Gernot Wagner on Nostr: One outcome of our unmitigated SUV obsession: #NYC Ubers are engaged in weight-based ...
One outcome of our unmitigated SUV obsession: #NYC Ubers are engaged in weight-based warfare, the bigger the better. That might be bad for traffic, pedestrians, the planet, but passengers want it, right? Right?!
Well, wait 10min outside #Bellevue
hospital and watch one of these SUVs pull up after the other. The result: this poor chap in a wheelchair can't get home. Impossible to get into one of these SUVs, and regular cars are hard to find.
#climate #urbanism
Published at
2023-09-02 13:51:03Event JSON
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