Anon questions modern society : greentext

[-] los_wochos@feddit.de 33 points 1 year ago

Nah, we can fix it by adding one more lane.

[-] Bakachu@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

And how we'll do it is block 3 lanes for 2 years to build 1. Then do it again next year.

[-] Sightline@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Fellow Texan

[-] Oha@feddit.de 32 points 1 year ago

god I love the car industry

[-] gloomytabby@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago

"freedom"

[-] BobbyBandwidth@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

I’m still mad about my lifetime subscription to Big Pants

[-] Kiosade@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 year ago

I thought I blocked fuckcars…

[-] Argonne@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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[-] monk@lemmy.unboiled.info 64 points 1 year ago

Do you guys have just one place with functional public transit?

[-] paris 33 points 1 year ago

You can count on one hand the number of cities we have with actually usable public transport. It's pretty bad.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Yes

[-] MentallyExhausted@reddthat.com 11 points 1 year ago

Chicago and SF are okay too

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 9 points 1 year ago

DC area has great transit

[-] monk@lemmy.unboiled.info 9 points 1 year ago

Can you sell a flat in New York and buy yourself a town with decent public transport?

[-] pingveno@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

When it comes to public transportation in the US and Canada, any accurate statistics break NYC off from every other area. It's just an extreme outlier. That said, there are plenty of places where you can live without a car, but you're going to be sacrificing.

[-] Stephen304@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Off the top of my head I think the best we've got is New York, Boston, Chicago, and Philly for the big cities, and for small cities you can either pick something on the edges of one of the big cities which kinda ride the coattails of the big cities transit or other isolated small towns that never redeveloped for cars, though those seem few and far between.

[-] azimir@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Portland is quickly starting to climb into that group. A couple more light rail extensions and some more growth on their various tram lines and things are going to be world class for PDX.

Seattle is also starting to build out transit at a fair clip, but it's 5-10 years from having it really start to be good. I was really pleased to see that they are doing more than one transit project at a time. So many cities seem to be able to do one construction project at a time and its really frustrating at how slow things change at that rate.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 5 points 1 year ago

NO

DC DOES TOO

[-] Stuka@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

Sure, if you wanna wake up to the smell of piss and garbage every morning

[-] Zorque@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

What money?

[-] RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

I don't want to be murdered.

[-] iAmTheTot@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago

Good news! NYC isn't too bad for murder all things considered. It has a murder rate of 3.39 per 100k, compared to St Louis' 66.07 per 100k it barely even registers!

[-] RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 year ago

Does this include everyone killed by Green Goblin or are you skewing the results in your favor like you yorkers usually do?

[-] ZcaT@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Im the green goblin

[-] RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

You don't look very green to me.

[-] ZcaT@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Im having a bit of a rebrand

[-] andyburke@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

is it looping around to the left?

[-] elfahor 6 points 1 year ago

Yaaasss freedom!!

[-] ToxicDivinity@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

The car company ceos made sure that our cities were as spread out as possible and also made sure theres as little public transport as possible

[-] shiphoster@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Ay, leave the stereo out of this!

[-] hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Hey OP can you add some indication that this is just another fuckcars rant so I can filter this shit out?

I don't really want my social media experience to be a massive bitchfest and circlejerk centered around progressive politics.

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