Get rid of your car. Problem solved.
Replaced with what? There’s no infrastructure here.
Used to
I think we’re all shocked you’re not already retired, Mickey. ;)
Always interesting on social media sites trying to guess if the poster is male/female and how old
What’s the Lemmy equivalent of driving around real slow?
Maybe posting 90s memes?
I would say boomer memes.
The old dude driving slow in the morning probably doesn’t want himself to be driving at rush hour, either. Maybe if we had some kind of system where professionals planned and implemented a ride sharing systems, perhaps with planned routes and really big cars that lots of people could sit in? Maybe we even put it on rails so it uses less energy while moving?
My country has this and better, no difference.
They also love shopping during the busiest times I’m the weekend. They just love wasting working people’s precious free time.
I don’t have any problem with someone driving under the speed limit as long its within the legal amount. My problem is buttplugs. Buttplugs are creatures who crawl up someones ass and refuse to pass. They prevent the people behind them from legally passing and just sit there for mile after mile.
A mutation of the buttplug is the plugipede. Where you have mulitple buttplugs all up each others ass and content to follow one another at less than two car lengths apart.
I never blame the guy going five under at the front.
butt plugs with LED headlights, no less
I have never commuted by car, but I plan to get a car when I retire so I can drive around in the mornings.
a bunch of old geezers cruising the local ‘strip’ from 7-9am just like we used to back in high school at night on the weekends.
Everyone wants to say fuck cars but no one wants to be a civil engineer or whatever and build the public transport that would replace cars. So everyone in this thread should sit down unless they have real solutions. Listen, I hate cars and driving too, but I’m not taking 3 trains into town, totalling 3 hours. That’s not reasonable for a commute.
I fucking love cars.
I also want to be able to not be FORCED to drive one day in day out. I want a robust public transport network, a robust electric car network and a reasonable ownership proposal for limited ICE engines in enthusast cars.
This isn’t and unsolvable problem. There are cities that have working public transport and commute is reasonable.
On the other hand, you have to put a gun on my head to make me work that far from my home (im assuming, something like an hour worth of car travel?)
You have no more right to use public roads than anyone else.
Correct, but if you can do shopping at any time, you should aspire to do it when there are as few people as possible. That goes for everyone and it also works for most non group activities, such as driving
One of my favourite things about being retired is the ability to go to the shops in the middle of the day, when it’s quiet. No crowds. Parking. No rush. Bliss!
5pm at the restaurant. Retirees and families with little kids.
I work mostly evenings and weekends and being able to run errands when it’s not busy and do chores when flatmates aren’t around makes up for it.
Having been a 2nd and 3rd shifter most of my adult life, I miss going shopping in the middle of the night when hardly anyone was there.
Even better, aspire to not use a car. Commute via bike or public transport.
Everyone has better things to do then sit in traffic, and its always tempting to blame someone else - eg. some old guy that you wish would have gone shopping at a different time. But if you are on the road in your car then you are traffic. You’re holding people up. You’re delaying people. And as the previous person said, you have no more right to use public roads than anyone else. So rather than wishing and hoping that other people will do something different, take initiative to do something different yourself.
It’s the same guy!
It’s even worse on public transport. At least where I live. They have the whole day available but decide to use the buses between 7 and 9 in the morning and 15-17 afternoon when most people go to/from work/school
Have you considersd that they may still be working due to poor wages and a lack of social safety nets?
Nope. Because they would not have the free red ticket for retired people
Sure, but if they’re boomers and still couldn’t make it, I’m not sure what the issue was. The generation that took everything and then pulled the ladder up behind them should be stable in the modern day.
I’m really not trying to be an asshole here, but my experience with this is my girlfriend’s dad. A boomer who lives in his car. He lost his six figure job in the late 90s and then did nothing. He made no effort. He was a horrible father. My girlfriend’s mother died and he STILL never picked his life back up. And now he’s just become a nuisance in our lives. I have absolutely no sympathy for people like that.
Whereas my parents, also boomers of the same age, are retired and looking at finding their final home. All you had to do was keep doing what you’re doing.
Whereas us, now, that’s not good enough, anymore.
It is very hard for me for feel sympathy for the generation that got everything, when my friends and I are struggling to exist, and with decent jobs.
Major “Main Character Syndrome” vibes. Other people have their own lives and their own reasons, ya know?
Is it though? I am not saying they are not allowed to use them or anything. I just wonder why they use them when everyone else does as well. I have taken buses outside those times and not many retirees or old people take them. If I had the whole day I would probably not take the most crowded bus and take the one that is almost empty.
Strike up a conversation and find out how their day is going. Maybe you’ll get the answers you seek.
There are many reasons that people would use a particular schedule. Congestion is only one, and not even a big one usually.
A far bigger reason is to be done with it so they can get on with their day, whatever that might be. That way the errand(s) are done and won’t interrupt them or weigh on their minds.
If I’m late to work I can’t pay their pension.
So your lateness is a problem they are supposed to solve for you?
It’s certainly something they could choose to be considerate about.
Perhaps public transit is there to help the public get around and you should be advocating for higher availability, not lower ridership
My issue is that they could literally take the bus 30 minutes later and be alone on the bus. It’s just fascinating that they use them at a time of highest ocupancy.
Maybe they spend too much time alone and enjoy being in the throng on the bus.
Who knows.
They may have an appointment early in the morning, a time slot that may be harder for a young person to fullfill. Maybe they have a scheudled event to be at, many of which start at the same time as business opening hours. Maybe they just want to get to the store when it opens, get their shopping done, and be able to enjoy the rest of the day at their own pace.
Yep. There are a lot of people out there, each with their own lives and schedules. Work isn’t the only thing in life people have to deal with, and responsibilities don’t end when one retires.
Maybe the lonely old people like to see other people.
Retire? Fucking hilarious!
If you advocate for public transport, then you can provide these people with an adequate alternative to driving.
More interested in bike paths but trams and trains are cool too
Why not both? Trams and bike paths can work really well together.
Yeah both would be fine
Yeah that’s never happening in America if big auto has anything to do with it
Sure, but outside of meme countries we can actually do this kinda thing.
I just retired, and my wife still complains that I drive too fast. I’m joining a gym next week and getting back into writing and fermenting, and so won’t have much time to annoy Frank Freeway during his commute from hell.
Automobiles are a toy. If you’re an adult with actual responsibilities and you need to be somewhere on time, take the train.
The only train between my house and work is a cargo train and I don’t want to hitch a ride like a homeless dude trying to see the countryside (not to mention it takes over an hour to walk to anywhere near those tracks when it only takes 30 minutes to drive to work when traffic isn’t fucked).
Like anyone gets to drive at speed during commuter time.
You can tell commuters. Not by how fast they drive, but by how prompt they are at getting though lights. You then see these obviously non-commuters who will instantly pull forward in a queue, not let anyone out, but take 2 seconds to get moving at a green light.
Noone is going at speed, but everyone wants to get that green light.
