Q: How many parking spaces does the small truck take up?
A: Exactly the same number as the big one does.
The problem is all cars, not just big cars. Small cars contribute to cities being designed to cater to drivers at the exclusion of every other consideration just as much as big ones do. Small cars require just as many lanes of traffic, and just as much otherwise-useful land paved over and obliterated for parking. Walkability gets ruined by minimum parking requirements just as much whether the cars in those spaces are Priuses or F-250s.
Posts like this are nothing but a circlejerk for small-car drivers to feel smug about themselves when the reality is that THEY ARE JUST AS MUCH PART OF THE PROBLEM.
People don’t always get to choose where they live. People don’t always get to choose their mobility. People can choose to make good decisions for their situation, like small cars.
I avoid my car when I can, which is a lot, but it would be hard to survive here without a car. And town planning isn’t going to change just because someone doesn’t own a car.
People buying cars in car-centric areas are not the problem. Regulation on town planning, is. Don’t hate on those that do the best they can when you haven’t been in their shoes.
Edit: E-bikes are taking off here more than scooters/bikes/motorcycles ever had, so I am hopeful for change. Baby steps.
What I’m hating on is misattributing the problem to scapegoat one class of cars, which is always implicitly motivated by the desire to rationalize driving another class of them.
I don’t hate on people who drive because they have no good alternatives while owning up to the fact that driving is bad, but that’s not what posts like these are doing.
It’s the difference between “yes, I know smoking is bad and I’m struggling with addiction” vs. “hey at least it’s just cigarettes and not cigars so it’s not that bad.”
Q: How many parking spaces does the small truck take up?
A: Exactly the same number as the big one does.
The problem is all cars, not just big cars. Small cars contribute to cities being designed to cater to drivers at the exclusion of every other consideration just as much as big ones do. Small cars require just as many lanes of traffic, and just as much otherwise-useful land paved over and obliterated for parking. Walkability gets ruined by minimum parking requirements just as much whether the cars in those spaces are Priuses or F-250s.
Posts like this are nothing but a circlejerk for small-car drivers to feel smug about themselves when the reality is that THEY ARE JUST AS MUCH PART OF THE PROBLEM.
This is not how the world works.
People don’t always get to choose where they live. People don’t always get to choose their mobility. People can choose to make good decisions for their situation, like small cars.
I avoid my car when I can, which is a lot, but it would be hard to survive here without a car. And town planning isn’t going to change just because someone doesn’t own a car.
People buying cars in car-centric areas are not the problem. Regulation on town planning, is. Don’t hate on those that do the best they can when you haven’t been in their shoes.
Edit: E-bikes are taking off here more than scooters/bikes/motorcycles ever had, so I am hopeful for change. Baby steps.
What I’m hating on is misattributing the problem to scapegoat one class of cars, which is always implicitly motivated by the desire to rationalize driving another class of them.
I don’t hate on people who drive because they have no good alternatives while owning up to the fact that driving is bad, but that’s not what posts like these are doing.
It’s the difference between “yes, I know smoking is bad and I’m struggling with addiction” vs. “hey at least it’s just cigarettes and not cigars so it’s not that bad.”
One problem with cars is that they kill people in crashes. Larger, higher cars are more likely to kill people.
As someone who lives in a car dependent city without a car. I prefer when my neighbors try to kill me with a small car rather than a large car.