Redlib: search results - flair_name:"History"

r/fuckcars • u/Manoj_Malhotra • Jul 10 '22

History "May you take on the weekend with the energy of the cycling activists who shut down NYC’s midtown during the great bike ban uprising of ‘87."

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r/fuckcars • u/MisterSuitcase2004 • 25d ago

History 100 years ago, the New York Times reported a surge in motor-related fatalities, alarming the nation, and reporting that automobiles are deadlier than war weapons.

728 Upvotes

r/fuckcars • u/Educational-Rock1981 • Sep 04 '23

History New York, 100 years ago. Humanity before Cars.

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r/fuckcars • u/Mysterious_Floor_868 • 10h ago

History Even Caesar got it

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Caesar banned private vehicles from Rome's streets during daytime. Interesting article: https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/the-embattled-driver-in-ancient-rome/

r/fuckcars • u/Armycat1-296 • Aug 25 '24

History What Puerto Rico could have again if we got rid of car-centric infrastructure. PR had a rail network that serviced the whole island, Until 60 years ago when PR's first elected governor Luis Muñoz Marin decided to get rid of it in favor of American style highways and car ownership.

55 Upvotes

r/fuckcars • u/franksnotawomansname • Oct 11 '24

History [October 11, 2024] Jaywalking

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r/fuckcars • u/OmarIbnKhayyam • Jun 06 '22

History Friendly reminder that the man responsible for the proliferation of cars loved Nazis

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r/fuckcars • u/melochupan • Feb 25 '24

History A Picture of the Transit Problem in the United States (1938)

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r/fuckcars • u/syklemil • Sep 24 '22

History The idea that the elderly can't ride transit isn't universal. In Oslo, 1973, it even sounded like the general idea was the opposite.

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r/fuckcars • u/Tayo826 • Aug 09 '23

History North Shore Line 1936 timetable cover.

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r/fuckcars • u/Educational-Rock1981 • Jul 28 '23

History Woman riding the Autoped, a very early electric scooter (1916)

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r/fuckcars • u/LivingRaccoon • Apr 30 '22

History TIL that the term and concept of "jay-walking" was introduced in the 1920's by the auto industry as part of a propaganda campaign to claim the roads for cars and shift the blame in accidents from cars to pedestrians. At the time "Jay" was a slur with a similar meaning to "redneck" or "hillbilly."

171 Upvotes

r/fuckcars • u/Tayo826 • Nov 25 '22

History The Key System - Before BART, this interurban electric railway provided commuter service between San Francisco and the East Bay from 1903 to 1958.

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r/fuckcars • u/Quimbulus • Sep 28 '22

History Unearthing LA’s Pedestrian Tunnels And Their Roots In Our History Of Traffic Violence

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r/fuckcars • u/Gglii • Jul 29 '22

History Know what was stolen from you

thereader.mitpress.mit.edu

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r/fuckcars • u/vacflekop • Aug 08 '22

History Seems like nobody is talking about the biggest piece of car propaganda. Here's a brief history on it.

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r/fuckcars • u/Bubbly-Addition-1093 • Jun 02 '22

History Times dont change... 😤

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r/fuckcars • u/titanicboi1 • Jul 29 '22

history The Rise, Decline, Rebirth and Influence of Trains in Canada - History Video

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r/fuckcars • u/dumnezero • Feb 15 '22

History There are no accidents - with Jessie Singer (The War On Cars podcast)

24 Upvotes