It's not that it's unsafe to drive in Detroit due to crime, it's just that the automotive industry lobbied hard to make the country car friendly, and that city faced the worst of it.
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This scene has nothing to do with car-centric city design
I mean, car centric design is less safe than human centric design. You're safer when there's more people around.
It's the people I'm worried about
But if you're stuck in the woods, do you want to come across a person or a car?
You can drive for 16 hours and still be in Texas, the european mind cannot comprehend this! <
Yeah because driving 16 hours straight is stupid because you would just take the train and be driven 16 hours straight.
Car centric infrastructure should have never been introduced.
While public transport is undoubtedly fantastic, let's not pretend that it's a great option in many European countries. I'd love to take the train in the UK, but thanks to the Tories it would cost me more to take the train (when it works) than it would to drive and park.
The key is public ownership of public transport.
Public transport in Europe is often in a sorry state, but trust me, it's nothing compared to the US. Here in France, a lot of regional trains are very unreliable at best but at least high speed trains on dedicated tracks are fine (very expensive, but ok).
I don't remember UK rail to be a shitshow and/or that expensive but my only experience is going to/from central London to/from neighboring counties and it was fine.
But in the US, oh boy. About 15 years ago I was living with some roommates in Campbell, CA and we went to SF one day. 1h drive mostly on shitty concrete motorways, including probably around $5 of gas. They were heading north for a romantic getaway so I went back to Campbell by myself. It took almost 4 fuckin hours, on maybe 4 or 5 different private companies, and cost me like $25 to get back.
Public transit in the US is so fucked up im almost convinced it's by design.
I never get this argument of US Americans against public transport. Even in europe most public transport happens within one city, I don't regulary drive to another country
I think most Americans like the idea of public transport, and including a robust national rail network. The reason it doesn't exist are the oil and automotive lobbies. (Mostly oil.). Poorly educated Americans (the ones wearing MAGA hats) are easy to manipulate by these groups, as well.
The liberals are trying to take your cars!
Americans don't generally have a negative thing to say about public transportation. Americans, however, prefer to drive their own vehicle for many reasons. For one, being independent, not relying on a schedule. Not worrying about missing their transportation and catching a later one, then being late to the arrival of their destination.
I don't know where you live, but in the big cities of the U.S., public transportation... isn't exactly hygienic. You will smell urine. You will encounter chitty people. You will be spending time reading all the random chit people write/scratch onto the walls and glass. You will sit on uncomfortable chairs, might even touch someone's chewed up gum by accident.
I've seen some chit both in city busses and trains but this was in Chicago and some parts of NY. Never would I ever want to live that life. Ever.
Seriously.
I live in Detroit and I don't get why people are scared. Yeah, there's a few scary areas, but the city itself is safe with a great nightlife scene.
No one is scared in downtown anymore. But I used to live in downtown over 20 years ago and it was scary. Just walking down Woodward at night was dangerous but you look at it now and wonder how it ever was like that.
My grandmother is convinced it's still like that. She would not have let me go to WSU except it's the only school in Michigan that offered a degree in Mortuary/Postmortem Science
Is that person's nose real, I refuse to beleive its real
Star trek lookin ass
Forget the nose. That person isn't real.
He's Andy Samberg's damaged clone.