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mondoman712

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Can we maybe not subsidise more cars and more car infrastructure? More money for active and public transport will go much further for helping the environment among many other things.

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The solution is in the video… It’s walkable, cycle-able cities with good public transport.

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You’re free to travel how you like as long as you keep the fuck out of my way and breathe in my car farts

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None of the places outside North America mentioned in the video have completely banned cars. The video is mostly talking about reducing car dependence and increasing options for transport rather than banning them completely.

Also every situation you mentioned can be solved with a taxi or rental car. We can still do those things without having to drive everywhere for everything.

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Car dependency punishes poor people. The solution is viable alternatives, for which having fewer cars is often very beneficial.

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They’re all encouraging more driving, which leads to more pollution and more pedestrian deaths. 20mph speed limits reduce collisions, reduce the severity when they do happen, decrease pollution, and barely has an effect on journey times.

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From 1992 to 2016, speed cameras reduced accidents by between 17 to 39 per cent and fatalities by between 58 to 68 per cent within 500 metres of the cameras.

https://www.lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-news-from-LSE/2017/10-October-2017/Speed-cameras-reduce-road-accidents-and-traffic-deaths-according-to-new-study

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Having a place in history doesn’t automatically mean they should be honoured. There’s plenty of people from history that we can all agree have made a huge impact and yet we wouldn’t want statues of them.

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Most people live in cities, and the video mentions that it is about cities in the first 10 seconds.

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