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[–] Nouveau_Burnswick 3 points 2 weeks ago

You can haul a family of four around town on an e-bike (it's how I do the daycare run in the morning).

Intercity transit SHOULD be easily accessible by train, but we decided we don't do that here.

People also choose cars because of marketing, the built environment which provides them few protected spaces, societal pressures, and decision inertia.

Many multicar families could easily swap a car put with an e-bike.

And the fact that cars are the only viable way to get to grannies 2 cities over, it a terrible indicator that our infrastructure prioritizes cars/car infrastructure/car related profits, through a massive pay wallet that somewhere around 20% of the population over 16 can't even use no matter how much cash they have, and obviously the population under 16 can't use at all.