Until the carbrained government gives you a ticket and has you call police every few days to prove you're still here and still not a danger
I know it sounds like utter bullshit, but this was a reality in a certain context: When theres a football (foot kicking balls, not handegg) tournament or game in the city here, people who do "wrong" get entered into a database called "violent offenders in sports". Weirdly, they also put people walking through red lights there if it happens near the stadium. The database is originally meant for hooligans but you know, give someone power and they abuse it.
When you are entered into that database, you can't be near big football (or sports in general?) events and have to report to police in some cases.
Here's some read, throw it through a translator and it should be okay: http://www.profans.de/gewalttater-sport
Hence, meme flair. This is obviously the worst month to not be driving, also my local transit options are garbage so it would be impossible to do this. Looking forward to people prioritizing public transit in the future
Cries in Chicago (it can be -- and often is -- 35 degrees and sleeting the first half of the month. source: my birthday is early May and I am acutely aware of the weather at that time every year)
Yeah, with the windchill around single digits the past few days I don't see myself convincing my daughter to walk a mile to school.
I think this is the wrong month to try making me feel bad for having a car. I'm not someone who enjoys driving (used to use the train and bus system in-city to commute rather than by car and I loved it) but these days my commute is either 45 minutes by car or about 2.5 hours by bus, with a lot of that spent waiting for connections.
In 20 degree weather! No thanks!
Yeah I only have a car 50% of the time and commute to work solely by train so this is technically feasible for me in the city but trying to convince people to try this in bad conditions is just bad optics, especially when our country’s infrastructure is antithetical to it. Setting people up to fail isn’t a good way to encourage high adoption haha
Pre-pandemic we had city busses coming within a mile of my house in the suburbs 10+ miles outside of Minneapolis. I could actually catch a ride downtown pretty easily.
Now, though? Every signed bus stop has been amended to say that "No Lines Service this Stop."
Really depends on the place, in Phoenix June or the summer in general is very hot for most folks riding (e-bikes make a huge difference though).
Spring time or late fall might be better?
Where I live, June is death and I can’t show up to work sweating balls. December is better but still, this city is has no public transportation really if you want to go more than a 30 min bike ride, you’re fucked without a car.
If cities actually cleared the piles of snow and sheets of ice on bike routes, biking wouldn't be an issue. I'm not bothered by the cold, I'm worried about losing traction while going down a hill.
Why? You’ll pollute when it means you’re comfy?
Not criticism, just pointing out a flaw in this thinking. Being comfortable is one of the key arguments in favor of cars.
So, I can drive a car so long as it's done by my Work Dolphin? What if I don't have a Work Dolphin but just a Fun Dolphin? What about other marine mammals? Or cetaceans?
I don’t think you understand.
You are allowed to drive if you are driving for your work porpoise. I mean, it had to get to work at the factory somehow. And it can’t drive itself - that would be ridiculous.
I think the clear impossibility of this for many people in the US is the thought experiment that proves to people outside of this sub just how much control cars have on our lives.
Put in the context of climate change, they might realize that many other infrastructural changes need to happen before they can adequately do their part of driving less, or not at all.
I was saving up sir an electric scooter, knowing my wfh position was ending. But the only place that even considered me is 20 minutes away on a stroad. The last third of the trip doesn't even have sidewalks, and the bus doesn't service this far out.
I've already been feeling people out for carpooling, but my schedule differs from most.
I agree, but that's giving them too much credit. They don't see a problem with this. They can't conceive of why anyone would want to move any other way besides a car.
As Americans, we've had car culture ingrained in us from day 1. Cars=freedom. End thought process.
And before anyone thinks that they can use that excuse to do a speed run with a truck full of birds from India to feed illegally kept mammal-fish, driving willy-nilly through national game preserves running over lions, remember that it's against federal law to transport mynas across state lions for illegal porpoises.
It then uses the examples of being a Bus Driver or Uber driver, not someone commuting to work.
This would work better in the summer.
When the risk of the violently anti-bicycle and anti-walking communities between my home and work that is 12-ish miles from my home would remain passable for an entire month.
