Fuck Cars

14905 readers

1009 users here now

A place to discuss problems of car centric infrastructure or how it hurts us all. Let's explore the bad world of Cars!

Rules

1. Be Civil

You may not agree on ideas, but please do not be needlessly rude or insulting to other people in this community.

2. No hate speech

Don't discriminate or disparage people on the basis of sex, gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, or sexuality.

3. Don't harass people

Don't follow people you disagree with into multiple threads or into PMs to insult, disparage, or otherwise attack them. And certainly don't doxx any non-public figures.

4. Stay on topic

This community is about cars, their externalities in society, car-dependency, and solutions to these.

5. No reposts

Do not repost content that has already been posted in this community.

Moderator discretion will be used to judge reports with regard to the above rules.

Posting Guidelines

In the absence of a flair system on lemmy yet, let’s try to make it easier to scan through posts by type in here by using tags:

[meta] for discussions/suggestions about this community itself
[article] for news articles
[blog] for any blog-style content
[video] for video resources
[academic] for academic studies and sources
[discussion] for text post questions, rants, and/or discussions
[meme] for memes
[image] for any non-meme images
[misc] for anything that doesn’t fall cleanly into any of the other categories

Recommended communities:

!yimby@lemmy.world

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

toaster@slrpnk.net

grue@lemmy.world

Toaster1@lemmy.world

153

If you ditched your car, could you afford to leave the suburbs for a great urban neighborhood? (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by pdqcp@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world

72 comments fedilink hide all child comments

This is the question posed on CityNerd video titled "Walkable Cities But They Keep Getting More Affordable"

If you ditched your car, could you afford to leave the suburbs for a great urban neighborhood?

Ray Delahanty answers the question in the 26 biggest US cities.

The analysis assumes the all-in cost of owning and operating a car is $1,000 per month, including purchase, insurance, fuel, and maintenance.

In the city, transportation costs might total about $250 per month for transit passes, biking, ride-hailing, and other small expenses.

This results in an effective $750 per month increase in the housing budget for city center residents who do not own a car.

The results of the video are quite interesting, as you can get more m² in walkable areas in most cities

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

I have 2 cars in a rural "city" cars are absolutely required here. We used to have a trolley, but it got killed in the GM/Firestone conspiracy. Things could have been so much better and as much as I love my MX-5, overall I totally get fuck cars. I wish I had the option to opt out of ownership. But since I don't have that option, I chose to maximize the fun, and minimize the damage. It's honestly the best I can do in the Midwest. If the winters continue to get warmer I can get rid of the Wrangler entirely, which ... Fuck that's not good either. It'd be nice to live in a world without cars, and I want that. I'd absolutely give up both for a bus pass or light rail but logistically, I can't. And it's bullshit that that was once an option, but our lives were made worse by capitalism and forces outside of our control.