Fuck Cars
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.
You can find the Matrix chat room for this community here.
Rules
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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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No bigotry or hate. Racism, transphobia, misogyny, ableism, homophobia, chauvinism, fat-shaming, body-shaming, stigmatization of people experiencing homeless or substance users, etc. are not tolerated. Don't use slurs. You can laugh at someone's fragile masculinity without associating it with their body. The correlation between car-culture and body weight is not an excuse for fat-shaming.
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Stay on-topic. Submissions should be on-topic to the externalities of car culture in urban development and communities globally. Posting about alternatives to cars and car culture is fine. Don't post literal car fucking.
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No traffic violence. Do not post depictions of traffic violence. NSFW or NSFL posts are not allowed. Gawking at crashes is not allowed. Be respectful to people who are a victim of traffic violence or otherwise traumatized by it. News articles about crashes and statistics about traffic violence are allowed. Glorifying traffic violence will get you banned.
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No reposts. Before sharing, check if your post isn't a repost. Reposts that add something new are fine. Reposts that are sharing content from somewhere else are fine too.
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No misinformation. Masks and vaccines save lives during a pandemic, climate change is real and anthropogenic - and denial of these and other established facts will get you banned. False or highly speculative titles will get your post deleted.
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No harassment. Posts that (may) cause harassment, dogpiling or brigading, intentionally or not, will be removed. Please do not post screenshots containing uncensored usernames. Actual harassment, dogpiling or brigading is a bannable offence.
Please report posts and comments that violate our rules.
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@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars as someone who lives just off sydney rd - strong co-sign. and a cyclist was hit by a car a died in sydney rd not that long ago. fewer cars could mean more frequent tram service as well.
@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars although most people park off the street because there isn't enough parking in sydney rd itself - as you'd expect - but that does mean less parking for people who live within a few blocks (and that's mostly residential). and let's do the same for lygon st. but it has to be combined with increased public transport services - frequency on the upfield line is abysmal, and need better buses too - otherwise it's likely to push a lot of that car traffic to nicholson or melville rd.
@crumbleneedy @fuck_cars To a big extent, the public transport issue solves itself if cars are removed from Sydney Road.
The biggest cause of delays for trams along Sydney Road is cars.
Run trams in dedicated lanes with traffic light priority at intersections, and suddenly they're moving a lot faster.
(It's worth noting that many tram routes were faster in the 1890s than today, because they weren't slowed down by cars.)