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re: Brussels its so much quieter we need that here god drat it
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When I went to Brussels I really liked this cool spot right next to grand place (obv super bougie tho lol) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galeries_Royales_Saint-Hubert
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Oct 23, 2021 14:59
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I did my once/week car trip yesterday, but I got like eight things done in one trip so it was worth it. And my like.. once every four months gas fill-up, which involved waiting for other cars to be done, and kind of taking the open spot immediately before the next giant loving escalade could snipe it I'm going to see if I can keep my driving <150 miles a month, and ideally <100
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Oct 23, 2021 15:12
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Sphyre posted:https://twitter.com/BicycleDutch/status/1450366699748872192 hell yeah
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Oct 23, 2021 16:51
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The Paris car free days are also great. People cycling, on the streets, living their lives free from fear of being mauled by a privately owned chunk of metal at any moment. I'm in another city with an almost permanently pedestrianised city center at the moment and it's also really nice. I don't think it's worse for people with disabilities either - there's a lot more space for mobility aids and there is dedicated parking for them, but I suppose it depends on the person.
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Oct 23, 2021 17:30
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pointsofdata posted:Truly bizarre set of rules. Is it ok to speed after 10pm? Fairly certain the answer is racism, since cops can selectively enforce speeding laws in a way cameras don't. they’re only allowed in school zones so I assume that’s why but they’re trying to make them 24/7.
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actionjackson posted:I did my once/week car trip yesterday, but I got like eight things done in one trip so it was worth it. And my like.. once every four months gas fill-up, which involved waiting for other cars to be done, and kind of taking the open spot immediately before the next giant loving escalade could snipe it I only drive about once a week, and it's because I can't figure out how to get to the grocery store here without a car. There's actually a small grocery within easy biking distance, but it's for rich people and everything costs double. Such a waste of that space.
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Oct 23, 2021 21:00
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Boywhiz88 posted:The driver is almost 80. Why are they driving!? I saw a loving crossover going 10MPH under everyone else on the highway, and of course it was a gray hair hunching over their driver wheel trying to see the road ahead. Real cool. Love that we don’t test these people. Don Pigeon posted:Vote. DMV posted:Californians age 70 and older may continue to renew their driver’s licenses online or by mail through December 31, 2022. Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed legislation to extend this temporary rule. The gerontocracy is real.
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Oct 23, 2021 23:20
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Sphyre posted:https://twitter.com/BicycleDutch/status/1450366699748872192 cool
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Oct 23, 2021 23:26
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Skinnymansbeerbelly posted:The gerontocracy is real. I'm pretty sure Florida just lets you drive forever on whatever license you show up with, probably even if its expired
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Oct 23, 2021 23:35
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Sphyre posted:https://twitter.com/BicycleDutch/status/1450366699748872192 I was eating at a restaurant on a patio by a road today and four cars drove by with the loud exhaust that fakes a big engine. one was a lifted truck. it really wasn't loud except for those people, but death to cars and  anyway
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Oct 24, 2021 00:31
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cities should institute a max decibel limit for vehicles and gradually lower it
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Oct 24, 2021 02:22
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I live in a high rise and it's so loud on my balconyeven though I don't live on a busy street that I never spend time out there despite the balcony being my one reason to choose this place
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Oct 24, 2021 02:29
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penalty is exile. otherwise people will just pay the fine and keep doin it
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Oct 24, 2021 02:29
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indigi posted:cities should institute a max decibel limit for vehicles and gradually lower it this would own
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WHats the deal w speed limits anyways, like everyone just decided that it's a suggestion and you can go up to 10mph over without getting a ticket
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Oct 24, 2021 03:23
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lil poopendorfer posted:WHats the deal w speed limits anyways, like everyone just decided that it's a suggestion and you can go up to 10mph over without getting a ticket you make a road and because you have a fatal case of car-brain, you want it to be nice and straight and clear for drivers, and so you remove every obstacle and now they have the ideal driving environment except ooops, oh poo poo, now that means that your neighborhood road is basically engineered for high speed driving and no one who lives on the street likes that so okay, no problemo, just put up a sign saying that you aren't allowed to go 75 mph, even though the road is clearly designed for you to go that fast except ooops, oh poo poo again, everyone is ignoring the sign because the road clearly tells them to go faster, and to enforce the 25 mph speed limit is basically like entrapment because the visual language of the street is way clearer than the speed limit that is, again, way lower than what you actually built out so okay, no problemo again, just don't enforce the speed limit. give people a bonus 10 or 15 mph, and now at least the actual speed limit that you're enforcing isn't like a third of the design speed. it's all good, except of course that now everyone is going significantly faster than they should on a neighborhood street, and some people are still doing 50 or 60 and for the most part they get away with it and every now and then someone gets killed or mangled because of it. actually that happens pretty frequently. but at least cars go fast and drivers can go vroom vroom. in conclusion, death to america
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Oct 24, 2021 04:07
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The cops just make it a speed trap, so it's not like no one wins
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Oct 24, 2021 04:22
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And they never catch the real assholes anyway!
