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The premise of all of your points seems to be that car-owners are a privileged, temperamental class whose interests and fragility require sacrifices from everyo
by returningfory2 3y ago
The premise of all of your points seems to be that car-owners are a privileged, temperamental class whose interests and fragility require sacrifices from everyone else.
- milkytron 3y agoI mean yeah... they kind of are. They're privileged because roads and parking are paid for by all whether they use a car or not. The gas tax does not cover the infrastructure spend needed to handle the volume of car traffic US roads experience. From what I know, cyclists don't exhibit the level of road rage toward other cyclists that people in cars engage in with each other. The sacrifices that everyone else makes are in tax dollars, air quality, lack of alternative transportation options and arguably health care spending. I don't mean to make this out to make it seem like car-owners are the cause of all this, because certainly not all of them are. But by continuing to model our transportation infrastructure almost entirely around them does have negatives for others as well as car-owners themselves.
- midoridensha 3y agoI've heard of cyclists having road rage towards car drivers (who tried to kill them), but never towards other cyclists.