Anon questions modern society : greentext

[-] los_wochos@feddit.de 33 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Bakachu@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

Fellow Texan

[-] Oha@feddit.de 33 points 2 years ago

god I love the car industry

[-] gloomytabby@lemmy.world 37 points 2 years ago

"freedom"

[-] BobbyBandwidth@lemmy.world 31 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Kiosade@lemmy.ca 30 points 2 years ago

I thought I blocked fuckcars…

[-] Argonne@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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[-] monk@lemmy.unboiled.info 64 points 2 years ago

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

[-] paris 33 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

Yes

[-] MentallyExhausted@reddthat.com 11 points 2 years ago

Chicago and SF are okay too

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 9 points 2 years ago

DC area has great transit

[-] monk@lemmy.unboiled.info 9 points 2 years ago

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

[-] pingveno@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago

NO

DC DOES TOO

[-] Stuka@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Zorque@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago

What money?

[-] RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

I don't want to be murdered.

[-] iAmTheTot@kbin.social 16 points 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago

Im the green goblin

[-] RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

You don't look very green to me.

[-] ZcaT@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Im having a bit of a rebrand

[-] elfahor 6 points 2 years ago

Yaaasss freedom!!

[-] andyburke@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

is it looping around to the left?

[-] ToxicDivinity@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years 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

[-] hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years 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.

[-] shiphoster@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Ay, leave the stereo out of this!

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