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lancemantis posted:lol they used to have those at the crosswalk to the school in my neighborhood but they've been removed; just a few bolts in the street now if that means insane car weirdos gently caress up their tires, im all for it
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FMguru posted:http://www.clickhole.com/article/hell-yes-baby-it-special-choo-choo-medicine-called-5932 this one's not even a joke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8Gy-kgL8yA
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Jimmy Carter posted:reminder: Google capitulated to NIMBYs who didn’t want people to drive down ‘their’ roads to see the Hollywood sign this does bring up that tourist volume is becoming a large problem for lots of sites in the US that were just never really intended for that kind of volume; a big part of this is also due to social media
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like as an outdoors-y person I'm pretty aware of it wrt wilderness; a number of national parks and monuments and other locations have seen a pretty acute uptick in their visitor volume and its been pretty hard for them to cope, either because they weren't built for the volume or they just can't geographically handle it; places like Muir Woods have moved to things like shuttles and a visitation lottery system like they added to hiking Half Dome years ago one of the sources of complaints is social media culture is bringing a lot more people in to take their selfies or whatever (more realistically have someone take a photo of them and some other snapshots with $3000+ worth of DSLRs and other AV equipment and then transferring them to post them to instagram/snapchat/whatever); I guess you could say the positive is that the visitor turnover is higher its had a lot of negative wilderness impacts as well -- new people without good outdoors skills running of trail into sensitive areas for photos, more garbage, negative wildlife interactions, slips and falls and emergencies, etc some outdoors bloggers and the like have tried to be proactive about posting less specific geographic information with photos in the hope that maybe it will help but who knows; its also resulted in some comedy instagram accounts like @youdidnotsleepthere for me it's mostly meant getting places earlier and bringing extra pack-out bags for other peoples trash
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one thing I've personally noticed is that thanks to online reviews, the top couple of trails are absolutely jam-packed and the others are almost completely empty. It's shifted "day hikers" and similar others straight to the most popular trails because they are the ones that show up as 5 stars or whatever even here every once in a while we'll get someone showing up in the DC thread asking what is nature-related within driving distance for a day hike, and there are two really popular hikes nearby but we also warn them that if you go on a weekend and it isn't raining you'll experience the on-foot equivalent of DC traffic I often go rock climbing early on weekend mornings at great falls park and when I roll out around 11a there's a gigantic line of cars sitting on the access road waiting to come in, like 100+ cars sitting at the gate waiting for their turn because they limit traffic to what cars fit in the lots Bhodi fucked around with this message at 23:33 on Apr 6, 2018 |
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I guess its probably true of many things now, with the internet and ratings sites abound -- all that computer efficiency, efficiently sorting people into going to certain restaurants and tourist destinations and roads en masse where as before things might work on a more random search and discovery
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lol accounts like this drive some people absolutely apeshit i guess they don't like the idea that their dream life is staged
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yeah, social media also blends fame and capitalism quite well; its not just a popularity contest, its also a contest that can also make you rich through endorsements/native ads
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theyve been debating closing Hanging Lake here because it now gets way too many tourists and they do not respect the signs posted everywhere that scream DO NOT TOUCH, JUMP, WADE OR DIP YOUR TOE IN THE WATER. its an incredibly fragile composition and when stupid humans thrash about in it, the lake dies
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carry on then posted:lol accounts like this drive some people absolutely apeshit also #vanlife -- westfalia's are becoming the new geo metro
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lmao at yall discovering tourism protip: always choose spot #3ish
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Jonny 290 posted:theyve been debating closing Hanging Lake here because it now gets way too many tourists and they do not respect the signs posted everywhere that scream DO NOT TOUCH, JUMP, WADE OR DIP YOUR TOE IN THE WATER. its an incredibly fragile composition and when stupid humans thrash about in it, the lake dies fuuuck that is beautiful though & fuuuck everyone who ruins it
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Jonny 290 posted:theyve been debating closing Hanging Lake here because it now gets way too many tourists and they do not respect the signs posted everywhere that scream DO NOT TOUCH, JUMP, WADE OR DIP YOUR TOE IN THE WATER. its an incredibly fragile composition and when stupid humans thrash about in it, the lake dies wait until a dozen drones are crashed into it
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lancemantis posted:also #vanlife -- westfalia's are becoming the new geo metro i love dragging the van nerds
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i just got back from a week in yosemite where the weather was crappy with on/off rain but it was loving awesome because there was almost no one there, the trails were all empty but all the waterfalls where swolen and half dome was snow-capped 10/10 would go in late winter again
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Jonny 290 posted:theyve been debating closing Hanging Lake here because it now gets way too many tourists and they do not respect the signs posted everywhere that scream DO NOT TOUCH, JUMP, WADE OR DIP YOUR TOE IN THE WATER. its an incredibly fragile composition and when stupid humans thrash about in it, the lake dies reminds me of those dudes who jumped in that one tiny pond in death valley where like 2 fish in the world live and just trashed around in it and threw their beer cans in it  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzEORQtO-xo FCKGW fucked around with this message at 23:58 on Apr 6, 2018 |
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I believe there have been multiple incidents of that happening now; at least some degree of vandalism anyway those guys were recently sentenced btw http://www.lasvegasnow.com/news/2-vandals-of-pupfish-habitat-sentenced/982101864
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lancemantis posted:wait until a dozen drones are crashed into it lol spot on
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whodaknown that yosposters hate tourism and tourists
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Bulgogi Hoagie posted:whodaknown that yosposters hate tourism and tourists correct, i hate rich and/or white people
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AAAAAUUUGGGHHH!!! My car! My car is red hot! Elon you rat! How could you give your own customer the ol' spicy Tesla?!
