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driving_crooner2041 and the mf can’t imagine a world that isn’t infested by car centric infrastructure.
JusnJusnDude what is with the amount of car-hatred on this site lmao
(Image description: South Park’s Mr Mackey image macro with text: “Cars are bad, Mmmkay”)
They’re very dangerous to occupants and other people, emit unhealthy pollution, emit greenhouse gases, cause major stress with noise pollution, and have a huge environment impact when manufactured.
Their infrastructure destroys nature, ruins neighbors and public spaces, exacerbates wealth inequality, and prevents healthy urban density.
I understand those points, but I doubt we’ll see a meaningful switch from car-centric city design within our lifetime. All of these anti-car posts are just annoying. Like what is the end goal for you anti-car people - I’m honestly asking because I haven’t looked into it that much. Are we going to eminent domain people homes and start bulldozing cities down to redesign them and fix the problem? Won’t that fuck over poor people which are more likely to live in cities and further exacerbate wealth inequality?
How do you think those car centric neighbourhoods got there in the first place?
Sure, but if you disagree with the morality of what was done in the past, why would you compromise your morals and hope that it happens again? I’m starting to feel as though my initial impressions of this “anti-car” movement were correct: a bunch of bored people throwing bitch fits and rallying behind a cause that will never get anywhere. I still understand the sentiment behind it, but your comment does nothing to convince me that it’s not a fool’s errand of a cause.
Alright wow you made that comment much longer and more thought out since I replied - appreciated. I still doubt that we will ever achieve that, but I do understand more about why people are up in arms about it. I also still believe that working to achieve that cause would likely fuck over a lot of people that live in cities already, but you are right that that is already happening anyways. Thank you for the reply.
Are we going to eminent domain people homes and start bulldozing cities down to redesign them and fix the problem?
My friend right here describing what Texas is doing to expand highways because 8 lanes are not enough.
You have it the other way around, car centric infrastructure is what requires destroying cities to build larger streets and gigantic parking lots. Moving away from it starts with eliminating minimum parking requirements and single use zoning laws, couple that with investment on public transit and you have the recipe for human scale neighbors where you are not obligated to own a car just to survive.
Yeah what Texas is doing sounds pretty horrible, I’m not disagreeing with that. You mention a couple of steps that could be taken to partially remedy the problem and begin correcting the course, but from what I’ve seen, the anti-car movement calls for entirely walkable cities, and what you’ve stated is not enough to achieve that.
The city that I’m living in is probably one of the most extreme examples of urban sprawl that I know of. Making my city walkable and not dependent on cars would be impossible without consolidating the population to a much smaller area.
I understand those points, but I doubt we’ll see a meaningful switch from car-centric city design within our lifetime. All of these anti-car posts are just annoying. Like what is the end goal for you anti-car people - I’m honestly asking because I haven’t looked into it that much. Are we going to eminent domain people homes and start bulldozing cities down to redesign them and fix the problem? Won’t that fuck over poor people which are more likely to live in cities and further exacerbate wealth inequality?
trentRadical political ideologists love the Fediverse and always have, be it anarchosocialists or confederates. Not sure why. I just want shitposts and tech stuff.
Yeah same here. I doubt that this platform will ever see mainstream adoption if the first thing that people are greater by are criclejerky posts bashing capitalism and cars. It’s a shame, because I’ve been enjoying the platform a lot - just not the ideas being pushed by it’s users.
That image is not car centric. There are more pedestrians in that image than cars.
Yeah, and the 3 cars have 3 lanes at each side of the building by themselves while the pedestrians are restricted to a small sidewalk.
The future will still be car based, but all city roads will be carved underground, leaving the top side for more buildings
Great idea, and because they are pretty straightforward tunnels it would be cool if cars rode not on the pavement but in some kind of structure that keep the weels on track and lesser the friction. The cars could also connect one with each other, so the cars on the back are not affected by the wind resistance turbulence created by the first car. Eventually, only the first car would need a driver (or in a crazy futuristic scenario, being self-drive) and for easy connections with the city some stops can be added on strategic locations. Being this a service thatbis more suitable for metropolitan cities (digging tunnels are expensive) we should call this system Metro. What do you think? Pretty bold, but maybe in the future someone build something like this.
Sounds like a really good idea.
Perhaps one day we’ll achieve the level of technological development to build and operate such an advanced infrastructure
2041 is only 18 years in the future lmao
Spends all his life inside the simulation, trying to find dead futurebillgates’ keys and portals.
Is that a concrete shack with an air conditioner? Mf must be super rich if this is the year 2031.