this post was submitted on 27 Sep 2026
83 points (100.0% liked)
Fuck Cars
16697 readers
581 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 3 years ago
MODERATORS
Imagine if drivers had to pay their fair share for roads.
Free market capitalism is expressly reserved for industries capitalism wants to destroy.
In theory this does happen from land, income, and sales taxes. Also through vehicle registration and gas taxes.
But I agree with your sentiment, the average driver likely pays far less for daily access than the average train rider.
The point being that everyone pays (the same amount) for the roads, whether you personally use them or not, but the people who use public transport pay extra to do so.
Well, we can't tax the Job Creators now can we? CAPITALISM, praise Jesus.
Bart is also a feat of engineering. Its underwater tunnel, known as the transbay tube, sits 135ft (41 meters) beneath the chilly waters of the San Francisco Bay. It was designed with flexible joints to absorb the seismic activity of the region’s two active faultlines, and emerged from the 1989 earthquake unscathed.
It looks like you pasted the same text twice in your comment.
Oops fixed thanks.
there has been scaling back some of transportation rather than expanding it. i dont see it getting better, theres already low ridership compared to people driving cars, that are actually paying the fare.
Why would they need mass transit? That is for the poors.
Sf will be a utopian tech dream once they build all the service bots and can then finally be free of the shackles that bind them to dirty not-rich people.
New robots to make the food and coffee, clean up, drive them home after they drink expensive liquor, fix the broken stuff, etc.
Soon all of the rich douchebags can just descend on the city and it will be all for them!
Then maybe we can drop a fat bomb on it.
SFO is bullshit, I hope it burns. I don't think I've been to a more unlikable city. Assy people, shitty weather, impossible traffic, overpriced everything, piss-soaked sidewalks, crimey, just wtf. How is there so much money and "brilliance" here and its such a shithole? The only good thing about it is that I don't have to go there anymore for work.