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:

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I have copied that idea from another community. I forgot which one so sorry!

Feel free to discuss that here, I would like that change because it makes it a lot easier

> Our world is built up of roads and cars to get us to our destination! But what about cycling and even walking? Have we been brainwashed to think that the car is always king? > Si goes on a deep dive into just how we are convinced to think that modern car culture is acceptable in our lives!

How isn't this video more popular?

Seems like a place that would benefit from some blasting and a good ol fashion road widening, no?

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/5404052

> For the past century, our society has grappled with the unintended consequences of a car-centric culture. Follow the lives of six individuals from diverse backgrounds who have devoted themselves to a simple, age-old machine - the bicycle. Through their struggles and challenges, witness how bicycles have the potential to transform lives and contribute to a better world.

A car-free walkable neighborhood with a streetcar.

Looks like they plan to have the blue line extension ready to go in 2029 mentioned in the embedded video not the article.

The plan is to have 55% of the population within 800 meters of public transportation stations by 2040.

!Blue line extension

A little bit old, but I always like to watch the video linked below: Youtube - Dubai Progress by MetroCucumber

TL;DW: Cars caused people to spend more on transportation and made third places disappear.

This video goes over 25 urbanist improvements made in Montreal against car dependency/domination in just the past few years.

They all felt like they "needed" a nice car and bought one at a crazy rate. Or some even took out crazy car loans to repair their current car. Like the perception that you need a nice car is crazy.

A lot of people are actually upside down on their car loans. Those he can he tries to convince to sell their cars, but they straight up fight him on it even after he breaks down how financially devastating it is to have a depreciating "asset" that has a 20k loan at 30% interest rate.

Here are some more shorts of people with insane car choices. Basically 9/10 of his episodes have people with bad car loans, these are clips of just the worst ones. If you search his channel for "Car loan" or "car debt" a ton of his full episodes mention car debt in the title because of how many people are utterly ruined by it.

(Also fair warning, he's super abrasive and direct on people who put themselves into really stupid debt.)

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Y5bgcbEe884 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GQ5WJCRM804 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/in9C032P43M https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Nnj47Pf7DAM https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YyvMK81uw98 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_TKFkS7watk https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Nbiic9ACXh4 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gGeXQbhLccU

So yeah, fuck car culture that makes this possible and convinces people it's okay.