The person on the left is carrying bags, the one in orange is a delivery driver and a couple of people are wearing backpacks. Aside from car brained, Damaris is also blind.
Don’t remember where I heard it first, but I always love to hear it.
“Whenever someone brings up bikes, suddenly everyone needs to move their refrigerator 100 miles in the rain”
The solution? Rental vans…
It’s like people think they need mega trucks for the time once a year or less that they have to move a couch.
“But what about when I have to haul wood for my yearly porch renovation?”
“Rent a fucking truck!”
In this vein, I saw a comment on Lemmy that speaks to this. I’m paraphrasing but it really woke me up. The person said that Americans choose on edge cases and not standard use case. I realized I felt that way about ICE cars vs EV and I am a cyclist. It is amazing how we can have blinders on.
How often does one need to transport a sofa, table, or desk? That’s what delivery trucks are for, which is a legitimate use of that type of transportation.
The drugstore cowboys driving Dodge Rams clogging up the streets aren’t transporting anything more robust than a 12-pack of Mtn Dew and complaining about the price of gas
I’d gladly remove every car from the roads that is not carrying a sofa, table or desk.
Yea, car congestion isn’t about industrial transport, it’s about personal transport. All of the people commuting to/from work etc in single person occupied tanks.
TIL driving to and from work is “recreational” unless you have a TV or something in the back of your car.