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This Twitter Page Exists To Showcase The Wildest Examples Of Anti-Car People (30 Posts)
Hey, I’m walkin’ here!
Cars have been the bane of pedestrians’ existence for over a century now, but most of us understand how much our lives have benefited from them as well. It would be wise for many of us to cut down on our vehicle dependence, as the average passenger vehicle emits about 4.6 metric tons of carbon dioxide annually. But "everything in moderation," right?
Well, one very vocal community online has gone full throttle with their distaste for cars, so we’ve taken a trip to this Twitter account featuring posts from passionate anti-car people online to share some of their boldest takes. Keep reading to also find an interview with Kea Wilson of Streetsblog USA, and be sure to upvote the pics you can't believe aren't satire!
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While the posts shared on this Twitter account may seem a bit extreme, it’s understandable why people would advocate for less car-dependent cities, for the sake of the environment and simply to make our lives easier. To learn more about why it’s wise to start thinking about alternatives to car use, we reached out to Kea Wilson, Senior Editor of Streetsblog USA. Founded in 2006, Streetsblog is a daily news site that covers the movement to end car dependence in the United States, and to facilitate a just transition to a transportation system where everyone has meaningful access to mobility alternatives that meet their unique needs.
Kea was kind enough to have a chat with Bored Panda, noting that she definitely wouldn't consider herself "anti-car,” as “like nearly everyone else in the U.S., I drive one, and sometimes I even enjoy it. But I'm definitely anti-car dependency, and the difference is really important.”
“In a city designed around giving people a range of great, broadly accessible transportation choices like walking, biking, transit, a car is just a tool that's good for filling the gaps: getting to that one weird corner of town that doesn't have bus service yet but is still way too far away to walk, transporting a huge load of stuff that you can't carry on a bike or fit on a train, stuff like that,” Kea explained.
As someone who doesn't drive..... only buy what you can carry. You'll learn very quickly how much you actually "don't need"
I’ve seen this posted and reposted and all I can really think is of how great of a solution it is to the idea that being homeless is a crime. Sleeping on streets= illegal. Having a car cover? Not illegal. S****y solution for a systematic issue but im thinking time to start using it more
“In a car-dependent city, though — and in America, that's most of them — the overwhelming majority of trips more or less have to be taken by car, even if you're just going around the corner and carrying nothing at all, because you stand a strong risk of being killed by a driver or left stranded by a late bus if you don't,” Kea continued. “And a whole mess of negative impacts cascade from forcing virtually everyone to being forced to make that choice, not least of which is a dying planet and millions of dead people on our roadways.”
“I'm not anti-car. But I'm also certainly not pro-car — or at least, I don't believe all the tradeoffs we've made to make driving our national, blanket default were worth it in any way,” she added.
Notice not one of these photos are of the city. In a walkable city you walk in town and only have to drive when you leave town.
Kea also notes that there are countless reasons why we should be reducing our dependency on cars, primarily reasons why we can’t afford not to. “Transportation is the leading source of global emissions, and a ton of modeling shows that there is literally no feasible way to achieve our climate targets without reducing how much we drive, even if we electrify the vehicle fleet as rapidly as humanly possible,” she told Bored Panda.
“Cars (and all the maintenance, insurance, fuel, and sometimes, legal fees that come with them) are also one of the biggest sources of consumer debt, and all the parking and road space we build to accommodate their universal use is a massive driver of sky-high American housing costs; it's maybe the single biggest ingredient in persistent poverty, and it will be impossible to end it without getting those costs down.”
“Between car crashes, which killed nearly 43,000 people in the US alone last year, and all the health impacts of automotive pollution, sedentary lifestyle diseases and mental health epidemics linked directly to how little we walk and bike for transportation, car dependency is one of our single greatest public health threats, too,” Kea noted. “it's still the leading cause of death for children under 12, and we can't bring America's falling life expectancy back up unless we follow other countries' lead and start trying to stop these preventable deaths. Needless to say, all of those things impact communities of color and low income far more than white communities.”
