• averagedrunk@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    If they’d fix transit here I’d be all over it. I think a lot of others would be as well.

    Doesn’t really matter to me because I do work from home. No right on red? Not my problem. Buti do care about others. So the fact that the average commute loses working folks almost a week every year hurts my heart. Losing almost another week without a transit plan (or any kind of fucking plan…I may be a little angry) in place hurts my heart. So does injuring or killing cyclists.

    I think there’s probably a nuanced and thoughtful answer that would reduce the time folks are on the road (costing both time and money, plus a lot of them have to find off hours child care) for work while not killing cyclists. I don’t have that answer. I just don’t think making things more terrible is it. I think there’s got to be a way to offer an incentive not to be on the road, protecting everyone and not stealing money and time from workers.

    • 7bicycles [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      11 months ago

      Doesn’t really matter to me because I do work from home. No right on red? Not my problem. Buti do care about others. So the fact that the average commute loses working folks almost a week every year hurts my heart.

      Everytime nature evaporates some critical road there’s like 0 long term discernible rise in traffic.

      People who commute really do need to do that, aye? Like, that’s not an optional trip, right?

      Roads don’t really discern for reason on any basis. If you make it easier, shit just fills up with people going for cross-city donut runs or whatever until you’re left back at where you started as per traffic.