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

[DavidS877]

I've been nitrous gassed at the dentist to the point my brain starts thinking it's still the year 1999, and still have been fine to drive home.

Big rainbows for you if you think American Footstank has a valid drivers' license to use a car.

If you're fully knocked out then they won't let you drive, but if it's just gas or a local then you're fine.

 

[indomitable snowman]

“this student uses an advanced simulation to map traffic patterns.”

"Advanced simulation"

Mate half the cars will just despawn in the game because it can't figure out traffic.

 

[Eventide]

Also parties in countryside are fire and you can't change my mind .

Hold up - them soycuck bugmen are talking shit about countryside 'ragers? How dare they! I bet they sit at home on the weekend in their tiny box apartments not getting laid and doing lame stuff, like playing Runescape.

...well, at least now I know the rez is safe from potential bugman colonization. On account of all #rezparties parties being lit

This is sort of like when soys who are anti gun brag about going to a shooting range for the first time and how cool they feel. Underneath they're all hypocrites, they want to seem like they're above it all but deep down they have the same "toxic masculine" desires that they pretend are beneath them.

...do you mean paintball ranges? 'cause I don't think many city soys are getting gun licenses and purchasing glocks for self-protection. On account of living in deep blue cities with the strictest of gun control laws.

 

[Yamamura]

...do you mean paintball ranges? 'cause I don't think many city soys are getting gun licenses and purchasing glocks for self-protection. On account of living in deep blue cities with the strictest of gun control laws.

They don't own the guns themselves. There are some places you can go where you pay them and they supply you with the gun and ammo to shoot at a paper target. Usually there's a guy that instructs and over sees what you're doing. These are popular with tourists from countries with more restrictive gun laws for them to just try out what it's like.

There are a bunch of lefties who will normally go, "guns are bad, but look how cool I look in this video of me shooting an AR under supervision".

 

[Kiska]

Not to drag this board into a train history one, but, the Well There's Your Problem podcast did a three part streaming series on the absolute cluster that was Penn Central.

Ew not that troon+ jewniggershit, I used to watch donoteat back in grade school I think it's funny how he went from making videos on how a city evolved in american history to making nothing but low effort slopcasts where they read wiki pages verbatim and somehow get USAID-free patreon money

 

[TowinKarz]

Ew not that troon+ jewniggershit, I used to watch donoteat back in grade school I think it's funny how he went from making videos on how a city evolved in american history to making nothing but low effort slopcasts where they read wiki pages verbatim and somehow get USAID-free patreon money

I don't watch him anymore, but, I'm not petty enough to say not to watch one effort that's good and is actually not reading directly from Wikipedia, like 50 others you can find.

The guys know railroad stuff. And the closer they are to their passion? The less they derail (har!) into ranting about Trump and how everyone who isn't a leftist is an uneducated dunce.

 

[Apple Porcupine]

Jason's mad at Canada again (he denounced his citizenship, why is he even there?)

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The lots are full, so there's clearly demand for them (and it can't ALL be the so-called "induced" demand he speaks so much on). If I didn't know any better I'd assume this country's economy was pretty strong.

I just don't think he'll ever like anything. Incidentally he's not just an old guy anymore, he's a CRANKY old guy now.

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[quaawaa]

Jason's mad at Canada again (he denounced his citizenship, why is he even there?)

It's clearly in a what used to be an industrial area, and they are building his vaunted pod towers in the area:

Though the only business in the finished tower's retail spots is an immigration consultant. Maybe that's a clue as to why Canada has a housing crisis?

If you go into street view, several of the empty lots are currently construction sites for more towers:


Canada (as it is run by urbanists) is doing exactly what Jason wants, and its not enough because cars still exist. I thought they just wanted freedom of choice?

Also, the light rail line Jason is talking about cost C$17.5 billion for 19 km of rail, or in real units, $12.2 billion for 12 miles of rail. That's over a BILLION DOLLARS PER MILE! Jason told me that transit is supposed to be cheaper than car infrastructure?

For comparison, Texas is building a privately funded 12 lane highway north of Dallas at a cost of $460 million for 6 miles. That's 0.08 billion dollars per mile, just under two order of magnitudes cheaper than Toronto's light rail.

 

[Kiska]

Also, the light rail line Jason is talking about cost C$17.5 billion for 19 km of rail, or in real units, $12.2 billion for 12 miles of rail. That's over a BILLION DOLLARS PER MILE! Jason told me that transit is supposed to be cheaper than car infrastructure?

Rails are actually cheap if you get normal people to build them (see: literally all the rail that was built in the 20th century in NA,EU,still to today in Asia) - What happens with the insanely overinflated prices like with that, 2nd avenue subway, and honolulu metro is they're quite literally scamming the federal government for personal gains, which is also why the latter 2 aren't even finished yet despite being under construction for decades and costing 10s of billions each.

