This is not out in some rural town. This is in Portland, OR about 2 miles from downtown. Personal vehicles this large are simply incompatible with urban living and pressure their owners to continually break traffic law. Technically that Miata is parked as close to the stop sign as it can legally be, but as the Denali doesn't fit in many places around here it's owner is compelled to park across both the stop sign and the crosswalk.
Follow up: To whatever bootlicking idiot called PBOT and asked for enforcement on this block, it didn't help. It made things worse just like I cautioned such actions do in the discussion below. They didn't ticket the truck (Which was indeed parking in front of the stop sign this morning) but they did ticket just about every-other car parked on this street for non-street safety related things like parked wrong orientation, literal broken window, expired registration, etc. You probably cost my neighbors a few thousand dollars in combined citations for minor procedural issues, now everybody is miserable and the truck is still parked there. Please, never ever do that again. Your fantasy of calling law enforcement to fix all the problems is not what happens in real life. It doesn't matter who they are, NEVER CALL THE COPS ON YOUR NEIGHBORS.
At this point the only way you're ever getting me into a truck is one of those cute little fuckers
My problem is I LOVE cars. I didn't realize this was c/fuckcars when I posted. Woops. Legitimately, I understand the consternation at huuuuuge SUVs and trucks like this. I drive to work (and I love it) - but the truck/suv to car ratio on the road is like 10:1. In the middle of the city... it's fucking stupid - and I look inside the vehicles. Always driven by a single person with no cargo. Ideally, I want a 1-person, 1-seater car. I want the stability of 4 wheels, the cage for protection/air conditioning, etc and nothing beyond that.
Nah, you're fine. Don't tell anybody, but...
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...I'm secretly a "car guy" myself. There are dozens of us!
In all seriousness, there's absolutely no dichotomy between being a car enthusiast and hating how cities are designed to force normies to overuse cars. You are very much welcome here and in the right place.
Honestly, you are still in the right community.
Making sure that there are plenty of public transit options, and making it so that a car is not the only possible form of transportation helps get people who don't want to be a part of traffic out of traffic.
People who love to drive should really be the ones most loudly pushing for the end of car-dependency.
The slogan "fuck cars" is for grabbing attention, I think most of us understand that cars can have their place and many of us, me included, own a car. But cars as the de facto mode of transport and the de facto determining element in infrastructure design is incredibly harmful to society, especially in cities. Kei trucks are a great example of a car adapted for urban use and frustratingly, in the US there is a lot of legislation specifically against their use and they're essentially luxury vehicles due to the high import fees levied against them (Which is just insane, they're stripped-down utilitarian vehicles!). A lot of SUV and truck owners in cities would prefer a kei, yet they're made unobtainable by intentional legislation that incentivizes these huge blimp trucks.
I had a smart car for a while. I wish they had caught on, but they were seriously hampered by price and the goddamn transmission was indescribably bad. 1 person car is great and all but by the time you’ve got cargo space, a second seat is reasonable.