Fuck Cars
A place to discuss problems of car centric infrastructure or how it hurts us all. Let's explore the bad world of Cars!
Rules
1. Be Civil
You may not agree on ideas, but please do not be needlessly rude or insulting to other people in this community.
2. No hate speech
Don't discriminate or disparage people on the basis of sex, gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, or sexuality.
3. Don't harass people
Don't follow people you disagree with into multiple threads or into PMs to insult, disparage, or otherwise attack them. And certainly don't doxx any non-public figures.
4. Stay on topic
This community is about cars, their externalities in society, car-dependency, and solutions to these.
5. No reposts
Do not repost content that has already been posted in this community.
Moderator discretion will be used to judge reports with regard to the above rules.
Posting Guidelines
In the absence of a flair system on lemmy yet, let’s try to make it easier to scan through posts by type in here by using tags:
- [meta] for discussions/suggestions about this community itself
- [article] for news articles
- [blog] for any blog-style content
- [video] for video resources
- [academic] for academic studies and sources
- [discussion] for text post questions, rants, and/or discussions
- [meme] for memes
- [image] for any non-meme images
- [misc] for anything that doesn’t fall cleanly into any of the other categories
Recommended communities:
view the rest of the comments
Fuck that embrace trains
I like trains and I'm in favor of them, but the majority of the US isn't suited to them. The future may change that, and I hope it does, but if we want something that can make an impact right now smaller cars nationwide are the best "good" but non-perfect answer.
Every area is different, so I'll just go with what's local to me right now.
Where I currently live (rural rust belt Midwest) the logical right of ways for railroads already exist and they run between cities and significant towns.
The problem is that these right of ways - which used to be railroad right of ways - are all bike paths now. In one respect, it wouldn't be too much trouble to convert them back to rail. We wouldn't need to break up neighborhoods or demolish much infrastructure. Just lay rail and add crossings and stations.
On the other hand it would also destroy one of the few things that makes life bearable around here. It's free public space and it's used by walkers, joggers, skaters, and cyclists. I live within view of one. Every day and in all weather, I see an incredible variety of people pass by. Elderly, young families, people on horseback, those road cycle-bros, cycles with camping gear, mothers pulling kids in wagons. Sometimes emergency services use it to bypass a slower dirt road when they're needed at a remote community nearby.
They're safe and well maintained. They're like linear parks that also offer a safe non-motorized transport option between towns.
Back when I was on Reddit I lurked on the local city sub. Whenever a potential migrant would post an inquiry about "nice things in your area" it was literally one of the only things people could recommend.
~~-I'll add some further comments in a reply to this~~ actually, no. It's too long
Just build the trains where the highways are
Embrace Chukudu. . . .