Always pay the delivery fee on appliances - just not worth the hassle
When it comes to minimizing car dependency in your own life, Kea says the best step to take is getting involved in the movement to end it for everyone. “Vote for politicians that understand what's wrong with by-default driving; get involved in the fight to make your cities better to navigate outside a vehicle,” she shared. “If nothing else, read sites like Streetsblog to learn as much as you can about this massive, incredibly multi-faceted problem and get ideas for how you can be part of solving it.”
Kea also recommends that anyone who is privileged enough to have some ways they can become less car-dependent in their daily life start exploring those options. “I think it's particularly important to experiment with habits when we have the opportunity to make big life changes," she says. "If your daughter is starting school this year, maybe this is the year you organize a ‘bike bus’ with all the neighborhood kids so they can all ride together (and you can skip waiting in the long drop-off line of SUVs).”
“If you're starting a new job, maybe you research the local bus routes and see if you can get a jump on some of your daily tasks while you're still riding, and maybe even leave a little early at the end of the day; just try it for a month and see if it works for you,” the expert continued. “If you're moving to a new town, do as much as you can to find an apartment in an area with a few restaurants nearby that you know you'll go to a lot instead of always schlepping across town. And even if you truly do need to keep driving for 100% of trips, could you at least drive a smaller car that'd be less lethal to pedestrians if you got in a crash, rather than an SUV that's likely to kill them, so your neighbors who don't or can't have a car at all are a little less scared to walk themselves?”
Kea acknowledged that all of these solutions require significant privilege, but “they're all versions of things that low-income car-free people without the privilege of being able to choose how they get around manage things; we can all learn a lot from them.”
Some get a chain and a truck and just yank the dude out like a tree stump.
Kea also noted that she understands why some people have negative reactions to groups like [Screw] Cars and phrases like #BanCars. “A lot of us love our cars, and view them as powerful symbols of our freedom and identity. And even if we don't, a car, on its own, is an inanimate object, and one that can be hugely useful,” she told Bored Panda.
“If I didn't know what I know about the way that car dependency harms myself and literally everyone I know, I could understand why randos on the internet who are egging suburban car owners' houses or deflating SUV tires to make a point might seem pretty extreme,” she continued. “I also get why calling a kid's toy car set ‘propaganda’ might seem kinda ludicrous, the same way that candy cigarettes, on their own, seem like a harmless snack, if you compartmentalize the fact that cigarettes kill a ton of people.”
Might have something to do with most North Koreans not being able to afford a car.
I question what you'd rebuild. Is this an area that is regularly destroyed? Maybe it's better to buy it back in it's entirely and turn it back into wetlands and make it a national park.
It all depends on context.I've seen quite a few of this type of vehicle when I visited Amsterdam last week and I see why they can be practical over there. If you don't live in a larger city, that's different of course.
“But the thing is, a car isn't just an inanimate object,” Kea says. “It's a machine around which our entire society has been literally rebuilt, at the cost of trillions of dollars and over a million dead people on roadways every single year, and it is not an exaggeration to say our literal planet is dying in large part because we did that. It could be a neutral technology that helps people get a little further than they could on a bike or carry a little more than they could on the bus, and I hope someday it is! But right now, it's not; it's a thing that most of us are forced to use whether we like it or not, something that dominates and shapes virtually everything about our world.”
She wants a 6500$ bicycle? Lock her up, she a menace to herself!
Kea also noted that Twitter accounts like this aren’t just poking fun at vandals with cartons of eggs or “sensitive snowflakes” who throw fits over a photo of a kid's toy car set. “They're people with disabilities who are struggling desperately because they can't drive in places where driving is the only option,” Kea told Bored Panda. “People whose loved ones have been killed violently and suddenly by car crashes that didn't need to happen; people who are questioning the costs and death count of car dependency and finding that when they speak out about it, they aren't just ignored, but ridiculed and subjected to ableist slurs like ‘insane.’”
Kea points out that pages like this don't discuss “even the most basic facts about transportation-related climate change and car crash totals, which are only the tip of the iceberg. The people the authors of this Twitter are making fun of aren't ‘insane’; they're people who don't accept that things have to be this way.”
If you’d like to learn more from Kea and the rest of the team at Streetsblog USA, be sure to visit their website right here!
He parked in the bike lane, so you made it so he couldn't leave the bike lane?
