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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Everyone here reacts very negatively to this because blaming pedestrian has been, via jaywalking rules, in the past, a strategy encourage by car companies to push cities toward more car centric cities. Also it's been proven over and over that car speed is the main factor in pedestrian collisions.
Obviously everyone should be well aware of the dangers of their everyday life and education is good as long as the lesson isn't "get the fuck out of the way or die"
The education should be "everyone and everything on the road is trying to kill you. I think jaywalking rules may be an american thing. But simply Cars are more noticeable visibly and audibly, pedestrians can stop and change direction orders of magnitude faster than cars. Do I think built up urban areas should discourage car use? Yes
@RoadkillUgly @pec The problem is cars.
Cars are an inherently dangerous mode of transport.
According to the WHO, car accidents kill 1.3 million people worldwide each year.
Let's put that number into perspective.
There's around 212 seats on a Boeing 777 jumbo jet, depending on configuration.
So 1.3 million deaths is equivalent to around 6132 plane crashes each year. That works out to be equivalent to around 16 plane crashes globally each day.
Cars also make every other mode of transport more dangerous, slower, and less efficient.
You raise walking while looking at your phone. Well, that's generally not a deadly act (try it in a park sometime). Well, what makes that deadly is cars.
Riding a bike, e-bike, or scooter is significantly more dangerous in mixed traffic than it is on a dedicated cycling path or barrier protected bike lane.
It is car drivers who are in control of a deadly multi-tonne vehicle.
Responsibility always rests with the driver.
Full stop.
Now, there are a range of measures that the Victorian state government could put in place to make streets safer for all modes.
Barrier-protected cycling lanes along major streets and roads. Reducing speed limits to 30 KP/h on local streets. Road diets. Pedestrianising major shopping strips.
But suburban Melbourne's backwards car-dependent approach to planning means it's a long way behind the world's best practice, in countries, such as the Netherlands.
It's a long way behind countries in Europe that aren't quite at world's best practice, such as Austria.
It's a long way behind cities and countries that were behind the iron curtain during the Cold War.
It's even falling behind Sydney.
So yes, the problem is with cars. And trying to place the blame on anything else is blaming the victim.
#urbanism #UrbanPlanning #cars #cycling #bikes #traffic #walkability #cities #walking
2 million die every year from diarrhoea. Your point?