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Overall solid meme content, but when when I lived in a rural area cars where what let us connect with the community because we were so spread out. When living in the city I was less connected to the community because I disliked my neighbors…
There are ways to use other less violent transportation methods. I have lived in places that barely had roads. Im jot sone life long city mouse.
And this was in california, so it wasn’t flat.
This “rural needs cars” bullshit is delusional and disingenuous. Please stop, if you’re not a paid fucking shill.
The lobbying of the car industry is the only reason you need a car to get to your community. Trains could do it better.
Trains could do it better.
I’m honestly struggling to see how it could. I dunno what it is with people on Lemmy getting so hyper fixated on trains and thinking they’re the solution to nearly every transport solution.
Trains are great for moving large amounts of people between big urban areas, but terrible for more point to point travel. Busses make more sense than trains in rural areas but cars will always be way more practical.
Right, because it’s totally feasible to run a personal rail line to every home in a rural community. Taxpayers will happily pay for miles of rail so one family can get to town.
The rural community consisted of farms spread out miles apart in various directions across hilly terrain.
Does it need to be that way? Wouldn’t it be better to care for the farms as a community in the first place?
I mean, was this the situation before cars? I fail to imagine a person living miles from the next human being without a car.
Cars made rural communities dependant on them. It’s not a fatality.
Guess I’ll just spend all the time raising horses then.
Yeah people couldn’t live outside dense urban cores before cars. Farming was invented by edsel ford.
Every now and then I measure distance in the time public transport needs to get me there.
Also sometimes in how long it takes to walk…