*lol* same as when people put spikes on the entry ways to parking lots so people can't drive out the wrong way. Only thing they accomplished is that the entry is now completely blocked until a tow truck arrives.
Load More Replies...Probably not since it's deflation not puncturing. Criminal mischief maybe? It is an a*****e move, partly because it just is, but it could be seriously bad if it's something like an undercover cop, or someone who has broken down and had no choice but to park there.
Load More Replies...If that had been my car, and I saw you, you wouldn't like what happens
So the cyclist demonstrated how a cretin gets revenge on a jerk.
I normally don't downvote but under this post some of the commentors were behaving like idiots, so I made an exception. Why can't we live in a world where EVERY user of road infrastructure has the same right as every other road user? Why should car users have more rights than anybody else. Joking about running over cyclists is NOT FUNNY! It is always somebody's child, mum, dad, uncle or cousin, or sister. Think about that. We all have equal rights all the time and everywhere, so in traffic as well.
Do you really want to live where random people get to punish others for perceived violations of the rules, including coming up with their own sentences? If you can punish me for a parking violation, then I get to punish you for vandalism. Worse, we end up with a bunch of antisocial people who are thrilled that it is now socially acceptable to torment strangers.
Load More Replies...When do we start just running these people over? Michelin meets Schwinn, let's see who wins?
Hmm, I'm not entirely against this one. It's not as insane as the other posts. If they genuinely live somewhere where driving isn't necessary then why does she need the license or the car? But I also subscribe to the belief that parents shouldn't buy their kid their first car. It's on the kid to buy their own. Honestly they should be sitting down and having a sensible discussion about what she wants to learn to drive for and where she'd be driving. If she's got decent reasons then help her get her license. If not, then don't.
We know you might find these posts annoying, but please remember that cutting down on car use doesn’t have to be this extreme. The planet will thank you if you reduce your emissions; you don’t have to do it for these people. Keep upvoting the pics you find most amusing, and then if you’re interested in checking out another Bored Panda article discussing why many people want to stop driving cars, look no further than right here!
Superfluous use of the word propaganda by these people indicates a lack of intellect and a diminutive vocabulary.
Note: this post originally had 70 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes.
All this group of posts does is prove how splendid a job the auto lobby has done.
Sadly. I was astonished to read how many commentors are dependent on their cars going so far as to get offended when somebody points out the problems cars cause to their communitiess and the simple solutions there are to make their neighbourhood people friendly if only theyw ere willing. So many people think only of their own comfort and for too many people that means a car to go everywhere, even if they just need a loaf of bread and a gallon of milk. Wouldn't it be nicer if you could walk to the corner shop. The one next to the café, with the nice terrace under the trees, where you wave to the nice couple you talked to two weeks ago when you had a nice cool drink on the terrace while watching the world go by... Sorry, people who need to take their cars everywhere don't live near a cornershop with a nice café next door....
Load More Replies...I am somehow confused about this post. I never spoke to anyone being this negative about cars. And like with a lot of things, hate doesn’t change other peoples opinions. That being said, wouldn’t it be nice that some American cities would be redesigned in a way that you can actually walk to your shops? It would be healthier and let people reduce their carbon footprint.
Hatred towards others most likely will make them even more resilient towards change and holding on to their beliefs?
Load More Replies...Look, are some of these posts dumb? Yes. But some of them are also perfectly reasonable? Why must we just accept that in many places people cannot do their grocery shopping without a car? And not because of the amount of groceries, but because it's too far away and completely inaccessible by foot or by bike? Why can we not accept that bike lanes and walking paths should be an infrastructure priority *as well*?
We can accept it, but that doesn't seem to be their goal. Instead of making bike lanes a priority too a lot of these people seem like they want bike lanes as the only priority.
Load More Replies...I don't own a car so l'm not suspicious of being a "carbrain" as they call them, but this is ridiculous. Instead of fighting for better public transport they bash people trying to survive in cities like that.
That's how you get people hating the change? Maby spread how good "x" is, and arrange mestings where people can try "x" and see for them self. Some will always hate the other side, but neither of the sides do any good then.
