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What would a TV ad promoting alternatives to driving look like? By the war on cars

What would a TV ad promoting alternatives to driving look like? What if people who love cycling and progressive transportation reclaimed ideas like freedom, independence and even patriotism? We decided to give it a shot. Check out our new video, "America, It's Just Like Riding a Bike."

Found on war on cars mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@TheWarOnCars/114026724784302292

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Funny enough, i went through this only recently. Ride a bike to school 14km every weekdays, then got a car, became toxic carbrain, work in auto industry, then realise car is expensive to own, even the budget one, because fuel and servicing is expensive and it will break down eventually. So i take out my first ever bike that's been in storage for 17 years, a bmx that granted me freedom in my school year, fix it, paint it, and give it an electric motor. Now riding a bike became my favorite activity again.

America, why do they keep adding the America word America?

The issue is infrastructure in most of the US. Provide public transport, usable sidewalks, and pedestrian-safe third spaces and this problem all but goes away. I didn’t get my license until I had to move away from the city, and it sucks.
PSAs are all well and good in their intentions but nothing changes until the realistic means become available.
- It's certainly a big problem, but not the only one. Plenty of people refuse to use the public transport and bike infrastructure available to them. It's decades of propaganda and individual-over-collective mindset that contributes to people choosing to drive, and this counter propaganda might help with that.
  Source: I live in a city that's very walkable, bikeable and has great public transport, but many still drive as their sole mode of transportation.

"I JUST SAWED THIS ~~BOAT~~ CAR IN HALF!!! Now let's see if Flex Seal can seal it back up!"
"Oh.....uh, no, it seems engines can't be sealed together again with Flex Seal. Guess I'm riding my bike to work."

@lgsp
I liked it but it would have been better to post a link directly to the video.
- Actually the main link is to the video itself. This post is from Lemmy, so, if youk look the oroginal post, you can see that the object of the post is the link to youtube and the link to the mastodon toot isnjust a text. But from your maston account you s just the second one... The "bad" part of the fediverse, I guess
  
  @lgsp
  I see now. It looks different on lemmy and feddit than it does here on mastodon.

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