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[quaawaa]

WTF is this?





OP is massive fan of taxing people out of their property for not using it how he pleases:

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Of course, his opinions come from a YouTube video he watched two weeks ago:

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Since OP is single, I guess the girls just want to talk to the doggo and not the neckbeard on his weird bike thing:

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Yet another reason why you never bring up the "cars kill more people than guns" argument as defense against gun control:



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There are absolutely zero roads that are tourist attractions:

OP is so obviously wrong that even the /r/fuckcars comments are full of counter examples:






At least OP admitted that the bridges are attractive car infrastructure in his edit.
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A German member is aghast that his fellow Europeans are afflicted with carbrain:

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[F-14 Tomcat]

YIMBY (as long as it's not parking lots)

 

[Xarpho's Return]

There are absolutely zero roads that are tourist attractions:

The thing is there aren't real "train infrastructure" buildings that people would want to go see, either. Sure, Grand Central Terminal is kinda cool but that's tourist fodder and most New Yorkers view it as something as utilitarian. But then there are the bridges that serve as the same thing as "while we're here, isn't this cool?".

If you get actually excited about the highways or railroads themselves you might be autistic.

 

[quaawaa]

If you get actually excited about the highways or railroads themselves you might be autistic.

I wouldn't call someone who travels to drive on the Pacific Coast Highway, Tail of the Dragon, Nürburgring, Mount Akina Haruna, or even the Autobahn autistic. It's good fun to drive on roads like that.

The equivalent for trains would be stuff like historical railroads and wine trains (i.e. not urban light rail lines and trams).

 

[WelperHelper99]

Since OP is single, I guess the girls just want to talk to the doggo and not the neckbeard on his weird bike thing:

I promise you aren't getting laid because of your dog in your cargo bike contraption you dork. People only talk to you because you're strange as fuck.

another reason why you never bring up the "cars kill more people than guns" argument as defense against gun control:

Ah yes, people go on mass shootings because they drive too much and don't walk enough. Thats... a take. A bad one.

 

[Major]

YIMBY!

Please pave over those nasty green fields with concrete and steel! More plastic now!

 

[JJLiautaud]

There are absolutely zero roads that are tourist attractions:

Unironically false the Pacific coast highway is one plus the whole idea of the Great American Road Trip.

 

[pellegrino31415]

Unironically false the Pacific coast highway is one plus the whole idea of the Great American Road Trip.

I will add 17 Mile Drive to the list of roads that are tourist attractions.

 

[quaawaa]

Saw this on Hacker News:

A moderate urbanist suggests that instead of banning cars, urbanists could build new "walkable" cities and then people could vote with their feet for the lifestyle that they prefer:

The response:

"Nah, let's just ban cars everywhere and if people don't like it, they can uproot their lives and go somewhere else"
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Also, courtesy of another comment (archive) there, here's a nice graph showing just how small of a percentage of tax money is spent on roads:

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The vast majority of spending by state and local governments is on welfare, policing the people who receive welfare, and poor quality education. Only 5-10% of tax money is actually spent on anything useful. If taxpayers didn't have to carry such a large burden, they could spend ten times as much on infrastructure without raising taxes.

 

[Lobster Cult High Priest]

A moderate urbanist suggests that instead of banning cars, urbanists could build new "walkable" cities and then people could vote with their feet for the lifestyle that they prefer:

Will these new cities be No Nigger zones? If so sign me up.

 

[quaawaa]

Crosswalks and playgrounds (???) are car infrastructure:















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[Steam Deck Verified]

> only places in the US I can think of that have good tourism are places like nyc or places with beaches or nature

Nashville? Vegas? New Orleans? Seattle? Even Miami and Honolulu, etc. are more than just beaches. Blink and you'll miss the $2 trillion American tourist industry, with hundreds of billions from foreigners who don't give a fuck that you might need a rental car or an Uber.

Loathe to agree with fuckcars on any point but I do kind of hate the street light/lamp issue, especially in the suburbs. It's not the end of the world or anything, but it's annoying as hell to take a walk after work post-DST when it's pitch black at 5:30 and there's only the occasional garage motion sensor to light the way. Or when I'm trying to find a friend's house for the first time and their neighborhood has zero street lights, so I'm crawling at 2mph like a fucking idiot because you can't see a single house number. But framing it like muh stroads have STOLEN the street lights is stupid.

 

[Trennschleifer]

Yup. Hate to agree with them on lamps and lights as well. But our massive light pollution is a tragedy. Especially in my small country, where you're still close enough to civilization even when you're out in the boonies. You just can't see stars to their full extent with all the lighting ruining our night skies.

 

[teriyakiburns]

They might have more of a point if mass street lighting (and the favouring of public thoroughfares over little-used side-paths) didn't pre-date the invention of the car by several centuries.

 

[Susanna]

Street lights. You would still want to bring a light to light your path on moonless nights, but we only put in street lights to be "visible" to cars. I put visible in quotes because the research is not conclusive that increased street lighting improves safety as it often encourages faster, less attentive driving.

This is incredibly smoothbrained even by reddit standards. It’s a very well known fact that when the street lighting goes out, for example during outages or moronic “green” weeks, muggings, gang violence, and rapes spike. I don’t know any woman who dares walk alone through an unlit neighbourhood, I’m sure even many men would balk at that prospect. Streets get scary in the dark and cars absolutely aren’t the reason for that. They have headlights, if anything they’re giving us safety by making the would-be criminals visible.

 

[S.C.U.D.]

Is this guy actually fucking retarded? Street lights existed before cars. The Greeks and Romans used them. I'm losing my fucking mind.

 

[Free the Pedos]

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Is this guy actually fucking retarded? Street lights existed before cars. The Greeks and Romans used them. I'm losing my fucking mind.

I was about to say that about most of these things. Do they want to eliminate any vehicle whatsoever, including horse drawn buggies?

 

[Xarpho's Return]

This is incredibly smoothbrained even by reddit standards. It’s a very well known fact that when the street lighting goes out, for example during outages or moronic “green” weeks, muggings, gang violence, and rapes spike. I don’t know any woman who dares walk alone through an unlit neighbourhood, I’m sure even many men would balk at that prospect. Streets get scary in the dark and cars absolutely aren’t the reason for that. They have headlights, if anything they’re giving us safety by making the would-be criminals visible.

Carbrained response.

With no cars, you get more people on the street, and that means with more "eyes on the street", crime, er, "socio-economic issues" can be reduced or eliminated!

 

[Lobster Cult High Priest]

so I'm crawling at 2mph like a fucking idiot because you can't see a single house number. But framing it like muh stroads have STOLEN the street lights is stupid.

100% agree just your friend should also be considerate and turn on his porch light for you.

I was about to say that about most of these things. Do they want to eliminate any vehicle whatsoever, including horse drawn buggies?

Yes they are also the first ones to complain about Horse Shit on the Streets

 

[Major]

This is incredibly smoothbrained even by reddit standards. It’s a very well known fact that when the street lighting goes out, for example during outages or moronic “green” weeks, muggings, gang violence, and rapes spike. I don’t know any woman who dares walk alone through an unlit neighbourhood, I’m sure even many men would balk at that prospect. Streets get scary in the dark and cars absolutely aren’t the reason for that. They have headlights, if anything they’re giving us safety by making the would-be criminals visible.

Street lighting long predates the motor car. Gas lighting goes back to the early 1800s and candles & torches were common before that.

Do they really think people just walked around in the dark like a moron? Even back then crime was one of the biggest reasons to get street lights.