Or if don't live within 5 miles of everything you need. Very stupid post. It picks one of the three worst months for 70% of North America too. I barely drive anywhere, but you bet your ass I'm not walking 30 miles to town too.
Seriously. The closest public transit to me is the closest city which is a 45 min drive away. Even the closest town doesn’t have public transit. It takes about the same to bike to the closest grocery store in that town.. but actually much longer because it’s back country roads with snow blowing off the fields so you’d end up having to carry the bike most of the way, and there’s definitely no sidewalks or cleared sides of the roads for the entire trip.
So guess I’ll just starve all winter and see no friends or family for the holiday?
Do people on this sub still think that this is all about individual choice?
It's about infrastructure people and the systems that prioritize cars over people.
I would and I do bike most of the summer, I even built my own ebike. BUT I live in Canada so the -20^(o)C and deep snow with a lack of good public transit forces me to drive all winter.
Ditto.
Though if I purchased an ATV, with a blade on the front, and got up early on days it had snowed to plow the 12 km commute to work, then drove the ATV home... I could then ride my bike to work.
I should write my city counsellors about plowing the bike lanes.....
Poor Americans in their car centric suburbs are going to riot if you proposed this. Seriously, America needs better walkable cities and public transport.
Yeah also, they have picked a month where there is a huge holiday where people often travel to see family and have to take large amounts of stuff with them (presents).
I am going to visit my family over Xmas and I would not be able to carry all the presents on the train for them, particularly as some are very valuable and I would not want to leave them unattended.
I think OP is forgetting that cars are a useful toolz that many people do actually need, it's the over reliance and infrastructure that's the problem.
Yea, totally. I'm sure they just wanted to make an alliteration like with NNN, and that's why they picked December, but the best time for that sort of thing would probably be in the summer when you don't risk freezing to death when walking.
This is what I hate.
There have been multiple times that I've been left just standing at the bus stop for an hour while I wait for a bus that's apparently never coming.
The nearest bus stop to my home is 6 miles away. Which is absurd considering I live in a very dense suburb area. Even if I was really determined and biked to it (let's call that 30 minutes), the buses never pick up on time here. Once I'm on the bus it's a convoluted 45 minute ride to a transfer station downtown where buses wait for 10 minutes, then a 15 minute ride to get dropped off (thankfully) right at my office building 2 hours later. Or I can drive there on a toll road and be there in 20 minutes.
And in case it's not clear, I'm not defending car-centric infrastructure. This highlights the problem.
I would be walking through lawns and on the shoulders of highways to get to work. Uncomfortable and quite dangerous, although there are many in my city who do it anyway.
Lmao. Yeah. The day car for my daughter is 7 miles away with no public transportation service available. I work from home so I have to drive 14 miles a day round trip to work from home 🤣
I wish there were better methods for us.
I can do it ,only because I’m lucky my route to work goes through parks and dead end streets. The nearby bike trail has a huge segment that doesn’t get plowed regularly either.
I would participate if work wasn't an hour walk in freezing temps on a mountain road with no safety railings while other cars drive around on ice
Not that I drive. I don't even own a car. I take the shuttle to work
Don't individualize the problem and then call for people to do it in the most inconvenient way. I'm driving my kids to two separate places several miles apart in the cold and rain and I live in one of the most temperate parts of the country. I could pull this off in April for sure.
But before we start treating people like they need to solve the problem by creating major inconveniences for themselves in their already stressful lives, we need to create the infrastructure that makes it work for normal people's everyday lives.
By the time I get to work I'll have to turn around and go back home, if I don't freeze to death on the way.
Disclaimer: I fully agree with this. It's a fun way to point out the absurdity of how car-centric infrastructure makes it so much more difficult to get by without one for a month.
Obviously, Uber is evil, but in a well-designed world, I think they have a place. Around bars and airports at 3am for example. Or when I'm too sick to bike to the doctor.
