Fuck Cars
This community exists as a sister community/copycat community to the r/fuckcars subreddit.
This community exists for the following reasons:
- to raise awareness around the dangers, inefficiencies and injustice that can come from car dependence.
- to allow a place to discuss and promote more healthy transport methods and ways of living.
You can find the Matrix chat room for this community here.
Rules
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Be nice to each other. Being aggressive or inflammatory towards other users will get you banned. Name calling or obvious trolling falls under that. Hate cars, hate the system, but not people. While some drivers definitely deserve some hate, most of them didn't choose car-centric life out of free will.
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No bigotry or hate. Racism, transphobia, misogyny, ableism, homophobia, chauvinism, fat-shaming, body-shaming, stigmatization of people experiencing homeless or substance users, etc. are not tolerated. Don't use slurs. You can laugh at someone's fragile masculinity without associating it with their body. The correlation between car-culture and body weight is not an excuse for fat-shaming.
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Stay on-topic. Submissions should be on-topic to the externalities of car culture in urban development and communities globally. Posting about alternatives to cars and car culture is fine. Don't post literal car fucking.
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No traffic violence. Do not post depictions of traffic violence. NSFW or NSFL posts are not allowed. Gawking at crashes is not allowed. Be respectful to people who are a victim of traffic violence or otherwise traumatized by it. News articles about crashes and statistics about traffic violence are allowed. Glorifying traffic violence will get you banned.
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No reposts. Before sharing, check if your post isn't a repost. Reposts that add something new are fine. Reposts that are sharing content from somewhere else are fine too.
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No misinformation. Masks and vaccines save lives during a pandemic, climate change is real and anthropogenic - and denial of these and other established facts will get you banned. False or highly speculative titles will get your post deleted.
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No harassment. Posts that (may) cause harassment, dogpiling or brigading, intentionally or not, will be removed. Please do not post screenshots containing uncensored usernames. Actual harassment, dogpiling or brigading is a bannable offence.
Please report posts and comments that violate our rules.
This needs to be combined with a "frequent flyer tax" and carbon taxes on petrol that subsidises cheaper train tickets for all
It's only open to EU citizens (regardless of place of residence) unfortunately non citizen residents cannot sign it.
I really hope this succeeds!
I've signed, this is really important. Trains are vital for domestic travel, but also really important for international travel, about once a year I'll need to go to another EU country and look for a rail option, often it's not feasible. I really hope this succeeds, flying is unsustainable.
As an American visiting Europe, please do! Dealing with multiple airports here sucks so much!
Meanwhile in France..
Thanks for sharing, I signed and shared as well.
@poVoq @Vittelius i don't think high speed trains and low speed have to exclude each other. For example between Kassel and Frankfurt are high speed and low speed trains. Currently the only obstacle is that both are so popular that it maxes out the capacity of both ways (one line goes through Fulda and the other through Marburg and giessen). The high speed trains only halt in a few trainstations, while the low speed trains at least cover all of the stations between to high speed stops.
@poVoq @Vittelius i life near of one of the low speed halts. Lets say I want to go to Sylt. I take a low speed train to an high speed stop and then use the train to go to sylt. from the local trainstation to sylt i have 3 stops and in 7 hours im there. Coexisting is possible.
It's gonna be a while before this is implemented. We also have to unify on rail gauge, electricity delivery & control system. While there is ongoing efforts to unify all of those system, it will probably be decades before we will be able to propertly utilize any new high speed rail lines from this proposal. Always a good idea to improve things for the next generation.
@ManInTheMiddle @Vittelius the rail gauge is mostly one size already: 1435 mm, only spain and portugal are missing.
The train control systems must be replaced by etcs, this is an european regulation.
The electrification is the only Problem that needs to be solved. We have many different power systems that use highly different voltages. (750V to 25 kV)