https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/motorists-driving-graves-avoid-liveable-9910532.amp

If elaboration is needed: I hate driving. I hate that I cannot legally drive a car without also having and paying for insurance for it. I hate how my twenty year-old brother takes the fact that I own a car for granted while he doesn't and that while I and my other brother drive him to work and school without asking for gas money or any form of compensation, he'll still get mad at me if I'm late. I hate how expensive gas is. I hate that half the time if I go anywhere in the big city, I either need to find a place nearly half an hour of walking away to park or pony up a frankly ridiculous amount of cash just for the privilege of PARKING.

Sometimes, driving has its fun moments. I like when I'm able to go fast, feel as close as I can get to flying. And I do enjoy how convenient it is compared to when I had no car and had to walk pretty much everywhere or beg rides off of family. But I think I've had it. I want to sell my car. To hell with insurance, parking costs, gas costs, entitled siblings, and the whole shebang.

What can I do? I'll need to be able to move around once I get a new job, and I have no idea where that new job might be. The nearest bus stop to my home is a little over half an hour away walking, so I don't know how feasible that is when just leaving my bicycle at a park and ride seems to be just begging for that bicycle to get stolen.

Trump is going to do what he can to force government employees to come in to the office, with the minor side effects of trampling worker's rights and increasing car traffic on existing infrastructure. I still believe that remote or even hybrid work (along with other policies) can prevent highways from being expanded. After all, most congestion happens during rush hour, while current car heavy roads are more than adequate to handle car traffic load at other times.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-federal-union-contracts_n_679e13d3e4b045766f103e19

Interestingly enough I was originally going to compare just the length of a person vs a car/truck, but I ran the idea by DeepSeek and it said compare area instead, so I'm going to do that.
When walking, a person of .5 meter width has a stride length of about .6 meters, this means they occupy an area of .3m^2, and if they have a walking speed of 1.4 m/s, that means a human being takes up .214 square meters for every meter per second of speed they can move at. Now let's look at a Ford F150, 5.89 meter length * 2.03 meter width, yields a footprint of 11.96 m^2. Suppose they're driving around on a stroad, a big box store or strip mall parking lot, or a suburban neighborhood. Perhaps over the course of their journey they average 30 mph, or 13.4 m/s. This would mean that the ratio of area used for every m/s available during the excursion is .892 m^2, or, the truck uses up 4.17 times the area of a person, per m/s of travel speed available.

Let's look at a bicycle, 1.7 meters long by .508 meters wide, and an average speed of 9mph, or 4 m/s. At .8636 m^2 of space used during locomotion, this yields, incredibly, another .215 m^2 / (m/s). Very, very similar to a person walking. Both biking and walking are incredibly efficient means of locomotion, far superior to automobiles, even under ideal conditions.

We can even expand this methodology to analyze train transit, but we're going to include an additional factor to account for the ridership per mode. This time we'll be looking at m^2 occupied for every person moved at a m/s. A TGV train, 200 meters long and 2.9 meters wide, will occupy 580 square meters, the train will be traveling at 75 m/s, or 270 km/h, on the lower end of its average speed, carrying 126 passengers out of a total capacity of 485, or 26% capacity. This yields 0.06 m^2 occupied for every passenger delivered at 1 m/s. Now to look at the truck, with an average ridership of 1.5 at 55 mph, or 24.6 m/s. This yields .32 m^2 occupied for every person moved at 1 m/s. The train would have to be carrying only 24 people to equal the woeful efficiency of the truck.

Is it simplistic to hope that a 10% tarrif on Canadian oil will finally be the thing that encourages Americans into smaller and/or electric cars? Or even onto transit or bikes or thier own feet? Do I dare to dream?

I ask this as a Canadian who acknowledges that we have way too many trucks and SUVs on our roads as well, in addition to inadequate transit in many areas of our country. We are also too dependent on oil exports for our GDP.

I recently posted on how there's no bus stop near me and people were recommending I take a bike but I don't live in an area that's friendly towards bikes. The neighborhood I live in is right by an interstate and surrounded by vacant lots, so really the only infrastructure is a road. I do have an old bike and I'm physically able to ride a bike but it's a question of legality and safety.

Edit: here's the original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/comments/1ifjt98/half_of_my_income_goes_to_uber_and_it_wouldnt_be/

So I'm in the UK and I moved house 300 miles away recently, I'm in an area with much better access to public transport both on a local and national scale as I can get buses trains and coaches nearby and that's great. Sometimes I have to do that 300 mile trip to visit people where I used to live and whilst I wish I didn't have to use my car for it, it's almost always cheaper to do so.

If it's just me then sometimes if I book super far in advance I could get a coach/train for just under the price of fuel, but if I want to take me and someone else? Well in the car the price doesn't change but if I'm getting a train or a coach it doubles and now the choice is easy.

Even travelling locally if I want to go out shopping or into town then I can get the bus nice and cheap, maybe not cheaper than fuel but definitely cheaper than parking. However once I add on another person, if we split the parking then it's cheaper than the bus wherever I'm going.

I feel like public transport only works well for travelling alone in the UK which is a very big issue, when you're on your own and you have access to it you can save money and the hassle of driving and parking, but in a group where one of you drives, once that cost adds up there's just no point taking the bus and especially the train with UK pricing.

Article: https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501632946/public-urged-to-use-public-transport-to-visit-new-phnom-penh-walk-street-which-opens-today/

The Preah Sisowath quay is the most tourist oriented and busy street in the largest city in Cambodia. From now every Saturday and Sunday it will be closed to motor traffic from 6pm.

The traffic in this city and the engine noise is nightmarish and it makes my car heating heart sing for this small victory.

My local gym has several indoor soccer fields. When they are busy people park like idiots: in the grass, fire lanes, and handicap spots. It’s bedlam. Today I saw big, orange tow stickers on a bunch of cars and was tempted to skip the workout and enjoy seeing some jerks towed away. Only bummer is the amazing food truck that would park by the entrance is now out in the street, but overall worth it. Hope it cost some handicap cheaters a ton of money.

Somewhere in Toronto, this makes me feel like there's a parking lot dedicated to SUV, this is so carbrained

I took a lot of Ubers in my 20s. Thought of it as the best solution.

Now I started taking the bus and the train and it is crazy how it’s better in every way for me:

• cheaper (2$ for bud vs $10-20 for Uber)
• safer. I never worry about getting reamed in the back of a sedan on the highway
• better vibes. No expectations to chat, room to lounge, better lights

Sure it’s slower, but when is slowing down in life ever a bad thing? And if you know the bus schedule, there’s no scrambling cuz your uber is late or comes sooner than you want.

Tl;dr: living my best life on the city bus right now

i hate these things sm T-T