Not Just Bikes / r/fuckcars / Urbanists / New Urbanism / Car-Free / Anti-Car - People and grifters who hate personal transport, freedom, cars, roads, suburbs, and are obsessed with city planning and urban design

[Beautiful Border]

Imagine being this autistic about people on the internet who aren't even that funny.

Yeah, this thread is just OP being mad that people with different opinions from his own exist. Way too many lolcow threads now are just "person who says thing I don't like" with nothing funny about them.

 

[umami's milk]

I'll be damned if I gotta spend another day on public transport, though.

 

[Colon capital V]

The only thing that these "urbanists" have in their favor is that they (rightfully) think self-driving cars are dumb. Anyone who wants self-driving cars are massive cucks who think they can have their freedom cake and eat it too. You might as well take public transport by that point instead of this longass roundabout way of lessening car crashes or whatever.

 

[UmQasaan]

Ah yes American car oriented devlopment. Such beauty. Such civilization.

The problem isn't and never was the cars. It's the souless, lazy ass "architecture" of Urban Renewal. You don't need to be an urbanite to see how destroying cities for highways and parking lots is bad.

They think cars are the source of every single evil in the world today and have a fanatic devotion to abolishing them even when it doesn't make sense

This statement in the conclusion is being disingenious. OP even elaborated that some of those creators don't soley talk about how cars are the problem. The only statement that could be considered accurate for is the autistic subreddit.

 

[Beautiful Border]

Ah yes American car oriented devlopment. Such beauty. Such civilization.
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The problem isn't and never was the cars. It's the souless, lazy ass "architecture" of Urban Renewal. You don't need to be an urbanite to see how destroying cities for highways and parking lots is bad.
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This statement in the conclusion is being disingenious. OP even elaborated that some of those creators don't soley talk about how cars are the problem. The only statement that could be considered accurate for is the autistic subreddit.

Also, using this picture to represent Jason Slaughter is pretty dishonest, he's obviously dressed up as a stereotypical "geek" as a joke. In pretty much every other picture I can find of him on the Internet he looks completely different.

 

[Cymophane]

I grew up outside the city so I was always walking on "stroads" I just never knew what it was called . and these guys taught me a little bit about life . other than that yeah fuck these pricks I need a car .

 

[Takodachi]

I actually agree with some of their points, like how a lot of US cities are nightmares for pedestrians, but these fucks are so insufferable it negates any kind of valid argument they might have had by sheer smugness alone.

 

[quaawaa]

Ah yes American car oriented devlopment. Such beauty. Such civilization.
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The problem isn't and never was the cars. It's the souless, lazy ass "architecture" of Urban Renewal. You don't need to be an urbanite to see how destroying cities for highways and parking lots is bad.
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This statement in the conclusion is being disingenious. OP even elaborated that some of those creators don't soley talk about how cars are the problem. The only statement that could be considered accurate for is the autistic subreddit.

Nobody tears down perfectly good buildings to build parking lots. Those buildings were torn down because they became crime-filled slums. Over the years, as the economy has recovered and crime rates fallen, those cities have been built up again.

This is the same angle of Houston today after an economic boom. Most of those parking lots have been turned into buildings. I've highlighted one of the few buildings that is visible in both pictures. Houston is just as car-dependent as it was when your picture was taken:

Your Kanas City picture is also deceptively cropped. This is what it actually looks like today:
Northbound:

Southbound (which shows the parking lots from the original picture):

Wow, they totally destroyed the city for a highway.

 

[UmQasaan]

The one thing that strikes me about that Amsterdam fetish is that people use bikes a lot because there is not other freaking way around that town!! The inner city is crammed into oblivion. Apartments are tiny, stairs are so steep it's an occupational hazard IMHO. Many building even have built-in hooks to lift furniture through the windows.

These shills may call it "the future". I call it seventeenth century overpopulation. People use bikes not out of a higher conscience, but out of necessity.

