Opposition to sustainable transport projects is growing, because of distributive and identity grievances familiar from broader climate policy. Flora Baumgartner looks at how transport policies are contested locally, and how they act as glue for right-wing parties, locally and at a European level
When I talked about it with a repairman in our family they support cycling but they need cars for their job. You can’t move a fridge easily with a bike.
at thats why you encourage them to fight for active transport improvements. it gets more cars off the road, so there is less trafic they have to deal with, which means quicker travel for them
same with petrolheads! fewer cars mean fewer accidents, fewer queues, and fewer road hogs. the only people who actually benefit from there being more cars are car manufacturers and whoever they pay off.
This repair person doesn’t sound like somebody who’s very right-wing or somebody who loves cars. They just sound like any of us who are forced to use cars by our dysfunctional dead-end society.
When I talked about it with a repairman in our family they support cycling but they need cars for their job. You can’t move a fridge easily with a bike.
at thats why you encourage them to fight for active transport improvements. it gets more cars off the road, so there is less trafic they have to deal with, which means quicker travel for them
same with petrolheads! fewer cars mean fewer accidents, fewer queues, and fewer road hogs. the only people who actually benefit from there being more cars are car manufacturers and whoever they pay off.
Depends on the definition of “easily”:
Cool irrelevant story.
This repair person doesn’t sound like somebody who’s very right-wing or somebody who loves cars. They just sound like any of us who are forced to use cars by our dysfunctional dead-end society.