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Sociedade do Automóvel - Automobile Society - Sociedad del Automóvil
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39 minutes and 3 seconds
Country:
Brazil
Language:
Portuguese (Brazil)
Genre:
Documentary
Producer:
branca nunes - thiago benicchio
Director:
branca nunes - thiago benicchio
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786
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Posted by:
luddista on May 20, 2009
Cenas de uma cidade degradada pela lógica e pela cultura do transporte privado. Trabalhar para dirigir, dirigir para trabalhar: compre um carro e liberte-se do transporte público ruim. Afinal, o que é público é de ninguém (ou daqueles que não podem pagar). Vidros escuros e fechados que evitam o contato humano. Tédio, raiva, angústia e solidão em avenidas de 8 pistas.
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- If I choose to go home at 6 or 6:50 p.m.
- I have to prepare myself psychologically
- because I know the traffic will be bad.
- I work inside a shopping center
- and I never know if the weather is cold or if it's hot or raining.
- I start work in the morning, and this ramp is the moment
- that I see the outside and say: 'Gosh, the traffic is heavy'
- I go to work at 5:20 in the morning,
- First I walk 20 minutes to take a bus to Sao Miguel
- it takes me 30 minutes.
- Then I take a charter bus to the place I work.
- I woke up on Monday at 3:40 a.m.
- go out at 4:15 a.m
- take the bus and go to the train station.
- Then the train goes to Bras Station.
- From Bras I take the subway, 3 lines,
- green, red and blue.
- It takes me 2:15 hours going to work.
- The day I decided 'I won't use this car any more'
- was the day I spent over an hour going to college, and I missed a test.
- That day I thought: If I was using the subway, I could've been there in 20 minutes
- I use the bike as my first transport option.
- I don't only use my bike, I also use public transport.
- and sometimes I use my car.
- Inside the car you're on the car speed,
- which is 30 times faster than walking.
- With the rhythm of walking you can discover relations,
- urban landscape, good and bad things,
- you discover the city, you discover what's the metropolis.
- It's easier to feel the constant interaction between people
- when you're walking.
- I think the automobile should have an specific role,
- when you have to travel long distances
- to places without public transportation
- and if you are short on time.
- If we go out as 5 people,
- we have to pay 5 fares to go
- and 5 to return home.
- We'll spend more than twice than if we travelled by car as 5 people.
- The automobile was always part of a dream
- at least from people close to me...
- Driving when you're 18, 19 years
- is really cool. It gives you a feeling of independance.
- Then you drive more and more...
- and you realise, you've become a car-dependant.
- In 1900, the main transportation
- was the animal powered tram.
- Then came the first electric tramway,
- from Barra Funda to Largo Sao Bento
- The tramway started to lose its importance by the 1930's
- when some other means of transportation appeared:
- specially the automobile and the bus,
- which started growing as the tramway
- was losing passengers until totally disappeared in 1968.
- Amongst the big cities in Brazil, Sao Paulo is the only city
- which has more trips
- by private individual transportation
- than trips made by public transport.
- It's not bad, because there's no way to get worse.
- Traffic jam also on '23 de maio' avenue.
- The traffic moves a little, but it's move a while, and stop a while.
- In 1976 the city of Sao Paulo has about 7.5 mi inhabitants,
- 1.6 million cars.
- From then until now, how has this situation behaved?
- There's a growth of 23% on the population,
- 25% in the road system,
- and the number of cars increased 280%.
- There was 1 car for a group of 6 people.
- Now we have 1 car for every 2 people.
- People used to say 'rush hour'...
- there's no more 'rush hour', I cannot understand...
- some days the roads are clear, and there's others with traffic jam at 4 p.m.
- We believe that from the 5,4 million cars we have on the roads circulating
- everyday at the same time about 3 million cars.
- The 5 million cannot get on the road at the same time,
- there's no space, there's not enough streets.
- The problem is that everybody wants to go out at the same time, the same way,
- using the car everyday to do everything.
- There won't be enough tunnels and bridges that can solve the problem.
- Nothing will solve it.
- When you look at this, you say: is it worth? what am I doing?
- It's a lot of time wasted.
- I don't stop on my way to work
- and that's wonderful.
