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 reposts. Before sharing, check if your post isn't a repost. Reposts that add something new are fine. Reposts that are sharing content from somewhere else are fine too.
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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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If I lived in a place with basically perpetually summer weather I’d ride all year and ditch a car too.
So fuckcars but only when its sunny?
Frozen North checking in, just passed 1 year car-free biking everywhere, rain, sun, or snow. No such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing.
And people that are too used to being comfortable all the time.
I remember when Elon Musk was peddling the hyperloop idea and he was saying that we could make tunnels everywhere. At the time everyone was obsessed with cars, but perhaps it's an idea worth exploring for making bicycle travel feasible all year. Imagine a network of air conditioned tunnels across the city that people could ride in and never feel overly hot or cold.
Its not unheard of to have underground walking tunnels in cold cities connecting buildings and areas, but I haven't heard of any expanded to support biking.
University of Calgary has a bunch of them if I remember right, can get all over the place underground when its cold AF out.
See, this seems as a cool AF concept
Montreal has a bunch too, Milwalkee I think, has enclosed bridges between a lot of the buildings downtown.
Boston has some between malls and hotels, but it’s really only in the touristy parts. And definitely no bikes in there.
The imagination makes me shudder.
People love comfort and climate controlled tunnels are comfortable.
Such an overkill idea instead of just wearing some winter clothing. I ride in every weather and can honestly say it is a very easy thing to do.
Riding on ice scares the shit out of me, especially when it's windy.
Studded tires do exist.
As the hot days get hotter and the cold days colder, sometimes within the same day, we'll be forced to look at how we make travel viable for everyone. There will be a group that lobbies for more cars and then the sensible will look into how we can make travel viable for everyone sans cars. Pedestrian tunnels are just a possible option.
Ya well except if it's too sunny and hot ;)
people prefer comfort to discomfort.
Is snows 3-4 months of the year and is regularly below freezing. I love riding my bike and did some pretty rough weather when I was younger in Boston, but I just don’t have it in me between mid November and mid April.
I don't believe you. What you're describing in regards the weather is most of Australia and it's even more car dependent then the US. If you were there, you'd drive.
It's snow bound northern Euro countries that are way more advanced in being car free then sunny warm countries. Have you seen Manila? Jakarta ?
Vietnam was bike centric for decades before Northern Europe. They just did it by making cars impossibly expensive for most people.
And besides monsoon season, is pretty nice to ride in.
Idk how it is where you love but in the city mentioned here it would rain a lot too in certain parts of the year and, despite that, the people are happy.