The length of this traffic jam.

My brother in Christ you are the traffic

I'm sure one more lane will fix it.
- They’ll just block the other lane while they do it lol
- Speaking of which, is there a r/fuckcars equivalent over here?

Trust me bro, just one more lane

because trains are too expensive or something

"AMErIcA iS TOo bIg!"
"HaRDwoRkINg AmERIcANs!"
"ThE goVeRNmENt!"
Random nonsense copium go!
Trains are ANTIQUATED, bro. Cars are the future, you can't be a rugged individual on a TRAIN.
- you dropped this "/s"

What is crazy is that with 1 passenger per car, that is not that many people. Like not even 50. You could all fit in a single bus

- In most countries with public transport you only have to wait 10-15 minutes for the next bus on that line.
- Public transport is great in cities, but as soon as things get more sparsely populated, you get diminishing returns. Everything takes longer, runs infrequently, and still barely gets you close.
  But then if they run more frequently, they'd be empty.
  Yet, where I live, they keep introducing hostile rules, new houses can only have one parking space, at a time where kids are having to live with their parents for longer, so their mobility, job opportunities, etc are really hampered. It would be one thing if there was decent public transport infrastructure, but there's literally nothing, just people becoming 'stuck' because those who make the rules often don't think about areas as a whole.
Or motorcycles/bicycles, if you really want personal mode of transport.
- Please no motorcycles they are annoying and loud as fuck

Fuck cars

Traffic jams would be a whole lot less damaging if they were all electric. Just sitting there with the AC and radio on is a whole lot less emissions compared to fossil fuels.
- I prefer a rock solid public transport system, and plenty of safe walking areas and no-car zones. EVs help minimally in the grand scheme, since they are costly to produce, especially the batteries.
- The two issues I have with current EVs is you can't work on them and they don't last as long as gas vehicles.
  I have a old suburu and it still runs fine
- That's true, but electric cars won't fix the core issue of car dependency and massive traffic jams

Public transport for the win :D

At least until we find a way to f* it up--again.

This is why I love trains

Exactly. This could be OP's commuting view but he playin

You may as well declare that your permanent address. It's where you live now. May as well try and find happiness where you are.

You'll meet friends there, settle in, maybe get married and have some kids, grow old and retire to the back seat, having lived a rich and full life.

In a few generations, the fact that the cars can move will only be a children's story, and eventually forgotten altogether.

https://lemmy.world/c/fuckcars

Fuck fuckcars
- Fuck yeah! Fuckcars

One more lane would fix this!

Let's make it ten just to be safe.
Nah lets just stagnate the minimum wage so nobody can afford a car.

Did you stop there and cause a traffic jam to get this beautiful picture?

Plot twist: photographer is the first car inthee lane

[Image description: A photo of a road with two lanes. There is bumper-to-bumper traffic reaching an approxime 53 car length.]

Looks like my commute today, just with grass lol

Was it really necessary to stop and hold up traffic just for this picture though?

ban cars

This isn't mildly infuriating. Now, if you took a second shot of the traffic in front and there was nothing - just the echo of a brake check an hour earlier. That would be mildy infuriating.

Which is why electric cars will reduce this kind of thing. When you are using a high regen that slows you down you are less likely to hit the breaks which won't trigger people behind you to break.

I don’t know if this counts as “mildly” infuriating, I’d be freaking OUT with a traffic jam that long, especially if I had somewhere to be at a certain time!

Wait, this is long? This looks like regular traffic to me...
Not from any large city in America, are you?
- Any large city period.
  Seriously, I live in The Netherlands which is the size of a post stamp, even we cannot make public transport work (especially outside of the larger cities), thus we also have to deal with traffic jams. All the comments of the "Fuck Cars" community are quite ignorant on the issue that public transport can only work efficiently in cities, not to connect rural areas to those cities.

Amateurs

This looks like a normal day in Tampa.

Been there before. We recently had a semi truck tip and spill thousands of frozen French fries across all lanes of the highway. They closed it completely down for hours. People were literally reversing on the highway to back up to the nearest exit. It was terrible

See, as much as I hate Texas and especially TXDOT, I will give it props for it's access roads that run alongside the interstates. Stuff gets too backed up, folks can just drive over the grass to the access road. It'll back the access road up, too, but it'll be moving, at least. Hell, out in west Texas you can see where the locals have made their own exit because the nearest one is a 10+ mile drive out of the way.

That looks like normal holiday traffic. Is it?

Never been to a city before, huh?

I find it more infuriating that there is usually no other option than traffic. If only there was a long distance mode of transit that wasn't prone to frequent traffic and collision

Just wait until you realize there used to be a train to every town, including every single small town.
We had the passenger train networks, it was what built the country, but now it is gone.
- It's still there. The track network at least. Hasn't been updated either.
If only there was a long distance mode of transit that wasn’t prone to frequent traffic and collision
If you're in the US, even trains won't help. De/under-regulation means there are over a thousand collisions and/or rail failures every year. Even if passenger trains were given priority, the lax safety and maintenance standards allowed on freight lines would cause monumental delays.

Back in 2017 or whatever that North American solar eclipse was, I drove down to Bend Oregon to view it. After, there was bumper to bumper traffic almost the whole way north, back to Seattle, WA. There was literal bumper to bumper traffic from Bend, OR to Issaquah, WA. That was almost 350 miles and took basically an entire day. It was horrible having to pee on the side of the road in bumper to bumper traffic in the middle of nowhere. Protip? Don't try to drink the Gatorade just to have a pee bottle.