This short-sighted thinking is exactly why they went full cartard in the 50s-70's, then they realized that loud streets, noxious feumes, and dead keeds weren't worth it.


I'd say it's lead to a more livable, safter result.

 

[WhiskeyJack]

Also, using this picture to represent Jason Slaughter is pretty dishonest, he's obviously dressed up as a stereotypical "geek" as a joke. In pretty much every other picture I can find of him on the Internet he looks completely different.
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Uh... yeah, even without the glasses on, he looks like a soy-faced dweeb.

Ah yes American car oriented devlopment. Such beauty. Such civilization.
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The problem isn't and never was the cars. It's the souless, lazy ass "architecture" of Urban Renewal. You don't need to be an urbanite to see how destroying cities for highways and parking lots is bad.
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This statement in the conclusion is being disingenious. OP even elaborated that some of those creators don't soley talk about how cars are the problem. The only statement that could be considered accurate for is the autistic subreddit.

90% of the content of these YT channels is NOT people making arguably justifiable complaints about urban renewal architecture and parking lots. Instead it's mostly bus/train-wankfests and endless whining about suburbs/cul-de-sac neighborhoods with roads that don't have bike lanes/sidewalks (because they're totally unneeded in low-traffic areas like a suburb). With the occasional praise for Khrushchyovka/Brezhnevka block houses.

Personally, the train-wank bugs me more than any of it, just because it's so disingenuous. They'll make a dozen videos blaming cars for being loud, yet want everyone to live within walking distance of a train station. They'll whine about how much space roads take up, yet ignore the sheer immensity of urban rail yards (seriously, they're often a quarter-mile wide or more) and never bring up how emergency services will always require highway access to every building in a city anyway.

Their idea of a perfect city is wall-to-wall skyscrapers with no access to fire departments, police, or paramedics, and with round-the-clock train travel deafening the population.

 

[make_it_so]

That was a cunt hair's breadth from becoming a random chimp event.

It also be 100% justified.

 

[quaawaa]

This short-sighted thinking is exactly why they went full cartard in the 50s-70's, then they realized that loud streets, noxious feumes, and dead keeds weren't worth it.

Maybe if they actually knew how to drive in Amsterdam back then it wouldn't have been so chaotic. What does a red light mean there? Judging by the picture, absolutely nothing. Don't want to wait for the road to clear before making a left turn? Just drive in the median and force your way into the actual lanes.

That picture looks like it was taken in India, not in a first-world country.

Also, every single picture you've shared is from /r/fuckcars (or similar) according to reverse image search. I think we have a live example here.

 

[WhiskeyJack]

Maybe if they actually knew how to drive in Amsterdam back then it wouldn't have been so chaotic. What does a red light mean there? Judging by the picture, absolutely nothing. Don't want to wait for the road to clear before making a left turn? Just drive in the median and force your way into the actual lanes.

That picture looks like it was taken in India, not in a first-world country.

There appear to be two police cars blocking traffic to let some cyclists cross. I blame the bikes, backing up traffic for miles.

Also, that was back when people drove literal boats, not modern cars. Those things averaged 30 feet long, and 12 feet wide.

 

[UmQasaan]

Nobody tears down perfectly good buildings to build parking lots

Just lol

Those buildings were torn down because they became crime-filled slums. Over the years, as the economy has recovered and crime rates fallen, those cities have been built up again.

Need the sauce that those were "Crime ridden slum" as you like to put it and not just middle class blacks. Even if they were, you make it sound like you're an unsympathetic cunt. Not only is it morally abhorrent to intentionally displace people, you also create a logistic nightmare by trying to shove them all in one corner. A giant fucking highway to split neighborhoods just alleviates the problem. It's like when Brazil put up barriers to block the favelas from being seen by people driving by on the highways for the Olympics.

This is the same angle of Houston today after an economic boom. Most of those parking lots have been turned into buildings. I've highlighted one of the few buildings that is visible in both pictures. Houston is just as car-dependent as it was when your picture was taken:

You just conflicted yourself. You say that they turned parking lots into a building, but try to rationale that means that they're still car dependent? Removing parking lots inherently means they become less car dependent.

