grueNov 12, 2024

What terminal car-brain does to a society

https://lemmy.world/post/21956555

What terminal car-brain does to a society - Lemmy.World

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21954268 [https://lemmy.world/post/21954268] > Mom Jailed for Letting 10-Year-Old Walk Alone to Town > > ## “I was not panicking as I know the roads and know he is mature enough to walk there without incident,” says Brittany Patterson.

Show threadregul
very funny to see this coming from Reason, a libertarian rag that hates public transit
Nov 12, 2024 at 11:58pmWeb
Show threadfruitycoderNov 13, 2024
I’ve seen Reason speak highly of Japan’s privatized public transport
Show threadregulNov 13, 2024
Which public transport? Tokyo Metro is publicly-owned. Some of the JR branches are still publicly-owned. JR was only privatized in the late 80s as an anti-labor move and to deflect from the unpopularity of closing unprofitable rural lines. But of course the government built most of the network, including the first shinkansen lines.
Show threadfruitycoderNov 13, 2024
reason.org/…/high-speed-rail-japan-shinkansen/
High Speed Rail in Japan: Lessons from Shinkansen - Reason Foundation

The San Francisco Chronicle has an useful article on the lessons from Japan’s high-speed rail system called the Shinkansen. Japan now has five lines connecting this very urban and dense nation. While the article’s intent is clearly to promote high-speed … Continued

Reason Foundation
Show threadregulNov 14, 2024
It sounds like they’re praising it in Japan and saying “of course it could never work here, Americans are just genetically predisposed to cars”.
Show threadfruitycoderNov 14, 2024
Right. I will say there is a lot of the US where cars make sense because they use the same roads that farm equipment uses (which does not make much sense to build rail for), but in the cities (and thus the suburbs) it seemed largely cultural from any historical analysis I’ve seen (with segregation, excessive monopolization of passenger rail, and the advent of modern advertising).
Show threadNicolaHaskellNov 13, 2024
Angry, vindictive Internet dwellers love to identify with the left while arguing on behalf of libertarians. So long as Somebody On The Other Side is getting punished the specifics of self responsibility and internal consistency don’t matter too much.
Show threadnimpninNov 13, 2024
Angry and vindictive? You’re the one hate-reading a community you clearly don’t like
Show threadNicolaHaskellNov 14, 2024
It’s not hate reading, it’s loving honesty. The article frames the story as an anti-government civil liberty issue, and the community is letting blind rage at the mention of a car create a blind spot over self-defeating libertarianism.