- You have that feeling of freedom:
- the car on a highway
- driving on a beautiful sunset,
- It's easier to get a bike
- and go anywhere at any time than go by car.
- By car, you think twice: how's the traffic? Are there parking places?
- Nothing happens... Driving is always the same.
- When you walk or use public transport,
- it can always be different.
- I always think the driver is in a miserable situation.
- And we should have solidarity.
- Because it's really bad to be in that situation.
- Sometimes it's not good to ride a bike.
- And then it's crazy: you cannot ride because the air is polluted
- then you use a car...
- We estimate that everyday in Sao Paulo because of the air pollution
- we have deaths in excess of 7 to 10 people.
- Most of us won't feel anything.
- We're going to pay the price after a long time.
- There'll be more risk of heart disease,
- behavioural disturbances,
- more risk of cancer.
- Some years later, some of us will pay the price for this critical aggression.
- It's called life expectancy decrease.
- In a city like Sao Paulo, we estimate about 2 years less because of the air pollution.
- In Sao Paulo last year
- about 1.3 thousand people died.
- Almost always there's the driver's behavior, the excessive speed,
- and occasionally the causes are road conditions or signal failures.
- You've got health, you've got family union, you've got good moments with your family.
- But if you don't have protection, you can lose all that in less than 3 minutes,
- because every 3 minutes a car is stolen in the metropolitan area of Sao Paulo.
- How can you avoid that? Buying CarSystem, calling CarSystem.
- CarSystem means protection and safety.
- Do you feel safer walking or driving in Sao Paulo?
- Driving.
- - Why?
- Because I think it's easier to drive than being in the streets.
- Walking you're exposed to being robbed at any time.
- I feel safer driving my car.
- Because inside a car I have the chance
- to drive with my windows closed
- and walking I am more vulnerable.
- The car gives you a feeling of more safety,
- because you're controlling who's close to you, who's not.
- If you see someone behind you
- that you think's following you
- you start to make shortcuts.
- You feel safer because you're inside something, you can close the windows.
- - Have you been robbed?
- - Yes. - When you're driving or walking?
- Inside a car...
- But I left the window opened!
- I was with my windows closed, he knocked on the window,
- told me to open it and asked for money.
- I've been robbed 6 times on the last 8 years, on different danger levels, inside my car.
- I think it's a lot safer riding a bike than driving a car.
- Sometimes, when I'm driving at some places I close the window and feel frightened.
- Then I realize that I also go to the same place by bike and never get worried.
- Because the automobile is like your house that you take for a walk on four wheels.
- It's your identity inside there, it's your house in miniature,
- on that closed space.
- And by public transport or walking
- you're nobody, you're with everybody.
- People say that's about mobility
- But we know the car's much more than a means of transport.
- New Siena, more than a car, a conquest.
- What do you want to buy?
- Beauty, status, privacy, comfort.
- A bubble that isolates you from the city, that rips you off this social tissue.
- Where you put dark windows to stop seeing and to stop being watched.
- You cover it with armor so your safety cannot be threatened.
- If I was the 'Brazilian emperor' and my first law was:
- 'I forbid the private automobile
- and I'd instantly create a perfect public transportation system'.
- My head will roll in a bloody revolution.
- If you could take anything from here for free, what would it be?
- Anything? A Ferrari, no doubt.
- I'd take a Ferrari.
- A car.
- A Ferrari.
- I'd take the women...
- Ferrari.
- The brunette inside a Masseratti on that stand.
- If you have to choose between the woman and the car, what do you choose?
- The car.
- What would be different if you drive this car on the streets?
- Many things...
- A lot of women!
- It would rise my social status because I usually go by bus.
- Nothing, nothing at all... Only the status.
- It'd be totally different
- I'd become a celebrity... "Authority", anything like that. I'd be in the media.
- I prefer not to buy it...
- Because I'm going to get get robbed.
- I'd have to buy an armured-Mercedes.
- As you expand the road system to support all of these car trips,
- the city expands itself in a model of urbanisation typical from the USA.
- This kind of city is extremely expensive
- because the state has to provide infrastructure
- which means not only roads, but all the public services
- water supply, light, drain system, to regions always more distant.
