Fuck Cars

9789 readers

6 users here now

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.

You can find the Matrix chat room for this community here.

Rules

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.
No bigotry or hate. Racism, transphobia, misogyny, ableism, homophobia, chauvinism, fat-shaming, body-shaming, stigmatization of people experiencing homeless or substance users, etc. are not tolerated. Don't use slurs. You can laugh at someone's fragile masculinity without associating it with their body. The correlation between car-culture and body weight is not an excuse for fat-shaming.
Stay on-topic. Submissions should be on-topic to the externalities of car culture in urban development and communities globally. Posting about alternatives to cars and car culture is fine. Don't post literal car fucking.
No traffic violence. Do not post depictions of traffic violence. NSFW or NSFL posts are not allowed. Gawking at crashes is not allowed. Be respectful to people who are a victim of traffic violence or otherwise traumatized by it. News articles about crashes and statistics about traffic violence are allowed. Glorifying traffic violence will get you banned.
No reposts. Before sharing, check if your post isn't a repost. Reposts that add something new are fine. Reposts that are sharing content from somewhere else are fine too.
No misinformation. Masks and vaccines save lives during a pandemic, climate change is real and anthropogenic - and denial of these and other established facts will get you banned. False or highly speculative titles will get your post deleted.
No harassment. Posts that (may) cause harassment, dogpiling or brigading, intentionally or not, will be removed. Please do not post screenshots containing uncensored usernames. Actual harassment, dogpiling or brigading is a bannable offence.

Please report posts and comments that violate our rules.

founded 3 years ago

MODERATORS

uthredii@lemmy.ml

uthredii@beehaw.org

216

Speed camera cut down for second time in Cornwall (www.bbc.com)

submitted 10 months ago by mondoman712@lemmy.ml to c/fuck_cars@lemmy.ml

206 comments fedilink hide all child comments

It's insane the lengths that some people will go to save a few seconds on their commute, while also endangering others.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 1 points 10 months ago

This is the weird fantasy part I was referring to. It's like, just nonsense. It comes off like an american attitude being ported to the UK with absolutely no adaptation whatsoever to British conditions. Our conditions are nothing like america. Getting rid of cameras and getting traffic calming measures installed instead is not particularly difficult, it's about the same. This idea of complete and widespread reinterpretation of public space? It doesn't make sense here.

I'm german tho.

By American standards it would be considered idyllic.

As such, I do not believe american standards as per roads are anything to go by

Parts of the road already have traffic calming measures.

That's not really gonna stop anybody from speeding down the remaining lane(s) because they're still very wide. It's good for pedestrians, probably, don't get me wrong, doesn't really fight the speeding problem at all.

This is very easily expanded upon with the addition of chicanes, which are in wide use (hundreds of thousands) across the country.

These do

There's no "reimagining" needed here. People don't need to develop a new consciousness of public space.

Those are very much spotwork as per slowing down cars. They work for that spot, yes. It is however absolutely not hard to accelerate a car again. This is a good idea to slow people down before a busy or a school crossing or something, the third picture especially is just going to lead to slow down / wait -> mash gas pedal

We do not live in a country that is utterly obsessed with cars like america.

True, but also nigh about the lowest bar to clear right after like Saudi Arabia.

There are zero political barriers to this, the only barrier is the profit/revenue barrier of the traffic camera obsessed crowd.

And you accuse me of living in some fantasy reality?

In every town, in every village, in every city. Outisde every school. In every residential area. All over the country.

Same, could find similar features here by looking out my old apartments window. Hell, do you one better than that, we have shit like this

Sorry for the grainy pictures, didn't wanna spend that much time on google. Now that's a road you can't speed on, on account of many chicanes and other built up enviroments, not just the single one and then it's open road before and after.

Doesn't mean the rest of it isn't incredibly car brained and hostile, and as such, transportation by foot or cycling sucks major ass.

If your vision of not being carbrained is "do better than the USA", yeah, you're there, but that shouldn't be the end goal