Load More Replies...Better urban planning is needed. I will say that certainly in the uk some vehicles on sale are just too big for the roads and do cause a lot of problems as they block the roads up. Add to that the owners just don’t seem to be good drivers or have the appropriate special awareness. For instance someone where I live someone has a massive Dodge Ram truck. When it is parked in the high street, it sticks out so far that people passing it have to practically drive on the other side of the road to get round it. Plus it cannot get round the mini roundabouts here without having to reverse. The other thing I take issue with as someone living in a suburban town is why a couple with one child need a Range Rover. To me it’s daft.
Look at the tragic news story from Wimbledon where a middle-aged woman in a huge four wheel drive (in a nice, very expensive suburban are) ploughed into a childrens' tea party and killed two 8-year-old girls.
Load More Replies...With my disabled husband and daughter public transport is completely out of the question for anything requiring carrying heavy loads or walking any distance between public transport stops but otherwise its a nice idea
Public transport should be accessible for everybody, that means disabled people need to be included. It is a shame society hasn't evolved to the level they realise the world does not just belong to the strongest, or to the peope with cars.
Load More Replies...Never ceases to amaze me how self-righteous and superior some people are. Can't seem to see past their own little bubble and how their ideal just won't work for everyone.
I think it goes both ways in this post! No, not everyone can cycle or walk, sometimes we need a car, so you shouldn't just preach 'cars = bad'. But, by redesigning cities and neighborhoods and investing in proper public transport, a lot of people will choose alternatives. We should want and demand this! So you shouldn't be content with 'no, not possible' either. Make it possible.
Load More Replies...This post is nuts. Like, kinda need vehicles out here since we live and work on massive farms, as well as the fact that moving sheep on a pushbike would be more likely to get you killed than anything else. I get if you live in a walkable city or have other reasons but why be so against people just having cars
This post is about extremism. Not taking any circumstances into account and with that creating a division between people. And when we blow up these extreme reactions nothing will happen. In my opinion we have to do something to limit global warming. But we have to find effective ways to reduce our carbon footprint and keep people motivated to do so. I am Dutch and being Dutch means I cycle a lot, but that is possible because I don’t have to cycle 20km to the nearest shop. I am lucky that my government kept the shops diverted between different neighbourhoods and paid a lot of money to create the cycling infrastructure we have today. I hope we find more solutions like this in the future. And I am aware that there is no single solution for everything and not every government able to create the circumstances we have. @Firefly1617 your life seems fascinating. How many sheep do you have?
Load More Replies...There is no way some of these weren’t a joke… I think riding a bike when you can is good, but some cities/situations just need a car. We can’t switch to bike only if the world is still made for cars. Plus, some people with disabilities can’t exactly ride a bike…
No one hates cars that actually need them. Do you live in a city? ( yes? Then you have the luxury to hate cars). Do you live in a rural area? ( yes? Then no one is hating cars.... cause there isn't a bus, and the closest place to get r food takes about 20 in that car no one hates). You guys, why is this thread even a thing?
I feel a lot of important issues were brought up, but cars aren’t the enemy. Getting rid of cars won’t make a city more walkable, but making a city more walkable result in less cars. And some people, especially those who live in rural places, have to have cars because they cannot rely on public transport. Cars are great when they are needed, and so is public transport, and everyone should be able to choose which works best for them.
I thought people were generally against cars and knew they were bad and public transit was better but then I read this article wow. Yikes. Some of y'all really still think public transit is somehow supposed to be bad. Bro it's supposed to be comprehensive, convenient, and reliable. If it isn't that's not 'because it's pubtrans' that's because car culture has destroyed the way people live.
So just damn all of those with health issues. Ignore that the majority of days are over 90 degrees or under 32, that you'll show up to work sweaty with helmet head, in a society where the social more's dictate that that isn't acceptable. Take infinitely longer to get anywhere in a really unpredictable time while getting canned for being one minute late on the time clock. There are generations of issues to iron out before public transport or bikes etc can take the forefront. I'm not against it, but this irrational hatred for people just trying to make it through the week seems stupid.
My wife & I bike 15 miles a day, it’s relaxing & clears the head, that being said I will never get rid of my truck.
