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Blockade posted:I live in cook county, transit is okay assuming you want to go from the outer wards to the loop, or vis versa. If you want to go between wards well gently caress you then. I was wondering about living right downtown (east of 90, where the two rivers join up - river north neighborhood?). is there anything in terms of daily tasks/errands you couldn't just easily walk to? looks like all the above ground subways converge just south of that edit: if you lived anywhere near that rectangle wher ethey all converge, that seems like it would make being car-free pretty easy. you have blue to o'hare, orange to midway, and one going north and south. and I assume there's gotta be plenty of everything you need for daily tasks given the density in the area. 
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mastershakeman posted:look up In my neighborhood the blue line is underground. Well technically it goes above ground between division and Damen, but I was walking down Ashland to division so I didn't see the tracks.
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actionjackson posted:I was wondering about living right downtown (east of 90, where the two rivers join up - river north neighborhood?). is there anything in terms of daily tasks/errands you couldn't just easily walk to? The issue is affordability more than walkability. The highest rents in the city are in and around the Loop
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i loving hate cars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTV-wwszGw8
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HAIL eSATA-n posted:i loving hate cars his videos are good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42oQN7fy_eM
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Atrocious Joe posted:The issue is affordability more than walkability. The highest rents in the city are in and around the Loop yeah I figured, I would just buy a (very small) condo if I ever moved there I don't have any personal or family connection to the city, but I'm in Minneapolis so the winters would honestly be a bit balmy compared to what we get here Minneapolis has a huge plan (the removing all single family only zoning was the first part of it) to move towards more anticar infrastructure, but who knows when it will actually happen
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Polo-Rican posted:even as someone whose brain is 75% "nyc facts," I had no idea washington square park used to look like this was also once a potters field. 
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I have a friend in river west in chicago and she sold her car years ago. she doesn't cook though, just eats out every meal. the tech salaries there are pretty dang high
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what is to be done about cars?
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Rexicon1 posted:what is to be done about cars? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvUI0XG0HwE
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lil poopendorfer posted:Maybe this is not the case for all e-bikes but for many, you can’t change a flat yourself which is just I bought a motor and battery and stuck it on my old MTB then put commuter tyres on it, maintenance is identical to that of a regular bike, you just need to take the motor apart every few thousand kms to regrease it? Fitting the motor took about 30 mins. It took me longer to take off my handle bar grips and brake lever to fit the throttle. Don't buy an ebike, just upgrade your existing bike I have about 100kms of range with pedal assist and can zoom around at 40km/h for about 25km on the throttle alone El Pollo Blanco has issued a correction as of 21:16 on Oct 11, 2021 |
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The L is a okay commuter system along with Metra but to be honest, it is pretty seriously flawed as a modern transit system, not only it is impossible to transfer outside of the loop/downtown but it is also just antiquated and can be aggravatingly slow depending on the line. It makes sense considering parts of it were built in the 19th century. The real issue is, that despite the obvious need for investment, it just doesn't happen and probably won't because it would actually take Illinois investing billions. I would say though that is pretty typical of most legacy systems in the US (Chicago/New York/Philadelphia/Boston), they provide some decent coverage since they were mostly already built out by the 1960s, but just kind of get forgotten about except for a drip of investment here and there usually since neither state governments or the fed really give a rats rear end. Still beats light rail Ardennes has issued a correction as of 22:07 on Oct 11, 2021 |
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Car production is being destroyed by the supply chain crises, with chips being particularly hard hit. Plants are shutting down for days at at time because makers don't have the components to finish vehicles. Mechanics trying to service customers are finding some parts are 6+ weeks out on back order. Many dealerships have less than 1/3rd of usual inventory. The price of used cars has risen about 30% over 1 year. Energy prices are also rising rapidly. The upside is, there will be less driving whether people like it or not. The downside is, my dumbass country is doing nothing to adapt. In the ideal case you have a massive buildout of trains, light rail, bus routes, and bike lanes. Create more walkable neighborhoods with pedestrian streets. That hasn't been happening though. If it's too expensive to drive casually in the future a lot of communities are just going to die because they require cars to get around and have no viable alternatives in place. I really like trains. Build more trains imo.
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strange feelings re Daisy posted:Create more walkable neighborhoods with pedestrian streets. yeah everyone assumes that when people say "i hate cars," they mean "replace cars with trains." that's part of the solution, but the real solution is just building better communities so that more people can go to the bank, get groceries, and pick up a burrito on foot without needing to worry about vehicles at all
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The truck crossed the double yellow, veered the wrong way into a fully separated bike lane, killed a guy and still was not charged by cops https://twitter.com/StreetsblogNYC/status/1447696918121963523?t=VuKzfGW2k7YmaldxLbmbmQ&s=19 Polo-Rican has issued a correction as of 01:28 on Oct 12, 2021 |
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too many words gently caress CARS
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flex-posts don't make a bike lane protected wtf
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i say swears online posted:I have a friend in river west in chicago and she sold her car years ago. she doesn't cook though, just eats out every meal. the tech salaries there are pretty dang high Most places in Chicago are walking distance from a Jewel, and certainly a corner store, I don't have a car and I get by in all seasons without issue. I'm miles from the loop too.
