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I have copied that idea from another community. I forgot which one so sorry!

Feel free to discuss that here, I would like that change because it makes it a lot easier

I genuinely believe that car owners could be tricked into supporting FuckCars policies by a very crafty politician/campaign. It would work like this:

1. Proclaim your love of cars. Loudly. "I want to make our city the best city in the world for drivers!"
2. "What are the biggest problems drivers face today? Traffic and parking! Therefore... We need to open up roads and parking spaces..."
3. "And that's why we're going to cap the number of cars that can enter downtown. With increased public transit, we can free up these roads for drivers! That way: more parking, less traffic, a better life for drivers"

Do the same thing for bikes:

1. "These bikers want to share the road, but studies have shown that whether you use sharrows, plastic bollards, it doesn't matter: people still get hurt.
2. And here's the thing: when a car hits a cyclist, it's bad for everyone, including the driver. Nobody wants to hit a cyclist. But the sad truth is that it might just not be possible to share the road
3. "That's why I'm proposing that we make some roads car-only, to protect cyclists." [Crowd of drivers cheer, and you quickly say:] "Also we'll make some streets bike-only, for the same reason." [And then when you get in office, just be like "Yeah the highway is for cars"]

I'm available for speeches if anyone's hiring

A case for "positive urbanism" in the US and Canada, by Recce/RMTransit but on PeerTube!

Most Lemmy sites haven't federated with channels on video.canadiancivil.com, because it appears it was created recently. Oh the Urbanity is on there too: https://video.canadiancivil.com/c/urbanism

If you're interested in RMTransit, be sure to go to the *(Lemmy WebUI search bar while logged in) and leave [email protected] there for about 15 seconds and it should start federating on your Lemmy server from that point on (new videos only). From then on you will be able do the whole "like and subscribe" thing but on the Fediverse, and comment right from your Lemmy account on future videos.

Recce has a blog, a Patreon and Nebula account if you like and want to support his work.

I recently did the jump from Reddit to Lemmy and I found this community here while I was still looking for subjects to follow. I have been following rail specific subjects (more the construction and operation of) in the few countries that I have lived in since about 2004 so some of the posts here really drew me in.

Since moving to Dubai, I wanted to go carless but my work is too remote so I did opt to get a car. I also like travelling by train so I just thought I would give an anecdotal case study of the difference between driving and taking the metro here. I also thought this would be quite interesting as the Metro system is quite young and the roads in the UAE is generally the best I have seen from Europe/North America/Africa and the Middle East (of course, I didn't see all of the roads).

Last weekend I found myself parked walking distance from Al Furjan Metro station and wanted to go close to the Metro station in JBR. This immediately made me think which option would be quicker and I checked the train schedule and it said the ride would take 11 mins and the train is running every 3 and a half minutes - 15 minutes worse case scenario including the bit of walking. I took the car and parked and walked and it took me 12 minutes to get to my destination, which would be the same as the best case scenario. The train stops at 4 stations in between, which is probably what makes this comparable.

This made me consider the other variables as well. So I decided to compare the cost. Just taking the fuel in account the trip would have cost me $0.6 for the trip in the car and this would be $3.27 for two people in the train (gold class). But I figured that isn't a very fair comparison. Lucklily I have a detailed log of my car fuel expenditure and I also log the depreciation and other expenses on my car. My car is not the cheapest one in the world, but I am also comparing it to the highest class ticket so I am just comparing it from the type of car I would want to drive and type of service I would want for the train. Adding in what my roadtrip app calculates my total cost per km. The car trip would be $2.80.

So for this trip the car came in a little bit cheaper than the gold class tickets. But if it was a solo trip it would be significantly cheaper to just take the train ($1.64). Also you could opt for the normal ticket that is $0.82 for this trip.

If you need to walk around outside the walkways, the Metro also has a nice feeder bus and tram system that is drops you 50-100 meters (55 - 110 yards) away from most points that I would be interested in.

So in conclusion, if I travel solo in Dubai, the Metro would definitely be my first choice. The ticket for two is also worth it for me as it just reduces the stress by that much.

Edit: I should probably also mention that this would probably be a harsh comparison on public transport as fuel is very cheap here and there is no tax on cars (or almost nothing if there is something)