• @jagungal
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    96 months ago

    In your current situation, yes, a car is a lot better. But when it comes to urban planning it’s better to plan a city to have shops closer to people so that they can do their shopping by bicycle or by foot. So when people say, “who would do their shopping by bike” in parliament it’s a rhetorical trick to make you think about how things are now instead of thinking about how things should be in the future for people other than yourself.

    • @[email protected]
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      26 months ago

      Oh yeah there’s definitely a lot to improve. A ton of people would be more than willing to ditch their cars if there was viable alternatives that don’t massively inconvenience our daily lives.

      There is a grocery store only about 500 meters from my house but small ones like that are so much more expensive than the one I go to now. I’m easily saving my monthly fuel costs just by shopping there.

      • Sibelius Ginsterberg
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        46 months ago

        You could also spend the fuel money you’re saving in your small local grocery store if you just walk the 7 minutes. Every trip not made by car is a win for the environment.

        • @[email protected]
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          06 months ago

          Grocery trips are just a tiny portion of from where my fuel costs come from. I use the truck for work. I’d save practically no money at all by walking to the store.

      • @captainlezbian
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        16 months ago

        Yeah I’ve got grocery stores near enough that I don’t even need cargo space on my bike. Which is good because I don’t have a place to put my bike in my apartment