It ain’t much, but the idea was causing a traffic jam in my head so I had to get it out here on the information transit grid.
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A series of crudely made car stickers saying:
GET ME OFF THE ROAD
Support public transit :3
I know my driving sucks
We need more buses so I don’t have to
THIS CAR WOULDN’T BE CAUSING TRAFFIC
IF WE HAD BETTER PUBLIC TRANSIT
That’s fair. My main point is that if the USA has irregular and empty buses, and yet highways full of expensive SUVs and giant pickups, fundamentally that’s because Americans are happy with that situation. After all, they’ve had constitutional rights and extremely regular elections since before Henry Ford existed, and yet here they are, stuck in traffic in their little rolling castles. They’ve chosen what’s important to them (and the same goes in Europe to a somewhat lesser degree).
It’s not falsifiable, it’s not a recipe for fixing things, but to me it seems self-evidently true.