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[Yamamura]

Why would anyone ever want a truck when they could do this instead?:

I don't even want to get into the logistics of explaining why that's stupid, but even if that was possible, doing that looks absolutely awful.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

According to urbanists, dense European cities are not walkable:

You can tell that these guys are a few levels smarter than /r/fuckcars. The dude saying Amsterdam-Centrum isn't good for pedestrians would be downvoted on /r/fuckcars but he's actually right--the clearance between the buildings and the canal is extremely tight, and if there's a car there, there's not much room to maneuver.

I also think that they don't have cognitive dissonance and realize once you leave the pedestrianized core of these cities, European start to resemble their American counterparts as far as "automobile-oriented development" goes, something that's never addressed by /r/fuckcars. I'm sure that I'm probably still giving them too much credit and the best they'll get is "less retarded", but it's still something.

 

[DavidS877]

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Reclaimed wood from a creek, probably not dry and seasoned. Internet says 4000btu/lb wet and 8000 dry. Let's split the difference and call it 6000btu/lb. A 2000w electric heater is 6000btu/hr(roughly). So each lb of wood gets them 1 hour. Maybe a week. Then you do it again, and again, and again, and guess what, you're not going to want to do it when it's snowing so you end up making multiple trips on the nice days. Or you pay someone with a large truck to bring a cord or two of nice seasoned wood and be set for the winter.

 

[internet friend]

Busting into this threat without having read shit so forgive me if this has already been covered, but more and more I've been noticing this astroturfed meme that "all transport evolves into trains" or some such retardation. Just because a series of vehicles go one in on a highway does not mean it would be better replaced by a train. Do they think people go on a highway just to be on the highway? Do they realise that people turn off the highway and go elsewhere?

 

[Meriasek]

You can't take your car on the train:

I don't mind regular bikes on trains, but recently there's been the trend of absolutely enormous and heavy electric bikes, and those cargo bikes are also freakin enormous. They're highly annoying for everyone else on the train.

None of those posts point out that many of these places have Ring cameras or similar. A video of you taking a brick to a car is a good way to get arrested, and a photo on Reddit would serve as evidence.

They know none of them would do anything. Look at the pic, it's pure suburbs, and they're all like that and can't get away with anything.

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

You can tell that these guys are a few levels smarter than /r/fuckcars. The dude saying Amsterdam-Centrum isn't good for pedestrians would be downvoted on /r/fuckcars but he's actually right--the clearance between the buildings and the canal is extremely tight, and if there's a car there, there's not much room to maneuver.

I also think that they don't have cognitive dissonance and realize once you leave the pedestrianized core of these cities, European start to resemble their American counterparts as far as "automobile-oriented development" goes, something that's never addressed by /r/fuckcars. I'm sure that I'm probably still giving them too much credit and the best they'll get is "less retarded", but it's still something.

American cities are car centric because most of them are younger than their European counterparts. Especially on the west coast. It’s not like there’s some secret cabal of people that hate bikes it’s just that it’s built around existing technology. They just have the misfortune of being speds incapable of driving.

 

[The Jewel of the Nile]

American cities are car centric because most of them are younger than their European counterparts. Especially on the west coast. It’s not like there’s some secret cabal of people that hate bikes it’s just that it’s built around existing technology. They just have the misfortune of being speds incapable of driving.

This is also the main reason behind road construction taking so long in Euro cities. It's typical to randomly find archeological artifacts, early medieval skeletons and the western wall of St Rando church that burned down in 1201.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

They know none of them would do anything. Look at the pic, it's pure suburbs, and they're all like that and can't get away with anything.

That's not even his picture, it's a repost from /r/mildlyinfuriating, it's just seething over someone else's picture

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

American cities are car centric because most of them are younger than their European counterparts. Especially on the west coast. It’s not like there’s some secret cabal of people that hate bikes it’s just that it’s built around existing technology. They just have the misfortune of being speds incapable of driving.

This is 99% of it and it's hilarious how much they fight against admitting it - the cities that they say have walkable parts are .... older than the automobile! Strange, that.

And when you're outside the city centers/tourist areas, most of the fabled "perfect cities" devolve into car-friendly suburbs.

If you want to live without a car, you can, almost anywhere, even in the USA. You just have to make sacrifices and decisions around that.

 

[dj0449674]

This is 99% of it and it's hilarious how much they fight against admitting it - the cities that they say have walkable parts are .... older than the automobile! Strange, that.

And when you're outside the city centers/tourist areas, most of the fabled "perfect cities" devolve into car-friendly suburbs.

If you want to live without a car, you can, almost anywhere, even in the USA. You just have to make sacrifices and decisions around that.

The majority of the photos they post claiming "suburbs" are just housing developments built in the 90s in places like Northern Virginia because nobody wanted to live in the DC hellscape.

 

[BulkForceFive]

Why would anyone ever want a truck when they could do this instead?:

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You can't take your car on the train:
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A WHOLE ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY POUNDS! Careful there Ronnie Coleman, don't lift it all out at once!

 

[The Amazing Mongrel]

The seething is so delicious.

 

[Bonesjones]

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The seething is so delicious.

It would be even funnier if they could only use it on New York residents and no one else.

 

[Eventide]

So many of these people have a tourist, recreational mindset and refuse to own up to it. Whether or not getting around on foot in a particular city isn't necessarily dependent on how enjoyable it is but how possible it is. And it's possible, lots of people do it all the time. Even people from smaller towns, if they're within town limits, may walk if they have to do get to a job or the store. If you want an efficient city that has other priorities they're on top of then there will be lots of parts of it where wandering around isn't a day in the park. Hell, most of the time driving isn't enjoyable either. It's just what you do to get to A to B. It's better than walking or biking, for sure, but most people don't like having to drive around in cities either. It's just safer, more private, and you can take stuff around easier.

Well, that explains why they hate Verona. Not a particularly happening Italian city, tourist-y wise. Unless you like visiting old buildings. or expensive all-day winery tours. But it's very walkable.

FuckCars people whine about hating America's Car Culture/Car-designed cities, yet are also a bunch of lazy Americans who despise actually walking anywhere Like, they expect some magic teleporting train to just drop them off at any location they wish.

 

[Apple Porcupine]

Urbanists are extremely rational people.

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There's been a lot of sperging from them today, might make a compilation later but been busy with real life stuff. Hope y'all been keeping well and warm with thoughts of cyclists seething through the winter weather.

 

[Markass the Worst]

Urbanists are extremely rational people.

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There's been a lot of sperging from them today, might make a compilation later but been busy with real life stuff. Hope y'all been keeping well and warm with thoughts of cyclists seething through the winter weather.

Pure unadulterated bugman soy rage. The mask is well and truly off... is what I would say if it was ever on in the first place.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

The seething is so delicious.

The funnier option would be an EO in that no city can have congestion pricing unless it's voted in by the metropolitan area. 20 miles in every direction from Columbus Circle, not quite as far as White Plains, east to Hempstead, and much of the Jersey City area. All blue counties...and then watch as congestion pricing gets blown out.

 

[quaawaa]

Urbanists are extremely rational people.

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There's been a lot of sperging from them today, might make a compilation later but been busy with real life stuff. Hope y'all been keeping well and warm with thoughts of cyclists seething through the winter weather.

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[WelperHelper99]

Which one of you is this:
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Florida man continues to strut his superiority to the New York Bugman. Lol. I fucking hope Trump nukes this congestion pricing from orbit. The salt will be 1000x what this mere letter has done.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

The commerce clause has been used for everything else, why not change it up and use it for actual things affecting interstate commerce?