#carfree — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #carfree, aggregated by home.social.
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A lovely car light street in Amsterdam, where cars are allowed, but the street is made for other road users.
https://youtube.com/shorts/TnarZkrbHko
#amsterdam #netherlands #bikeTooter #carlight #carfree #bike #cycling #urbanism
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A lovely car light street in Amsterdam, where cars are allowed, but the street is made for other road users.
https://youtube.com/shorts/TnarZkrbHko
#amsterdam #netherlands #bikeTooter #carlight #carfree #bike #cycling #urbanism
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A lovely car light street in Amsterdam, where cars are allowed, but the street is made for other road users.
https://youtube.com/shorts/TnarZkrbHko
#amsterdam #netherlands #bikeTooter #carlight #carfree #bike #cycling #urbanism
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A lovely car light street in Amsterdam, where cars are allowed, but the street is made for other road users.
https://youtube.com/shorts/TnarZkrbHko
#amsterdam #netherlands #bikeTooter #carlight #carfree #bike #cycling #urbanism
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A lovely car light street in Amsterdam, where cars are allowed, but the street is made for other road users.
https://youtube.com/shorts/TnarZkrbHko
#amsterdam #netherlands #bikeTooter #carlight #carfree #bike #cycling #urbanism
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@ascentale @bikenite #BikeNite A8: I'm too proud of my 1st miles century ride last Sun/Mon (actually my 1st 200km/125mi ride, too), to not post this picture a 2nd time after https://chaos.social/@xtaran/117230720996057249 (I've chosen 3 different pictures for the remainder. 😇) I just noticed that riding over the #Albulapass—thanks to #slowUp #carfree—and then home was also my 1st mile ascent—ok, 1605m are 0.997mi, but that's just 4m/13ft missing. I rode with 20kg of luggage and my #BromptonElectricGLine.
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@ascentale @bikenite #BikeNite A8: I'm too proud of my 1st miles century ride last Sun/Mon (actually my 1st 200km/125mi ride, too), to not post this picture a 2nd time after https://chaos.social/@xtaran/117230720996057249 (I've chosen 3 different pictures for the remainder. 😇) I just noticed that riding over the #Albulapass—thanks to #slowUp #carfree—and then home was also my 1st mile ascent—ok, 1605m are 0.997mi, but that's just 4m/13ft missing. I rode with 20kg of luggage and my #BromptonElectricGLine.
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@ascentale @bikenite #BikeNite A8: I'm too proud of my 1st miles century ride last Sun/Mon (actually my 1st 200km/125mi ride, too), to not post this picture a 2nd time after https://chaos.social/@xtaran/117230720996057249 (I've chosen 3 different pictures for the remainder. 😇) I just noticed that riding over the #Albulapass—thanks to #slowUp #carfree—and then home was also my 1st mile ascent—ok, 1605m are 0.997mi, but that's just 4m/13ft missing. I rode with 20kg of luggage and my #BromptonElectricGLine.
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@ascentale @bikenite #BikeNite A8: I'm too proud of my 1st miles century ride last Sun/Mon (actually my 1st 200km/125mi ride, too), to not post this picture a 2nd time after https://chaos.social/@xtaran/117230720996057249 (I've chosen 3 different pictures for the remainder. 😇) I just noticed that riding over the #Albulapass—thanks to #slowUp #carfree—and then home was also my 1st mile ascent—ok, 1605m are 0.997mi, but that's just 4m/13ft missing. I rode with 20kg of luggage and my #BromptonElectricGLine.
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@ascentale @bikenite #BikeNite A8: I'm too proud of my 1st miles century ride last Sun/Mon (actually my 1st 200km/125mi ride, too), to not post this picture a 2nd time after https://chaos.social/@xtaran/117230720996057249 (I've chosen 3 different pictures for the remainder. 😇) I just noticed that riding over the #Albulapass—thanks to #slowUp #carfree—and then home was also my 1st mile ascent—ok, 1605m are 0.997mi, but that's just 4m/13ft missing. I rode with 20kg of luggage and my #BromptonElectricGLine.
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@crazyeddie @aworkinglibrary
It is probably about car dependency, car-centered areas. Like in the US where in many towns without a car one would struggle to do anything: getting to the grocery store, getting back from the store, reaching the other river bank as many bridges are motor vehicles only.People can’t live without cars in such places. Even food banks have huge lines of cars, four "lanes". Some homeless people drive cars as well. Imagine the closest grocery store being 1 hour walking distance away, and the weather may be extremely hot/cold.
