Published on 12, July, 2020
I think it's stupid that we have cars. They're a massive waste of money. They make public spaces less accessible. It's harder for children to play on the street or to walk where you want to go. They've led to high streets becoming more empty as cars go to large out-of-town supermarkets.
Sometimes people die in car crashes, needlessly, leaving families devestated.
People who can't drive are discriminated against. We have to rely on infrequent bus and rail services that are sometimes overpriced.
All the money spent on buying a car, the insurance, MOT, tax, maintenance and repairs, petrol, imagine what that money could do if those cars weren't there. It would give people money to spend on building better buildings, facilities, public transport, social services, healthcare, education.
I drive and recently I've had to go with out a car for several months. It was murder. Public transport is wolely unreliable. Imposable to get around. Busses don't come on time, they get canceled for no obvious reasion. You can't get home after 9-10 because the busses stop. And even when the busses run on time journies that take 45 minuetes in a car can take an hour and a half or more on the bus. If you want to do anything other than just go in and out of your local city center you need a car where I live, and even then you may be late or have to get a taxi home.Yesterday to go from one subburbe of my city to another on public trasport took an hour. In a car its 10-15 minuets.
Exclusivly using public transport is actually very limiting.