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A picture of a hand holding remote car keys pointed at a white pickup truck. Below that is the text:
In the US, 75% of truck owners tow only once a year or less. Nearly 70% of them go off-road once a year or less. Additionally, 35% of truck owners haul something in their truck beds once a year or less
Find Sources @ unbelievablefactsblog.com
Its weird cus I dunno what the point of this place is at all or why people hate cars so much? Is it like a "Don't drive cars! Bike instead!" kinda thing or what?
I believe it's a collective of ideas and feelings.
The connecting bit is that people here are tired of how our nations have shaped and modeled modern life to be reliant on personal vehicles. Depending on who you would ask here, they might have varying perspectives.
I live in the US, and logically think that there should be at least a third less personal vehicles. As for trucks, I strongly believe that the trucks that have been coming out the last couple of years are just monstrosities that have no place on the public road systems. Unless you're using your truck work or its utility features 3/5ths of the time in a year, you probably shouldn't own a truck.
As for bikes, public buses, trams, and trains. Those are a lot better all around compared to the car/truck-centric transportation system we have now. Besides there being more deaths by conventional transportation, more injuries, parking issues, traffic jam issues, road system congestion, air quality issues, respiratory prone area issues, and the sure cost of maintaining such a car and truck-centric system in decent or better condition... just the space it takes to transport the same number of people down a road is far less with bikes or buses.
Does that answer your question?
This did, I thank you very much for your patience with me ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