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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (25 children)

I wonder how many fuck cars people will buy a car when they finally graduate and get a job and realise they want 1 hr 30 commuting every day instead of 3 hours?

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You are allowed hate something you own and depend on. What I find fuck cars people are about is how much cars are catered for and it's still horrible to use in a lot of places.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

absolutely.

Normally I live in a, relatively speaking, new city - and everything is so bloody far away, sure some things are more centralised but plenty of things are getting built in places with no public transport connections or an easy way to walk to.

For 3 years at uni I lived in a very old town, and everything, just everything, was in the town centre, you could walk everywhere with no issues.

The difference is one place was built for people, and the other was built for cars.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (33 children)

A lot. Because our infrastructure and zoning basically demand you buy a car. That’s not the point. The point is to advocate change through local government.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Of course I own a car, you need to own one to get anywhere where I live. That doesn't mean I have to support car infrastructure or be against public transit. I advocate for making public transit services more common and easier to use, and I would use public transit if my supported policies were implemented.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I honestly don't get their argument. Yes, the current situation is bad and will necessitate using cars, but isn't that the point of the post? That things could be better? That getting to the reality where cars are not as needed would be great? It's such a strange attack against people who want better public transportation infrastructure.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (12 children)

I wonder how many fuck cars people will buy a car when they finally graduate and get a job and realise they want 1 hr 30 commuting every day instead of 3 hours?

My wife and I own two cars and live outside the most urban parts of our city. I actually love cars, especially when I get to drive a standard transmission. But we both are firmly in the FuckCars camp.

We walk, bike, and use public transit when we can, and we vote to improve the pedestrian infrastructure in our area whenever we can. We love vacationing in places with good public transit, and would live in such places if circumstances allowed.

Part of the frustration in the FuckCars community is the very thing you said in your post. Cities are built around cars, which means every other form of commuting is secondary and therefore worse than it could be. This is what we want to change. Build cities around people. Get rid of massive parking lots, dangerous stroads, etc. If people need cars to get from city to city, or outside of cities, totally fine. But they shouldn’t be necessary for day-to-day in populated areas.

Cities could be so much better, and we know this because there ARE cities that are better. It just takes effort and time.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (9 children)

let me translate what you just asked

I wonder how many people will be forced to buy a car to be able to function in society even though they hate the idea owning a car and in any other developed nation they could go car free in an equivalent city because they have better public transport and/or bike infrastructure

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Ah, yes. Minimizing other people's arguments by implying they don't have jobs.

This is a bad comment that you should probably delete.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I'm in Germany. That's how long it takes with the trains to get to my Workplace. And I still rather work from Home because I don't have to travel 3 to 4 hours a day.

Holy shit you guys have bad infrastructure. Even worse than ours.

I also generally rather use the train despite its problems. Especially when I'm not sure if I will be drinking or taking other drugs.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hi, im 26 years old and i have the money to get a car and make enough money to Use the car. But i dont have one, i use every day the train to get to work. 5 min with bike to the trainstation 31 min with the train, 5 min on foot to my work place, 5 min back to the trainstation, 22 min back with train and 10-15 min with my bike home. With a car I would need 38 min (gmaps). I pay 49€ in month and can use bus or trai In whole Germany. With a car it would be 66km per day. The car of our family uses 6,5 L/ 100km 66km = 4,29L Γ— 20 (workdays) =85,8L * 1,82 (price per liter fuel)= 155,61€ and that is only the fuel with out the tax for the car insurance and not the wear out and without the 2 year controll checkup. And with that I can say train is faster and cheaper for me so I don't need a car.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Good for you mate. Shit if you want to go anywhere except work though, especially in the countryside.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, no. I have a car and I hate driving it. I hate others having cars and driving them. I hate public transport being ignored over car infrastructure leaving them completely impractical. I hate our cities being ruined in order to work around cars, when metros are underground, and trains are overground but take way less space since they can take in way more people and transfer them way faster. I hate car accidents being one of the leading causes of death in my country. Fuck cars

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

These people are ridiculous. They want to gaslight people who have to drive into thinking we're bad people and when we call them out on the fact that there is no public transit infrastructure built they're just like "well all people have to do is build the infrastructure!" Bitch where? And who? And how do we make them? And with what money? I'm so sick of hearing "you should drive a smart car because it makes sense for my DINK ass and I know what's best". My home is in an ocean of suburbia. They gonna just bulldoze a whole swath of homes to install a rail? They've been talking about installing a rail from DFW to Austin/Houston for the past 40 years and there was even room for it once upon a time. You can't just say the magical solution is to just "build trains". We don't love our cars, these fuckcars people are just lunatics. As you point out the vast majority of them are almost certainly children. The rest are fortunate enough to have never experienced a place with poor public transit.

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