FuckCars

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Car-dependent city design is the biggest social engineering disaster of the 20th century.

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FuckCarsJan 31, 2023

Someone from Marin County California sent me this picture from their local street... where the median home value is 1.3 million dollars....

Not only do NIMBYs prevent people from having an affordable place to call home, they also guarantee perpetual car-dependent society.

FuckCarsJan 31, 2023
1/ The author @[email protected] of the original axios article, where the data for this figure comes from, reached out to me saying that @[email protected] didn't use the data appropriately, therefore creating a misleading figure. Let me explain how the figure is misleading:
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4/ On the left is the original figure in the axios article. You can see that @[email protected] used the same truck sketches found in the axios article, but they distorted their length to fit with their false cab proportion numbers. This creates a very misleading figure.
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3/ @[email protected]'s figure made the mistake of using data for interior cab space to refer to cab space + hood space. Creating a false percentage number considering their figure clearly labels the hood space as "cab".
Show threadFuckCarsJan 30, 2023

Here are the floorplans. This is the Atrio building in Zurich.

I love the personal lobby in front the kitchen. I like the idea of walking down the external corridor and seeing your neighbors cook supper, perhaps they might even invite you for supper as they see you walk down!

FuckCarsJan 30, 2023
This is a great example of a newly built apartment building with a pro-social design. I'm pretty sure this one would even be legal to build in North America!
FuckCarsJan 30, 2023
I loved staying in my friend's apartment building in Germany as it had 2 beautiful spiral staircases. They served as the main socializing space. For example, neighbours would have morning coffee together before going to work. I wish we had more pro-social apartment design in NA.
FuckCarsJan 30, 2023
Does something like this exist in North America? Basically a large public square surrounded by restaurants that use part of the space for outdoor dinning?
Show threadFuckCarsJan 29, 2023
This is for all my reply guys who claim to be special snowflakes that use their roofless minivans for work stuff 💅
FuckCarsJan 29, 2023

I took this video last summer in Utrecht. It was amazing!

These are called cycle-streets (Fietsstraat). Cars are guests and must prioritize other modes. The slow speeds incentivize cars to take other routes. The cars that do use the street are locals or business related.