|
Cup Runneth Over posted:Some fault of the driver. When operating a two-ton death machine at lethal velocities in the middle of the night you should exercise heightened awareness and anticipate the people around you doing something stupid. okay but what if im driving a three-to-four ton death machine? ever think about that dum dum? it's called i n e r t i a. you try stopping a four-ton death machine
|
#
?
Dec 20, 2021 09:45
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 10, 2024 04:29 |
|
|
https://twitter.com/yalemiki275/status/1472808965415137282
|
|
#
?
Dec 20, 2021 09:46
|
|
|
someusername posted:Upstate local musician takes his girlfriend's keys so she won't DWI home from a bar on the outskirts of Syracuse. lmfao. Absolute insanity. gently caress that DA too
|
|
#
?
Dec 20, 2021 09:59
|
|
|
lobster shirt posted:aside from just straight up not paying attention (looking at phones and stuff) it really does seem like a lot of people keep their eyes fixed like directly in front of their cars, never scanning the road or checking mirrors. you gotta maintain situational awareness! they redid a street near me with the European style zig-zag sidelines as you approach the crosswalk and helped redirect my eyes very quickly to scan the sides of the street as I passed.
|
|
#
?
Dec 20, 2021 10:09
|
|
|
Took a blind man on a tandem bike ride the other day, since his previous biking partner left the city a few years ago. Nearly get hit by a car in a completely pedestrianised area of the waterfront, because this dickhead driver only looked to his left while pulling out of a carpark across a footpath onto another foot traffic priority area, as we approached from his right. Fortunately I don't trust drivers so managed to avoid him hitting us
|
|
#
?
Dec 20, 2021 10:16
|
|
|
Xaris posted:okay but what if im driving a three-to-four ton death machine? ever think about that dum dum? it's called i n e r t i a. you try stopping a four-ton death machine well the pedestrian in front of you is gonna give it an honest effort
|
|
#
?
Dec 20, 2021 10:27
|
|
|
Would love a paradigm where city planners, city council, and special transportation district chairs are held criminally responsible for putting pedestrians on dark streets where they get runover by cars. Until that maybe we could redacted
|
|
#
?
Dec 20, 2021 13:51
|
|
|
theres an old US folk tradition i would like to see come back, where when someone elected to office shows themselves to be enough of a shitheel, the local population would show up at their home in the middle of the night and use hand tools to completely demolish it the idea is to remove the family first and make them watch, ive gathered
|
|
#
?
Dec 20, 2021 14:09
|
|
|
Hello I'm from Europe and I hate cars. I've read all the stories here about how the US sucks because it was designed around cars (which is very true - I've driven there, and tried and failed to walk to places that should be within walking distance but have no "sidewalk"). Over here, we have a different problem: cities that very much were not designed around cars, but have them anyway. When I lived in London I very rarely drove. If I did, I took a relaxed attitude towards time - if you reckon with an average progress of 5mph, you're never disappointed/enraged. But other London drivers disagree, and are very angry they can't get from A to B as if they were on a rural A-road. The side roads are even worse. Here's a typical residential road in inner London  Note the percentage of width given over to parking, leaving enough space for around 1.4 cars to pass each other without ducking in and out of parking spaces (these are almost always 2-way streets). As a cyclist you pretty much have to ride dead centre to avoid being doored. Sometimes these have 20mph limits but often 30, and people bomb down them at 40 as well. Efforts to restrict rat-running, by creating so-called Low-Traffic Neighbourhoods, result in howls of outrage, threats to vote out any councillors who dare to suggest such a thing, and the destruction of bollards/planters/concrete barriers used to split up the through-routes. Oh and a cascade of concern-trolling about ambulances and disabled people. It's sad because unlike most of the US, London is ready-made to be carless, but the car brain has infected even the central Londoners. Now I live in the Netherlands, which is well known as a cycling paradise (the Dutch think they have the best everything, which isn't quite true, but they're right about their cycling infrastructure). The Clarksonite Brits probably think this makes it driving hell, but it's actually the most pleasant place I've driven. All you have to do is remember you're not top of the food chain, and learn when to give way to bikes and pedestrians (most of the time). So yes, driving hell for a car supremacist. The Dutch do make up for this on the motorways though, where they don't have to watch out for anyone, and stopping distances are something that happens to other people. Lest you think I'm suggesting a compromise with the cars - no, this country is still too car friendly. But the concerted effort from the 1970s to "stop murdering our children" introduced at least some unfriendliness that makes cycling or walking a better option in many cases. Here's a cross-country road near me. This has a 60km/h limit, and is designed not to be comfortably wide enough for 2 cars - but it is uncomfortably wide enough. So if you put your foot down and don't pay attention, you'll probably lose a wing mirror to a passing tractor  The idea being that you don't use this as a rat-run when the (parallel) motorway's a bit busy. Note also the generously sized cycle path that runs the whole way alongside. (E)bikes, scooters, mobility scooters, manual wheelchairs, weird balance wheel things, all get the VIP treatment while cars dodge onto the rumble strips.
