Highway spending increased by 90% in 2021. This is one of many reasons why car traffic is growing faster than population growth.

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    If you’ve ever tried to drive a car you’ll discover that you need to keep a relatively large distance between other cars, particularly when moving at high speeds in order to avoid crashes.

    By contrast, when you’re moving through a crowd, you can get practically on top of someone else without risk of bodily harm.

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      Not me. I wear a Colin Furze style carrot slicer belt at all times. Watch a motherfucker try to ope right by me. removed gonna get cut.

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      I understand your argument but there is a clear bias here. Unless youre in an exceptionally denly populated area, people dont travel this close to one another. Most leave at least 1-2 humans gap between eachother, especially if there are wheelchairs, kids and prams involved.

      Thats all my argument was, the cars are spaced out per lane (albiet bumper to bumper) but the side to side space is not consistent with the walkers. You could fit cars in between the cars with how they are spaced in that pic. I live in a victorian town where the roads force you to drive wingmirror to wingmirror

      Im on the fuckcars space here, trust me I agree cars need to be phased out/down but thats no excuse for bias in data