cars as structural violence
okay if most people were driving arcimotos I'd probably be a lot more comfortable sharing the road with cars
like getting hit by one of those at 50 mph would still fuck me up, but it probably wouldn't kill me like a SUV
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If you thought that was oddly precise, I watched a near miss version of that scenario play out on Tuesday (the SUV swerved and almost hit the bus I was in) only to have to get off two minutes later & backtrack two intersections that were only marginally more safe before I could get to my doctors appointment
I can’t drive for medical reasons. There’s never going to be 3000 pounds of steel protecting me from other cars. I just have to live with this, and hope that maybe someday enough people will give a fuck that we can actually change things
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@Satsuma so many intersections and roads are so actively hostile to pedestrians, I can't help thinking of it as a cull :/
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@ljwrites it really feels that way, walking through them!
I sat thru three full light cycles the other day at an intersection before I realized the walk signal was a dummy — the one if the turn lanes would always have a green arrow into the crosswalk when opposing traffic was stopped
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@Satsuma what the ffff why would they fuck up such an important signal!