Sold my car!

submitted by scrubbles to fuck_cars
56 points | 10 comments

My car I bought and paid for, over 10 years ago, is now sold and gone. She ran well, nothing wrong with her, but realized over the last year that I hadn’t been using it all thanks to decent bus service and my e-scooter.

In fact, turns out I haven’t even had it registered for years, I had forgotten to! It’s been sitting for so long out…

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Thoughts?

submitted by fireweed to fuckcars
643 points | 144 comments

Image description:


Text: Amazon’s electric cargo bikes have arrived in DC.

Image: A four-wheeled vehicle that appears to be a cross between a bicycle, a go-cart, and a mini-truck

Response text from high t alpha shemale @gluetaster: that’s not a cargo bike man that’s a loopholemobile

Cars and automobility have killed 60–80 million people since their invention.

submitted by cm0002 to fuckcars
9 points | 1 comments

www.sciencedirect.com/…/S0966692324000267

Summarises car-related harm including crashes, pollution, land use, and injustices.

1 in 34 deaths are caused by cars and automobility with 1,670,000 deaths per year.

Cars and automobility have killed 60–80 million people since their invention.

Car harm will continue unless…

Toronto's Highway 401. Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦

submitted by Wudi to fuckcars
394 points | 54 comments

I feel sorry for them. But then again, this is what they want.

  • They oppose making parking expensive.

  • They oppose bus lanes

  • They oppose bike lanes.

  • They oppose trains

  • They oppose train stations.

  • They oppose congestion pricing.

They basically oppose any measure that might reduce car dependency.

the US road system mapped by deaths

submitted by cm0002 to fuckcars
30 points | 6 comments

Pic taken from roadway.report, an interactive map of all known roadway deaths in the USA.

Fatalities resulting from motor vehicle crashes are the third largest cause of accidental deaths in the United States. On average for 2024 there were over 100 deaths per day on US roads.

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