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  • pedz@lemmy.catoFuck Cars@lemmy.worldNoise Pollution ruins quality of life
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    3 days ago

    And those motocross. My family lives in a rural area with a rail trail. So to go there I often just cycle on the rail trail.

    Unfortunately it’s also used by a local motocross group. They’re not supposed to but they obviously don’t give a fuck.

    At least you can hear them coming from kilometres away. Which is interesting because the police or whoever is supposed to enforce “bicycles only” on that bike path doesn’t seem to hear them. Nor see the very obvious tracks.

    The most insulting part is that they close the path in fall, winter and spring because they don’t want CYCLISTS to damage the bike path, yet there’s assholes on motocross driving on it.




  • pedz@lemmy.catoMemes@lemmy.mlawHell Naw
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    Unfortunately this one depends a lot where you live.

    I never owned a car but I live in Canada and public transit sucks. Our provincial government is actively cutting funds to cities’ public transit. And intercity routes are detained by VIA Rail or coach buses >!!<that sucks.

    It’s easier for me to go to the airport and in another country than move in my own province.

    VIA Rail trains are infrequent, always late, pricey and most employees are jaded. They also don’t take bikes. It’s a problem. Sometimes you can get stuck as a prisoner on the train, without food, water or toilets for multiple hours.

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/via-rain-passengers-stuck-1.7311176

    Another one was stuck for 12 hours last year.

    Coaches are cramped and also have very limited intercity services. The city I need to go to frequently only has three coaches a day at inconvenient times. They are usually full and they charge $15 to bring a bike.

    I’ve been car free for 20 years but I’ve come to hate taking the train or coaches here. I’m slowly realizing that my province really really wants me to get a car.





  • pedz@lemmy.catoMemes@lemmy.mlPardon my French
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    I wasn’t aware of her comment. Googling for it showed me an article in English saying she dropped the F bomb. I thought it was in an interview in English but no, she used it in French, which makes it a bit less impressive.

    Pour les gens qui veulent pas googler, voici la citation exacte

    « Fuck aux réacs, fuck à cette extrême droite, fuck à tous ceux qui voudraient nous enfermer dans la guerre de tous contre tous ! »