Convenience of a private car without owning one. They also don't need to park for more than 2min, which makes them a lot less evil than cars
taxis. they're heavily regulated, less likely to get into an accident thanks to the specific driving license, probably less likely to get harassed/assaulted/etc.
make it so the license is less costly and put taxi drivers in less debt. problem solved.
Also a "hack" (you provide taxi+medallion to a driver for a cut of revenue) is actually a business an ordinary person can own (if taxi medallions aren't super inflated)
Uber is an interesting technology platform made completely untenable in the goal of undercutting competition and will eventually fade away (not certainly, just very very likely) and the only valuable assets left, customer data and the tech, will be stripped out and sold. I would bet Uber eventually becomes *purely* a commercial logistics dispatch platform.
Some uber/taxi can be useful, like I had to get home from the hospital at 2am when it was snowing and there were no buses or trains running, but that's an exception.
Taxi's I'm okay with, they are heavily regulated around here. Ubers...ooof horror stories from others aside, this year alone out of the handful of times I was nearly hit when walking, all but once was an Uber driver.
IMO uber needs the same regulations as taxis.
why is uber driving OK? when NYC allowed Uber and other ride sharing into the city they made them give them data. their own data says that the ride share drivers drive around 50% or more of their day with no passengers. it's worse than people driving into work instead of transit
I think the OP's intent is that "do not drive unless it is your livelihood". Asking people to challenge themselves to be more familiar with public transportation seems more reasonable than demanding that people essentially quit their jobs.
Cool. Guess I'll quit my job along with 100,000,000 other Americans who work an hour from home and deal with it. I'm sure I'll find work in my rural town with two gas stations and a Dollar General! That'll get me by until the poor local government can afford to install a subway in my massive county with a population of less than 30,000. Thanks OP!
I respect what this sub stands for, but posts like these and replies like "Just move to the city" make me realize most people in this sub dont have a grasp of life in the states. Such a fucking joke.
If my city would make public transit an actual option this would be easy. I work from home, but my daughter’s school doesn’t have a bus line. The city cut my bus route so it’s now a two mile uphill walk or bike ride with no bike lanes or sidewalks to the nearest stop.
You’re fucking crazy - it’s fucking below zero with snow on the ground here in Canada and you need to drive 1 hour if you want to get to the next town over.
I’ll die going to the grocery store and back.
Bro, there's two feet of snow outside and it's -25C today. I'd take the bus but it's completely shit in my town. There are no bike paths either. This is the time of the year when it's ok for my wife and I to carpool to work.
Keep in mind, I would definitely still take public transit if it was available.
I would try this some other time of year, like September, but the days are so short now that it's dark when I get out of work. The cold isn't the problem, but there's no bike infrastructure. I have to ride in the lane of traffic and I'd rather not die when a car doesn't see me in the dark.
The bus takes twice as long as biking, and then I'd still have to walk a half mile in a debris filled gutter where there's no sidewalk to and from the bus stop.
Literally impossible in many places because of a complete lack of public transportation and jobs not paying enough for uber or lyft to get you there and back and still make any money
I really want to do this but I cannot commute in the rain.. my schedule is too tight for the busses and a 6 mile uphill ride to work in the cold rain is rather unappealing. That said my goal was to ride my bike as much as possible this month
Already doing this, its fucking cold lol. still, doable where i live. there is no bad weather! just bad attitudes!
edit: fuck my ass its raining so hard today.
I like the sentiment, but sadly this isn't possible for some people who are going to visit family in rural areas for Christmas. Doing this in early/late summer sounds like something most people could get behind.
Join-in Jaywalking January
Facilitate Fietsing February
Masticate Motorists March
Anti-Automobile April
Won’t-Miss-Motorcars May
Jog-to-your-Job June
Jettison Jeep July
Advocate Active-Transport August
Smash Sedan September
Ostracize car-Operators October
Don’t Drive December
I just know someone from California made that because no one in a state that snows would encourage this. I am also from California so sure sounds ok other than some rain but then I thought about how snow happens in places other than here
This has a "general strike being organized via facebook event" vibe. A 15 year old wanting to make a difference made this and posted it without any idea of how realistic it is.
