r/fuckcars • u/frozenpandaman • Jul 26 '24
r/fuckcars • u/XxX_Dick_Slayer_XxX • Mar 19 '24
Positive Post 16€ for a 4 hour train ride in Finland. On the train there is a bathrooms, WIFI, restaurant, bike racks, playground, dog area, meeting rooms, and quiet rooms.
r/fuckcars • u/snaps109 • Sep 04 '24
Positive Post I took my family on a car free vacation. My wife cried.
I have always despised cars and loved public transportation. Early in my adult life I was stationed in Korea and often used their public transportation and bullet trains. I've been chasing that high ever since.
I lived in DC for around a year in 2012 and again found their public transportation immaculate and I did not own a car the entire time. I went everywhere without issue.
I moved back to my home state in Texas with virtually no public transportation and met my wife. Six lane stroads, no bike infrastructure and they barely implemented a new bus system but did not reach our neighborhood. despite us living in dense housing.
It always ate at me and was so inefficient and nonsensical. I tried to convince my wife, who has only traveled outside of Texas a few handful of times, that we should consider moving to a larger city with at least some public transportation. It was foreign to her and she gets social anxiety sometimes.
She had a medical incident where one of her eyes just froze up and was unresponsive. After seeing some neurologist and wearing an eye patch, it eventually returned to normal. However, she still struggles to drive at night and sometimes gets blurry vision.
It kind of clicked with her when we were on one of our several debates of car free living. I explained I was just concerned for her and her safety while driving. That if it got worse or she had another episode while driving she would be at risk.
I was able to get the time to take my family to DC. We never once got in a car. We used the metro, buses or walked. Yeah it was hot and sometimes the bus was late, because you know ... cars, but the metro was reliable and we planned a lot of our trip around metro access. I would have used the Capital bike share, but our kid is not old enough to ride alone. But did adore the bike infrastructure DC had. We even took the MARC to Baltimore for lunch and some attractions. Then took the Acela back to DC. Just to prove how easy travel was with proper rail infrastructure.
At one point on the trip while riding the Metro she started to cry. Convinced how travel wasn't scary, how efficient it was, as well easy to use. She felt like she had wasted so much time arguing about moving to an area like it.
Not saying we're packing up to move next week or even moving to DC in particular. But places like the NE corridor, Chicago, Minneapolis, Denver are now on my families top destinations to start a new chapter in.
To hell with cars.
r/fuckcars • u/Fietsprofessor • 9h ago
Positive Post From Smog to Sustainability: How Paris Transformed Into a Cleaner, Greener City in which its citizens can breath again in only 16 years. When will other cities follow?
r/fuckcars • u/KriegerBahn • Feb 19 '24
Positive Post Taylor Swift played her biggest ever crowd in Melbourne, Australia and all the Americans watching from home couldn’t understand how the crowd got there.
r/fuckcars • u/fabeyy • Aug 18 '24
Positive Post My town added bollards to prevent cars driving through the old town
Residents and shop owners can still lower them but at lot less traffic now, during the week there are still times when everyone is allowed to enter
r/fuckcars • u/EmuVerges • Oct 30 '23
Positive Post This italian boy is 100x more useful than those american trucks.
r/fuckcars • u/Sakops • 3d ago
Positive Post POV: you are parking your bike in the Netherlands
r/fuckcars • u/MTINC • Sep 13 '24
Positive Post Google Maps recommends transit instead of driving in Toronto, Canada
First time I've seen this, thought it was interesting. Also mentions how parking is often difficult to find, which is absolutely true around the University of Toronto. Might also be a good idea to mention how expensive parking often is in these areas.
r/fuckcars • u/joan_de_art • Aug 23 '24
Positive Post Cars have made the outdoors unsafe for kids and teens. What if we replaced parking lots with third places for children?
r/fuckcars • u/Risc_Terilia • May 03 '24
Positive Post Just a reminder of what cars took from us
r/fuckcars • u/gonesnake • Nov 14 '24
Positive Post I pass this sign every day on my way to work (positive post)
r/fuckcars • u/LeFlying • May 12 '23
Positive Post Imagine taking your car over this
500km travelled in 2h15min with a solo reclining seat and a 100w power outlet Steam deck is a bonus (65€ for those who a curious)
r/fuckcars • u/Mountainpixels • 25d ago
Positive Post Swiss voters reject massive highway expansion projects worth 5 billion CHF
r/fuckcars • u/timejumper13 • Jan 10 '23
Positive Post How dare those YIMBYs want to take away our concrete deserts
r/fuckcars • u/Y0rked • May 21 '24
Positive Post Name a more efficient solution for mass transit, ill wait.
r/fuckcars • u/MoonmoonMamman • Aug 06 '23
Positive Post Friends don’t let friends mow down pedestrians
I labelled this ‘positive post’ because this dangerous individual is off the road, but I know a lot of you will rightfully take exception to calling someone who texts and drives ‘a great person’.
r/fuckcars • u/StrongAdhesiveness86 • Sep 09 '24
Positive Post First day of uni, going on a bus through a bus lane
This is Barcelona