You (or your society) conditioned your schedule to the car. That has been scientifically studied. People generally accept a journey to work of 30min to 1hr. If they only have their two feet, they settle accordingly. If a train is involved or a car, the urban infrastructure follows.
So cars are not the meaning of freedom, you (and we all) just built your schedule around it.
So a bike would be just as fast on your schedule (and it is).
I’m not arguing against anything you just stated. I completely agree. I just think if we want to truly tackle the issue cars present we should more closely examine why cars give people a sense of freedom and try to address the corresponding issues accordingly. I think finding the empathy to relate to people who find freedom in that are more likely to consider alternatives if those issues were to be addressed appropriately from a position of understanding.
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You (or your society) conditioned your schedule to the car. That has been scientifically studied. People generally accept a journey to work of 30min to 1hr. If they only have their two feet, they settle accordingly. If a train is involved or a car, the urban infrastructure follows.
So cars are not the meaning of freedom, you (and we all) just built your schedule around it.
So a bike would be just as fast on your schedule (and it is).
I’m not arguing against anything you just stated. I completely agree. I just think if we want to truly tackle the issue cars present we should more closely examine why cars give people a sense of freedom and try to address the corresponding issues accordingly. I think finding the empathy to relate to people who find freedom in that are more likely to consider alternatives if those issues were to be addressed appropriately from a position of understanding.
Freedom in this context doesn’t seem to make sense because cars are a convenience in a car-centric urban area.
The convenience is what gives freedom, not inherently the transport itself.