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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

but owning a car there is a very unnecessary luxury

I live in a huge urban city (about 10M ppl) with one of the best public transportation system in the world. Only real reason I NEED a car is a) when I go out of the city or b) move a lot of things.

Even in the case of b), I use rental car something like this:

It's a compact car that can move some serious shit(image is the van version. you'll normally have all the passenger seats like a normal car). Perfect car in the urban area imo. Bigger than that is honestly almost unjustifiable.

I mean, fuck cars but people are not going to be ditching cars any time soon because it's just darn nice to have, even when there's public transportation readily available in basically anywhere in the city. Transitioning to reasonable cars like this might be something we can work on for the short term?