The state is huge, you’re right. It’s not just LA and San Francisco. But to anti-car people, there are only five places to live in the US, and if you’re not in NYC, SF, LA, Chicago, or DC, you don’t exist. Walk everywhere, lose your job, become homeless! That’ll get politicians to invest in public transportation!
I live two hours into the desert past Battlefield. If I don’t have access to a car, I’m not getting to anything, we don’t even have a hospital that will do live birth less than an hour away, no neurologists, nothing. We have a rural health clinic that mostly directs people to the ER. If someone really has an emergency they might get a helicopter ride if they’re luck. Or they might get to experience a 2hr ambulance ride. Which my wife has done two. Now, I can walk some places in town. But a lot of it isn’t even paved, if you see those bicycles with the huge fat wheels, those are pretty great out here actually, lots of sand to get trapped in, not a lot of paved road.
It’s not a option, I’m not messing with you, when I was a kid you could actually ride a bus out of town, it drove to the Mojave greyhound stop, which is literally just a parking lot, not an actual building of any kind, but that ended by 2002. There’s no options, you car, or walk, or bike, or mad max on a go cart, but the cops WILL pull you over and ticket you, those fuckers have nothing to do and we’re so good at hiring LAPD officers that get fired for gross misconduct that we actually shut down our PD for a good 5 years and just asked CHP to come by every few weeks. Our crime rates plummeted. Which I really wish we stuck to that, put PD now seems to only harass people with old cars who aren’t white enough.
And there’s that ignorant privilege. No one is coming out to Kern County to build stop lights, let alone a some how functioning public transit system, our best bet would be high speed rail out here, and you can thank one individual billionaire for fucking that up. What are we supposed to do? Use our voting power of a low population county to address billionaire’s fucking us too hard? I drive my neighbors out of town if they need me to, I do what I can, there’s no options, you get access to a car or you die.
Unfortunately in CA you are severly harmed by not having a car.
Car brained generalization about a huge and diverse state.
The state is huge, you’re right. It’s not just LA and San Francisco. But to anti-car people, there are only five places to live in the US, and if you’re not in NYC, SF, LA, Chicago, or DC, you don’t exist. Walk everywhere, lose your job, become homeless! That’ll get politicians to invest in public transportation!
I live two hours into the desert past Battlefield. If I don’t have access to a car, I’m not getting to anything, we don’t even have a hospital that will do live birth less than an hour away, no neurologists, nothing. We have a rural health clinic that mostly directs people to the ER. If someone really has an emergency they might get a helicopter ride if they’re luck. Or they might get to experience a 2hr ambulance ride. Which my wife has done two. Now, I can walk some places in town. But a lot of it isn’t even paved, if you see those bicycles with the huge fat wheels, those are pretty great out here actually, lots of sand to get trapped in, not a lot of paved road.
It’s not a option, I’m not messing with you, when I was a kid you could actually ride a bus out of town, it drove to the Mojave greyhound stop, which is literally just a parking lot, not an actual building of any kind, but that ended by 2002. There’s no options, you car, or walk, or bike, or mad max on a go cart, but the cops WILL pull you over and ticket you, those fuckers have nothing to do and we’re so good at hiring LAPD officers that get fired for gross misconduct that we actually shut down our PD for a good 5 years and just asked CHP to come by every few weeks. Our crime rates plummeted. Which I really wish we stuck to that, put PD now seems to only harass people with old cars who aren’t white enough.
You are severely harmed by not having a car *and being too apathetic and selfish to do anything about it
Sorted that for you
And there’s that ignorant privilege. No one is coming out to Kern County to build stop lights, let alone a some how functioning public transit system, our best bet would be high speed rail out here, and you can thank one individual billionaire for fucking that up. What are we supposed to do? Use our voting power of a low population county to address billionaire’s fucking us too hard? I drive my neighbors out of town if they need me to, I do what I can, there’s no options, you get access to a car or you die.