we got stopped by police when we tried to walk from the Stratosphere Hotel in LV to an outlet outside the city (walk time approx. 30 minutes). They asked us if we needed assistance getting there, were asked why we didn't order a taxi and were genuinelly baffled by our desire to walk lmao
this post was submitted on 01 Jun 2025
531 points (100.0% liked)
Fuck Cars
11937 readers
1502 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:
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
be glad you still have sidewalks, I have seen a lot of US cities that have just done away with making those.
I knew it was bad but it's no sidewalks by default bad down there? I'm sorry for your loss.
The first time i went to Texas to visit SO's family, I got bored once at a gathering so i decided to go for a walk. I walked one block and the side walk ended. Ok no problem so i turned and walked another block and the side wall ended again. I realized after i walked in a circle that the side walk only existed for the block i was in. There was no sidewalk in any of the adjacent blocks. I was flabbergasted.
Literally 50 percent of Stockland development streets in Australia are just totally fucking lacking a footpath.
Yeah, Aussies are maybe the only creature even dumber than Americans; they saw how it went in the USA and decided to copy it anyway.
I mean at least we don't have a decent chunk of the population who are ml-toids.
Nah, Australia and the US are equal in my mind, there's nothing either group could say to me to convince me otherwise.
haha good argument bro
I live in a relatively centrist-ish large suburb in North Alabama, about 65k people. There aren't any stretches of sidewalk going for than a couple hundred feet, maximum. Outside of those scarce stretches, you get to walk on the wet grass with the dead armadilloes, a few feet away from certain death at the hands of Billy Bob's Ford F150.
Naomi Klein refers to the right co-opting left phases (triggered, othered, fake news, etc) as "pipiking." I think doing the reverse is hilarious, but also imagine a future where it results in an Idiocracy-like dialect 💀
Redpilled is also stolen from the left. In the Matrix, the red pill is a metaphor for estrogen. Anyway, I've taken the orange pill.
Good point. We've gone full circle, or line, on that one.
Idiocracy is a shit movie, language evolves, and dialects are not indicative of intelligence, which is another reason why Idiocracy is a shit movie.
edit: oh no i angered the rabid fans of Liberal Eugenics: The Movie again
Yeah, we can basically guarantee any future dialect will sound stupid to modern English speakers, as complicated and rare sentence structures will be dropped and new ones will be imported from other languages, na mean
Yes, I do know what you mean
mad confusing to see "carcel" in an english post as a spanish speaker since that means jail
They both involve being locked in a tiny metal box, so it fits.
It's got the same root as the English word "incarcerated", from latin carcer - prison. Neat!
Why build a city up and condensed when you can just spread it over 100 miles, add 1 rail line, and then declare yourself a great transportation hub?
Aneurysm warning: meme contains gen z speech
Looks like there are bike lanes on the road.
You mean suicide lines, right?
Paint is not infrastructure. I will die on this hill
You could. Let's hope you don't.
You'll also notice, in that Solo Stove abomination of a state, a distinct lack of cyclists. Because for huge chunks of the year, it's way, way too hot outside to walk or ride a bike the incredible distances necessary to go anywhere.
Source: I grew up in that molten pile of racism.
It should be noted that the season for comfortable walking and biking could be greatly extended also with the addition of street trees and a reduction in asphalt.
Well then, Arizona's screwed. It's the largest frying pan in the United States.
It’s too hot for trees to grow.
I'd bet the sprawl and heat make biking impractical.
Bad drivers and the bike lanes are very intermittent too. The only road I regularly bike on with a bike lane (I try for smaller roads which aren't deemed busy enough for a bike lane) usually has enough cars parked in the bike lane to make it useless. The bigger bike laned roads I ride on the sidewalk.
in Germany you get fined for using the side walk with your bike, if there are dedicated bike lanes. But than again we have real repercussions for unlawful driving and people could even lose their license if they endanger cyclists like that
As well as decent biking infrastructure out there that makes it so that it's usable
What?
walkpilled - variation on "red pilled"
cardiomaxxer - variation on "looksmaxxing"
carcel - variation on "incel"
gascucked - gasoline + cuckold
Thanks but now I am confused what variations mean.
You just got postcucked
Postmogging the boomercels
Never been to AZ, but Dallas sucked balls to walk or cycle in.
Jesus christ that newspeak
Pheonix bus routes were ok last time I was there, but I had to buy the bus pass at a store and not on the bus.
Also, pretty sure they're all going to die in the next two decades as a result of the horrible droughts and power grid failures and a lot of them will deserve it for voting Trump.
Anythings better than dallas lmao
if I was better at Geoguesser I might try to figure out which part of the greater pheonix area this picture is from