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  • Not a single person here is claiming you can live in a completely car free society. If you had the capacity to read what I wrote in my initial comment you wouldn’t be responding right now. Let me quote it for you:

    The conversation isn’t about needing cars, it’s about having car lines due to so many cars. If it were actually as small a number as that then no, we wouldn’t have lines like this, because that’s about the rate that developed european countries have for pickup/dropoff car rates. And those people are the ones telling you it’s not a problem in their country.

    So yeah, you are making a strawman. You put up an argument stating that people don’t think we need cars (never once mentioned in this thread) and then you attacked that.



  • Yeah the truth of the matter is, people use cars because they have them. If they didn’t have them things would be a lot different. You can see that by looking at the data on that link as well. 70% of impoverished children ride the school bus. So not only are those kids disadvantaged with money, but they’re disadvantaged with the situations you’re talking about with after school activities as well. Public transit would be better for everyone here. We wouldn’t be funding these school buses that might ride empty, taxpayer dollars would be able to be reallocated to the actual teaching in the school or even better public transit. A small portion of that would go to the impoverished or those that can’t take public transit.



  • no, I most definitely didn’t. your point was pretty clear.

    There is a real requirement for kids to be picked up by cars and removing that option will only hurt the education of the innocent child.

    Nobody said otherwise. This thread is about pickup lines for schools full of cars. I guarantee it’s not nearly the same problem you have in the UK. Everyone everywhere understands cars serve a purpose.