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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.

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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.
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"Every bike could be another car making congestion worse": Cyclists fight to save cycle lanes facing removal due to looming deadline to make temporary bollards permanent (road.cc)

submitted 1 year ago by azimir@lemmy.ml to c/fuck_cars@lemmy.ml

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Every bike in the bike lane should make drivers happy. That's a few seconds they might be saving on their drive. Every bit of research shows adding lanes doesn't seriously make commutes faster, but removing competing traffic surely does.

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[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Every bike in the bike lane should make drivers happy.

This. This every time. I don't know how anyone can ignore this fact.

Even cyclists want to see sidewalks (for pedestrians) when pedestrians are walking in bike lanes because there's nowhere else to walk.

Drivers should want cyclists off the road or in their own lane, as not to be in conflict.

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[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

I've noticed drivers seem to think solely about how much money the city spends on them and how much space they get. Car infrastructure is so comically expensive they feel threatened by even a penny going to other modes of transportation, and it's so comically space inefficient they lose their minds when even a meter of the street width isn't exclusively dedicated to them.

They also seemingly assume that because they would never choose anything other than their car, no one will. So many of the anti-transit/cycling comments are along the lines of "why would anyone choose to bike/take transit when a car is so much more convenient?"

Asking them to think of transportation as a whole as being an interconnected system is asking too much. Car infrastructure never benefit anyone else so they assume no other infrastructure can possibly benefit them.

Also, there's a vocal minority of car drivers that just hate everyone not in a car (usually they call them "woke" which should give you an idea of who they are) and will choose to screw them over even if it also screws themselves over.

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[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

If drivers were forced to pay the true cost of their car-centric infrastructure, nobody would be able to afford it.

Unless you live in a city/country where transportation is diversified with an emphasis on active and public transportation, I can almost guarantee that your city is running a budget deficit because of car infrastructure.

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[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

“Every bike in a bike lane is a bike, making the community better”