Just walk you lazy fuck.
Comment on Parking isn't as important for restaurants as the owners think it is
muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I fucking hate the complete lack of parking anywhere that doesnt cost an arm and a leg. Not to mention car parks are getting smaller. Thry claim its to help discorage car usage to help global warming but in reality its just greedy fuckers.
BakedGoods@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
z500@startrek.website 1 year ago
…said someone who lives less than an hour’s walk away from anything worth walking to
Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 year ago
I mean, that’s its own pretty horrible problem with how our city planning works.
DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com 1 year ago
This is the real issue. Family living in the inner 'burbs or fringe is either impossible or just way out of reach. But then I have to drive a minimum of 45mins to get to the city.
Worse still, I live in the SE and work in the west. I have to drive a minimum of 65km each way for work. And public transport just isn’t an option for what I do, and where I work.
grue@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Skill issue. Ride a damn bike.
muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I just did the maths that will only take me 2hours 3minutes each direction. Ohh and i really think its a good way to earn a darwin award riding a bike on a road with no curb and people going 80km/hr.
DroneRights@lemm.ee 1 year ago
If only someone would build a bike path. Sure is a shame the transport department’s budget is being spent on parking
DmMacniel@feddit.de 1 year ago
buy a smaller and more efficient car.
muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world 1 year ago
First thats fucking expensive. Second i like my car. Third the best thing u can do for the enviroment with a car is buy a second hand one drive it forever. Forth fuck anyone who talks about carbon footprint it was a term invented by bp to pass the blame to the consumer for the enviroment.
And if anyone suggests public transport, yeah thats a great idea i love the concept unfortunatly we dont live in europe and to hell with waiting 40 fucking minutes for a bus when i can drive in 10.
That concludes my rant wasnt directed at u just the state of the system as it stands.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 year ago
to hell with waiting 40 fucking minutes for a bus when i can drive in 10
I actually agree completely. It’s a serious problem.
But it’s also why we need to be investing more in public transport. We need to take away street parking to make room for bus lanes (or even better—build light rail!) to enable them to run quickly and efficiently. We need public transport that runs on 15 minute headways during non-peak times, up to more like 5 minutes or less during peak. And at least half-hourly even overnight.
We also need to up the density of our housing, and allow for greater mixes of local businesses (mixed-use zoning), so that more trips are shorter and can be easily walked or cycled.
The point is, you’re right that in many cases, our current public transportation options are really bad. But the solution is not to just keep making driving easy. That’s just throwing good money after bad.
muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Ur 100% correct. Im just complaining that the options for cars are being removes and public transport is stagnet or in some cases activly getting worse.
grue@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If your two middle paragraphs are listed in order of priority, they’re backwards. Transit doesn’t work without having density first, so fixing the zoning code should be a higher legislative priority than funding transit.
grue@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Second i like my car.
Too bad. You are not entitled to impose the costs of your car on the rest of society just because you like it. Pay the whole cost yourself instead of demanding demanding to use public space for your private car storage for free.
NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social 1 year ago
Oh shit!
Do car owners not have to pay any kind of tax supporting said public spaces?!?
Where do I go to file for my refund?
muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Its not like im the only person in the world with a godamn car. Why dont we just completly abolish roads while we are at it. I will continue to demand that i can park my car near wherever the fuck i need to go untill it is faster and more convenient for me to take public transport. I used to be able to park i nolonger can and public transport hasnt become viable for me why would i give something up with nothing in return.
JamesStallion@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I love it when people like you get angry at my cities anti cat policies. It’s nice to know the assholes are seething
muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world 1 year ago
By being anti car it indicates the critical failure of design. You dont want to force people away from cars u want to make public transport a better alternative.
NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social 1 year ago
And why does someone else’s misery make you happier?
DroneRights@lemm.ee 1 year ago
i like my car
Your car is a pollution machine that gives children asthma.
Salvo@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Depends a lot on the car.
Keeping a HSV Avalanche on the road as your primary vehicle so that you do not have to buy a newer car is probably not a fiscally or environmentally responsible choice. Nor is replacing it with a Rivian or Lightning.
Maybe a Suzuki Swift or a Nissan Leaf would be a better choice.
muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Alright using your examples which seem awfully chery picked the break even point of co2 in terms of years being as generouse to the suzuki as possible is about 4.16 years. Depending on age the average time someone keeps a car is 6-10 years (older people tending to keep it longer) that means about half the lifespan of ur suzuki must be spent before u break even on carbon cost. If u do the same calculation for electric vehicles u find they have a far longer break even period.
If u do the same calculations for my car it will take 27years to break even in terms of carbon cost.
grue@lemmy.world 1 year ago
A small car takes up just as many parking spaces (i.e., one) as a big car does (i.e., also one). If the problem is parking – and boy howdy, it is! – then the only solution is to show up in a not-car (e.g. riding a bike or on foot), not a small car.
Salvo@aussie.zone 1 year ago
*for certain values of big car.
…yahoo.com/tasmania-ram-driver-four-car-park-spac…
If the parallel parking is unmarked. I can part my Jimny in half the space of a large sedan or SUV. I can only carry 3 passengers, but all of life is a compromise.
grue@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Man, I wish I could have a Jimny.
Anyway, yeah, I know short cars are short. The trouble is that unmarked parallel parking is a tiny fraction of all parking, so the size of cars really doesn’t make much difference in terms of city-wide macro scale. (Unless you went all-in Japan-style and put them in their own separate category with kei-car-only parking spaces and such, anyway.)
franklin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The reason cities are so spread out is because roads and parking lower density. It’s the solution to its own problem.
We cannot continue car dependency if we want to continue existing and restructuring our cities to suit other modes of transportation which take a lot of time and effort. There will be growing pains but I think success stories like Norway show it is possible.