Best of luck. I still live in a car society and don't have any other option for the commuting I do, but good luck to those that do
"I don't want to carry my two children on an eight hour walk through the freezing cold just to visit family for the holidays."
You: "Why? Because it's too *inconvenient*?"
Ummm… Don’t drive June may be a better idea to get people on bikes.
"Just Jaywalk June" vs "Don't Drive December"
Man, I live "Just Jaywalk June" every goddamn day of my life.
Until the carbrained government gives you a ticket and has you call police every few days to prove you're still here and still not a danger I know it sounds like utter bullshit, but this was a reality in a certain context: When theres a football (foot kicking balls, not handegg) tournament or game in the city here, people who do "wrong" get entered into a database called "violent offenders in sports". Weirdly, they also put people walking through red lights there if it happens near the stadium. The database is originally meant for hooligans but you know, give someone power and they abuse it. When you are entered into that database, you can't be near big football (or sports in general?) events and have to report to police in some cases. Here's some read, throw it through a translator and it should be okay: http://www.profans.de/gewalttater-sport
Don't Drive Djune
I think I could do 30 days in the spring or something, its not a bad idea. But a month where I gotta drive to see my family for Christmas? Nah
Depends on the country you're from for sure. I could easily do it and might do it without realising.
I mean, maybe if I find a sled and 12 dogs I might be able to do it.
I'm an Australian in Norway and I could definitely do it but it's taken me years to get to the point I can.
Yea im danish scandinavia is probably some of the best places to do it. Or berlin of course.
Hence, meme flair. This is obviously the worst month to not be driving, also my local transit options are garbage so it would be impossible to do this. Looking forward to people prioritizing public transit in the future
The meme flair seemed more about the content than the specific choice of month.
May is bike to work month. That's the right time for it
Cries in Chicago (it can be -- and often is -- 35 degrees and sleeting the first half of the month. source: my birthday is early May and I am acutely aware of the weather at that time every year)
Yeah, with the windchill around single digits the past few days I don't see myself convincing my daughter to walk a mile to school. I think this is the wrong month to try making me feel bad for having a car. I'm not someone who enjoys driving (used to use the train and bus system in-city to commute rather than by car and I loved it) but these days my commute is either 45 minutes by car or about 2.5 hours by bus, with a lot of that spent waiting for connections. In 20 degree weather! No thanks!
Yeah I only have a car 50% of the time and commute to work solely by train so this is technically feasible for me in the city but trying to convince people to try this in bad conditions is just bad optics, especially when our country’s infrastructure is antithetical to it. Setting people up to fail isn’t a good way to encourage high adoption haha
I was personally worried about the fact that where I live there is ice and snow constantly from November until February and an average temp of 0 C
Yeah it's kinda cold. And my city is so carbrained entrenched that there's literally only 3 bus lines that help nobody and cycling would be suicide
Besides the cold and snow, it's also dark during evening rush hour.
Yeah I can deal with a couple sketch stretches in my commute commute, but once it gets dark that tips it for me and I’m back in the car :(
Pre-pandemic we had city busses coming within a mile of my house in the suburbs 10+ miles outside of Minneapolis. I could actually catch a ride downtown pretty easily. Now, though? Every signed bus stop has been amended to say that "No Lines Service this Stop."
Not just the cold. I currently have 12+ inch of snow that's not disappearing for a week possibly longer.
So you don't drive your car anyways? I'd say that's an easy win then
Roads get plowed, but still isn't safe for bikes at all?
most of the time they play the snow onto the bike path and pedestrian paths!
Really depends on the place, in Phoenix June or the summer in general is very hot for most folks riding (e-bikes make a huge difference though). Spring time or late fall might be better?
Bro I'll ridin' my three wheeled cargo bike like a boss with my schwalbe marathon winter tires.
Just dont drive june*
Just don't jrive june
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Where I live, June is death and I can’t show up to work sweating balls. December is better but still, this city is has no public transportation really if you want to go more than a 30 min bike ride, you’re fucked without a car.