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Bulgogi Hoagie posted:whodaknown that yosposters hate tourism and tourists is this somehow an objectionable position to you?
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speaking as a frequent tourist, most tourists are poo poo
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lancemantis posted:i don't know if you could do much to slow down traffic in my neighborhood for a number of streets outside of installing a lot of speed hills right off the bat, bike lanes are a sign that the road is way too wide and the speed limit is either set too high or just totally ineffective. if there is room for a bike lane, the street is too wide and drivers are going to speed like motherfuckers no matter what else you do on a residential street, traffic should be slow enough that cyclists are comfortable filtering into mixed traffic -- 20 mph or less.
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Cold on a Cob posted:speaking as a frequent tourist, most tourists are poo poo im the only non-poo poo tourist in yospos
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Cold on a Cob posted:speaking as a frequent tourist, most tourists are poo poo tourists are awesome every dollar a tourist pays in hotel tax is a dollar i'm not paying in income tax (this is one of many reasons airbnb is horrible)
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tourists please continue to come to maine and leave your money tia.
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no way shaggar i know what kind of hosed up poo poo happens there from reading all those history books by that stephen king dude. no way
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:right off the bat, bike lanes are a sign that the road is way too wide and the speed limit is either set too high or just totally ineffective. if there is room for a bike lane, the street is too wide and drivers are going to speed like motherfuckers no matter what else you do sharrows are trash use speed bumps and traffic circles as traffic calming measures i was in france and we drove the length of lake annecy and there wasn't a single traffic light the entire length of this massive tourist destination, just traffic circles. The traffic flowed smoothly the entire way, at a steady, manageable speed.
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Just-In-Timeberlake posted:sharrows are trash this goon speaks the truth. also, bumpouts 4 lyfe
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speed bumps slow down ambulances which kills olds so i’m all for them
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:speed bumps slow down ambulances which kills olds so i’m all for them lol. you’d love kalamazoo then. downtown is 100% bisected by railroad tracks and the freight trains sometimes sit there and block traffic for crazy amounts of time. http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2017/12/pattern_of_trains_blocking_kal.html
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Just-In-Timeberlake posted:sharrows are trash i don't mind sharrows because they are usually painted on streets where traffic moves slowly enough for my fat rear end on a bicycle to be able to keep up with cars speed bumps, on the other hand, really suck to go over on a bicycle
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:tourists are awesome wtf, explain
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:speed bumps, on the other hand, really suck to go over on a bicycle hell no, just pull on your handlebars at the exact right moment & its awesome alt. wtf, how come you dont ride a mountainbike?
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Krankenstyle posted:hell no, just pull on your handlebars at the exact right moment & its awesome that’s excitbike. ur thinking of excitebike.
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Krankenstyle posted:wtf, explain hotel taxes are an extremely lucrative source of revenue that local residents never have to pay every dollar collected from a tourist is a dollar they are not looking at me to provide
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Krankenstyle posted:wtf, explain
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Krankenstyle posted:wtf, explain i assume he lives in hell state florida, where we've replaced state-level income taxes with really high hotel taxes e: and nevada, forgot about them
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