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i say swears online posted:flex-posts don't make a bike lane protected wtf Of course it does, it makes it so urban debris like plastic bags used condoms and pigeons get stuck in the posts when being carried around by the wind, safely filtering them out of the bike lane space making bike riding a much safer and satisfying experience for all
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alexa add car taser to cart
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flexposts are hilarious because they do literally nothing to prevent car murder but will definitely cause a person on a bike to crash
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we got a nice new bike lane and people are still riding along the loving road the wrong way 
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HAIL eSATA-n posted:flexposts are hilarious because they do literally nothing to prevent car murder but will definitely cause a person on a bike to crash they're great if you like to murder to a beat
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even if you can't go full train you can keep pushing parking further away from the city center to make a larger and larger good-zone free of most motorized traffic, all of which is limited to 20mph/30kph. delivery vehicles still need to happen but there's few enough of them that a low speed limit won't cause traffic. we won't, of course, because we're posessed by the cursed ghost of henry "hitler's pal" ford.
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Radirot posted:we got a nice new bike lane and people are still riding along the loving road the wrong way that means thw nice new bike lane is a huge piece of poo poo!!
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HAIL eSATA-n posted:that means thw nice new bike lane is a huge piece of poo poo!! ok but it’s not though. it’s even separated from the road in its own space too for extra safety. RadiRoot has issued a correction as of 04:56 on Oct 12, 2021 |
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it's just dumb noobs. my first time road biking i thought it would be safer to see the cars coming toward me until a group of lycra-clad cyclists going the correct way bullied me into doing it right. now when i notice cyclists going the wrong way it makes me scared for them, especially for cars turning
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strange feelings re Daisy posted:The upside is, there will be less driving whether people like it or not. The downside is, my dumbass country is doing nothing to adapt. In the ideal case you have a massive buildout of trains, light rail, bus routes, and bike lanes. Create more walkable neighborhoods with pedestrian streets. That hasn't been happening though. If it's too expensive to drive casually in the future a lot of communities are just going to die because they require cars to get around and have no viable alternatives in place. imo situations like this are actually the worst-case scenario if you want to see cars and car culture die Acceptance and adaption really needs to come before the shock, because what's going to happen right now is that we're desperately going to try to find ways to keep people in cars because there's just flat out no other alternative for lots of people. And it's going to get tied up with the anti-WFH push, because the current arrangement of many downtown cores is too commuter-centric. Look at how many "get the gently caress back to work" articles are wrapped in fawning language about commutes.
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Polo-Rican posted:yeah everyone assumes that when people say "i hate cars," they mean "replace cars with trains." that's part of the solution, but the real solution is just building better communities so that more people can go to the bank, get groceries, and pick up a burrito on foot without needing to worry about vehicles at all You really need trains to do that though, the primary way to create a walkable community is to make the local station the hub of area. Otherwise, you end with ersatz condominium projects that may have a couple businesses that are rarely frequented because everyone is just using cars to do everything (LA). Also, light rail isn't going to get there because most systems are clearly less efficient than taking a car.
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Sphyre posted:went out and enjoyed some of auckland's finest painted bicycle gutters this afternoon. not my picture If you need parking make it so it's shielding the bike path not trapping people in a car death corridor. People will die for this and whoever approved it will face no consequences. Thanks i hate it.
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it sucks that people don't feel comfortable showing up to work sweaty. it'll be 100 degrees for weeks straight in the summer, but we're still supposed to show up as if we've been under A/C from the moment we left our house until we walk into the office
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I work either outdoors or in an unheated/uncooled repair facility so being sweaty at work is not at all a concern of mine and happens whether I like it or not, it’s literally every other aspect of life where I’d rather not be sweating upon arrival (except the gym I guess)
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it actually rules to show up everywhere via bike. Showing up via bus walking or rail also rules.
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indigi posted:I work either outdoors or in an unheated/uncooled repair facility so being sweaty at work is not at all a concern of mine and happens whether I like it or not, it’s literally every other aspect of life where I’d rather not be sweating upon arrival (except the gym I guess) I've heard a lot of office workers complain that it would be taboo to show up all sweaty. I'm lucky that my department is full of outdoorsy people who wear their zip-off pants and fishing shirts to work.
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Jokerpilled Drudge posted:it actually rules to show up everywhere via bike. Showing up via bus walking or rail also rules.
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The problem with buses is they have to share the road with cars, there should be a separate lane for buses only so pedestrians arent punished for the sins of car owners.
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if you hate cars you might like these videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACTp-ebzhP4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21tDxI0eDx4
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Blockade posted:The problem with buses is they have to share the road with cars, there should be a separate lane for buses only so pedestrians arent punished for the sins of car owners. Waiting for the bus on high-traffic days really sucks. They have GPS and apps now, which is so loving cool, but it's still hard to predict their arrival. Sometimes the dot in the app just doesn't move for five minutes at a time. Seriously bus apps still blow my mind. You can plan a whole trip with them.
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