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The “what if you wanted to go to heaven, but god said ____” meme template, but here it says, “What if you wanted to walk to get groceries, but city planners said DRIVE”. The last panel is an image of a massive freeway full of cars.
Image transcript:
The “what if you wanted to go to heaven, but god said ____” meme template, but here it says, “What if you wanted to walk to get groceries, but city planners said DRIVE”. The last panel is an image of a massive freeway full of cars.
My sister had her driver’s license suspended for a while due to a medical condition, and her neighborhood’s extremely car-dependent design made it completely impractical to walk to get groceries. The only thing that ended up working was getting an electric bike, but even that was still not great because there are absolutely no protected bike lanes in her neighborhood. No transit either.
When you advocate against ending car dependency, you’re advocating for people like my sister to be stuck at home, unable to get groceries on their own.