I’m just thinking about walking to get to downtown, and there’s no way I could do it without being somewhere I’m “not allowed”.

If I want to cross the 4-lane road just outside my apartment, there is simply no legal way to do it. There is an intersection but no crosswalks and no way to request to cross. I shouldn’t have to have a vehicle just to get from one side of the road to the other.

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And sudden cracks and voids appear, when cars park on sidewalks or a car crashes into pedestrian areas.

Sounds like something that Corridor Crew/Wren would make

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Something like this? https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGJKWuwan/

Not quite the way you describe it, but I you reminded me of this vid anyway

Ugh I can imagine the re**it comments now

Whats Reductive

Yes, try your ability over a cliff to ensure

You just have to believe

“I CAN THINK OF ONE JOURNEY THAT NEEDED A CAR THEREFORE ALL JOURNEYS NEED CARS” Jesus

Cargo bikes need to become more common. It would have easily carried a laser printer … and a second laser printer … and your groceries for the week … and a kitchen appliance.

Edit: Here are the examples from the Not Just Bikes video on cargo bikes:

https://youtu.be/rQhzEnWCgHA?t=470

I gotta hand it to you, kid, you’re the perfect specimen why communities like fuck cars exist, and why nothing is changing.

Even presented with a fucking wishing well you cannot come up with anything but “CAaAaR”, because your imagination spans from wall to wallpaper.

You could have imagined and wished for e.g. a working infrastructure of cargo bike sharing, but nope!, car it is!

You don’t understand why people hate cars, you’re part of the reason people hate cars.

I don’t have money, I don’t make money, so I couldn’t get an Uber/Lyft/Taxi (Not to mention that we don’t have taxis where I live).

Ah, a car is free, of course, it just drops out of nowhere and runs on unicorn dust. Tonight, please ask mommy and daddy what they’re paying for their car(s). Full cost: down payment, monthly payments, fuel, repairs, insurance, loss of value, everything.

I’m gonna tl;dr it for you: if you cannot afford a taxi/uber/whatever even once, you cannot afford a car. There, that was easy, wasn’t it?

I ruled a bike out as an option as I CANNOT take a bike onto a school bus, so I can get to school.

I thought the printer was just 3 miles away? Did it ever occur to you you could have just gone home, pick up the cargo bike, ride the 3 miles to the printer which literally takes 10 minutes and pick it up?

i mean this is why we invented carts lol

That’s such a contrived example why would we even bother with it?

Typically when people purchase or obtain items that they need to transport home or to someplace, they do some sort of planning ahead. Also, when I was a kid and needed transportation I typically could just ask an adult to help out with this. Or, another option would be to ask the school to hold the object until you could arrange transportation.

In any case, three miles is not a particularly long distance to traverse, and as you pointed out above you were actually able to walk that distance while carrying it. Well laser printers are somewhat heavy, I’m sure it was a little annoying to carry and you probably had to stop several times and rest. By myself had to carry 30 lb of lumber about 3 mi home from the lumber store years ago when I didn’t have a car. And yes I was able to manage.

However, cargo bicycles exist and are quite popular in many parts of the world including the United States and can carry up to 400 lbs, so it is not true that the only means of transporting moderately weighty items is by automobile.

In fact, I would be willing to bet that you would not even need a cargo bicycle but a normal bicycle with a rear rack and a couple of bungee cords would probably suffice. I know this because I got away without having a bicycle for 6 years as an adult American in a city and even went bicycle camping a few times with my friends.

Taxi? wheelbarrow? Cart? Steal a shopping cart?

I used to say things like this when I lived without a car, but it took me way too long to realize other people walking to the grocery would take a taxi/Uber home. It makes it a lot easier to carry the load and it’s not too expensive in one direction for a short distance

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Plenty of regulars of this sub do have cars and no issue with using them, but instead just want cities to favor other methods of transportation. This would be a good example. Not sure what relation do you think any of this has to flat earthers.

It’s a fucking metaphor. JFC…

Most transit advocates prefer trams/streetcars over buses. They’re safer and can coexist with people much better.

It’s one bus every so often vs a non stop stream of cars. That’s the difference.

Public transport needs much less space than cars. Especially if you put all the parking lots into the equation. So much space in cities is wasted by cars that do not even move most of the day.

my dude you do realize that’s exactly what people did in the past before cars existed, right? There’s a video of olden gothenburg that shows kids running in front of the trams for fun!

And if you go there now you’ll see people crossing precisely wherever the fuck they please, because it’s just inherently way easier to deal with a couple public transport vehicles per minute than it is 50 cars.

The point is that the whole thing should be designed differently. We should focus these spaces around people rather than cars. There probably wouldn’t even be roads there at all. Streets would be fewer and with more space between them, and they would be designed to defer to pedestrian traffic more often, rather than the other way around. Bus stops would be on those streets, and pedestrians would walk a distance away to board them, while moving through safe, walking-focused sidewalks and avenues on the way.

This surely translate to less traffic, better commute times, less noises, less pollution, safer streets and the list goes on.

It’s almost like everyone would have more space if cars wouldn’t eat up 50% of the available space, while public transport and bikes only get 4% and 2%… :O Ö O: .O.

And this is in an area of Berlin where only 13% of trips are taken by car while bikes and public transport account for 32% and 22%.

Buses are better than cars but they’re still the worst form of public transport. They pollute like cars. They’re dangerous like cars. And they move as slowly as the traffic, like cars.

Also delivery vehicles? The hipster organically grown vegetables in the local bodega at the foot of your apartment building in your walkable urban utopia don’t arrive there by magic.

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🚘🧠 spotted

People also have cars in them, which comments like this conveniently forget.

have you seen that ad showing people simulating traffic but without the cars? it’s just even more poignant as it shows how absurdly inefficient cars are at transporting people (on average a car contains 1.2 people).

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Jaywalkers are people with jetpacks

Not really, cars are faster and more deadly. People had to be somewhat careful. The auto industry invented a slur (jaywalking) to convince people the street was no a place for people outside of a car. Look up old footage of cities, people are everywhere in the street.

The walkways are a fair bit wider in Venice.

You can use a rusted nail as a toothpick, but I wouldn’t recommend doing so.

In many places it’s illegal and where it’s legal it’s often dangerous

in many places the law says that you must cross at a crosswalk

Not when cops will ticket you for it.