Ika Makimaki

The average annual cost of owning a car is $8000.

Depending on the model it can range from $5000 to $12000 though.

If local governments really wanted to "ease the pressure of living costs" on their populations, they'd fund #PublicTransport, #cycling and #walking, allowing people the freedom to NOT own a car and automatically putting 8 thousand dollars in the pocket of every ex motorist.

#carDependency is financial ruin for cities.

#NoCarNoProblem #motonormativity #CarBrain

Feb 7, 2023 at 11:00amWeb
Show threadbettybarcode (she/her) 🚲Feb 7, 2023
@pezmico
Absolutely. I wish more parking-obsessed businesses understood this. Every car in your city represents about $8K flying out the window instead of being spent on rent, goods & services.
Show threadJi FuFeb 7, 2023
@pezmico except thats not how math works. In Detroit it would already cost less for the city to buy every person who rode the bus even one time in the year a brand new $40,000 car than to keep funding SMART, but yet, tax payers keep footing the bill for a service that very few people use because it "doesn't go anywhere" there's a real "last mile" problem. It might work in places like Bejing, I don't know, but in the Midwestern US its stupid to have public transportaiton at all.