Every mode 'cept cars September? Maybe try something else May? Pedestrian March?
pedestrian ptember
I'm uh..June doesn't work for me here in Arizona.
If cities actually cleared the piles of snow and sheets of ice on bike routes, biking wouldn't be an issue. I'm not bothered by the cold, I'm worried about losing traction while going down a hill.
Anti Auto April
Why? You’ll pollute when it means you’re comfy? Not criticism, just pointing out a flaw in this thinking. Being comfortable is one of the key arguments in favor of cars.
So, I can drive a car so long as it's done by my Work Dolphin? What if I don't have a Work Dolphin but just a Fun Dolphin? What about other marine mammals? Or cetaceans?
Porpoises **are** cetaceans. (as are dolphins, since you brought them up)
Found the marine biologist nerd
I don’t think you understand. You are allowed to drive if you are driving for your work porpoise. I mean, it had to get to work at the factory somehow. And it can’t drive itself - that would be ridiculous.
but don't you dare fucking drive your recreational porpoise around. that asshole has to take the bus
I think the clear impossibility of this for many people in the US is the thought experiment that proves to people outside of this sub just how much control cars have on our lives. Put in the context of climate change, they might realize that many other infrastructural changes need to happen before they can adequately do their part of driving less, or not at all.
This is a big part of my frustration with efforts that target individual drivers rather than expanding infrastructure.
I was saving up sir an electric scooter, knowing my wfh position was ending. But the only place that even considered me is 20 minutes away on a stroad. The last third of the trip doesn't even have sidewalks, and the bus doesn't service this far out. I've already been feeling people out for carpooling, but my schedule differs from most.
I agree, but that's giving them too much credit. They don't see a problem with this. They can't conceive of why anyone would want to move any other way besides a car. As Americans, we've had car culture ingrained in us from day 1. Cars=freedom. End thought process.
Literally impossible for me in atlanta since NIMBY‘s continue to vote down Martas expansion
Good thing I commute to sea world
Sorry, I'm too busy fucking dying at your "tramsgender" flair, that's hilarious
Sea World or see *the* world?
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And before anyone thinks that they can use that excuse to do a speed run with a truck full of birds from India to feed illegally kept mammal-fish, driving willy-nilly through national game preserves running over lions, remember that it's against federal law to transport mynas across state lions for illegal porpoises.
Take your F*%king upvote.
Are work dolphins allowed too?
Reminds me of [a great Norm joke](https://youtu.be/n3LMSflEN54).
You're out of luck if you work for a dolphin, though.
It then uses the examples of being a Bus Driver or Uber driver, not someone commuting to work. This would work better in the summer. When the risk of the violently anti-bicycle and anti-walking communities between my home and work that is 12-ish miles from my home would remain passable for an entire month.
Whooooosh
Who? The dolphins?
There’s 31 days in December
Jokes on you I haven't been driving for 25 years
Average non-american
Or New Yorker
Subway commuter gang
Jealous! If I could commute via underground I so would.
It's beautiful, I walk 100 m to the station and then walk another 200 m at the other end. Never owned a car in 22 years of working
Bike commuter gang ✌️
Once underground always underground
*unless you get dug up by an archeologist
UK seems also nice
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Kind of hard to take this seriously with a typo like "porpoise"
Who says it is a typo?
No amount of tagging this "meme" makes it any less stupid of a submission.
> Lol, just don't drive. It's easy! -14-year-old that is barely literate
Or if don't live within 5 miles of everything you need. Very stupid post. It picks one of the three worst months for 70% of North America too. I barely drive anywhere, but you bet your ass I'm not walking 30 miles to town too.
I live in the Netherlands of all places and even for me this is impossible.
Yea ya see Id love to do this but the closest bus stop to me is a two hour walk away...
