Fuck Cars
This community exists as a sister community/copycat community to the r/fuckcars subreddit.
This community exists for the following reasons:
- to raise awareness around the dangers, inefficiencies and injustice that can come from car dependence.
- to allow a place to discuss and promote more healthy transport methods and ways of living.
You can find the Matrix chat room for this community here.
Rules
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Be nice to each other. Being aggressive or inflammatory towards other users will get you banned. Name calling or obvious trolling falls under that. Hate cars, hate the system, but not people. While some drivers definitely deserve some hate, most of them didn't choose car-centric life out of free will.
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No bigotry or hate. Racism, transphobia, misogyny, ableism, homophobia, chauvinism, fat-shaming, body-shaming, stigmatization of people experiencing homeless or substance users, etc. are not tolerated. Don't use slurs. You can laugh at someone's fragile masculinity without associating it with their body. The correlation between car-culture and body weight is not an excuse for fat-shaming.
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Stay on-topic. Submissions should be on-topic to the externalities of car culture in urban development and communities globally. Posting about alternatives to cars and car culture is fine. Don't post literal car fucking.
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No traffic violence. Do not post depictions of traffic violence. NSFW or NSFL posts are not allowed. Gawking at crashes is not allowed. Be respectful to people who are a victim of traffic violence or otherwise traumatized by it. News articles about crashes and statistics about traffic violence are allowed. Glorifying traffic violence will get you banned.
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No misinformation. Masks and vaccines save lives during a pandemic, climate change is real and anthropogenic - and denial of these and other established facts will get you banned. False or highly speculative titles will get your post deleted.
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No harassment. Posts that (may) cause harassment, dogpiling or brigading, intentionally or not, will be removed. Please do not post screenshots containing uncensored usernames. Actual harassment, dogpiling or brigading is a bannable offence.
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I live about 100m away from a city metro station and I love it. On my way to the station, I walk past:
Now I could have this walkable neighborhood or I could walk past six lanes of high speed traffic. And up and down the street I have more destinations to visit or I could count SUVs zooming by on a freeway!
I have a 500m walk to my nearest station in a residential area, and my list of places looks very similar:
All of that is there because about half of the apartment buildings have a shop on the ground floor. It's great, and I don't even live in a fancy part of the city.
I live off of my cities dilapidated ass """Main street""" that runs parallel to the halfa-interstate-A-to-b thing (not sure what it's called, runs straight down the middle off the real interstate I-81)
4 lanes of car hell, half car lots/dive bars half empty decaying buildings. They talked about making it 2 lane w/ a center turn lane and expanded ped/bike infrastructure. Got shut down because "I-_____ is always backed up" (it never is) and the BuSiNeSsEs WiLl DiE wItHoUt 4 LanE aCcEsS (even though those same people admit they don't SHOP at any of said businesses and just use it as an interstate bypass translation: no state cops to bust them for blasting down the strip residents of the area be damned)
Bikeped infrastructure increases business visibility and boosts economic activity pretty much without fail. Ditto for eliminating off-street parking requirements and even trimming down on-street parking.
Even if it does increase congestion -- which there's really not very strong evidence it would -- it's good for those businesses & the city's ledger to do so.
So if you ever get a chance to speak in those meetings, come armed with the counterarguments. MPCs are more persuadable than many think.
I wish I had the mental fortitude, but I'm a banged up vet with fucked nerves smack dab in the middle of the Bible Belt - where bumfuck conservatives too broke to live in the country can shout over you about how taking away eagle pussy is communist but you'll be arrested for firmly but politely saying "I disagree."
Just happened in the county school board, some dude in the audience stood up and shouted anti trans nonsense for 20 minutes to no consequence, then at the next meeting quiet activists holding a sign in the back row were forcibly removed, roughed up by the cops, and arrested for disturbing the peace.