 

[Eventide]

Also, the light rail line Jason is talking about cost C$17.5 billion for 19 km of rail, or in real units, $12.2 billion for 12 miles of rail. That's over a BILLION DOLLARS PER MILE! Jason told me that transit is supposed to be cheaper than car infrastructure?

...isn't Canada's rail system notorious for being ground to a halt/hours long delays due to winter weather (switches freezing, ice on tracks, etc)?

I think a lot of these r/fuckcar urbanists see the complex train infrastructures of small European nations, and cannot grasp the scaling issues making it impossible (or just vastly too expensive) to implement in the US or Canada.

 

[TowinKarz]

...isn't Canada's rail system notorious for being ground to a halt/hours long delays due to winter weather (switches freezing, ice on tracks, etc)?

I think a lot of these r/fuckcar urbanists see the complex train infrastructures of small European nations, and cannot grasp the scaling issues making it impossible (or just vastly too expensive) to implement in the US or Canada.

Definitely, they love to point at the map of the US with the large areas blotted out that have "no passenger train service" as proof we're a bunch of carbrained idiots, but, never actually realize or admit that the reason 90% of Wyoming has "no passenger train service" is because 90% of Wyoming lacks the population density needed to fill even one single passenger car destined for any one other area should a train actually stop in their town.

 

[TaimuRadiu]

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I really don’t get where car dependency factors into this. This isn’t the first time I’ve seen “Wehhh, suburbs make the kids depressed!” Whenever I see that, I just think about the horrible upbringings my parents both had in a major city and how they moved to the suburbs to give my brother and I a better life.
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Doctor Poo Poo Head apparently thinks that all those trees form an impassible barrier like in the mainline Pokémon games.

Actual valid points here re atomization but what I see in that first photo is a creek that doesn't look very far from the cul de sac. Also rural teens have been hanging out and getting shitfaced at the creek for as long as there's been a USA.

 

[Eventide]

Actual valid points here re atomization but what I see in that first photo is a creek that doesn't look very far from the cul de sac. Also rural teens have been hanging out and getting shitfaced at the creek for as long as there's been a USA.

Further evidence r/fuckcars hates 'merica.

 

[Kiska]

I think a lot of these r/fuckcar urbanists see the complex train infrastructures of small European nations, and cannot grasp the scaling issues making it impossible (or just vastly too expensive) to implement in the US or Canada.

To be fair extreme inclement weather or big frozen landscapes aren't really a limiting factor for those if you don't have corrupt leftists running your nation's infrastructure, Russia and China can easily prove that. Fun fact in NA there are some cities like Chicago where they have to set train tracks on fire since they haven't worked out more modern/safer ways to heat up track switches during the winter

 

[Xarpho's Return]

Definitely, they love to point at the map of the US with the large areas blotted out that have "no passenger train service" as proof we're a bunch of carbrained idiots, but, never actually realize or admit that the reason 90% of Wyoming has "no passenger train service" is because 90% of Wyoming lacks the population density needed to fill even one single passenger car destined for any one other area should a train actually stop in their town.

The lack of stops is one of the reasons why they can't form a good consistent article on railroads. They hate rural areas and think that it wastes resources and time to stop at small towns (or go out to small towns) yet use the proof of cut-off routes as indications how TPTB (oil companies, car companies, governments, privately owned rail companies, etc.) "ruined" trains. This is also in Britain how just because the rail stopped service to Sheepfarmenshire before WWII that it's some sort of national tragedy.

 

[quaawaa]

THEY HAVE FINALLY REINVENTED THE CAR BUT WORSE:

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[DavidS877]

THEY HAVE FINALLY REINVENTED THE CAR BUT WORSE:
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Pedicabs have been a thing for many, many years and still used around the world. And they're designed for actual human power unlike this thing which has a ton of excess structure. Maybe hiding an electric assistance system.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

Pedicabs have been a thing for many, many years and still used around the world. And they're designed for actual human power unlike this thing which has a ton of excess structure. Maybe hiding an electric assistance system.

Yup, what will inevitably happen is it becomes a way for some enterprising immigrant to bypass things like license plates, taxi medallions, Uber fees, and the congestion pricing. The upshot is that bugmen cyclists seethe.

 

[indomitable snowman]

THEY HAVE FINALLY REINVENTED THE CAR BUT WORSE:
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It's like a rickshaw, but gayer.

 

[Eventide]

THEY HAVE FINALLY REINVENTED THE CAR BUT WORSE:
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that's some classic Dr. Suess shit: