According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, approximately one-third of the nation’s residents don’t have driver’s licenses. In her 2024 book “When Driving is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency,” disability advocate Anna Zivarts argues that not only is America’s car-centric infrastructure harmful to the climate, it also fails to meet the everyday needs of many Americans.
No, 66% having a drivers license, doesn’t mean 66% drive. And even those who usually do, can’t drive all the time. There are a lot of reasons why you might be unable to drive, even if you have a license: Being drunk, being sick/injured, being to old to safely drive, being to tired to safely drive, being to broke to afford the gas…
And even of those who do drive, a large percentage might not drive because they want to, but because they are forced to drive due to a lack of walking, cycling and public transportation infrastructure.
It doesn’t matter how big your country is. Nobody in their right mind drives from New York to San Francisco on a daily basis, not even from New York to Philadelphia.
The vast majority of commutes are from your home to the local school, the local supermarket or the local workplace within the same town. A distance that could easily be traveled by bike if there was any bike infrastructure even in today’s US cities. Granted, the distance you have to travel to get to these places is usually bigger in the US, than in Europe, but that’s only because you don’t have mixed neighbourhoods. And you don’t have mixed neighbourhoods because every little convenience store needs to be surrounded by 200 acres of parking because you can only get there by car.
@brotundspiele @kitnaht
Grammar Correction: Too, to and two are not interchangeable.
Correct usage: He was too old, too drunk and too sick to drive two blocks to the store. Two dollars is too much to pay.
I fully agree with you and #FuckCars
#homophones #Grammar
Normally I know that, but I guess I was just two tired while typing 😂