Fuck Cars
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:
view the rest of the comments
because they want people purchasing or renting vehicles, and paying for public transportation.
ebikes and regular bikes undercut city profits and private industries invested in new yorks current infrastructure.
making it difficult, pointless, or seemingly "unsafe and scary" is just another way for them to squeeze the already dry working man for a few more drops.
they want continuous subscribers, not "freeloadin communist lbrl sissies"
I don't think there's some nefarious "they" cabal here, certainly not an organized one trying to discourage biking. Occam's Razor is there are a few different types of people supporting this. Chief among them are just carbrained people who can't fathom biking for transportation, who don't realize how slow that is when they've only toodled on a 35 pound mountainbike recreationally at 10 mph. Then you've also got people who have almost been hit by a delivery scooter thinking "ebikes are a menace" solely because they're new and something some "other" group of people uses, and so it's easy to say "they must be stopped" while ignoring the crazy fast, way heavier cars they're already desensitized to.
i wonder who invested in the consistent motor vehicle marketing and infrastructure over the last 100 years?
surely not the rich and powerful behind the status quo of american car manufacturing.
that would be insane to think they were somehow involved in maintaining the status quo through bribery and lobbying in one of the most populated and popular cities on earth.
unheard of in the united states! surely new yorks very uncorrupt mayor is above such lowely criminal behaviours.
it would make zero sense for someone to make such a silly law for an ecofriendly and virtually free alternative (after a small initial investment in comparison) that existed well before motor vehicles ever did.
occams razor applies, for sure. this is america afterall.
you're probably right, theres nothing to see here. surely the mayor of new york city couldnt possibly be in a position to profit from such a law. that would be INSANE