We don’t even need trains to drive themselves. We just don’t need cars. That’s it. There doesn’t need to be automation. There just needs to be a change in our infrastructure.
Why does every faux leftist want to take out cars away? Is it just cause they’re mostly children online and they’ve never had a job let alone own a car…
Beware anyone who would restrict your freedom of movement
Lmao you think cars are freedom, not just another means of control. That’s hilarious. Henry Ford would be proud of your ignorance.
I’m a grown adult who’s tired of being a slave to my car and my town’s hostile infrastructure. Sorry you’re too much of a dork to get that cars and modern American roads absolutely fucking suck. Sorry you hate poor people and want to force us into constant debt and chain us to useless metal coffins.
I don’t want to take anyone’s car. I want a world where hardly anyone needs a car and therefore get rid of theirs willingly. I want a world where I can walk most places I need to go and can ride a bus or train or my bicycle everywhere else. But ok buddy.
Taking public transit in a place where public transit is well-funded and well-designed is a goddamn delight. You want freedom? I can go wherever I want, I don’t have to park, and there’s a tram or bus every ten minutes so I’m not even worried about my schedule. I don’t even fucking like walking and I would love to live in a city where that was an option.
Naturally this is not an experience most Americans have had because even our best city public transit is blown out of the water by what other countries are doing. It’s not easy to explain how life-changing that level of transit access is!
And if you really must drive, well, the roads are a lot clearer when everyone else is on a train.
Car dependency encourages class stratification.
I’ve been an adult for over thirty years, and I would jump at the chance to take public transit wherever I needed to go, if public transit actually existed where I live. I’ve lived in places with thorough, efficient public transit systems, and there’s nothing like it. I mean, yeah, I’ll still have a car for those times when public transit won’t do, but those times are few and far between.
With public transit, my teens could take the bus or the metro or the train wherever they needed to be, instead of having to rely on me to take them everywhere. They’d be free, and so would I. Car culture and a lack of public transit also gives disabled folks fewer options for getting around. (Yes, I know that there are also major issues with accessibility on public transit, but still.)
Public transit done well makes our lives easier, not harder.
We don’t even need trains to drive themselves. We just don’t need cars. That’s it. There doesn’t need to be automation. There just needs to be a change in our infrastructure.
Why does every faux leftist want to take out cars away? Is it just cause they’re mostly children online and they’ve never had a job let alone own a car…
Beware anyone who would restrict your freedom of movement
Lmao you think cars are freedom, not just another means of control. That’s hilarious. Henry Ford would be proud of your ignorance.
I’m a grown adult who’s tired of being a slave to my car and my town’s hostile infrastructure. Sorry you’re too much of a dork to get that cars and modern American roads absolutely fucking suck. Sorry you hate poor people and want to force us into constant debt and chain us to useless metal coffins.
I don’t want to take anyone’s car. I want a world where hardly anyone needs a car and therefore get rid of theirs willingly. I want a world where I can walk most places I need to go and can ride a bus or train or my bicycle everywhere else. But ok buddy.
Taking public transit in a place where public transit is well-funded and well-designed is a goddamn delight. You want freedom? I can go wherever I want, I don’t have to park, and there’s a tram or bus every ten minutes so I’m not even worried about my schedule. I don’t even fucking like walking and I would love to live in a city where that was an option.
Naturally this is not an experience most Americans have had because even our best city public transit is blown out of the water by what other countries are doing. It’s not easy to explain how life-changing that level of transit access is!
And if you really must drive, well, the roads are a lot clearer when everyone else is on a train.
In the summer of 1972, 26-year-old San Fernando valley native Rick McCloskey was photographing life on SoCal’s Van Nuys Boulevard, looking on as the bright young things cruised in cars and hung out. “Every town in America had a strip where kids would take their cars and go hang out whether it was only a block long – big towns, little towns, cities. It was really a thing for everybody to be involved at some point,” says Rick … “ “The nights were long and beautiful. How do you beat it? Gee. I’m glad I was able to be part of that as a kid.”
“Play hockey in the road and don’t move, whatever,” and other solutions to the problem of speeding in residential neighborhoods suggested by Matt Hern in Common Ground in a Liquid City: Essays in Defense of an Urban Future (2010), 121.
combining my knowledge of urban planning with the hours of video essays on horror i’ve consumed to come to the conclusion that the real monster is car culture
ok so let me explain. an oft repeated saying in urban planning circles is that cars are the dominant species on the planet. this is based on a 1960s cartoon that satirizes the north american obsession with cars, how much space we devote to them, and how we design our entire cities and lives around them. in jacob geller’s video in the architecture of alienation he talks about the fear created when a space we expect to be built and designed for us subverts those expectations and becomes hostile or incomprehensible. to many people who can’t access vehicles or proper documentation to be able to drive this is exactly what the car-centric city becomes. it is a place that should be designed for people but is not and is hostile towards those who are unable to drive, think about suburbs with no sidewalks or urban food deserts with no grocery stores within walking distance. not to mention the danger imposed by cars themselves, especially when car manufacturers are locked in an arms race to make the biggest, bulkiest vehicle in the name of supposed safety for the driver with very little regard for pedestrians and cyclists. altogether, a car centric city is a horror unto itself.
So far five different vehicles on their side or on their roof in the last 60 miles, looks like I made the right choice to wait till today to head south. #royboyroadtrip
Yup, I’m about 14 hours behind schedule, and I’m driving 20 hours round trip to hang out for a day with some friends with a forecast of rain. But it’s another #RoyboyRoadTrip this time to the @hotrodshowdown ! 9 hours to go!
Back in 2018 @rynobuilt asked me to come shoot some photos for his son’s senior pictures, at the same time we were getting shots for @carkulturedeluxe.olskoolrodz it was a great day, love this shot from it.
That time I went to @hotrodgarageinc and we shot engine pics. This one was used by my dear friend Jon Wright for his ad in various magazines for years. #engineporn #jonwrightscustomchromeplating
Every time I see this badass 63 #galaxie500 I think that I need to get my Galaxie down like that. Then I remember that I scrape in my driveway as it is and I remember that I’m not that damn cool. And I can’t afford to bag mine
Way back in 2016 I shot this bitchin car belonging to @jimmythehooker34 then the engine blew up and he started work on replacing it with a different brand and size mill. We were supposed to reshoot the car when he was done and the car got sold before that happened. Still have some cool shots of it from that first day though. #hopup #hamb #hotrod #traditionalhotrod #hopuplive
Finally got back to putting some decorations in the Royboy office again. Another 2 of these shelves to go up and then a bookcase to build and fill with cool car mags and books.
The Swanders boys have some cool rides. Seen here at the #StrayKat500 back in 2017. The show happens the first full weekend each May in Dewey, OK. #hotrod #hamb #hopup #hopuplive