|
|
#
?
Dec 20, 2021 14:14
|
|
|
What's the first picture in the thread? I mean other than "everywhere". There's a skyline forever in the distance but it's too far for me to identify it at a glance
|
|
#
?
Dec 20, 2021 17:12
|
|
|
Brampton Ontario. Local news is lauding the completion of an 8-mile bike path after 7 years. Mayor says its something future generations will look back on favorably lmao
|
|
#
?
Dec 20, 2021 17:17
|
|
|
lets get carpilled https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1472968788412882947
|
|
#
?
Dec 20, 2021 17:54
|
|
|
Lastgirl posted:lets get carpilled Becoming a master of this style and using it to choke out drivers one by one until there are none left
|
|
#
?
Dec 20, 2021 19:29
|
|
|
good pup 
|
|
#
?
Dec 20, 2021 20:18
|
|
|
Milo and POTUS posted:What's the first picture in the thread? I mean other than "everywhere". There's a skyline forever in the distance but it's too far for me to identify it at a glance Vaughan, Ontario. often featured on thread favourite channel not just bikes
|
|
#
?
Dec 20, 2021 20:33
|
|
|
https://twitter.com/samdman95/status/1473004355318075399?s=20
|
|
#
?
Dec 20, 2021 21:57
|
|
|
oh my god I hate these goblins so much
|
|
#
?
Dec 20, 2021 22:13
|
|
|
its well known that cars modified for paraplegic people to drive are very affordable for most people, even cheaper than stock unmodified cars. it's ableist to hate parking therefore.
|
|
#
?
Dec 20, 2021 22:47
|
|
|
anyway saturday night a wrong way drunk driver killed two people in a highway crash. great transport system we have set up here overall where bars have minimum parking requirements and people actually hop in the freeway to drive to them. if only there was a less dangerous way to get around. cant think of any.
|
|
#
?
Dec 20, 2021 22:50
|
|
|
It's beautiful https://twitter.com/dmtrubman/status/1473360872089133063?s=20
|
|
#
?
Dec 21, 2021 20:46
|
|
|
Another image of the same railway: The idea of taking an open-air trolley into the mountains is so lovely. Of course, you wouldn't be able to blast your favorite podcast and stop at every other Starbucks drive-thru, so I can see why they tore it down.
|
|
#
?
Dec 21, 2021 21:02
|
|
|
lol life for the average person could be so much better than it is  
|
|
#
?
Dec 21, 2021 21:11
|
|
|
We have a few lines that sort of still do this (e.g. Blue Ridge Scenic Railway, Durango-Silverton Railway), but they're still treated as a destination rather than a mode of travel. You can't take a train from Atlanta to Blue Ridge. You have to drive there.
|
|
#
?
Dec 21, 2021 21:13
|
|
|
|
|
#
?
Dec 22, 2021 18:46
|
|
|
These are the newest trains in Moscow, they are pretty nice except for one issue…fabric seats.(10).jpg)
|
|
#
?
