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My brother in Christ you are the traffic
I’m sure one more lane will fix it.
Speaking of which, is there a r/fuckcars equivalent over here?
Also /c/citylife@beehaw.org. In a sense. Somehow they had the bright idea to also invite car fans. That’s not going to cause any issues at all, no it certainly won’t.
You can be a car guy/car fan and still recognize that cars don’t belong into city centers and that trains are objectively better for mass transit. Both should exist.
You may as well declare that your permanent address. It’s where you live now. May as well try and find happiness where you are.
You’ll meet friends there, settle in, maybe get married and have some kids, grow old and retire to the back seat, having lived a rich and full life.
In a few generations, the fact that the cars can move will only be a children’s story, and eventually forgotten altogether.
Traffic jams would be a whole lot less damaging if they were all electric. Just sitting there with the AC and radio on is a whole lot less emissions compared to fossil fuels.
I prefer a rock solid public transport system, and plenty of safe walking areas and no-car zones. EVs help minimally in the grand scheme, since they are costly to produce, especially the batteries.
Yea, that only works for cities. America will still need tons of cars for everywhere that isn’t a city. It’s a very low density country, all things considered.
There’s large swathes of territory nearly as dense as parts of Europe with incredible public transit. Look at the density of Spain and overlay it on top of the northeast US, then compare the public transit.
Yea, but the northeast, especially major cities like NYC, Boston, and Philly, does have better public transit than a lot of the US. I know it still sucks overall (and don’t get me going about the costs), but a lot of the infrastructure was built during the car boom. People do like cars, and they make sense for most of America given how much sprawl we have.
Local transit of those cities is pretty good, I’d agree. But the lack of intercity transit, like high speed rail, is such a shame.
Good luck with that, though. If this is America, and I think it is, we find ways of making a good public transit system suck. I also think we need to take a hard look at how our towns and cities are desined as well, and make them to where they’re optimized to be able to drive into a central location then bicycle or hoof it to whrever you wanted to go within a couple miles.
The two issues I have with current EVs is you can’t work on them and they don’t last as long as gas vehicles.
I have a old suburu and it still runs fine
Its also worth remembering there is a lot less maintenance to do on an EV. No oil to change, lubes to replace, belts that break…
Besides the batteries, an EV car should last longer than a gas car.
They have the same components except the engine, but they weigh more and the batteries dont last as long as a well maintained engine. EV cars should not last as long.
Trust me bro, just one more lane
because trains are too expensive or something
Public transport for the win :D
[Image description: A photo of a road with two lanes. There is bumper-to-bumper traffic reaching an approxime 53 car length.]
That looks like normal holiday traffic. Is it?
I find it more infuriating that there is usually no other option than traffic. If only there was a long distance mode of transit that wasn’t prone to frequent traffic and collision
Just wait until you realize there used to be a train to every town, including every single small town.
We had the passenger train networks, it was what built the country, but now it is gone.
It’s still there. The track network at least. Hasn’t been updated either.
Many crossings have been paved over
This looks like a normal day in Tampa.
What is crazy is that with 1 passenger per car, that is not that many people. Like not even 50. You could all fit in a single bus
If those 50 people are all going to same places than the bus goes. At the same time.
A coworker was taking the bus to get home. 2 hours due to two line changes where they can wait up to 30 minutes for the next bus. I started giving him a ride home when I could.
5 minutes out of my way and cut his commute down to 20 minutes. From 2 hours. That’s 120 minutes down to 20 minutes. With just that extra hour of sleep he’s much happier.
An extra hour and a half of each day wasted on public transportation.
Plot twist: photographer is the first car inthee lane
One more lane would fix this!
Let’s make it ten just to be safe.
Nah lets just stagnate the minimum wage so nobody can afford a car.
Never been to a city before, huh?
Back in 2017 or whatever that North American solar eclipse was, I drove down to Bend Oregon to view it. After, there was bumper to bumper traffic almost the whole way north, back to Seattle, WA. There was literal bumper to bumper traffic from Bend, OR to Issaquah, WA. That was almost 350 miles and took basically an entire day. It was horrible having to pee on the side of the road in bumper to bumper traffic in the middle of nowhere. Protip? Don’t try to drink the Gatorade just to have a pee bottle.
Fuck fuckcars
