We only have to convince people to hate one more car than they already despise.
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A bit like the consensus that most gods don’t exist.
I hate my car too, I’m just required to own it because I need it I’m the suburbs to commute and it has already been paid off.
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Believe me, I wish I didn’t need a car, but I’m a field service tech and my job requires a work vehicle since I’m travelling with a ton of tools. I’d also love to get rid of my personal car, but my wife needs it for a 30-minute commute; the bus ride is close to 2 hours and there aren’t really any other practicable transportation methods.
Don’t even get me started on the lack of infrastructure outside of downtown, there are a ton of places around town where they don’t even have sidewalks, let alone bike or bus lanes.
I don’t know what the solution is when so many cities and municipalities either don’t want to invest in mass public transportation or (in the case of my city) cheaped out and ended up with a light rail transit system that barely functions. It just reinforces car ownership out of necessity.
Public transit doesn’t work in sparsely populated suburbs. You need medium density developments like we had all around the world before car-centric urbanism took over. Throw in some commercial buildings and public amenities and you often don’t even need transit because you can walk anywhere you want to go.
You’re not stuck in traffic, you ARE traffic.
I find the general vibe of this community to be more fuck car dependancy than fuck every car that has ever existed for any purpose.
Thing is, if we’re conflating hate for other drivers with hate for other cars, the absolute worst thing on the road is buses because bus drivers absolutely never obey certain traffic laws like “drive in one lane at a time” or “no changing lanes without signalling”, and when they park by the side of the road, it’s way worse than when a mere car does it.
Seriously, bus drivers are the exact opposite of 18-wheeler drivers. They’re the bullies of the street.
The thing is, buses are 30x more important than most cars and should be prioritized as such, in the same way that emergency services are infinitely more important than every other vehicle. Buses are (morally)allowed to drive like aggressive twats and every other vehicle needs to get out of the way.
Unfortunately, some car drivers have missed the memo and think their time is more important than 30 other people’s. Those are the people that should be shamed, not the poor underpaid bus driver that’s trying their best to get a whole busload of passengers to work on time.
Where the hell is this coming from? In my city buses are the bullied ones, if anything. I feel like drivers have some minor degree of empathy towards other drivers but that totally goes out of the window when they have to let a bus pass.
Also, buses are generally operated by the city administration so it makes zero sense that the city would let its own employes violate traffic laws.
I swear y’all are rotten in the brain
You think we drive around and sit in traffic because we just like doing it?
We drive because we have no other options. Driving sucks, almost everyone hates it, it’s just the most efficient option by a landslide in most of the US.
Yeah but the thing is: most you do nothing to change that and some of you actively prevent change.
Are there people here who don’t know that? You’re preaching to the choir.
Are there people here who don’t know that?
Yes. Quite a few. Plenty of terminally online cyclists think motorists are intentionally trying to run them over, it’s insane. Like literal mental illness levels of persecution complex. Every time fuckcars pops up on my feed I see it at least once and call it out.
If you don’t think there are some drivers that actively try to scare cyclists off the road then you don’t ride a bike. Hint: they often drive black lifted pickup trucks with tinted windows; you know the type.
Sure but that’s because they’re assholes, not because they own a vehicle. They’re like that outside of their Small Penis Cope Machines too. They litter, they’re rude, etc.
Earlier you said:
Plenty of terminally online cyclists think motorists are intentionally trying to run them over
And I have explained why cyclists know that some drivers are indeed aggressive towards them: punishment passes, honking, etc.
Sure but that’s because they’re assholes, not because they own a vehicle
That is moving the goalposts. It’s easier to admit that you were wrong and we can all move on.
I said
motorists
You said
some drivers
The brain rot cyclists I’m talking about think all drivers hate cyclists. Everyone knows these assholes hate cyclists. Some of the terminally online types think everyone behind the wheel is like them
It only takes one crash to injure or kill a cyclist – there’s no such thing as a fender bender when you are on two wheels.
Try commuting by bike for a month and you will understand why cyclists are so distrustful of cars in North America. It’s a lot scarier than drivers realize.