Dec 22, 2021 19:05
|
|
|
This is doing the rounds on twitter so you might have already seen it but if not, please enjoy the following traffic calming measure in action. It's designed to stop large commercial vehicles cutting through residential streets, and help enforce the 20mph limit https://twitter.com/WorldBollard/status/1447848931031928833
|
|
#
?
Dec 22, 2021 20:11
|
|
|
europe fuckin' owns
|
|
#
?
Dec 22, 2021 21:38
|
|
|
Ardennes posted:These are the newest trains in Moscow, they are pretty nice except for one issue…fabric seats. lol BART had fabric seats for like 50 years. it wasnt until like 2015 that they got rid of them. just the dumbest decision
|
|
#
?
Dec 22, 2021 21:39
|
|
|
I don't understand how this works. Do they swing in from the side?
|
|
#
?
Dec 22, 2021 22:05
|
|
|
Fitzy Fitz posted:I don't understand how this works. Do they swing in from the side? you don't speed through like a psychopathic american on a death drive to apple bees angered that you lost 2 seconds of time at the last light because someone didn't accelerate quick enough even a ford f150 is only about 6'-6" which leaves 6" of clearance (assuming you dont have those dumb aftermarket cab steps protruding). easy enough to do just do it slow instead of like a dumb rear end driver edit: i think i misunderstood you, an actual frog explained it. they're just cast-in-place bollards and there's a sign there showing the posting Width Limit (and a Speed Limit). point is to get people coming off the nearby freeway at like 70 mph to slow down to 20 mph when they enter town so they don't plow through a bunch of pedestrians at immense kinetic energy. every town should have em, its a good idea. Xaris has issued a correction as of 22:19 on Dec 22, 2021 |
|
#
?
Dec 22, 2021 22:11
|
|
|
Fitzy Fitz posted:I don't understand how this works. Do they swing in from the side?
|
|
#
?
Dec 22, 2021 22:14
|
|
|
See also: giving cyclists "plenty of space" when passing  Xaris posted:every town should have em, its a good idea. 
an actual frog has issued a correction as of 22:42 on Dec 22, 2021 |
|
#
?
Dec 22, 2021 22:27
|
|
|
Fitzy Fitz posted:I don't understand how this works. Do they swing in from the side? This is going to blow your mind but A lot of people are very bad at driving and clearly fail a basic practical test in real world conditions
|
|
#
?
Dec 22, 2021 22:38
|
|
|
I'd be shocked if most people didn't just drive around the bollards onto the wrong side of the road
|
|
#
?
Dec 23, 2021 00:16
|
|
|
El Pollo Blanco posted:I'd be shocked if most people didn't just drive around the bollards onto the wrong side of the road If you did it in a car brained broken society, they absolutely would. And complain about how dangerous the intersection is
|
|
#
?
Dec 23, 2021 00:38
|
|
|
Polo-Rican posted:Nowadays, when north american cities discuss streetcars or transit, it's generally just a deal between local government and the real estate lobby to boost property values along the transit line, and they don't give a fraction of a poo poo about actually building a good transportation system for the working class Dredging this one up because it's been this way for over a century: the trolleys and interurbans that this thread jacks itself dry to were the product of real-estate schemes in what are now the inner suburbs, and were abandoned or turned over to local governments as soon as the real estate schemes played out.
|
|
#
?
Dec 23, 2021 01:33
|
|
|
gently caress i hate cars
|
|
#
?
Dec 23, 2021 01:43
|
|
|
El Pollo Blanco posted:I'd be shocked if most people didn't just drive around the bollards onto the wrong side of the road the video makes it look like the other side also has bollards and the middle lane is a bus lane, so presumably people would just declare themselves a bus and drive down the middle
|
|
#
?
Dec 23, 2021 03:19
|
|
|
https://twitter.com/RayDubicki/status/1473850546192670720?t=YoH25VXSuVEG0T-4fd3RsA&s=19
|
|
#
?
Dec 23, 2021 06:43
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 10, 2024 04:29 |
|
|
https://twitter.com/WorldBollard/status/1473666026055344135
|
|
#
?
Dec 24, 2021 04:07
|
|