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Man complains about the government forcing him to buy a new car so he and his wife can continue to do their 1km school run. (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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And I thought Americans were carbrained, holy shit.

(To be fair, he's not wrong in that this is intended to keep the auto companies and the government nice and fat -- but the obvious response to this is to agitate for better public transit, not railing against an environmentally sound policy.)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Haven't there been multiple cases of women getting gang raped on indian public transport?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Delhi (and the broader NCR) is generally unsafe for women. I have heard from female friends that they don't even look at job offers from NCR for this reason.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Public transit is not necessary for a 1km distance.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

He also posted a photo of the road. It's 2 lanes of chaotic traffic in each direction, no sidewalk. You can't walk there, you'll get hit by something sooner or later. It supposedly also gets up to 44C (of course on an asphalt road the air temp might be higher than that). I choose to believe that because apparently the temperature record in New Delhi is over 50C.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

It’s Delhi though. Not many sidewalks and it’s boiling hot outside.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's prob necessary to do something, even new ICE vehicles & new fuels are not the cleanest in India, but old ones prob really need to go, especially in a country with such pollution problems.

How to achieve that & why not boost public (city) transport instead, etc & why they decided to go this way can def be questioned - but that's in all nations & at the end something still gets done.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Alright, so I'm not a regular here, I'm a Gearhead who lives in an Unfortunately car centric area. I like cars, I think they're neat, I HATE that we need them to commute.

I don't understand why cars are being banned after an arbitrary time limit. 15 years for petrol? Until year I drove a 30 year old petrol Toyota which pulled almost 50MPG on the highway, could have done better with some simple mods but I live in the mountains and needed the power for uphill.

I understand the desire to keep older more polluting vehicles off the road but arbitrarily declaring vehicles EOL because of their age is ridiculous.

Am I missing the point here? I'd appreciate some input because this feels like a bad move all around.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

well, it is car traffic in India, maybe in Dheli. can get quite crazy so I am not sure you are expecting them to walk there? but to be fair, not clear from the article.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I am indeed expecting them to walk. People (me included) walk longer distances in Indian traffic in far worse conditions, a kilometer is quite literally child's play

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I walked (or cycled or took the bus in the winter) to school when I was a kid, but this is not a safe environment, why do we want kids to walk here:

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Don’t forget to buy F1 tickets.

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