Many such areas don’t even have sidewalks or anything for walking at all. At the same time so called "jay-walking" is prohibited by law. The term "jaywalking" actually was invented by the cars lobby in the early 20th century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaywalking
Moving around by walking is extremely inconvenient, dangerous, taking ridiculous amounts of time, basically incompatible with everyday activities.Also the parking lots, roads, intersections take up huge chunks of the city. Consider how much longer it takes to walk somewhere compared to what it could be without all these. Urban areas could look very different if they were human-centered and Points Of Interest were packed tightly.
And the bigger the city, the more space car infrastructure takes up. More lanes, wider intersections, parking lots can have up to many thousands spots, highways, freeways, interchanges of ridiculous sizes and shapes.
The topic is huge, what I mentioned is just the tip. Think of what you see around every day. Also all the noise. And danger it brings to everyone, not just drivers. The number of so called "accidents", another convenient term for the horrible things that happen everyday.
The areas which are pedestrian-friendly, bicycle friendly, have public transportation tend to have happier residents, more attraction points, more small businesses, more street life, way better air quality, less noise among other benefits.
Also social connections and interaction happen there and not on a 4-lane highway.#Cars #Car #City #Urban #Streets
#Cities #CarFree #Roads #CarDependancy #StreetLife #Safety #Bycicles #Walking #UrbanSprawl #OneMoreLane #InducedTraffic #PublicTransport #PublicTransit #Access #PublicTransportation #Accessibility #Accessible #PublicSpaces #Socialization #Capitalism #Subsidies #Lobbying #WordsMatter #History #CarsAreDangerous #FuckCars -
Add another tally to the "things you can do on public transport."
Amazing what the bus and train drivers will let you bring on board if you wait till off peak and give them a big smile.
PS i know the Germans won't blink an eye, but Australia is so car centred it's hard for people to fathom taking the PT, let alone using it to move furniture.
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“Open street transformations vary in duration and scale, shaping how we relate to and use a street. It shifts the way we perceive what public space in the city can be, even for a single day, and that shift feeds our collective imaginary of the city.”
#openstreets #carfree #publicspaces #road #vancouverhttps://spacing.ca/vancouver/2026/07/27/open-streets-how-often/
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#TheGuardian: "Meet the #Americans who choose to live without a #car in the #US: ‘It takes some doing’"
#carFree #carCulture
#publicTransport #bikeCommuting #biking #velotaf #transportsEnCommunhttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/08/americans-without-cars-driving-dominated-country
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I spent, as usual, a car-free day today. More unusual, I also saw trains just from a distance today.
Seewis Pardisla, #Graubünden #Schweiz
#CarFree #carfreitag #Karfreitag #velotour -
My Utopia at Kunsthalle #tubingen. @deutschlandfunk reported:
"How the often selfish needs of individuals or a city can be reconciled with those of the general public in terms of planning – that is the real question. Video artist Jan Kamensky provocatively sums it up."
#urbanism #kunsthalle #reclaimthestreets #changingcities #urbanplanning #design #verkehrswende #nocar #carfree #solarpunk #animation #publicspace #architecture #mobility #öffentlicherraum #utopia
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RE-IMAGINE PUBLIC SPACE! 🌳 #verkehrswende #nocar #carfree #solarpunk #urbanism #urbanplanning #design #3d #arts #animation #publicspace #architecture #mobility #plants #öffentlicherraum #utopia #jankamensky
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RE-IMAGINE PUBLIC SPACE! 🌳
#verkehrswende #nocar #carfree #solarpunk #urbanism #urbanplanning #design #3d #arts #animation #publicspace #architecture #mobility #plants #öffentlicherraum #utopia #jankamensky
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En fait je ne sais pas pourquoi on se prend la tête avec le déficit public :
Il suffit de verbaliser toute bagnole qui s'engage sur un carrefour sans avoir l'assurance de pouvoir le dégager, et tout véhicule qui bloque un #bus ou un #tram plus de 30 secondes.
#bagnoleland #carbrain #carfree #transportencommun #Paris -
Every time I ride my bike, even if just a short ride to do an errand, I wonder why: a) I don't ride more often; and, b) how can we share this simple joy so others might ride instead of driving? #cycling #CycleEverywhere #CarFree #Errands
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Today, a few photos from #Bardo - #Kłodzko. Took the blue trail south from Bardo first, then switched west to yellow track from Szeroka Góra. Most of it was pretty easy, just some intensive ascension from Bardo at first, and then up Ostra Góra.
Most importantly, you can get there at 9 AM by train, and catch a train back to Wrocław at 1 PM. You don't need cars.
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In a car-oriented world, pedestrians are asked to take a long detour around street crossings. Needless to say, there's barely any traffic on the main road, let alone the side road that's crossed by it.