Sean Skunk-Cabbage ⚓: I dumped my car when I moved to Providence and I primarily get around on foot bike and bus, but it's not an opt out. I'm threatened by automobile violence and inconvenienced by overwhelming car oriented thinking every day.

I have read plenty of articles about how The Kids Today don’t play outside anymore, but would like to read one about how the olds today want to sic the cops on them the moment they step outside

Also: driver hits/kills child Endless readers: pop up to comment about how child was idiot who clearly had no idea how to cross a street

I sincerely hate cars. Everything about the contemporary culture concerning cars is just disgusting. Somehow US has it on steroids with the gigantic cars, miniscule space for everybody else and so on

Once you see it you can't unsee it and its inescapable. I feel like a crazy person but there's just absolutely no way to opt out.

There are a few ways to opt out. But those ways are extremely popular and expensive because there just aren't enough of them. NY, SF, Boston, DC, Seattle. a couple are less expensive: Chicago, Philly. might be 3 or 4 others.

It's not an opt out at all! Those cities are the best we've got but you're still fucking swimming in cars. Pedestrians get killed at bus stops and standing on the sidewalk all the time in SF and NYC. We can't even get fucking congestión pricing in NYC because you can't escape the car hegemony

I dumped my car when I moved to Providence and I primarily get around on foot bike and bus, but it's not an opt out. I'm threatened by automobile violence and inconvenienced by overwhelming car oriented thinking every day.

I can't got across Route 1 in RI without risking my life. At least South Kingstown has a bike ped. advisory committee.....

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Thought 1: Where on route 1? Thought 2: All of route 1, obviously. For the whole state. All of it. And add CT and Mass too.

there's a light in Westerly (still a crappy stroad, but it's fine to cross with the light) & a couple bridges / underpasses in Wakefield. Exactly zero in between. It's "ride on the highway, cross 2 lanes of 50mph traffic, turn around, cross 2 more 50mph lanes then get off at an exit.

that's 16.5 miles between safe places to cross for anyone that isn't an "adventurous biker". I ride daily in NYC, so I guess I'm that. I also cross Rt 1 where its a crappy highway. but its no way to build a bike network.

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