That's all funny, guys. But it smells like time to monitor oxygen quality/level, and build economics out of it, regulation committee. Very strict and severe one, or nothing just will matter. Can you afford a giant car or not, everybody would be just to ill to care.
Apparently literal millions of people being affected by asthma and other lung diseases isn't enough to persuade some people of a problem. It's just "but my groceries, waah, waah".
Load More Replies...I'm always puzzled by the anti car/pro cycling people who when asked say "We go through red/stop lights because some cars go through them too".....so do they also hurt animals, commit murder etc because some people do. The reason why so many motorists don't like cyclists going through red lights is because they don't want to hit them
They aren't the majority of cyclists though, it just seems like it because the idiots always make the most noise.
Load More Replies...Too late. The world is burning and the men in the 1950s oil industry KNEW what they were doing. Have two or less kids, connect spiritually with your guides and be as nice as you can before this Anthropocene epoch is over. We’re on our way out.
While I visited USA (Pitsburgh), we visited a Wallmart just for fun. We skipped Uber and took a bus. The store was on top of a hill, and we saw the rooftops of other stores that we wanted to visit while there, but there WAS NO WALKWAY from the hill. No path of any kind, not even a trace in the grass where people might have walked. The only way down was by car, or you'd have to walk in the driveway between the cars. We took a bus back to our hotel, wondering what those crazy Americans we thinking. I'll get that some of the anti-car people can be crazy, but these pro-car people aren't any better.
I am anti-car for personal and financial reasons. I like to walk so not having one gives me exercise, I live in a city where having a car is more of a headache than it's worth. Gas prices, repairs, insurance, and parking is something I do need.
I hate this. I hate this. I mean come on. I dont like cars, i dont do this. I feel so bad for yall with cars and just everyone for reading this. Dont be like this please. Please. Also pls dont think all people without car are like this. I hate this
I live in a Western US state (bigger than England but only has 10% of population) where cars/trucks are essential. A bus line for a 30 mile long dirt road with only 10 houses isn't efficient. That said, I'm looking forward to self driving vehicles so they can be shared. Over 90% of a vehicle's time is spent parked and unused. There's no reason that SUV that is only used to pick up the kids from school couldn't spend the rest of the day doing other things for other people.
Don't hate the cars, hate the fact that they still run on fossil fuels. Cars are an amazing invention, but it needs to be made sustainable.
Cities were not designed for cars because they were invented after the cities were built. One can't tear down cities every time there's a new invention, so you have to accept that some things will be wedged in uncomfortably because of the existing infrastructure.
I'd like to make an offer to anyone demanding that I reduce my carbon foot print but it would be in extremely bad taste.
Focus the anger on big corporations that cause the majority of global warming issues. Add zero to little correction or penalties for these companies, and you have your real problem. Car manufacturers have emissions regulations, but large companies go unchecked. A whole country of individuals recycling, driving smaller/fewer cars, and reducing their carbon footprints will still be a small impact compared to the bigger contributors.
Nothing like a good old fashioned family road trip, on public transportation…
Traveling by train can actually be a lot of fun, especially with kids. (Not that I have anything against road trips by car.)
Load More Replies...https://www.boredpanda.com/screw-cars-pics/ I guess collective memory isn't strong around here...
All this group of posts does is prove how splendid a job the auto lobby has done.
Sadly. I was astonished to read how many commentors are dependent on their cars going so far as to get offended when somebody points out the problems cars cause to their communitiess and the simple solutions there are to make their neighbourhood people friendly if only theyw ere willing. So many people think only of their own comfort and for too many people that means a car to go everywhere, even if they just need a loaf of bread and a gallon of milk. Wouldn't it be nicer if you could walk to the corner shop. The one next to the café, with the nice terrace under the trees, where you wave to the nice couple you talked to two weeks ago when you had a nice cool drink on the terrace while watching the world go by... Sorry, people who need to take their cars everywhere don't live near a cornershop with a nice café next door....
Load More Replies...I am somehow confused about this post. I never spoke to anyone being this negative about cars. And like with a lot of things, hate doesn’t change other peoples opinions. That being said, wouldn’t it be nice that some American cities would be redesigned in a way that you can actually walk to your shops? It would be healthier and let people reduce their carbon footprint.
