It’s easy to forget that positions like
“We shouldn’t have to drive to the grocery store”
And “multifamily housing should exist in all neighborhoods”
Are incredibly unpopular in America
(It’s the classism and racism)
Because cars are a status symbol and a means of economic segregation, if you have to drive into the city, that means the poors who can’t afford a car can’t come to your neighborhood and do vague crimes. Even if you don’t think this way, this thought process is precisely why suburbs function the way they do and are designed in that way. They were created due to the desires of whites in the 50s to escape cities that had a rapidly growing black population in that time due to the great migration due to fears over crime that came about due to overt racism
lol I love how this jagoff thinks he’s gonna convince people they should be schlepping their groceries onto a bus lol go fuck yourself buddy. I hate driving but love the convenience of my car and ain’t ever giving it up, no matter what statistics you come up with lololol byeeeeeeee
I didn’t say you had or even should to take your groceries on the bus, I was saying you should be able to walk or Bike to the grocery story for small things you need instead of having to do large grocery hauls every few weeks. Not once in this post did I mention busses. The reason you thought of busses and immediately reacted so negatively is because of the classist association between the bus and the poor. And the fact that due to the shortage of multimodal transit in the US, we automatically assume that busses and cars are the only options that exist