- And as the middle-classes move to the suburbs,
- the poor are banished to even more distant areas.
- I think whoever is poor on the outskirts of the city tends to live in a dormitory-city
- without access to services, business, leisure,
- and sociability beyond that confined society.
- And of course it generates violence, idleness, lack of opportunities...
- And all this is related to citizenship.
- On Saturdays we go to a church close to here to have confirmation classes
- When the classes end, we come back home.
- Sunday, the whole day inside the house.
- Now he plays on a soccer team with friends and we can go see the matches.
- Supporting them is our fun on Sundays.
- The nearest movie theatre is in Suzano's mall
- To get there by public transport you spend one hour and a half.
- You spend more time on your way to the theatre than watching the movie.
- It's like a bird in a cage
- the poor bird get's there...
- Many times, to have fun,
- his sisters and I
- turn on the stereo and start dancing.
- Our leisure.
- How long does it take from your house to your job?
- Does your time cost? How much do you pay for that?
- The repressive actions intend to guarantee a good traffic flow.
- The violations related to safety and respect are treated like second class violations.
- Try to call a cop and say
- 'There's a car on the sidewalk in the pedestrians way'. The cop won't do anything.
- When we get inside a car we have a feeling of power
- and everybody in front of us becomes an enemy to be beaten.
- We establish social relations not any more based on sociability, but on anger.
- Using public space on the streets to park cars, that are private proprieties,
- disrupting the traffic flow, which is a a public usage of the city space,
- it's total nonsense.
- Why a person who owns a car has the right to occupy an undetermined public space?
- Why my sidewalk cannot advance two more metres,
- or make a garden?
- If you have a car you might have a place to store it
- and not occupying public space with it.
- This street should be four meters narrow.
- Not wider, as the drivers want.
- Then we can have more trees, more gardens, playgrounds and even bigger houses.
- The poor quality of public transport made the automobile become a necessity.
- I spend one hour to go working by car.
- If I go by bus, it takes much more time.
- So why spending two hours to go working and two hours to come back home
- if you can afford a car?
- It doesn't make sense...
- We defend ourselves against the bad public transportation buying a car.
- To protect against the bad public health system, we pay a private medical care.
- To protect against bad public education, we pay private schools to our children.
- Because of the bad public security, we pay private ones...
- Shopping centers, private condominiums, car-only areas, parking areas...
- it creates segregation and distance, because you're always 'driving in'
- and you stop being on the streets.
- Sao Paulo has one of the lowest vehicle occupation rates
- it's 1.2 person / car.
- In other words: most cars only carry the driver.
- The time people spend in traffic is a lonely time.
- What's interesting on your way from home to work?
- What's interesting... I don't know...
- I think nothing interesting. I never noticed anything.
- I think nothing.
- 'what's interesting on my way?'...
- Now you got me.
- On my way? Nothing.
- I live in this neighbourhood since I was born.
- Today if you ask me if there's a swimming school or anything new here,
- I don't know the answer.
- Because by bike or walking I think you can observe more things around you.
- The feeling that the place where you live is not your responsibility tends to increase.
- The city becomes a place to drive through, not a place to live.
- There's no square, only roads.
- Who drive a car get's only city glimpses.
- By bike you link together each block you pass.
- Now I've ridden through this block, I can tie it in with another block.
- You become fully integrated with the city.
- I think that in a public transport-based society...
- ... you have more fun.
- If you have good sense of humour and sensibility to see it, you have fun.
- You can have fun on the bus, on the subway...
- if you can learn again how to look to the things around you.
- It changes the way you look at the city around you.
- Mine has radically changed.
- The city reappeared to me as a less aggressive place.
- You'll save money, there'll be less pollution.
- the streets will be clear for those who really need to use a car.
- You'll have a more civilized community.
- But I think the efforts are made to stimulate individualism,
- to make people buy and use cars, and also sell asphalt, tyres, motor parts...
- There's a huge world lobby...
- Petroleum... The war...
- Everything to make us use cars in our cities.
- When you segregate people creating places which you can only reach by car
- and the streets become deserted due to traffic and pollution
- we're abandoning the city and leaving it to those who're not citizens.


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