Hatred towards others most likely will make them even more resilient towards change and holding on to their beliefs?
Load More Replies...Look, are some of these posts dumb? Yes. But some of them are also perfectly reasonable? Why must we just accept that in many places people cannot do their grocery shopping without a car? And not because of the amount of groceries, but because it's too far away and completely inaccessible by foot or by bike? Why can we not accept that bike lanes and walking paths should be an infrastructure priority *as well*?
We can accept it, but that doesn't seem to be their goal. Instead of making bike lanes a priority too a lot of these people seem like they want bike lanes as the only priority.
Load More Replies...I don't own a car so l'm not suspicious of being a "carbrain" as they call them, but this is ridiculous. Instead of fighting for better public transport they bash people trying to survive in cities like that.
That's how you get people hating the change? Maby spread how good "x" is, and arrange mestings where people can try "x" and see for them self. Some will always hate the other side, but neither of the sides do any good then.
Load More Replies...Better urban planning is needed. I will say that certainly in the uk some vehicles on sale are just too big for the roads and do cause a lot of problems as they block the roads up. Add to that the owners just don’t seem to be good drivers or have the appropriate special awareness. For instance someone where I live someone has a massive Dodge Ram truck. When it is parked in the high street, it sticks out so far that people passing it have to practically drive on the other side of the road to get round it. Plus it cannot get round the mini roundabouts here without having to reverse. The other thing I take issue with as someone living in a suburban town is why a couple with one child need a Range Rover. To me it’s daft.
Look at the tragic news story from Wimbledon where a middle-aged woman in a huge four wheel drive (in a nice, very expensive suburban are) ploughed into a childrens' tea party and killed two 8-year-old girls.
Load More Replies...With my disabled husband and daughter public transport is completely out of the question for anything requiring carrying heavy loads or walking any distance between public transport stops but otherwise its a nice idea
Public transport should be accessible for everybody, that means disabled people need to be included. It is a shame society hasn't evolved to the level they realise the world does not just belong to the strongest, or to the peope with cars.
Load More Replies...Never ceases to amaze me how self-righteous and superior some people are. Can't seem to see past their own little bubble and how their ideal just won't work for everyone.
I think it goes both ways in this post! No, not everyone can cycle or walk, sometimes we need a car, so you shouldn't just preach 'cars = bad'. But, by redesigning cities and neighborhoods and investing in proper public transport, a lot of people will choose alternatives. We should want and demand this! So you shouldn't be content with 'no, not possible' either. Make it possible.
Load More Replies...This post is nuts. Like, kinda need vehicles out here since we live and work on massive farms, as well as the fact that moving sheep on a pushbike would be more likely to get you killed than anything else. I get if you live in a walkable city or have other reasons but why be so against people just having cars
This post is about extremism. Not taking any circumstances into account and with that creating a division between people. And when we blow up these extreme reactions nothing will happen. In my opinion we have to do something to limit global warming. But we have to find effective ways to reduce our carbon footprint and keep people motivated to do so. I am Dutch and being Dutch means I cycle a lot, but that is possible because I don’t have to cycle 20km to the nearest shop. I am lucky that my government kept the shops diverted between different neighbourhoods and paid a lot of money to create the cycling infrastructure we have today. I hope we find more solutions like this in the future. And I am aware that there is no single solution for everything and not every government able to create the circumstances we have. @Firefly1617 your life seems fascinating. How many sheep do you have?
Load More Replies...There is no way some of these weren’t a joke… I think riding a bike when you can is good, but some cities/situations just need a car. We can’t switch to bike only if the world is still made for cars. Plus, some people with disabilities can’t exactly ride a bike…
No one hates cars that actually need them. Do you live in a city? ( yes? Then you have the luxury to hate cars). Do you live in a rural area? ( yes? Then no one is hating cars.... cause there isn't a bus, and the closest place to get r food takes about 20 in that car no one hates). You guys, why is this thread even a thing?
