#anti car

[radicalgraff]

Anti-car poster spotted in Adelaide

#poster #posters #anti car

[puttingherinhistory]

#environmentalism #eco friendly #climate change #urban planning #transportation #anti car #anti-car

[alpaca-clouds]

Cars are just not very economic

I just had this discussion with someone and I just kinda feel the need to talk about it here, because it is closely related to the entire Solarpunk thing.

If you look at it from a purely economic point of view, cars are just not a very efficient way of transport.

Now, this argument has been made to death, really. And literally economists have been arguing about this for literal decades. Again, I was discussing it and looked up sources - and I found sources going back to the 70s. So, yeah, this has been discussed for at least half a century.

But... yeah. Speaking from an economic point of view rails are most economic, followed by busses. Only then there is the cars. (No data on water transport and air transport is a bit more complicated from this point of view.)

Now, why is this?

Roads are all in all more expensive than rails, especially in maintenance. If you look into construction costs, you will find kinda contradictory information on this. But per kilometer costs a kilometer of rail is about equivalent to a kilometer of a four-lane highway to construct. But while both need maintenance, usually roads need more of it. Because the wear and tear on a road is harsher than on a rail (due to more friction and just the fact that concrete is just not a very durable material compared to metal). Admittedly: High speed rail does push both construction and maintanance costs for railways up a good notch, making it more comparable to a seven lane highway. Mostly because of safety concerns.

While trains are more expensive than cars, they usually will be longer in use than a car and will drive many more kilometers during this time. Part of this is also, of course, that while trains are in use for hours each day, most cars spend the most of their life just standing in garages and parking lots. While the average car will get retired after about 150 000 to 200 000 miles, the average locomotive will last 1 000 000 miles.

This comes even more into focus, when you take into consideration how many more passangers or haul the average car will transport during those 1m miles. A single train car can carry up to 150 passangers - and often during rush hours trains will carry about 800 to 1000 passengers at once. While a car will carry often only one or two people at once.

Additionally obviously car infrastructure takes up much more space. Even if we are talking about countries with not as crazy "minimum parking area" restrictions as the USA. Cars need a lot more space than a train or even bus would ever need. And this space also carries costs with it.

And in the end we obviously still do have all the kind of costs that comes from the environmental and health impact of cars. Be it the air pollution, the water polution, and the fallout from having those concrete deserts the cars need in their infrastructure. And to this you can STILL add costs from everything having to deal with accidents and the like.

But yeah... Cars are just economically not very efficient.

So, even if you just cared about the fucking money... Investing in trains and public transport is actually a way better use of that money, than investing in cars.

#solarpunk #trains #trains are cool #economy #cars suck #anti car

[freak-fox0003]

I hate you cars. I hate you Ford. I hate you GMC. I hate you car centered infrastructure. I hate you highway system. I hate you prioritization of motor vehicles. I hate you jaywalking. I hate you lack of public transportation. I hate you anti public transportation propaganda. I hate you trains you have to drive to. I hate you lack of sidewalks and crosswalks. I hate you giant slabs of concrete. I hate you stroads. I hate you lack of pedestrian safety. I hate you environmental destruction. I FUCKING HATE IT HERE!!!

#anti car #fuck cars #urban planning #stroad #car infrastructure #highway #american highways #america #WHYYY #i hate it here man #public transit #public transportation #public transport system #subway #trains #to be clear: i think people should be able to drive cars if they want #HOWEVER #people should also not be obligated to drive #and city infrastructure should focus on community and prioritize people #not cars #i hate cars

[purefyre]

Life is a highway, and brother, I can't drive

#196 #shitposting #r/196 #rule #ruleposting #funny post #anti car #car hostile infrastructure

[zombiiebrained-emotes]

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#zombiie emotes #discord emoji #discord emote #custom emoji #custom emote #emoji #emotes #anti car #anticar #fuck cars #cars suck

[veganagenda]

on today's exciting episode of "jesus, that household car garage is big enough to be another, smaller house," we bring you a very special segment: "fucking hell, that gravel/asphalt/concrete parking space could've been a garden"

#environmentalism #anti car #public transport #rewilding #anticapitalism

[themadcapmathematician]

