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.
Please report posts and comments that violate our rules.
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There are regular technical checks for cars but no checks for the mental state of drivers.
Everything is slow to put in place, always the same mechanisms of domination relationship.
Is it that difficult to design safe cycle routes?
It is when the majority (drivers) don't want them. I once asked a city rep why we allowed people in our bike lanes, and the answer I got was that you either allow people to park in bike lanes, or you don't get bike lanes.
Citing that people will complain to no end if the idea of more cycling infrastructure is mentioned. Motorists are far too entitled, and their feelings have far too much sway, in my opinion.
That’s crazy though, because most drivers hate cyclists slowing everything down. Having lanes dedicated for them would fix that by getting them out of the way.
It is crazy. Nearly all cycling infrastructure comes with benefits to both cyclists AND motorists.
And with cars getting bigger (while lanes remain the same width), it's a constant battle for space, but cyclists are told to "share the road" like we're the ones taking up all the space!
Really? I've only ever needed to safety when transferring between provinces.
I did have regular check ups in Ontario, but it was only emissions, nothing mechanical.