And I thought Americans were carbrained, holy shit.
(To be fair, he’s not wrong in that this is intended to keep the auto companies and the government nice and fat – but the obvious response to this is to agitate for better public transit, not railing against an environmentally sound policy.)
Haven’t there been multiple cases of women getting gang raped on indian public transport?
Okay, that’s horrible, but in a country with around 1.5 billion people things can be both incredibly rare and happen every week.
Delhi (and the broader NCR) is generally unsafe for women. I have heard from female friends that they don’t even look at job offers from NCR for this reason.
Public transit is not necessary for a 1km distance.
He also posted a photo of the road. It’s 2 lanes of chaotic traffic in each direction, no sidewalk. You can’t walk there, you’ll get hit by something sooner or later. It supposedly also gets up to 44C (of course on an asphalt road the air temp might be higher than that). I choose to believe that because apparently the temperature record in New Delhi is over 50C.
I mean, I’m pretty sure I’ve heard of recent cases where women have been gang raped just walking down the street as well, but my comment was more referring to ops comment that they should be agitating for better public transport. I agree with the sentiment, but there might be a safety factor pushing the lady to drive. That’s possibly true for walking too. Walking may also not be feasible due to lack of walking infrastructure or mobility issues. My mother in law probably couldn’t walk a kilometre, she’s not obese and is mostly mobile, but she’s just had multiple knee replacements and walking that distance isn’t possible.
Recent high profile cases? Or are you referring to the one from 2012?
No more recently than that, the reports I was thinking of were more like 2019 or 2023, but as an example here’s one from this year
Right, but also there’s the whole gang rape thing… Imma go ahead and say people should do what makes them feel safe from gang rape.