Anon questions modern society : greentext

[–] BobbyBandwidth@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago

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

[–] los_wochos@feddit.de 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Bakachu@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

god I love the car industry

[–] gloomytabby@lemmy.world 31 points 2 years ago

"freedom"

[–] Kiosade@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 years ago

I thought I blocked fuckcars…

[–] elfahor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 years ago

Yaaasss freedom!!

[–] andyburke@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

is it looping around to the left?

[–] ToxicDivinity@hexbear.net 4 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 -11 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.

[+] Argonne@lemmy.world -23 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Speak with your money. Move to NYC and use public transit

[–] monk@lemmy.unboiled.info 62 points 2 years ago (5 children)

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

[–] paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 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 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yes

[–] MentallyExhausted@reddthat.com 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Chicago and SF are okay too

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

DC area has great transit

[–] Argonne@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

When it works

[–] 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?

[–] Stephen304@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml 5 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.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 4 points 2 years ago

NO

DC DOES TOO

[–] Zorque@kbin.social 12 points 2 years ago

What money?

[–] Stuka@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Argonne@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Learn some geography instead of being a prick. Manhattan is only a small part of NYC.

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