ate poo poo on live tv posted:

don't try to tell me you haven't seen a brooklyn cyclist with noise cancelling headphones on.

ate poo poo on live tv posted:

Shut the gently caress up retard. Slurs have always been allowed in cspam

i say swears online posted:

lmao that was my post above. i got the brass crane bell, you?

vyelkin posted:

Buffalo, NY

Polo-Rican posted:

drat that's crazy you saw a guy with headphones? imagine if literally every car driver was blasting music with their windows up

ate poo poo on live tv posted:

Shut the gently caress up retard. Slurs have always been allowed in cspam though one time some mod started to concern troll about the word "bitch" being used.

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

SKULL.GIF posted:

https://www.reddit.com/r/UrbanHell/comments/pt4bfi/my_citygroningennl_and_the_battle_against/

SKULL.GIF posted:

https://www.reddit.com/r/UrbanHell/comments/pt4bfi/my_citygroningennl_and_the_battle_against/

vyelkin posted:

it's beautiful

SKULL.GIF posted:

https://www.reddit.com/r/UrbanHell/comments/pt4bfi/my_citygroningennl_and_the_battle_against/

i say swears online posted:

more car drivers should smoke cigarettes, i drive everywhere with the windows down and i feel a lot more aware with better vision

God Hole posted:

you are blasting your lungs with combustion particulate with the windows down and statistically you are going to die earlier and more unpleasantly

Leroy Diplowski posted:

So if I'm reading this right the thread consensus is ban cars and give every pedestrian a bicycle so there are only cyclists. If you have no legs you get a handbike and if you have no arms or legs I'll cart you around in a pedicab.

Also only the BMX punks around here blast their Bluetooth speakers from their bikes but it's so obnoxious that I actually love it. Society has utterly failed these children and their only recourse is to make a complete nuisance of themselves rolling around poisoning the air with mumble rap and Billie eilish. Anyone who tells them to stop has to reckon with me.

Mayor Dave posted:

Mass transit alongside bikes tho

the bitcoin of weed posted:

most of the US gets this 3-6 months out of the year involuntarily and doesn't even get a nice buzz to go along with it, you might as well have a nice cig

quote:

New research from Harvard University, in collaboration with the University of Birmingham, the University of Leicester and University College London, found that more than 8 million people died in 2018 from fossil fuel pollution, significantly higher than previous research suggested—meaning that air pollution from burning fossil fuels like coal and diesel was responsible for about 1 in 5 deaths worldwide.

gay_crimes posted:

Highways are super hosed. I've known "car bad" for a while, suburban sprawl is devastating the biosphere, but the local pollution impact I understood was vague and unclear. I started digging in more and recently learned how about terrible ultrafine particles are, and how you're breathing that poo poo any time you're driving or within 300m of a highway. And if you're in an area with nocturnal surface inversions, like LA or Salt Lake City, you're getting extra hosed, because the extent of the pollution plume greatly extends extends at night and can't disperse normally, resulting in plumes extending up to 3000m if you happen to be down wind of the highway or major road. You breathe that in all night, and it easily gets indoors, and most filtering systems won't capture it.

Also, do not live near airports, especially if you're within 5-10 miles downwind of the airport depending on the prevailing winds of your area.

Don't jog in the nice, brisk morning.

Always recirculate air in your car when you drive, the air you breathe is pure poison on the highway but recirculating cuts it down to 20%, which is still terrible but not as bad. Major roads have these problems as well, depending on the car throughput per day, if you live near an intersection, on a hill, anything that would cause cars to accelerate or brake harder.

