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Sphyre
Jun 14, 2001

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtKSbYJFxMc

Sphyre has issued a correction as of 03:33 on Jul 30, 2023

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Sphyre
Jun 14, 2001

SMILLENNIALSMILLEN posted:

i like bikes i like these videos of people riding bikes in cities

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbCzWRnKCaI

oh my god this rules. bikes/other superior forms of transportation (trains!)/how we might design our cities to use these forms of transportation posts welcome

smarxist posted:

what about cool cars OP?



hmm looks like a dumb piece of poo poo that sucks rear end

Sphyre
Jun 14, 2001

lobster shirt posted:

here is a great essay about why cars are bad and why we gotta get rid of em: http://unevenearth.org/2018/08/the-social-ideology-of-the-motorcar/

yes! i was looking for this earlier for the goon who asked about leftist perspectives on cars earlier. a required cspam read imo.

Sphyre
Jun 14, 2001

drat that’s a good rear end username

Sphyre
Jun 14, 2001

is that good or bad. tell me how to feel about this

Sphyre
Jun 14, 2001

Xaris posted:

cars are good and helps marginalized bipoc elderly, dementia patients, and disabled people get around safely. not everyone can figure out a bus timeschedule and its pretty ableist to hate cars

god i just know someone has used this argument unironically :negative:

Sphyre
Jun 14, 2001

Leroy Diplowski posted:

drat look at this sad sack of poo poo who lives several cities from a good restaurant. Dead mall parking lots and dead cities and dead people who were taken in the prime of life by a moment of distraction are all a direct result of car culture and car culture is a direct result of Americans and their "I want to never be inconvenienced and gently caress the long term impacts and all other people."

Don't say you'd like more green spaces. You got what you want. gently caress you.

:hmmyes:

Sphyre
Jun 14, 2001

https://twitter.com/theserfstv/status/1424830159845314570

Sphyre
Jun 14, 2001

xaris is just joshing obviously but here's another one to add to the 'you will never get dutch permanent residency' pile of sadness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSGx3HSjKDo

Sphyre
Jun 14, 2001

if i never drove a car again it'd be too soon

Sphyre
Jun 14, 2001

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aTViwJWmCY

:vince:

Sphyre
Jun 14, 2001

lobster shirt posted:

part of getting rid of cars means fixing our cities and public transit systems not just everythign else stays the same but you're trapped in a subdivision where its like 5 miles to get to anything that isnt another house

Sphyre
Jun 14, 2001

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1429517404892246021

who said i opposed either of those things glenn??

Sphyre
Jun 14, 2001




thank you cars, very cool!

Sphyre
Jun 14, 2001

what’s a EUC

Sphyre
Jun 14, 2001

Lastgirl posted:

its pronounced Yuck! and it means Electric Uni-Cycle, its like fancy and now, cos its like 2021

i'll probably just get an ebike but your input is appreciated

Sphyre
Jun 14, 2001

Leroy Diplowski posted:

I'm about to head out on a 3 day bike trip in a couple of minutes. If some car driving gently caress head runs me over I want my last post to be in this thread

what an honour 🥰

have some twitter threads including this gem




https://twitter.com/ScootFoundation/status/1431212585236385794

https://twitter.com/kevin_degood/status/1431229853790085124

Sphyre
Jun 14, 2001

https://twitter.com/retronouns/status/1431447868989218817

it just keeps going

Sphyre
Jun 14, 2001

akadajet posted:

they have simultaneously the busiest and cleanest bathrooms of any gas station

how do they do it folks

Sphyre
Jun 14, 2001

ford f150s / pickup truck culture in general is deranged even before you add an impaling spike on the front



come the gently caress on

Sphyre
Jun 14, 2001

heres a good read

https://twitter.com/pareene/status/1433457737296384003

Sphyre
Jun 14, 2001

carlikers OUT

Sphyre
Jun 14, 2001

https://twitter.com/dasharez0ne/status/1436362010300751878

Sphyre
Jun 14, 2001

this ones for actionjackson

https://twitter.com/taylr/status/1439275384269414401

Sphyre
Jun 14, 2001


it is

Sphyre
Jun 14, 2001

Mayor Dave posted:

The bigger your car the worse of a person you are

unironically true

Sphyre
Jun 14, 2001


imagine you and your large dog taking a leisurely stroll to catch a streetcar to your parents house

this is what could have been

Sphyre
Jun 14, 2001

https://twitter.com/schlijper/status/1101906497590751232

i would have simply pushed the cars into the canal but this works too.

Sphyre
Jun 14, 2001

paul_soccer12 posted:

cars are extremely convenient if you have to move something from point a to point b. imo.

sounds good, we should make them a requirement to do absolutely anything

Sphyre
Jun 14, 2001

bikes. they're good

Sphyre
Jun 14, 2001

it's godwin's law but with the r-word and cspam

Sphyre
Jun 14, 2001

Sphyre
Jun 14, 2001

Sphyre
Jun 14, 2001

lmao this is a 110km/h (70mph) expressway in nz

Sphyre
Jun 14, 2001

hot cocoa on the couch posted:

i don't hate cars or motorcycles or any machines, i hate public policy that has created a destructive car centered world. as always it is the humans at fault

i mostly agree with this but i also hate cars

Sphyre
Jun 14, 2001

mastershakeman posted:

streetcars are pathetic and all trains should operate either subterranean or elevated so no at grade crossings are possible

yeah we wouldn’t want our precious cars to be inconvenienced by having to stop for a tram now would we

Sphyre
Jun 14, 2001

mastershakeman posted:

nothing as fun as trains being unable to move because theres wrecks on the tracks to clear

well would you look at that it turns out that the problem is cars. and as always when the problem is cars the solution is to get rid of them

hot cocoa on the couch posted:

brain so broken by car culture that you think cars are the only thing moving around on the surface

yeah trains are definitely as menacing to pedestrians as cars are 🤪 and they also use as much space 🤪

Sphyre
Jun 14, 2001

indigi posted:

who cares how much space they use or how dangerous they are, they’re still better buried or lifted. no need for designated street areas at all really

as much as i'd like to get rid of cars entirely, and of course metros are excellent, in practice the underground/overhead/monorail argument is usually deployed by concern trolls who don't want road space to be allocated away from cars and to other users

plus getting on and off a tram at street level is nice.

Sphyre
Jun 14, 2001

cool av posted:

requiring transit lines to be buried, while sure it would be nice, is bread and butter for koch-sponsored poison pill astroturf "concerned community member" bullshit, and if you are suggesting it you should at least be aware of that

:yeah:

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Sphyre
Jun 14, 2001



this is what indigi wants to take from you

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