Re:Madrid announces new rules of the road in bid to banish t...
by Puer on Saturday October 06, 2018 @11:02AM
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Driving is not a right. It's a privilege.
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Re:Madrid announces new rules of the road in bid to banish t...
by iwwr on Saturday October 06, 2018 @11:25AM
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More like, mobility is a right. Areas without functional public transport still have to rely on cars.
Re:Madrid announces new rules of the road in bid to banish t...
by frabbit on Saturday October 06, 2018 @11:40AM
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Imagine if I proposed taxing people approximately $5000 extra a year and then insisting that in addition they took on an extra job of being a chauffeur every morning and evening? And in addition I sequestered land and the sides of roads in order to store the vehicles which you needed to maintain, license, insure?
And in addition I would propose that approximately forty thousand people a year would be killed directly in vehicle collisions and that your children would be put in danger by you and your neighbors.
It is possible that you are talking about one of the very rare (and ever decreasing) rural areas which simply does not have enough population density to make public transport viable. But, we will worry about that after the dense suburbs, exurbs and downtowns have a modern transport system.