There is nothing inherently expensive about towns that don’t require cars. They are denser, make more efficient use of infrastructure and land, have a larger and more diverse tax base to pay for things, and most importantly the residents don’t need to spend tens of thousands of dollars on a vehicle. They are expensive because you can literally count on one hand how many towns survived the 1950s without getting demolished for cars. Supply is low and demand is high for that type of living.

If you don’t want it to be a privilege then write your reps and vote for candidates that support those types of towns. Otherwise keep driving your car and bitching about people who don’t.

Some of you have the privilege to pick a community that specifically doesn’t need one. Others dont have such a privilege.

Okay, no bike rack, that's what was bothering me the most about it. I couldn't quite place it.

I wish you were joking 😢

Something is off. Those headlights look like the stickers used in NASCAR. Is this a real bus or just a movie prop mock up?

not female but a little eccentric (very visibly and obviously gay)….what are my chances of safety looking like you think?

Some of us live in communities where we aren’t married to a car.

Yes, it is definitely much safer to stay home. And we would have no car injuries whatsoever if we had no cars whatsoever.

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Cars make people go crazy. Some years back, a focus group was discussing the phenomena and it was determined, at least in part, that the perceived threats formed while driving, caused hormonal responses resulting in anger and rage.

You are correct though, it is a driver problem.

Injuries? Getting hit by a car will cause life long pain and very likely ruin your life

Over a million Americans are sent to the ER every year from car accidents. 40,000 are killed.

Motorists straight up don't know the laws of the road, and they won't care to learn them until it starts biting them in the ass. Nearly being struck as a pedestrian or a cyclist is basically a daily experience now. Crosswalks? Fuck that. No turn on red? Fuck that. Staying off the phone? Fuck that.

A favorite was when a guy nearly ran me over me with an illegal u-y and then had the gall to roll down his window and calmly tell me I shouldn't be on roads without bike lanes. Motherfucker, do even you know the law? I wanna get section 11B printed on business cards and hand them out like candy- but I know eventually I'm gonna run into a guy who's car is a stand in for his whole identity, and he'll be the dude who tries to kill me instead of merely threatening it.

To give Swan fresh bath water.

I don’t think it’s cars that’s the issue, it’s the drivers. I drive occasionally and I’m not running people off the road. More people = more assholes though so your point about the sticks being more populated and dangerous is accurate haha

Some break for you as well

Canceling comcast

A couple of years ago, around the Boston area, there was a car crashing into a building at least once a week for about a year and a half. This stopped for a while during Covid, now is happening again.

I’ve never understood that. I always assumed there was some super grouchy Bostonian who just sits here and immediately downvotes every post as it comes in.

Since the pandemic it feels like some drivers have become much more aggressive and some have become much more careful—and that just makes the aggressive drivers even madder.

It is worse. The sticks grew up, more people live there, and it is still the same few, narrow roads that everyone tries to drive on to get anywhere. They will run you off the road to save 5 seconds.

Fuck cars.

The rate was .63 deaths per 100 million miles driven in Massachusetts in 2020. That’s pretty safe.

I no longer run or ride my bike on the road because people are psychopaths.

Yes. Ban cars in Boston. It's a dream.

Nah mars doesnt look like that. I know

Everyone thinks they have a driverless car. Most newer cars do so much now screaming at you when to brake, lights flashing at you over this and that, no one is paying attention bc they are always looking at some screen.