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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.

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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.
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.
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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Thank the gods we live in such a car-saturated nation, how horrible it would be if this space was used to house people (media.kbin.social)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Let me take this apart: "Nobody except for a select few hyper-fit nutjobs are ever going to walk even so much as an 1/8th of that images span for anything." What's the span in the image? Maybe a mile? Two? Come on! IF the surroundings aren't noisy and are pleasant a normal average human of the planet earth is capable and willing to walk about 2-5 miles a day. In civilized countries you also have multiple options, it's not just "suffer and walk" or "sit in a car and bang your head on the steering wheel". Just the option to walk to most places where you need to go actually gets rid of some of the traffic that causes congestion. And the highway intersection hellscape depicted only serves the people who have no other option than to drive everywhere. It's a prison. "The area is far too large to want to walk, so we use it for transit instead." No, it's not.
"Forget that it transports millions of people, products, goods, etc." You know there are better ways to do this than building an eversprawling city with highways cutting right through it. Highways are among some of the most inefficient ways of transporting goods and people. They cause noise and pollution. Everyone wants to live as far away from one as is convenient. Not that these human errors aren't to be found everywhere in the world, it's just that it's only in the North America where this is more prominent than elsewhere. "They want it to house hundreds of people instead." You just looked at a picture where you have an area in Italy, similar in size to a highway knot in Texas that houses 30k people and you fail to understand what you just saw. 🤦‍♂️ "People who will then not be able to get those products and goods, because…they fuckin’ ripped the road out!" I can't even... 🤦‍♂️