Now prohibit laws against hitchhiking
New Jersey is one of like 3 US States to ban hitchhiking.
It would be better if the federal government would just ban hitchhiking laws like they did when a few US States still had laws preventing women from voting.
With the climate crisis, we definitely need to encourage ride sharing.
Please don’t go around deciding issues based in whether they affect your personal life. There are a lot of people in spread out rural areas that don’t own a car and don’t have a bus and asking for rides is as old as the wheel itself. I gave a kid a ride one time so he could go down to his local junior college and register for classes. I hitched across half of AZ once when the tour bus I was with decided to leave two hours early and didn’t do a proper headcount. People ban hitching because they think it will keep “undesirables” out of of their highways and it is as cruel and stupid as criminalizing homelessness because “ew I don’t want to look at that.”
