this post was submitted on 10 Jan 2025
1099 points (97.8% liked)

Fuck Cars

11414 readers
256 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 CivilYou may not agree on ideas, but please do not be needlessly rude or insulting to other people in this community.

2. No hate speechDon't discriminate or disparage people on the basis of sex, gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, or sexuality.

3. Don't harass peopleDon'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 topicThis community is about cars, their externalities in society, car-dependency, and solutions to these.

5. No repostsDo 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:

Recommended communities:

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
(page 2) 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 13 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Hilarious, a move that was proven to work in Istanbul was avoided... Because..?

load more comments (6 replies)
[–] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

You need longitudinal data to make any clear conclusions. Market actors will compensate in other areas to adjust to an increased cost. This immediate change is evidence of a transitory shock to the space and nothing more.

[–] gilbert31@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sam from Wendover did a very good job explaining why Congestion Pricing is the best solution to address this particular problem, including arguments on why this is not a regressive tax when you analyze it closely.

Canonical YouTube link so you can use your favorite Invidious/Piped instance https://youtu.be/B2j-LgcA7Gk

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] mlg@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Just out of curiosity, does anyone know the average fare of getting from NJ to NYC by train?

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Hoboken to Manhattan on the PATH is 2.75$.

load more comments (3 replies)
load more comments (5 replies)
load more comments
view more: ‹ prev next ›