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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.
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We don’t just need electric cars, we need fewer cars (www.greenpeace.org)

submitted 2 months ago by PapaSkwat@lemmy.today to c/fuck_cars@lemmy.ml

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Interesting article from 2018. But nothing has changed at all. Even the electric cars I see on the road are huge.

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[–] jtrek@startrek.website 30 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yes. I've been saying for years that electric cars and self driving cars are solving the wrong problem. The problem is if I need a car to get groceries. The problem is I'm not safe on the street because of all the cars.

People who have never lived someplace that doesn't need a car are very eager to tell you how it won't work, though.

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[–] njordomir@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

The roads here are so wide (usually 6 lanes plus turn lanes and a median) that we could build wall2wall apartments/condos/flats on on half of the road and still have enough road left for 3-4 lanes of traffic and a detached dedicated bike path and sidewalks.

Cars take up way more space than people realize.

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[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago

streets like these really make you feel it in your bones, everything feels comfortable and spacious with like 500 people on the same street until 5 cars show up and suddenly there's a fucking traffic jam out of nowhere.

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