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Fun fact: at least one of the mods of this community is a car guy.
One of the many great things about my “daily driver” being a bicycle is that all my cars can be project cars, instead of having to get rid of them to own something boring and reliable instead.
Frankly, I think the overlap between anti-car-dependency urbanists and car enthusiasts is a lot bigger than people give it credit for. It’s the normie commuters who see cars as an appliance and can’t imagine an alternative who are the problem.
That was always my dream if I lived more rurally. Imagine having a garage so big that you could work on several cars all the time!
As it turns out I found more interesting things to build and fix, so my peak “car guy” was like 17 and I never did anything more complex than replace brakes and springs
Yeah, when I bought my house (in an urban neighborhood), I had a choice between a 3/2 with a basement or a 2/1 with a 1/1 detached 2-car carriage house. I went with the former because my wife liked it better and I figured I could knock a hole in the basement wall to park cars in it, but I haven’t actually done that so I kinda regret not picking the latter. Having to work on my cars in the driveway really cramps my style.
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Good to know that I’m not the only one. I don’t see plane guys and submarine guys using those as their daily drivers. I do have to ask though: am I a hypocrite if I want walkable cities but also want to embrace van life? I would love to get my hands on an old Soviet UAZ-452 and travel around Lake Superior and Lake Tahoe in it.
am I a hypocrite if I want walkable cities but also want to embrace van life? I would love to get my hands on an old Soviet UAZ-452 and travel around Lake Superior and Lake Tahoe in it.
Have you considered a sailboat instead? More space, less fuel.
If I didn’t need to drive my car I would definitely be working on it a lot more
Would it be alright still if we just wheeled a guillotine in front of your house anyway? It would be purely a symbolic gesture, but I’m sure people will bring beer and will want a quick tour of your cars, and uh yeah we’ll see how far the party goes
No, thank you. I don’t really care for beer.
Well, can I sit in one of your cars and make “nyeeooooooww” noises followed by “eu-eu-eu-eu- POW -vrooooom”. After that I will leave.
We can skip straight to the hard stuff.
To echo a few other comments, i would consider myself a car guy, but i badly want trains and public transit. I like cars and driving as a hobby, not as a requirement for daily life
My brother is a car guy. He’s also an ardent cyclist and is more environmentally conscious than the vast majority of westerners.
Sometimes people are more than just one thing, and if a car spends 99.9% of it’s time in the garage in bits it’s not a major factor in pollution or traffic problems.
I’d rather ride with an organization that doesn’t have Twitter Gold, but we take what we can get, I guess…
Real talk, I remember when Amtrak was fraternizing with the Trump admin, and even considering putting ICE at their train stations. Not to mention the embarrassing launch of their new trains that were supposed to be faster, but wound up going about as well as Tesla’s convention loop in Las Vegas. In other words, it did not go faster or revolutionize travel.
I can’t necessarily blame Amtrak for a lot of their speed and timing issues. They’re at the whims of the freight carriers in many sections of shared track.
Legally passenger trains have priority. But reality means loopholes. Like making the freight trains too long to fit onto side tracks, forcing the passenger trains there instead causing delays.
Wendover has a pretty good video about this and other aspects of 50 year old transportation laws.
The Trump stuff is a different beast, but even then with something that’s heavily reliant on federal funding, not annoying the dictator in chief is more of a requirement to continue to exist at all.
That should be easy to enforce with current laws. If you can’t pull onto the side tracks then you should be fined. But it needs public and political will.
It’s crazy how much it affects your psychology living in a walkable city. It really helps me feel so much more connected to my community
Same, but I’m also a straight male so that might be a confounding factor.
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This is great from Amtrak, but wish they were more affordable.
Last I checked for me a ticket on the Amtrak was 4x the price of me for coach compared to a plane ticket .
The issue is that the plane ticket is artificially affordable, the worst public transit heavily subsidised by your tax dollar.
it’s easy to date a car guy - if he likes Lamborghini Countach he probably grew up in the 80s. If he like Dodge Charger, he probably dreamed of one in the 70s, and so on…