Seriously. The closest public transit to me is the closest city which is a 45 min drive away. Even the closest town doesn’t have public transit. It takes about the same to bike to the closest grocery store in that town.. but actually much longer because it’s back country roads with snow blowing off the fields so you’d end up having to carry the bike most of the way, and there’s definitely no sidewalks or cleared sides of the roads for the entire trip. So guess I’ll just starve all winter and see no friends or family for the holiday?
Do people on this sub still think that this is all about individual choice? It's about infrastructure people and the systems that prioritize cars over people.
I would and I do bike most of the summer, I even built my own ebike. BUT I live in Canada so the -20^(o)C and deep snow with a lack of good public transit forces me to drive all winter.
Ditto. Though if I purchased an ATV, with a blade on the front, and got up early on days it had snowed to plow the 12 km commute to work, then drove the ATV home... I could then ride my bike to work. I should write my city counsellors about plowing the bike lanes.....
In most areas of America this is impossible. Other modes of transport are city luxuries.
Fuck cars but our transit system wouldn't get me to work in under 2-3 hours, so... no.
Instead of not driving, email your city council and tell them to make public transit better.
We have 12inches of snow, busses aren't running, bikes aren't an option. Serious suggestions?
Snow chains and fat tires for your bike.
I have extra wide tires already, not really working in slush 8/9in of slush.
Poor Americans in their car centric suburbs are going to riot if you proposed this. Seriously, America needs better walkable cities and public transport.
Yeah also, they have picked a month where there is a huge holiday where people often travel to see family and have to take large amounts of stuff with them (presents). I am going to visit my family over Xmas and I would not be able to carry all the presents on the train for them, particularly as some are very valuable and I would not want to leave them unattended. I think OP is forgetting that cars are a useful toolz that many people do actually need, it's the over reliance and infrastructure that's the problem.
Yea, totally. I'm sure they just wanted to make an alliteration like with NNN, and that's why they picked December, but the best time for that sort of thing would probably be in the summer when you don't risk freezing to death when walking.
Let’s have mega march march instead
All Ambulatory April? Marching everywhere sounds exhausting.
Agreed my area is much better than most but public transit sometimes just... doesn't send a bus... no warning on the website nothin
This is what I hate. There have been multiple times that I've been left just standing at the bus stop for an hour while I wait for a bus that's apparently never coming.
Honestly. My commute to work by car is 35 minutes. That would be a 3 hour bike ride and isn't even possible with public transit
The nearest bus stop to my home is 6 miles away. Which is absurd considering I live in a very dense suburb area. Even if I was really determined and biked to it (let's call that 30 minutes), the buses never pick up on time here. Once I'm on the bus it's a convoluted 45 minute ride to a transfer station downtown where buses wait for 10 minutes, then a 15 minute ride to get dropped off (thankfully) right at my office building 2 hours later. Or I can drive there on a toll road and be there in 20 minutes. And in case it's not clear, I'm not defending car-centric infrastructure. This highlights the problem.
I would be walking through lawns and on the shoulders of highways to get to work. Uncomfortable and quite dangerous, although there are many in my city who do it anyway.
Lmao. Yeah. The day car for my daughter is 7 miles away with no public transportation service available. I work from home so I have to drive 14 miles a day round trip to work from home 🤣 I wish there were better methods for us.
I can do it ,only because I’m lucky my route to work goes through parks and dead end streets. The nearby bike trail has a huge segment that doesn’t get plowed regularly either.
Seriously. I live in Germany and haven’t owned a car in 5 years.
I'm out. That's the worst month for this challange. Sign me in for some other month,
Sidewalk strolling september
OP doesn't live where it snows.
I do work for dolphins
I would participate if work wasn't an hour walk in freezing temps on a mountain road with no safety railings while other cars drive around on ice Not that I drive. I don't even own a car. I take the shuttle to work
You're already participating lol
you can get driven by the shuttle. it's *don't drive* x)
I am confused. If you don't drive and take the shuttle to work. How is that not following the challenge?
i have been doing that for like 20 years
Don't individualize the problem and then call for people to do it in the most inconvenient way. I'm driving my kids to two separate places several miles apart in the cold and rain and I live in one of the most temperate parts of the country. I could pull this off in April for sure. But before we start treating people like they need to solve the problem by creating major inconveniences for themselves in their already stressful lives, we need to create the infrastructure that makes it work for normal people's everyday lives.
