this post was submitted on 14 Dec 2024
709 points (97.6% liked)

Fuck Cars

9786 readers
1309 users here now

A place to discuss problems of car centric infrastructure or how it hurts us all. Let's explore the bad world of Cars!

Rules

1. Be CivilYou may not agree on ideas, but please do not be needlessly rude or insulting to other people in this community.

2. No hate speechDon't discriminate or disparage people on the basis of sex, gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, or sexuality.

3. Don't harass peopleDon't follow people you disagree with into multiple threads or into PMs to insult, disparage, or otherwise attack them. And certainly don't doxx any non-public figures.

4. Stay on topicThis community is about cars, their externalities in society, car-dependency, and solutions to these.

5. No repostsDo not repost content that has already been posted in this community.

Moderator discretion will be used to judge reports with regard to the above rules.

Posting Guidelines

In the absence of a flair system on lemmy yet, let’s try to make it easier to scan through posts by type in here by using tags:

Recommended communities:

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] takeda 36 points 4 days ago (2 children)

You get the worst of both worlds, inefficiency of transportation capacity of a car with limitations of driving destinations of a rail.

And apparently even the self driving doesn't even work there (you would think this would be an easy feature to add)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

So it's just a worse tunnel then

Ha

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

it gets worse: the loading and unloading takes several minutes because all the cars have to back out into traffic, so congestion in the tunnel is common. the max speed is something like 15km/h because there are too many cars moving in the system. and the tunnel is too narrow for you to be able to open the door, meaning that in the event of a fire, everyone just dies.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

EV batteries fire + narrow place seems like the worst ever combo

How the heck is this project even approved lol

[–] eager_eagle 2 points 3 days ago

pretty sure CO2 + narrow place would be worse

[–] kameecoding 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

murica, sensible regulations are socialism, please add 5 parking spaces for every 10 square feet of your store, thanks

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Is it true that you actually have to add a parking space as a building owner in US? lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

If you have half an hour free, and want to spend it feeling a justified combination of nauseous horror and smug superiority, have I got a video for you!

Climate Town - Parking Laws are Strangling America

[–] Eatspancakes84 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Of course Americans are in love with cars, but isn’t the best solution for Vegas an above ground streetcar? Relatively short distance, sufficient space (so no need to dig underground), high capacity.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

I've been stunned that the Vegas strip doesn't have some kind of real transit system for decades now.

They didn't even let the new HSR line come to the Strip itself. It stops outside of the area and people have to taxi in. Why the casino owners weren't fighting over who got the HSR stop in their casino I'll never understand. Wouldn't you want those trains to drop off thousands of possible marks right on your doorstep? No, instead they get dropped in the desert and have to wander to wherever in town.