Your Kanas City picture is also deceptively cropped. This is what it actually looks like today:
Northbound:

Southbound:

Wow, they totally destroyed the city for a highway

Lmao these actually enhance my point. There is a single person walking on the pavement in the northbound picture with the sole trolley going by, and the "crosswalk" expects you to cross a four lanes and a highway ramp (Try doing that during peak traffic). The southbound has two big ass parking lots that aren't even full, and what looks like a whooping two people waiting for the lightrail. To top it off where is everyone? It's completely deserted. There isn't any shade for the few people on the pavements so they get cooked alive, and there isn't a single small shop nearby where people can walk into. Looks pretty soulless to me.

 

[Toolbox]

I don't think it's fair to shovel every one of these people in with r/fuckcars types. There is a middle ground and several people follow it, honestly not just bikes is the centrist of this culture and there are several that are leagues worse like Alan Fisher and another one even more irritating, that on top of being an armchair urbanist, thinks they can pull up idea like 'build a cyperpunk city in the middle of Idaho to own the republicans' in the same breath as basic pedestrian improvements on infrastructure. Guy also fancies himself an armchair general. I'm sure someone can figure out who this is, probably gets recommended along with the guy above as well as Not Just Bikes even though they are barely related. The problem is many people on the pro-urban improvement side are also frequently anti-car even though I would argue Not just bikes and several others are not, but they get looped in with retarded people that think cities should own the world and that nobody who designs for them can do no wrong (unless they build anything for cars). But if you are really arguing that any suggestion to borrow ideas from Europe is bad just because European politics are frequently more autistic than even the US, then I don't get it. There are ways to design more for people without killing the car, and it would be stupid TO kill the car.

 

[Looney Troons]

The city I live in has bike lanes for the fags who want to do that. I don’t see why more cities don’t just adopt bike lanes. I rarely experience any traffic because of it. Win-win for everyone.

 

[The Last Stand]

Something tells me they actually WANT to fuck cars.

 

[Toolbox]

The city I live in has bike lanes for the fags who want to do that. I don’t see why more cities don’t just adopt bike lanes. I rarely experience any traffic because of it. Win-win for everyone.

Bike lanes generally get built like shit in the US, even in cities, though at least cities can generally build ok sidewalks even if they still require you cross active traffic half the time. But bike lanes are either painted on the side of the road, still inviting danger and for retarded bicyclists to just do what they'd already do, or there are certain parts built as actual pure pedestrian paths but usually only for scenic routes. The farther you get away urbanity, the less anybody gives a shit about anything other than cars. You end up with bike lanes painted onto the side of the road all the time if any, and sidewalks that just end in someone's empty lot. 50+% of pedestrians I see in areas built for single family suburbia have to walk through overgrown unpaved areas to get back to sidewalks if they can find any. And it doesn't have to be that way.

 

[Scented Candle]

This is a prime example of the urbanite mindset of "everyone in the world lives in an overpopulated shithole city just like me", I knew these people existed but I couldn't have imagined it would be this widespread.

 

[Sneeds]

There are a few different threads on this, notably the "Pro Bughive Channels" thread and a few others.

4chan's /n/ board is also infested with these types (colonized a train board) though because it is 4chan they do get pushback, and not totally run off by Reddit tranny jannies.

There’s a reason why /o/ hates them and calls them /n/iggers

Overplayed joke, but...
Kill all bikes, race car now!
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That was a cunt hair's breadth from becoming a random chimp event.

That nigger deserved to punch that faggot in the face. Holy shit, that pissed me off, what a gigantic bike-riding asshole.

Here’s what happened to a cyclist in Chicago when a cyclist did something similar to a different Tyrone. Most of these urbanists will be scared shitless if Tyrone in his hellcat or Pedro in his lowered Silverado beats the shit out of them for doing something similar