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This is a lovely gesture, but also it's pretty sad (and very North American?) that if your car dies at the store you can't get home without relying on the tenuous kindness of strangers (pbs.twimg.com)

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This is apparently in Columbus, Ohio -- a pretty major city by any stretch of the imagination.

And yet there are people who rail (geddit?) against 15-minute cities and efficient public transit that ensures no one ever gets stuck like this.

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[–] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Columbus, isn't that where that school shooting happened?

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[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I hate the impacts of cars too, and desperately want better transit options.

But we should maybe put up a sign for stories out of North America:

"North America is really really big. It sucks that it doesn't have better mass transit coverage, but that's still a genuinely hard problem to solve in rural North America."

Most folks in rural North America have stories both of being the rescued and being the rescuer when cars have broken down.

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[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world -5 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Uber exists. They could have easily spun up the app and called for a ride.

Buses also hit grocery stores or surrounding areas, often even in towns with limited public transit.

[–] errer@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Also AAA is very widely used to tow/get a ride when your car breaks down

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