The increase in criticism of personal car ownership is probably influenced by a couple of things.

One being how many people went out and got cars during the pandemic. While TLC plates make up a ton of cars on the road, the increase in personal car ownership has made parking a nightmare. Combine that with the fact that people have realized they’d rather use streets for literally anything other than personal cars and you get where we are now.

The second is there are just more options now. The subways always been there along with busses, but dedicated street space to bus lanes has likely improved service in some areas allowing people to ditch their cars. Combine that with the fact that there are significantly more bike lanes and a (flawed but fairly widespread) bike share system available and again, people are just realizing cars aren’t as necessary as they once were.

> Lime is owned by Uber and CitiBike is owned by Lyft. I never seen or heard this much hate for personal car ownership from Native New Yorkers until recently.

Are you sure it isn't just Reddit? Most people don't live their life thinking about urban planning

It’s the transplants that have the “fuck cars” mentality in the nyc subs. Many of us who grew up here know that many people in the outer boroughs NEED a car in order to get anything done because there’s no trains the further out you go and also the buses are sparse at night.

Everything we see on this sub is curated by a small group of anonymous accounts with varying editorial agendas and no transparency.

Thank you for this. Native New Yorkers who are older know that cars help folks and the anti-car sentiment does nothing to help us.

Your belief is a fact. TransAlt took lot of donations from uber and lyft and suddenly all city council clowns are singing ban cars while literally video conferencing from backseat of taxpayer funded chauffeured cars. They are also paying lot of influencers on social media and thinktanks to push this urbanism car free cities narrative on twitter. Lot of it also has to do with suburban transplants who grew up with car culture in ohio so they hate cars but most of us immigrants and city dwellers who grew up in poor countries and been traveling in trains and buses and riding bikes since childhood know that cars improve standard of living and take you places nothing else can in any part of the world.

The goal of lyft and modern luxury condominium developers is to eliminate car ownership to take away streets for building more luxury condos and increase lyft and citibike dependency. they have already increased citibike annual fee to over $200 which i think is ridiculous as you can own a bike for $200.

No, people who don't want cars because it's better to have cities designed like European cities with better public transportation and not depend on a car that is expensive and costly to maintain are behind the "fuckcars" thing. That philosophy includes saying fuck rideshare cars as well.

True but it's not just ride share cars. Someone in the comments pointed it out, it takes one simple mistake to create congestion, distracted driving, going too slow, breaking, looking for parking etc. That will slow down person number 2 and 3 and 4 and so forth

This happens a lot on THE LIE where traffic is bad before the cross island and than opens up and than slows down and than opens up. Usually behind every slow pileup there's miles of free space.

Perfectly said

it is - and you are right ....

"Here’s where Uber and Lyft come in, and the local skirmish potentially takes a more broadly relevant twist. Meeker Ave Neighbors, the group behind the petition to halt the refurbishment, learned that Transportation Alternatives (TA), the muscular, decades-old bike lane advocacy group behind the plan, accepted a combined $125,000 from Uber and Lyft in 2020, along with donations from Revel, Bird, and Lime.

TA has undeniably facilitated otherwise-unavailable environmentally friendly transport throughout the city. It pushed the city to install the nation’s first protected bike lanes, lower the speed limit, and introduce Vision Zero, a plan to reduce traffic injuries (also a cornerstone of the de Blasio administration’s platform). It’s hard to argue with reducing traffic; the Brooklyn Queens Expressway running over the parking area is a backed-up exhaust vent that’s sickened nearby residents with some of the highest asthma rates in the city. Last year, New York City added the equivalent of 56.5 million tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. We don’t have to reiterate that a case for cars over subways and bikes is a case for the end of life on Earth.

But it’s unclear why TA chooses to side with corporations whose tens of thousands of vehicles congest the streets and spend, on average, a third of their time idling and waiting for rides. It’s not the first transit group to do so; bike activists from national groups, Denver, San Francisco, and the UK have all taken money from rideshare companies. One former TA organizer who took a job at Lyft wrote, in self-defense, that the company “has pledged to support protected bike lanes and pedestrian safety infrastructure even when it does not benefit the bottom-line.”

https://gizmodo.com/a-small-war-over-bike-lanes-may-be-an-uber-and-lyft-con-1847795365

there are absolutely people paid to promote and spam threads here as part of the larger overall push for "bikes" and "congestion pricing " and leave the rest of the populace at the mercy of Uber and Lyft, to be the only alternative for people who cant use a bike and arent anywhere near (useful) transportation.

there is a poster here that REGULARLY spams this reddit and the other NYC reddit with a form letter to be sent to promote a bounty program for people to get paid for tickets written against cars.

it absolutely is organized.