Fuck Cars
A place to discuss problems of car centric infrastructure or how it hurts us all. Let's explore the bad world of Cars!
Rules
1. Be Civil
You may not agree on ideas, but please do not be needlessly rude or insulting to other people in this community.
2. No hate speech
Don't discriminate or disparage people on the basis of sex, gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, or sexuality.
3. Don't harass people
Don't follow people you disagree with into multiple threads or into PMs to insult, disparage, or otherwise attack them. And certainly don't doxx any non-public figures.
4. Stay on topic
This community is about cars, their externalities in society, car-dependency, and solutions to these.
5. No reposts
Do not repost content that has already been posted in this community.
Moderator discretion will be used to judge reports with regard to the above rules.
Posting Guidelines
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:
- [meta] for discussions/suggestions about this community itself
- [article] for news articles
- [blog] for any blog-style content
- [video] for video resources
- [academic] for academic studies and sources
- [discussion] for text post questions, rants, and/or discussions
- [meme] for memes
- [image] for any non-meme images
- [misc] for anything that doesn’t fall cleanly into any of the other categories
Recommended communities:
view the rest of the comments
Yeah, I've been using public transit all my life so I'm used to this, but not friends using a car.
I can go into another city and country and use public transit based on my past experiences with different transit agencies and paper schedules in the 90ies. Yet my friends and family don't even know how/where to buy a ticket and what bus/train goes where. I can go see them using public transit, but they have no idea on how to do it themselves. In their own region! They find me resourceful just to be able to use a bus in Guadeloupe or a tram in Germany.
And they're kind of right. It's a skill in itself, just to know how to use public transit. It's always a bit messy and different for every city and region. There are some systems and cities that I entirely avoid because of this.
The metro area where I live changed the whole fare system a few years ago and they were doing it gradually, year by year. It was painful. I still need two different transit cards right now, and they're introducing tickets in the Chrono apps.
Honestly, I think, despite its massive amount of failures, Deutsche Bahn did a massive service with its app, as it doesn't only show German train/tram/bus connection, but also does the same with other EU connections, with also often allowing you to buy it in the app as well.