bus is stressful but like. bruh I’m zoned out scrolling social media the entire time at the bus stop and on the bus. Or I’m just straight up zoned out. I don’t have to pay attention even to my own driving let alone the rest of these people. And also once in a blue moon the bus driver does something utterly wild like execute a perfect K-turn on a crowded city street in the ice without touching a single car to route around a detour (my mind was blown).
I have to commute by car to commute by bus so I’ve started just commuting by car
I would a million time prefer walking 16 minutes than sitting in traffic for 6.
At one point I had a 55min commute using transit but would usually get hard by weather as 2 of my stops didn’t have cover. Also the occasional meth/fent heads, missed connections, overcrowding…
Or sit in my car on a 45min commute.
Eventually I met it halfway by joining a vanpool but that shit still cost more than mass transit and got expensive when my employer cut transit vouchers.
✨ externalized costs ✨
You saved 10 minutes of time and some personal convenience, and made the world worse for everyone else.
Yes… Because my driving to work in my car is somehow so much worse on our entire world compared to what billionaires are doing or taking an airplane for a 2hr commute or burning coal to power a nation. Or given the fact that our corporate overlords require us to be in office in the first place when my work could be 100% remote… I see I am the problem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
“Whataboutism” or “whataboutery” (as in, “but what about X?”) refers to the propaganda strategy of responding to an accusation with a counter-accusation instead of offering an explanation or defense against the original accusation. It is an informal fallacy that the accused party uses to avoid accountability—whether attempting to distract by shifting the conversation’s focus away from their behaviour or attempting to justify themselves by pointing to the similar behaviour (which may be true or false, but irrelevant) of their opponent or another party who is not the current subject of discussion.[1]
I don’t want to be crowded around strangers, feeling awkward and anxious, in a shitty big vehicle that is constantly jerking and rumbling and takes 4x as long to get where I need to go.
Im sticking to cars. The fuckcars group can suck a fat one. And this is the only place I can vent about it so why not.
I don’t want to be crowded around strangers, feeling awkward and anxious, in a shitty big vehicle that is constantly jerking and rumbling and takes 4x as long to get where I need to go.
Bicycling would alleviate all of these … except for the last one. (Now it takes 10x as long to get where you need to go. But it’s not crowded, no social anxiety, no shitty big vehicle, less jerking and no rumbling…)
