The average transaction price for a new car now sits around $50,000.

I could ride a NYC subway or bus 16,666 times for that, assuming I never do more than 12 rides in a week to trip the "rest of the week is free" condition.

"Make cars cheaper" is a stupid solution that won't scale well. Cars do tremendous damage to the environment and our society. But I expect everyone subscribed to "Fuck Cars" already knows that.

"inexpensive car" is a myth that keep getting repeated. Car can seems cheap up front but it could inflate in cost in the long run due to fuel and maintenance. Not to mention it's a deprecating asset, doing serious damage to the environment in the long run, dangerous machine that often misused.

"but my fuel is cheap!"

Yeah? Because it's subsidised, using your tax that's better used for something else.

I think realistically this is the only way public transport will start to be forced past the car companies that lobby against it. Once the actual labour starts getting hit and affected, they'll have no choice.

"Now"??

NYTrash is the worst imperial garbage.

Car dependency has always been an unsustainable grift benefiting the most privileged at the cost of the planetary destruction.

Don't expect these liars to have a clue about this.

This country only works if gas is cheap...and it's already too late for that. Oopsie daisy I guess.

Well well well if it isn't the consequences of our own stupid actions

Car companies passed a bunch of laws prohibiting competition and alternatives and got trillions in subsidies. Now they're welfare programs for the nations dumbest and most pampered CEOs.

The Happy Motoring Society was never sustainable

The solution is to sells homes to companies so they can be closer to the rest of the homes....some homes will become Walmarts, others could be made into universities or schools or hardware stores or software companies. Blah....none of this we have here in Kenmore WA for example... You can walk to the nearest store during spring. In summer you might die from a heatstroke, in winter you might become a Popsicle before even getting to the store located downhill and to the east along the top of lake Washington. Its no joke. There are no homeless people looking thru my trash ever...because they literally can't physically make it. There's no point in collecting enough aluminum cans to eat if you need to eat more than that to collect the cans.

Its a dumb place, I didn't choose to be here but it was the place I could afford that was closest to work. Hint hint...its nice that the city is charging us like $1000 bucks extra this year to add and repair sidewalks. Continue! Add a bus station nearby and allow people to have business from home...which eventually could become a workplace. Go from a bunch of houses to a variety of buildings. I can dream. I just need to jump off my high horse.

Now people are using electric bikes and scooters.

What really sux is oftentimes the more car friendly areas are expensive and the people living their drive cars because they have the money to buy there and have a car. I don't get why they don't live out further if they like cars so much but it is what it is.

They also forgot to put heavy cause of pollution in that title

i'm so grateful to live in a city with decent public transit (seattle)

none of my social life adventures would be possible without it

highly recommend cities if you're able to. they're always so much nicer to live in than suburbs or rural shitholes

Maybe stop putting in huge electronic systems I don't want

Regardless of whether they are right or wrong, what a terrible article comparing all kinds of apples and oranges and jumping to conclusions.

At no point have cars ever been "inexpensive", they've just been more or less obtainable. Big difference, a car has always been a very large purchase.

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Read in another article yesterday, the avg price of an automobile is 50k in the US. Average.