I feel a lot of important issues were brought up, but cars aren’t the enemy. Getting rid of cars won’t make a city more walkable, but making a city more walkable result in less cars. And some people, especially those who live in rural places, have to have cars because they cannot rely on public transport. Cars are great when they are needed, and so is public transport, and everyone should be able to choose which works best for them.
I thought people were generally against cars and knew they were bad and public transit was better but then I read this article wow. Yikes. Some of y'all really still think public transit is somehow supposed to be bad. Bro it's supposed to be comprehensive, convenient, and reliable. If it isn't that's not 'because it's pubtrans' that's because car culture has destroyed the way people live.
So just damn all of those with health issues. Ignore that the majority of days are over 90 degrees or under 32, that you'll show up to work sweaty with helmet head, in a society where the social more's dictate that that isn't acceptable. Take infinitely longer to get anywhere in a really unpredictable time while getting canned for being one minute late on the time clock. There are generations of issues to iron out before public transport or bikes etc can take the forefront. I'm not against it, but this irrational hatred for people just trying to make it through the week seems stupid.
My wife & I bike 15 miles a day, it’s relaxing & clears the head, that being said I will never get rid of my truck.
That's all funny, guys. But it smells like time to monitor oxygen quality/level, and build economics out of it, regulation committee. Very strict and severe one, or nothing just will matter. Can you afford a giant car or not, everybody would be just to ill to care.
Apparently literal millions of people being affected by asthma and other lung diseases isn't enough to persuade some people of a problem. It's just "but my groceries, waah, waah".
Load More Replies...I'm always puzzled by the anti car/pro cycling people who when asked say "We go through red/stop lights because some cars go through them too".....so do they also hurt animals, commit murder etc because some people do. The reason why so many motorists don't like cyclists going through red lights is because they don't want to hit them
They aren't the majority of cyclists though, it just seems like it because the idiots always make the most noise.
Load More Replies...Too late. The world is burning and the men in the 1950s oil industry KNEW what they were doing. Have two or less kids, connect spiritually with your guides and be as nice as you can before this Anthropocene epoch is over. We’re on our way out.
While I visited USA (Pitsburgh), we visited a Wallmart just for fun. We skipped Uber and took a bus. The store was on top of a hill, and we saw the rooftops of other stores that we wanted to visit while there, but there WAS NO WALKWAY from the hill. No path of any kind, not even a trace in the grass where people might have walked. The only way down was by car, or you'd have to walk in the driveway between the cars. We took a bus back to our hotel, wondering what those crazy Americans we thinking. I'll get that some of the anti-car people can be crazy, but these pro-car people aren't any better.
I am anti-car for personal and financial reasons. I like to walk so not having one gives me exercise, I live in a city where having a car is more of a headache than it's worth. Gas prices, repairs, insurance, and parking is something I do need.
I hate this. I hate this. I mean come on. I dont like cars, i dont do this. I feel so bad for yall with cars and just everyone for reading this. Dont be like this please. Please. Also pls dont think all people without car are like this. I hate this
I live in a Western US state (bigger than England but only has 10% of population) where cars/trucks are essential. A bus line for a 30 mile long dirt road with only 10 houses isn't efficient. That said, I'm looking forward to self driving vehicles so they can be shared. Over 90% of a vehicle's time is spent parked and unused. There's no reason that SUV that is only used to pick up the kids from school couldn't spend the rest of the day doing other things for other people.
Don't hate the cars, hate the fact that they still run on fossil fuels. Cars are an amazing invention, but it needs to be made sustainable.
Cities were not designed for cars because they were invented after the cities were built. One can't tear down cities every time there's a new invention, so you have to accept that some things will be wedged in uncomfortably because of the existing infrastructure.
I'd like to make an offer to anyone demanding that I reduce my carbon foot print but it would be in extremely bad taste.
Focus the anger on big corporations that cause the majority of global warming issues. Add zero to little correction or penalties for these companies, and you have your real problem. Car manufacturers have emissions regulations, but large companies go unchecked. A whole country of individuals recycling, driving smaller/fewer cars, and reducing their carbon footprints will still be a small impact compared to the bigger contributors.
Nothing like a good old fashioned family road trip, on public transportation…
Traveling by train can actually be a lot of fun, especially with kids. (Not that I have anything against road trips by car.)
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