Car-hater Ben Furnas has been appointed to Mamdani’s transition team for transportation, climate and infrastructure – and his agenda is a nightmare for the city’s drivers.
cars are only any “good” when everything else better has been obliterated.
i could walk or take the bus to the grocery store but any frozen shit would melt and anything perishible would be pretty risky on a hot day. Plus i’m door-to-door putting the food away before i’d even be to the store if i wasn’t driving, but that’s entirely on the zoning and civil planners.
idk the little industrial park where my office is located has a bunch of those cute tiny little cargo trucks. I think they’re neat. But yeah I get you, I ride the bus.
I couldn’t even afford a car if I wanted one because COL is so high here. I will admit though some guy that works with me has a really sweet cobalt blue BMW E36 with racing seats and a roll bar and assuming god knows how much money spent under the hood and .
recreational automobile racing is probably something we could withstand as a society but we’d all be better off if it wasn’t an every day thing for most people
the orders of magnitude reduction in kilometers driven would do a lot to reduce total pollution, the per-unit pollution doesn’t necessarily need to get better. if we really needed to, you could build a structure around the track and capture tire slough.
(this does not apply to gas cars, iirc you can map school performance against where race tracks are and there’s some dip from all the leaded gas)
Yeah I mean we also need to solve the tire problem more broadly, as there are certain things that are just not feasible to solve without last mile solutions that don’t involve some sort of tires. At least not currently. We could I guess go back to just spring suspension and wood/metal wheels but that is a loooong way off.
cars are only any “good” when everything else better has been obliterated.
i could walk or take the bus to the grocery store but any frozen shit would melt and anything perishible would be pretty risky on a hot day. Plus i’m door-to-door putting the food away before i’d even be to the store if i wasn’t driving, but that’s entirely on the zoning and civil planners.
idk the little industrial park where my office is located has a bunch of those cute tiny little cargo trucks. I think they’re neat. But yeah I get you, I ride the bus.
I couldn’t even afford a car if I wanted one because COL is so high here. I will admit though some guy that works with me has a really sweet cobalt blue BMW E36 with racing seats and a roll bar and assuming god knows how much money spent under the hood and
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I get the appeal sometimes.
yeah i’d rather live somewhere better.
recreational automobile racing is probably something we could withstand as a society but we’d all be better off if it wasn’t an every day thing for most people
Just gotta solve the remaining issues with batteries and then the more insidious problem of tire dust.
the orders of magnitude reduction in kilometers driven would do a lot to reduce total pollution, the per-unit pollution doesn’t necessarily need to get better. if we really needed to, you could build a structure around the track and capture tire slough.
(this does not apply to gas cars, iirc you can map school performance against where race tracks are and there’s some dip from all the leaded gas)
Yeah I mean we also need to solve the tire problem more broadly, as there are certain things that are just not feasible to solve without last mile solutions that don’t involve some sort of tires. At least not currently. We could I guess go back to just spring suspension and wood/metal wheels but that is a loooong way off.