[barbacoa]

Car depend infrastructure is amazing to families. A mom can take her children to the grocery store in a car in relative safety without worrying about mentally ill homeless people on the subway.

[lowkj]

Why would you need to get on the subway to go to the grocery store? When I lived in Paris I was within a five minute walk to at least three general grocery stores plus various speciality shops. Always plenty of parents all around. This is not uncommon in properly designed non-car dependent cities. Not to mention deliveries are just that much easier and all without a car.

[piva00]

In more than a decade living in Stockholm never had a mentally ill homeless person bothering anyone in the subway.

Perhaps the subway itself isn't the problem...

[weregiraffe]

Men would rather build a continent-sized car-dependent infrastructure that deal with mentally ill homeless people on the subway...

[ponector]

It is called the American way.

[red-iron-pine]

yeah but i can make money selling comically oversized trucks and suvs to fatass americans

fixing homelessness doesn't make me money

[greenavocado]

Correct. Lack of accessibility is a feature when you live around bad people and the legal system doesn't function to eliminate the threat

[ndsipa_pomu]

Surely the priority should be to help those with mental issues and those without homes? It's bizarre to want to live in a society that prioritises car use so that people don't have to see those discarded by the same society.

[cal_dent]

wow. this thread is microcosm of how wild and polarised the internet can be.

[greenavocado]

It's pure facts. I used to live in a city where me and my wife were terrorized by homeless people on the light rail. Now we live far away from public transportation and no longer have to worry about the safety of ourselves or our children and our neighbors are fantastic people.

Car dependency and castle doctrine is essential in a low trust society with a legal system that puts violent offenders right back on the street.

[jenadine]

A mom can also take her car in a non-car-dependent infrastructure.