this is a repost from my old reddit post on r/fuckcars
“This video about garbage days in Amsterdam looks interesting. I sure hope it doesn’t send me down any rabbit hole.”
Mine was shorter.
Move to a big city → Hate all cars and those in them (excepting delivery/work vehicles).
Yes, quite a bit, but my better-half’s job requires it for now. Also, I like a lot about a big city, I’d just like it so much more without private cars.
Heck, even free-market capitalists have a good reason to hate cars: parking minimums, exclusionary zoning, and other government policies that prop up, mandate, and subsidize car dependence are massive barriers to the invisible hand doing what it wishes. If we didn’t have those in place, I think the invisible hand would be building us a significantly less car-dependent world than we currently live in.
That’s how you know you’ve likely stumbled upon something good: when wildly different ideologies (maintaining ideological consistency) converge upon the same conclusion. Of course, the matter of ideological consistency (or lack thereof) is exactly how we get self-described libertarians defending restrictive zoning and parking minimums.
Took me too long to realize that I’ve always loved transit, but just never had the opportunity to use it
The pipeline is indeed real. Urbanism and environmentalism are what sparked my radicalization.
