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Kaitlin Has Had Enough@gothamgirlblue.com |
It is really fucked up that we made driving the main mode of transportation in 90% of the country as an actual political choice when there are large populations of people everywhere who can’t or shouldn’t drive
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Cait
@caitesq.bsky.social
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And it for sure contributes to DWIs. Years ago I used to go to this rural bar that was so remote it wasn't even on the electrical grid. I don't want to know how many patrons must have crashed their cars on the way home.
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@fiercelady.bsky.social
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Not to mention that we used to have tracks for public transportation everywhere in this country. We took a lot of the down
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vILLAGE GENIOUS
@suddenlygarmo.bsky.social
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also, if we reduce the stranglehold of the car on our country, thus making states are less beholden to federal highway funding, states could start to lower their drinking age back to 18
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🌸Abbey🌸
@abbeyarletto.bsky.social
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I've been to 'third world' countries with better public transportation than the US.
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David Cornelson
@david-cornelson.bsky.social
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This was the promise made to the car manufacturers in trade for their retooling for World War II.
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BlepBork
@blepbork.bsky.social
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I thought about this the other day when I was irritated by a slow senior driver. My self-righteousness; to say they shouldn’t drive, even if said in irritation, when what the hell else can they do?
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Jason Broccardo
@zoocoup.bsky.social
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Anna Zivarts just wrote a whole book about this exact thing islandpress.org/books/when-d...
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Ⓐudri Sciuto ★
@toxicaudri.bsky.social
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I grew up in Hemet CA, when it was still mostly a retirement community, I fully agree, a lot of those older folks shouldn't have been driving at all, public transport wasnt great put there either and didn't run on the weekends.
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Nick 𐃥 is also at mastodon dot online
@adjectivalnoun.bsky.social
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I think that's optimistic; it's basically everywhere outside of NYC. It's possible to be an adult relying on transit in SF or Chicago, but it still makes you a weirdo.
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Madi
@maddyxoxo99.bsky.social
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It makes my blood boil. Especially when you see the old train car and cable car networks EVERY major US city used to have. LA even used to have the largest train car network in the WORLD at one point. And then we tore it all up, in the name of the automobile.
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Lauren
@laurenkarch.bsky.social
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Hey hey hey, let's not forget that, while promoting driving, we ALSO made public transit purposefully expensive and unusable (I'm looking at you, $200 train from Boston to New York, and, behind you, the ol' 14-hour CLE to Philly Amtrak).
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Peter Flynn
@docum3nt.bsky.social
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The automotive transportation lobby is a valuable source of income for politicians.
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Accountabilabuddy
@accountabilabuddy.bsky.social
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Our ancestors made a lot of poor decisions, the consequences of which are still haunting us today. And then you have a lot of still (barely) living people clinging desperately to power, preventing us from fixing any of those mistakes.
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Reid Walley
@reidwalley.bsky.social
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Started 68 years ago. President Dwight D. Eisenhower with the passage of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956.
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Nat is in the desert
@natlaowai.bsky.social
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Thanks, car manufacturers and their lobbyists. Oh, and Judge Doom.
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n highlands ♎ ☮ ☯️ 🐢 ♻️ 💚
@nancyhighlands.bsky.social
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rmacdca
@rmacdca.bsky.social
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I was reading a newspaper from Butte Montana 1900 and the train schedules were posted. You could get to any large city in the USA by train from there. Not now.
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partwave∴
@partickle.bsky.social
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reminds me of
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taken_f...
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Sean Skunk-Cabbage ⚓
@moldybasil.bsky.social
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Think of the least responsible, clumsiest, dimmest bulb you know and ensure they have no choice but to pilot a missile at high speed multiple times a day
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