Honestly this is absurd. These death machines shouldn’t be legal in europe. That thing doesn’t even fit in the parking space, even though the parking lot has the biggest spaces in the whole city. The Golf Polo is so small in comparison, it could even hide in front of the engine hood of the truck.

EDIT: It’s a Polo and not a Golf, I don’t know my cars, sorry for that!

  • Spliffman1@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    I don’t want to discuss it, your view is very blanket and extreme to me, I don’t agree, and no amount of “reasoning” with me is gonna change it… For heavy urban centers yes your view may have some validity, but even then it can’t be a blanket view like one size fits all. I live on a small hilly island with tiny windy roads and neighborhoods, and only public transportation is a bus system on 2 main roads mostly … Your “solution” will never work here, never. Yes cars are abused in many countries and many are unnecessary… Here the law is ONE CAR per household, and even the size is limited by law here… For personal use for example we could have a Toyota Corolla, but Camrys aren’t allowed because they are too big … And our little cars are very necessary for most. Most popular car here is the tiny Kia Picanto lol… Everyone is free to believe and think what they want. Don’t waste time trying to convince me. Stay with your crew there in your community and rant about pictures of parked cars,. I don’t have a problem with that. 😂

    • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I don’t want to discuss it

      If you don’t want to discuss it, then don’t discuss it. Don’t say you don’t want to discuss it, and then discuss it anyway.

      You haven’t even made a point. You’ve described a landscape that has a poor public transit infrastructure, and made absolutely no justification as to why it can’t be fixed. Even if I were to assume you’re saying it’d cost too much to put in more tramways or even just more frequent buses on more routes, you’re completely ignoring the spending and infrastructure that goes into every household on your island getting one car for transit; that cost is going somewhere anyway as long as people need to go places. Most likely, that money is just spent individually rather than on shared solutions that benefit everyone for far less spending.

      I’ve been to Salzburg in Austria, and its hillyness and small, local roadways sound exactly what you’re describing. It uses small streets that prevent walking from becoming an extended, sweaty affair, and it has tram lines that get you from one end of town to the other, very reliably.