- Funderpants ( @FunderPants@lemmy.ca ) 66•11 months ago
SUV, Truck, SUV, SUV, SUV, SUV, sedan, SUV, SUV, SUV, SUV.
The culture problem around big vehicles we’ve created with bad regulation and aggressive marketing is depressing.
- queermunist she/her ( @queermunist@lemmy.ml ) 20•11 months ago
It isn’t just a culture problem, it’s a tragedy of the commons.
When you’re surrounded by giant vehicles, the only way to
befeel safe and see the road is to have a giant vehicle.- DJDarren ( @DJDarren@beehaw.org ) English6•11 months ago
it’s a tragedy of the commons.
A gentle heads up that the guy who coined that term was a huge piece of shit, and was almost certainly wrong.
- uriel238 ( @uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 1•11 months ago
The basic notion regarding the exploitation of limited, unregulated public resources leading to depletion is significantly older than that term or the essay with that title..
The notion is echoed by a lot of thinkers, including that of Karl Marx in his deconstruction of capitalism. We need to make a society aware of this tendency much the way we have to be mindful, as a society, of prejudice divisionism.
Otherwise, overexploitation of common resources is going to kill us if we can’t find a way to circumvent the problem, such as by reaching out into space as local resources become dire.
- DogMuffins ( @DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de ) English1•11 months ago
Dead link
- Maeqa ( @sadakos_left_nut@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 47•11 months ago
So glad they put that thick protective white line there so I know I won’t be hit 🥰
It’ll be super protective when it snows!
- FleetingTit ( @FleetingTit@feddit.de ) 35•11 months ago
If you are walking you’re either poor or up to no good, in both cases we don’t want you around these parts. Oh, your kids need to walk? Don’t be lazy and DRIVE them where they need to go!
- frostbiker ( @frostbiker@lemmy.ca ) 9•11 months ago
Don’t be lazy and DRIVE
For the briefest of moments I felt a spark of blinding hot rage in my heart. Now I am left with the lingering feeling of wanting to smash my head against a rock.
Thank you for that experience.
- Another Catgirl ( @anothercatgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 1•10 months ago
use a bike with a baby seat or passenger seat instead of driving
- sabreW4K3 ( @sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf ) English34•11 months ago
What in the stupid is this?
- sharpiemarker ( @Sharpiemarker@feddit.de ) 21•11 months ago
Cheaper than a sidewalk, apparently.
- sabreW4K3 ( @sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf ) English12•11 months ago
The cost being the life of pedestrians? This is insane.
- rem26_art ( @rem26_art@kbin.social ) 24•11 months ago
Why even allow people in this neighborhood? Just have cars and no people
- library_napper ( @library_napper@monyet.cc ) 9•11 months ago
Don’t worry, self driving cars will get us there eventually
- LynneOfFlowers ( @LynneOfFlowers@midwest.social ) English21•11 months ago
Next they’ll eliminate the stripe and put up share-the-road signs with the stick figure
- Sarcasmo220 ( @Sarcasmo220@lemmy.ml ) 17•11 months ago
Is that a pedestrian symbol or the chalk outline of a pedestrian who got hit?
- Mereo ( @Mereo@lemmy.ca ) 16•11 months ago
This what I hate about North America. Non walkable neighbourhoods.
Weirdly enough it is a walkable neighborhood legit this is the entire street in the picture, for some reason they decided to paint these people lanes instead of just leaving it.
- max ( @max@feddit.nl ) 1•11 months ago
Can you believe it that some see walkable neighbourhoods as a conspiracy? I just can’t wrap my head around why…
- Lifted_lowered ( @Lowered_lifted@beehaw.org ) 9•11 months ago
They saw people walking in the road because there are no sidewalks and decided to paint a line, brilliant, job well done.
- biddy ( @biddy@feddit.nl ) 9•11 months ago
Who would use this? Wouldn’t you either walk on the grass or clearly in the middle of the street?
- bionicjoey ( @bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ) 9•11 months ago
Imagine seeing this when house hunting and still buying the house. You’d have to have worms in your brain to want one of these ugly McMansions with no sidewalk
Oh these ain’t McMansions, they’re the “missing middle” it’s basically row houses but with car centric infrastructure
- bionicjoey ( @bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ) 2•11 months ago
That doesn’t look like middle-density housing, it’s just slightly more dense low-density housing
- Adderbox76 ( @Adderbox76@lemmy.ca ) English7•11 months ago
Soooo…a sidewalk without the extra pavement?
- DestroyMegacorps ( @DestroyMegacorps@lemmy.ml ) 6•11 months ago
Who the hell designed this? I want to see the person who made this burn in hell
- Elephant0991 ( @Elephant0991@lemmy.bleh.au ) English5•11 months ago
You can be lying inside this line just like that guy!
- ChargedBasisGrand ( @ChargedBasisGrand@lemmy.ml ) 4•11 months ago
if anyone in this community uses a car you are part of the problem
- Hank ( @Hank@kbin.social ) 2•11 months ago
On the other hand, there isn’t another option you have in that community.
This community is super walkable and is a good 5 min walk to a big grocery store too
- Uranium3006 ( @Uranium3006@kbin.social ) 1•11 months ago
indeed. it’s a systemic problem, not an individual problem. we need a network of protected bike lanes, a fuck ton more transit, and zoning reform