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Posted by BrooklynBus on Wed Jun 16 11:08:06 2021, in response to Re: Anti-car democrats are a road hazard, posted by Osmosis Jones on Tue Jun 15 14:33:19 2021. You make it appear that mas transit is the most efficient form of travel for all trips at all times of the day which is untrue. Electric cars are becoming more popular and autos are safer than ever before, so to make blanket statements that they are unsafe and a detriment to our environment is untrue. They also do not gridlock streets everywhere. But they will as long as we keep removing parking, travel lanes and impose more turning restrictions adding more miles to trips.Bikes are less safe than cars and encouraging their use will only increase fatalities. As I said, if you want to get rid of cars and want to encourage more bikes, you would have to eliminate transit deserts, by building the IND Second system, the Triborough RX, reactivation of the Rockaway line, double the number of buses, fix all the bus routes to better connect neighborhoods which would include dozens of of express routes between all major centers, Increase coverage, not reduce it, etc. Buses are just not efficient for long distance travel at odd hours, and that's why cars will always be a necessity. Until you do all of the above, which will never happen, encouraging bikes and taking measures to make auto travel more difficult will just not work. The ultra rich and poor will always be here, but the middle class will leave having no detrimental effects on the economy if we continue the road we are on. And there is nothing wrong with bikes gong down side streets. It is much safer for them and doesn't hurt autos. But that us what you want, to hurt auto travel. |
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