I’ve got to admit that when I first heard of the anti-cars community, I was a little skeptical. “Whats wrong with cars?” I thought. But the more I lurked, and the more I watched youtube channels like Not just bikes, the more I understood just how shitty the world is around us. Fuck Cars.
Dealing with the DMV
- sour grapes from being a teenager whose family couldn’t afford one (I later learned this is far from the norm and I was acting so spoiled)
- learning to drive and realizing I’m bad at it, other people are bad at it, this creates a terrifying amount of danger, and thus I hate it
- becoming a leftist and learning about all the historical fuckery that went into car-ify-ing the US and other places
- experiencing viable public transit and bike infrastructure when I lived in NYC during college
- becoming climate-conscious
living in the burbs and having to deal with all the financial and health costs/risks that come with having a car
also having to use a car to be able to get to any meaningful destination
I’ve watched Thailand dump the nation’s wealth into building kilometers and kilometers of roads, mostly around Bangkok, to move more and more cars at a slower and slower pace. Moving cars instead of people. That money could have been spent in hundreds of different and better ways.