The US is like hey if you wanna drive somewhere it's 15 min but you'll spend 40 min and $20 parking. Oh you take the bus? You'll be there in 3 hours. 1.5 hrs of that is walking lol. lmfao even. Oh youre walking? Just walking there?? Asphalt is a pvp enabled zone and the sidewalk is width of a single grape. We have removed all of the benches for your convenience. See you there in 28 hours

#wanted to go to a national park to look at nature #but first...you must ruin some nature (car) to see the nature (far away) #the bus route literally was like yeah we can get you there...uhhhhhh #and listed a 44 min walk #anti car #anti capitalism #madcap rants #uspol #a 44 MINUTE WALK #after the bus takes you 10 MIN OF THE WAY #car culture #public transportation

[kerri-the-skunk]

Get fucked.

#196 #r/196 #r196 #one ninety six #anti car #fuck cars

[fuckyeahanarchistposters]

“ACAB / All Cars Are Bastards”

#acab #1312 #barricade #anti car #fuck cars

[riftgift]

I love you public transportation I love you walkable cities I love you buses I love you trains I love you bike paths I love you ferries I love you investing in public infrastructure I love you sustainable systems I love you going places I love you so much

#And I love you all public transit workers #I’m sure a post like this exists but i dont care #thank you accessible cities and transit you are my friend #and thank you to cities who have numbered or alphabetical streets #or maps of districts on the sidewalks #vert speaks #public transportation #anti car #urban planning #fuck cars

[radicalgraff]

"Fuck Cars"

Poster spotted in Zagreb, Croatia

#anti car #fuck cars #poster

[the-eccentric-eclectic]

The future isn't electric cars, it's public transportation. As dr. Gupta says, lithium batteries are still very polluting, and don't exist in a large enough quantity to supply the world with enough electric cars to get everybody driving one.

The path forward that I see has well arranged public transportation in a spiderweb form rather than a wordweb. All areas connected to each other rather than all transport going to the city center. It is publicly funded through taxes so you don't have to pay every time you use the train or take a bus.

For the elderly and the disabled there are special taxis upon request. You can rent a car or a van when you really need one, electric ofc. But you have to specify the reason and if it's something dumb like 'going to the gym by car' it can get denied.

If you need a car for your job because you work in emergency services such as GP, cop, etc. you drive one from your work, which you park at your workplace at the end of your workday, after which you take public transport home. You need a special dispensation to drive a car. Your workplace needs a special dispensation to own and let you drive a car.

And imagine all the things we can do with the space that is freed up. First of all, cars actively discourage community, so neighbourhoods become a lot more social. All the extra lanes on highways that are suddenly no longer needed can be turned into strips of forests which work noise reducing. If all cars are electric and the amount driven falls by like 85% (I am pulling this statistic out of my ass, this is by no means based on any actual data) there will be significantly less noise anyway.

We can take parking spaces and turn them into pollinator gardens, community gardens, sensory gardens for children.

We can get on roads again without fear of being hit by some loser with a god complex and a tin can murder machine. We can walk, bike, convene, live.

#fuck cars #climate crisis #climate change #anolish cars #climate solutions #sustainability #walkable cities #bikeable cities #community #greencore #green future #anti car #mental health #no cars #sensory garden #greenhouse gas reduction #abolish cars

[savanimay]

good morning to people who hate lawns, cars, and golf 😍

everyone else, hi i guess 😒

#Solarpunk #Biodiversity #conservation #Ecology #No cars #Anti car #Golf courses #Anti golf #Car free #solarpunk

[queerpossums]

more cities need to be actively hostile towards cars. heavy rail bisecting main roads, bike lanes separated by barriers and medians, bus lanes that car drivers actually receive fines for using. end parking minimums that have transformed downtowns into concrete wastelands and institute parking maximums.

#public transportation #public transit #rail #heavy rail #subway #metro #light rail #tram #trolley #anti car #urbanism #urban planning #pedestrianization

[trans-linux-user]

cars

for some reason society decided that it's mandatory for every human's daily tasks to include piloting metal boxes at 60 mpr surrounded by other fast metal boxes 🤔

#196 #anti car