Former first lady Michelle Obama said at a recent event that the US isn’t ready for a woman president, pointing to former Vice President Kamala Harris’ unsuccessful bid for the White House last year.
I know I’m certainly part of the problem. But it’s a chicken and egg problem. You have to make people want to change while the change will be inconvenient short term. I don’t know how that happens, other than very slowly over time.
Well, you could try and stop thinking that people are trying to make you use public transport and more along the line of not forcing you or anyone to use their car to go anywhere in a practical way. And imagine the improvement to traffic and safety once people who hates driving or not good at it are no longer forced to drive on the same road as you.
Gods, this is how I sell public transit to pro car people.
I am traffic. I want to be off the road and in a bus.
I just don’t want my bus ride to be over an hour and a half long when the car ride is 10 minutes.
I’ll settle for a bike commute because that’s 30 minutes but it would require riding down a major road where the only thing protecting me from a car going 60 MPH is a painted white line and trust.
Yep, all we want are more options other than driving. A good cycling and pedestrian infrastructure even helps in making sure they’re out of the road and not in the way of cars, something I’m sure a lot of car-centric people would actually be happy about. It’s a net positive for everyone.
I know I’m certainly part of the problem. But it’s a chicken and egg problem. You have to make people want to change while the change will be inconvenient short term. I don’t know how that happens, other than very slowly over time.
Well, you could try and stop thinking that people are trying to make you use public transport and more along the line of not forcing you or anyone to use their car to go anywhere in a practical way. And imagine the improvement to traffic and safety once people who hates driving or not good at it are no longer forced to drive on the same road as you.
Gods, this is how I sell public transit to pro car people.
I am traffic. I want to be off the road and in a bus.
I just don’t want my bus ride to be over an hour and a half long when the car ride is 10 minutes.
I’ll settle for a bike commute because that’s 30 minutes but it would require riding down a major road where the only thing protecting me from a car going 60 MPH is a painted white line and trust.
Yep, all we want are more options other than driving. A good cycling and pedestrian infrastructure even helps in making sure they’re out of the road and not in the way of cars, something I’m sure a lot of car-centric people would actually be happy about. It’s a net positive for everyone.