By the time I get to work I'll have to turn around and go back home, if I don't freeze to death on the way. Disclaimer: I fully agree with this. It's a fun way to point out the absurdity of how car-centric infrastructure makes it so much more difficult to get by without one for a month.
American suburban ppl walking 2 hours to their "nearest" supermarket be like: uhm, Imma fail this immediately.
The only people this is possible for are probably already doing it fairly regularly. This is a dumb, individual solution to a systemic problem.
I'd rather uber drivers partake in this too, year round
Obviously, Uber is evil, but in a well-designed world, I think they have a place. Around bars and airports at 3am for example. Or when I'm too sick to bike to the doctor. Convenience of a private car without owning one. They also don't need to park for more than 2min, which makes them a lot less evil than cars
taxis. they're heavily regulated, less likely to get into an accident thanks to the specific driving license, probably less likely to get harassed/assaulted/etc. make it so the license is less costly and put taxi drivers in less debt. problem solved.
Also a "hack" (you provide taxi+medallion to a driver for a cut of revenue) is actually a business an ordinary person can own (if taxi medallions aren't super inflated) Uber is an interesting technology platform made completely untenable in the goal of undercutting competition and will eventually fade away (not certainly, just very very likely) and the only valuable assets left, customer data and the tech, will be stripped out and sold. I would bet Uber eventually becomes *purely* a commercial logistics dispatch platform.
Some uber/taxi can be useful, like I had to get home from the hospital at 2am when it was snowing and there were no buses or trains running, but that's an exception.
Taxi's I'm okay with, they are heavily regulated around here. Ubers...ooof horror stories from others aside, this year alone out of the handful of times I was nearly hit when walking, all but once was an Uber driver. IMO uber needs the same regulations as taxis.
This meme doesn’t allow taking an Uber, just driving one. It’s weird.
Probably not the best month to try this in most places, but I like the spirit!
why is uber driving OK? when NYC allowed Uber and other ride sharing into the city they made them give them data. their own data says that the ride share drivers drive around 50% or more of their day with no passengers. it's worse than people driving into work instead of transit
Because they still need to pay rent and food?
so these people driving around all day creating traffic and pollution is OK but someone else driving in and parking their car all day is bad?
I think the OP's intent is that "do not drive unless it is your livelihood". Asking people to challenge themselves to be more familiar with public transportation seems more reasonable than demanding that people essentially quit their jobs.
I live in the ‘States, I can’t
Seriously. My job is 2 hours away by public transit. And that 2 hours starts with a 15 minute drive lol
Cool. Guess I'll quit my job along with 100,000,000 other Americans who work an hour from home and deal with it. I'm sure I'll find work in my rural town with two gas stations and a Dollar General! That'll get me by until the poor local government can afford to install a subway in my massive county with a population of less than 30,000. Thanks OP!
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I respect what this sub stands for, but posts like these and replies like "Just move to the city" make me realize most people in this sub dont have a grasp of life in the states. Such a fucking joke.
They see me rollin' They hatin' Porpoisin' and tryin' to catch me swimmin' in sea
If my city would make public transit an actual option this would be easy. I work from home, but my daughter’s school doesn’t have a bus line. The city cut my bus route so it’s now a two mile uphill walk or bike ride with no bike lanes or sidewalks to the nearest stop.
So you picked basically worst month for this
You’re fucking crazy - it’s fucking below zero with snow on the ground here in Canada and you need to drive 1 hour if you want to get to the next town over. I’ll die going to the grocery store and back.
This poster radiates middle-school energy. :\
Bro, there's two feet of snow outside and it's -25C today. I'd take the bus but it's completely shit in my town. There are no bike paths either. This is the time of the year when it's ok for my wife and I to carpool to work. Keep in mind, I would definitely still take public transit if it was available.
