• @AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    I wish my neighborhood would do this. 25mph feels really fast on my street. I usually hover around 15-20 when I’m not paying attention to my speed.

    Edit: I am surprised that this was my third most controversial comment since I’ve joined

    • @theplanlessman@feddit.uk
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      2110 months ago

      It’s been surprising to see just how many pro-car users seem to lurk on these anti-car/pro-alternative transport communities.

      • @AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml
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        910 months ago

        They’re probably imagining me as that Prius or something slowing them down in traffic. My neighborhood is basically one lane when people are parked, and there are a lot of kids, so if they drove the road they’d understand.

      • 7bicycles [he/him]
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        810 months ago

        for all it’s worth carbrained people all hate each other, too, but boy are they good at rallying around a common enemy

      • @MrLuemasG@lemmy.world
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        710 months ago

        This community regularly makes it to the front page of Everything. It’s really not that isolated from the rest of Lemmy

        • @theplanlessman@feddit.uk
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          210 months ago

          I guess that’s the difference in scale between here and Reddit. r/fuckcars was tiny compared to the whole of reddit, but I guess this is large enough to be prominent in Everything.

          • @MrLuemasG@lemmy.world
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            310 months ago

            I dunno, I didn’t subscribe to /r/fuckcars on reddit, but I got their posts all the time on /r/all back in the day. I think a lot of people just don’t like having to rely on cars 😅

      • @FleetingTit@feddit.de
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        410 months ago

        Fuck cars is regularly in my “everything” feed. And most of these measures aim to reduce traffic, which ultimately benefits the remaining car drivers.

      • Adkml [he/him]
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        10 months ago

        I live in a super rural area and would have an almost impossible time working, buying groceries or getting medical care without a car and even I think the vast majority of the arguments against this are dumb as fuck and the epitome of car brained.

    • Adkml [he/him]
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      510 months ago

      Also lowering it from 30 to 20 realistically means people will now drive 30 instead of 40.