• thejevans@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Transitioning from owning and using you own car to using a taxi service with an app solves parking issues and pretty much nothing else. Fuck Uber.

    • LeylaLove [she/her, love/loves]
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      1 year ago

      This is facts. Getting rid of cars without any functinal alternative is literally just fucking over poor people. I don't give two fucks how much ride-sharing apps could be better than people owning cars, ubering to and from work and only on that loop is $300-500+ a week depending on where you live. I'd actually imagine Australian prices are probably worse.

    • LocustOfControl@reddthat.com
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      1 year ago

      I don't think you read the article. The data shows that walking and cycling went up massively, as well as increasing public transport use. This is good, and the article as a whole politely makes points compatible with this comm.

      • LeylaLove [she/her, love/loves]
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        1 year ago

        Uber only paid 58 people, it's cool but it's not enough to create any of the changes you're mentioning. The article can be polite, but I can still respond to their shitty point nts however I want

        • LocustOfControl@reddthat.com
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          1 year ago

          It's a study. People are normally paid to participate in studies because otherwise no-one would bother doing them.

          It's not meant to change the city overnight, it's a study to test how people's behaviours change if they reduce the number of cars they own, which is what we want (ideally to zero, of course).

          In summary, IT'S A STUDY.