Truly awful stuff, and it's invisible! Makes me reflect on extended periods of time I've lived close to highways and major roads and would get headaches and regularly had irritated sinuses and breathing issues that resolved after moving. Or my grandparent who lived within 500ft of a highway and a mile downwind from the airport who died young from cancer. Or a person I know with asthma who grew up near a busy road and close to an oil refinery. Dated someone who had a sibling with autism and multiple different types of psychoses, their childhood home was within 1000ft of a highway and downwind from an airforce base. Fuckin everyone near or inside cities is getting poisoned with this poo poo and it slowly cooks you over time. You could go move out into the wilderness or a sparsely populated area, but global warming will still get you there, and you're more likely to die from something stupid and random like appendicitis because you're far away from services. A lot of people here probably know this stuff already, but I don't think it's common knowledge.

gently caress cars

quote:

We measured the spatial pattern of particle number (PN) concentrations downwind from the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) with an instrumented vehicle that enabled us to cover larger areas than allowed by traditional stationary measurements. LAX emissions adversely impacted air quality much farther than reported in previous airport studies. We measured at least a 2-fold increase in PN concentrations over unimpacted baseline PN concentrations during most hours of the day in an area of about 60 km2 that extended to 16 km (10 miles) downwind and a 4- to 5-fold increase to 8–10 km (5–6 miles) downwind. Locations of maximum PN concentrations were aligned to eastern, downwind jet trajectories during prevailing westerly winds and to 8 km downwind concentrations exceeded 75 000 particles/cm3, more than the average freeway PN concentration in Los Angeles. During infrequent northerly winds, the impact area remained large but shifted to south of the airport. The freeway length that would cause an impact equivalent to that measured in this study (i.e., PN concentration increases weighted by the area impacted) was estimated to be 280–790 km. The total freeway length in Los Angeles is 1500 km. These results suggest that airport emissions are a major source of PN in Los Angeles that are of the same general magnitude as the entire urban freeway network. They also indicate that the air quality impact areas of major airports may have been seriously underestimated.

Mayor Dave posted:

I caught a probe in cspam 5 years ago for empty quoting a slur lmao no idea what asolt is talking about

Sphyre posted:

Sphyre posted:

Leroy Diplowski posted:

So you're saying like a bunch of those crazy 20 person beer bikes but without the beer because it's 8am on a workday for chrissakes. And then maybe rail bikes too because we gotta be inclusive of train loving people.

Don't need boat bikes because sails and oars have been invented. Ok I don't think I'm missing anything.

Notorious R.I.M. posted:

amazing how little solidarity there is in this thread about hating cars. car culture truly is everywhere

hot cocoa on the couch posted:

hey rally buddy. i have a rallycross car and have been co-driving for the past 2 years. eventually i'll buy/build my own caged car but covid has me apprehensive about doing that any time soon

post the rally car

e: whoops didn't realize what thread i was in, whatever, post the rally car anyway lol

ate poo poo on live tv posted:

Shut the gently caress up retard. Slurs have always been allowed in cspam though one time some mod started to concern troll about the word "bitch" being used.

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

SKULL.GIF posted:

https://www.reddit.com/r/UrbanHell/comments/pt4bfi/my_citygroningennl_and_the_battle_against/

hot cocoa on the couch posted:

hey rally buddy. i have a rallycross car and have been co-driving for the past 2 years. eventually i'll buy/build my own caged car but covid has me apprehensive about doing that any time soon

post the rally car

e: whoops didn't realize what thread i was in, whatever, post the rally car anyway lol

vyelkin posted:

trap sprung

Leroy Diplowski posted:

So if I'm reading this right the thread consensus is ban cars and give every pedestrian a bicycle so there are only cyclists. If you have no legs you get a handbike and if you have no arms or legs I'll cart you around in a pedicab.

Also only the BMX punks around here blast their Bluetooth speakers from their bikes but it's so obnoxious that I actually love it. Society has utterly failed these children and their only recourse is to make a complete nuisance of themselves rolling around poisoning the air with mumble rap and Billie eilish. Anyone who tells them to stop has to reckon with me.

Fitzy Fitz posted:

https://twitter.com/repkord/status/1440908464625106946?s=20

Fitzy Fitz posted:

https://twitter.com/repkord/status/1440908464625106946?s=20

God Hole posted:

no by all means, enjoy your smokes. roll your window up tho

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/c-change/news/fossil-fuel-air-pollution-responsible-for-1-in-5-deaths-worldwide/



https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/es5001566

vyelkin posted:

ban cars