Dunno, do your own fucking homework.

Hey: path dependence is not destiny.

“I’VE ALWAYS LIVED LIFE THIS WAY AND NOW MY JOB HAS BEEN MADE REDUNDANT DUE TO THE MARCH OF TECHNOLOGY AND I STILL LIVE NEXT TO THE OLD FACTORY AND THOSE DURNED FURRINERS TOOK MY JOB AND I HAVE TO DRIVE EVERYWHERE OR ELSE WHAT IS THIS SOME 3RD WORLD COUNTRY AND IN BFE WHERE I LIVE 20 MILES OUTSIDE OF THERE’S NO WAY…

The author lives in Detroit, which everyone knows has NYC beat hands-down for hostility to cars, public transportation, and urban density.

Banning cars in the central parts of large cities where the majority of traffic is pedestrian and transport dependent anyways is completely different than banning cars in bum fuck egypt or wherever the loudest commentators seem to mostly live. That said I live in a city of <50,ooo people and I could absolutely do my…

Honestly, I’ve found it is the opposite. The scheduled nature of public transport makes it a lot easier to plan around getting to work, and the general frequency during rush-hours vs. off-times is enough to make the difference. You’re thinking about this backwards: Getting to work during the week and not having to…

This is an insane take. I’ve lived in plenty of cities that aren’t NYC and Chicago and shopped fine without a car. 

We should ban diesel! Really the problem is diesel.

how does this decrease your love of jalopnik? It’s possible to really enjoy cars where they belong (the open road) and also admit that mobilizing a 2-ton mobile hut to haul 250 lbs of your tubby ass and your shit around is an astonishing waste of resources when there’s other alternatives.

Jalopnik has always been transportation, broseph. And being interested in cars doesn’t mean you have to be a fan of them in all cases.

Sure, but that’s an edge case. Your occasional dinner trip in a motor vehicle isn’t what’s contributing to rush hour, or traffic jams, or whatever. On the contrary, having vehicle restrictions, effective public transport, and bikes makes it a lot easier to use your personal mobile hut to get to places you need it for.…

This. Like, there’s the article and then there’s the hot takes from people who can’t imagine getting out of their cars and going anywhere on foot.

This is the hot take I was waiting for. How did people get around before widespread private vehicle ownership? They walked, rode bikes, and used public transport. You bet your ass that public transport gets a whole lot better when everyone relies on it.

Well, BLM protestors didn’t shut down ottawa for three weeks using trucks while the cops shrugged and said “there’s nothing we can do eh, they’re protestors, eh”. No, BLM came out and got fucking teargassed and arrested on bullshit charges (something like 97% of charges dismissed) while these hosers spent their days…

They are only arresting the ones who aren’t cops or relatives of cops themselves. ACAB.

Oh, you live in Seattle and were there? If not, then get fucked.

For some reason, the right is applauding protestors shutting down the downtown core of the nation’s capital for three weeks while they spent all of 2020 screaming for the blood of black lives matter protesters while the police responded daily with extreme prejudice.

Yes, it does. This is where silver ano comes in. This is a job for the pros, or I find a certain attractiveness to just running whatever old shit I’ve got on my bike, matchy-match be damned.

Ayone can fly the flag, and anyone can take a shit on a lawn, but when you take a shit because someone is flying the flag of a traditionally oppressed minority that's when hate crime comes into play. Maybe you punched some dude because he's an asshole (not a hate crime) bit punching some dude you think is an asshole…

Straight up copypasta. You know the person making that flyer didn’t check they were pasting the right link and were fucking around downloading viruses on your government computer.