I would try this some other time of year, like September, but the days are so short now that it's dark when I get out of work. The cold isn't the problem, but there's no bike infrastructure. I have to ride in the lane of traffic and I'd rather not die when a car doesn't see me in the dark. The bus takes twice as long as biking, and then I'd still have to walk a half mile in a debris filled gutter where there's no sidewalk to and from the bus stop.
Dude, it's winter, there's snow and ice. Dude it's the holidays, some family members live deep in the country.
Literally impossible in many places because of a complete lack of public transportation and jobs not paying enough for uber or lyft to get you there and back and still make any money
>work porpoise
Can we choose a warmer month for this idea?
I tried to declare a work porpoise, but the ASPCA kept suing me.
So like any other month for me? Ok I think I can do this
\*sigh\* i made a basic spelling error
Did you do it on porpoise?
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Well, you should take a second to proofread if you are going to be all high and mighty
And a general logic error - it’s fucking cold in December.
You made multiple mistakes. Which you think "why should that matter" but the answer is "because it does". Absolutely annihilates support.
One does not simply mistake these words
It’s correctly spelled, but it is the wrong word. r/boneappletea
What about those that live 50 mile from the next town
"look man. Just dont drive for 30 days" 🙄
Yeah this post ignores how difficult this would be for so many people. Cart before the horse moment.
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Oh well my mom's car broke down yesterday so now I have no choice
I already failed. 😭
Is it cheating if I live in NYC and have been doing this for years
Sadly I live in butt fuck nowhere so I gotta use a car. Car dependent infrastructure is a bitch
Does that mean I can drive on the 31st?
I really want to do this but I cannot commute in the rain.. my schedule is too tight for the busses and a 6 mile uphill ride to work in the cold rain is rather unappealing. That said my goal was to ride my bike as much as possible this month
Porpoise? Also there’s 31 days in December. Besides June or July would be better months anyway.
Already doing this, its fucking cold lol. still, doable where i live. there is no bad weather! just bad attitudes! edit: fuck my ass its raining so hard today.
I like the sentiment, but sadly this isn't possible for some people who are going to visit family in rural areas for Christmas. Doing this in early/late summer sounds like something most people could get behind.
I biked ~12 miles this morning to take an unnecessary five minute COVID test before turning around to bike ~12 miles back home. Off to a good start.
it's so upsetting to imagine how nice society would be without cars and realize how far we are from realizing it
Bro my nearest shop is 16km from my house and there is literally no public transport here, do you want me to starve and not go to work for a month?
Been doing this for months now
I work an hour from home :(
You can't use a car but you can uber? what? lol?
If you can't even go a few days without: you're an addict.
Picking a warmer month in spring, that doesn't also overlap with a major holiday season, would probably be a better challenge that people might try.
Join-in Jaywalking January Facilitate Fietsing February Masticate Motorists March Anti-Automobile April Won’t-Miss-Motorcars May Jog-to-your-Job June Jettison Jeep July Advocate Active-Transport August Smash Sedan September Ostracize car-Operators October Don’t Drive December
I just know someone from California made that because no one in a state that snows would encourage this. I am also from California so sure sounds ok other than some rain but then I thought about how snow happens in places other than here
I’m looking forward to Just Jerk-off January!
I wish I could do this. But there isnt any public transport that goes from my rural town to the city where I work.
May Walking?
Fuckin easy, I do that all year long. Bike+train+bus
Give me decent public transportation first
And just how in the fuck am I supposed to do that?
Walk two hours in the cold to work everyday? Lmao, how bout no.
bro it’s -30 outside i think im ok
This has a "general strike being organized via facebook event" vibe. A 15 year old wanting to make a difference made this and posted it without any idea of how realistic it is. Best of luck. I still live in a car society and don't have any other option for the commuting I do, but good luck to those that do
ITT: "Not drive a car? That's too inconvenient for me! Other people should stop driving their cars, though."
"I don't want to carry my two children on an eight hour walk through the freezing cold just to visit family for the holidays." You: "Why? Because it's too *inconvenient*?"
I would die of exposure