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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Bike lanes accessable to the buses and also just bike lanes in general would be more useful.
That is an absolutely terrible idea.
Why? When the bus needs to stop and pick up the kids they can temporarily block the bike lane to pick up the kids. The cars will still have to stop for the bus but it takes the loading and unloading out of direct traffic flow.
How about having an actual bus stop for the bus?
You know what's more dangerous for cyclists than traffic zooming by on an unprotected bike lane? Giant busses with limited visibility swerving in and out of that lane.
You guys keep replying to me like I don't already know all of this. Doesn't change the fact that right now there isn't bike infrastructure or bus infrastructure at all. Right now cyclists and children waiting for the bus have nothing. I'm proposing something. Do I think it's the perfect solution? No. Do I think it would be an improvement for this situation? Yes.
I think what we're trying to say is that your suggestion is not an improvement. It increases risks to cyclists, doesn't protect pedestrians, and only serves to improve car throughput which is not a priority.
Enforcement and heavy penalties for breaking what is already the law would be good, as would be a dedicated bus lane, protected sidewalks, installing speed governors on all vehicles limiting them to 30kph... there are lots of options that would clearly improve safety, and you're advocating for the one that doesn't help anyone but selfish drivers.
And their child victims. We keep skipping right over those. Y'all keep making perfect the enemy of better.
No, you're making excuses for selfish drivers when a wide variety of cheap, practical options are available that will save lives.
OK, maybe that last one is impractical in car sewer towns, but your plan of creating a sacrificial bike lane would only get cyclists killed and allow drivers to go faster.
Repeating yourself doesn't change my mind, and I'm not going to repeat myself a 3rd time.
...and you're annoyed that we felt we needed to repeat ourselves.
Okay
It's very much in the direct traffic flow of bikes, is it not? They then have to pass onto the street with cars or wait.
For 5-10 minutes two times a day the lane would be blocked, but both directions of traffic would be obligated to stop. You can wait 5 to 10 minutes if you think vehicle traffic won't stop. That doesn't seem terrible. Many places with dedicated bike lanes allow emergency vehicles to use the bike lanes because it's more quickly cleared and safer for everyone bikers included.
How does this not already apply to cars?
As I see it, you want to make it easier for people to illegally pass school busses when they stop to pick kids up. Having the bus move out of the way will just encourage more people to try to pass them.
Do you not see a difference between getting hit by a bike accidentally vs being hit by a car accidentally? Because it seems like you've forgotten what I'm talking about.
As I see it you're making perfect the enemy of better. I also say fuck cars, and part of that is the understanding that cars will avoid doing what is expected of them in favor of what is easier for the driver. In this case it's hitting children instead of paying attention and following the signals. I'm focused on fixing the problem, not making a perfect and fair world.
@its_kim_love @ltxrtquq
For bicycle lanes to work properly, everyone needs to feel safe riding on them. Think of an elderly person, with some mobility issues and needing to carry stuff around. Therefore they need to be isolated from traffic all the time. If they are not, only able bodied users will come, and the effect will be minuscule.
You are not proposing a bicycle lane, but a mixed use road. The literature has proven that they are inferior, should not be encouraged.
Which, with your idea, would be passing school buses when they pull over into the bike lane. We don't want them doing that, which is why we shouldn't be making it easier for cars to drive around buses when they're legally obligated to stop and wait.
If someone isn't going to see a giant yellow bus with flashing lights, they aren't going to see a kid trying to cross the street to get to that bus. What you're proposing isn't any kind of solution to keep people safe. I don't know what it is if it's not just making it easier for people to illegally pass school buses.
I. Don't. Care. About. Your. Lack. Of. Imagination.
Talk to someone else about how stupid you imagine I am.
They definitely will.
In the city, absolutely. Bikes are awesome. I got a few stolen back in the day, even locked up. That sucked.
Even in the country, I had a 27" road bike I could comfortably ride between towns, I think I rode it 20-25 miles one day, and I was tired by the end of the trip but it wasn't bad and I was only like 15-16 at the time. Wild to think of now, 30 years later.
I visited a city with bike lanes all over the place. It was kind of confusing, but I think we should have more of that. Also places where bikes, scooters, and smaller things like Segways could go but cars couldn't. And more parks. And as far as what colour dragon I want, the standard green is fine. ;)