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indigi posted:cities should institute a max decibel limit for vehicles and gradually lower it
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Fitzy Fitz posted:The cops just make it a speed trap, so it's not like no one wins here in dc every year AAA puts out a press release about how speed cameras racked up a million billion tickets and it's so unfair to drivers except speed cameras cover like .01% of district roads by the foot, so you have to figure that racking up that many tickets with the vast majority of road space completely unmonitored is really indicative of the severity of endemic speeding here. but that's not the way car culture sees it; car culture sees it as an affront to the sacred right of the driver to endanger others
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UK government posted:In 2020, under free-flowing traffic conditions, 56% of cars exceeded the speed limit on 30mph roads compared to 53% on motorways and 12% on national speed limit single carriageway roads. What's even the point. However they did find that speed limiters work: quote:The low proportion of HGVAs exceeding the speed limit on motorways can be attributed to legislation requiring all HGVs over 3.5 tonnes to be fitted with speed limiters to 56mph.
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Oct 24, 2021 07:55
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It's real lol that every alternate form of electric personal transportation option has to have ridiculously low top speed or power limitations in order to legally operate on a road or footpath Except cars, they can still exceed the max speed limit by like 80kmh without limitation
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Oct 24, 2021 08:37
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The car is good, the penis is evil
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Cars don't belong in cities. Also there should be a federal no-growth line at the current city-limits of every single city in America, no cars within the no-growth line.
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Boywhiz88 posted:And they never catch the real assholes anyway! speed cameras are basically illegal in california and really do not exist. major metro city cops also dgaf about traffic violations as long as you like don't literally run a red right infront of them but ive also just seen them shake their head and ignore it so lol. the amount of traffic violations my city has actually cited is basically zero. just immense parking enforcement because that's where the $$ is
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every stop light should have speed cameras or every driver should be automatically fined periodically just in case
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Suplex Liberace posted:every stop light should have speed cameras or every driver should be automatically fined periodically just in case tax cars to death
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paris to further embrace anarchy and remove more parking! https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2021/10/22/paris-to-become-100-cycling-city-within-four-years-reveals-new-plan/
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Oct 24, 2021 14:13
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Fitzy Fitz posted:The cops just make it a speed trap, so it's not like no one wins I kinda think think these are better since there's less ambiguity leaving it up to a cop if you broke the law ~enough~ is baddddd
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Oct 24, 2021 14:32
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ate poo poo on live tv posted:Cars don't belong in cities. Also there should be a federal no-growth line at the current city-limits of every single city in America, no cars within the no-growth line. ban parking lots first
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Xaris posted:speed cameras are basically illegal in california and really do not exist. major metro city cops also dgaf about traffic violations as long as you like don't literally run a red right infront of them but ive also just seen them shake their head and ignore it so lol. the amount of traffic violations my city has actually cited is basically zero. just immense parking enforcement because that's where the $$ is aren't the speeding fines as much or more than parking violation fines?
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lil poopendorfer posted:I kinda think think these are better since there's less ambiguity simpsons_skin_color_chart.jpg it's definitely possible to make speed cameras racist (just put them exclusively in minority-majority areas) but I'd imagine it's hard to make them more racist than cops
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Oct 24, 2021 15:06
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actionjackson posted:aren't the speeding fines as much or more than parking violation fines? it's way easier to catch parked cars
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SKULL.GIF posted:it's way easier to catch parked cars I figure cops would love the thrill of catching speeders tho, they can pretend they are in ronin or some poo poo plus there's always the tiny possibility you could use a spike strip which owns
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Oct 24, 2021 15:16
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In Colorado you can ignore the traffic camera tickets forever and nothing bad happens, as they are not legal unless you are served by a cop. It seems to be a sneaky municipal revenue generator for people who are not aware of this.
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i took my kid for a walk today, the sidewalks here are so bad. like multiple bumps high enough that you have to lift the stroller up to push it over, and two sections where tree roots have pushed the sidewalk up by like a foot. this is relatively easy for me to navigate even pushing a stroller, but when my wife goes through these areas she has to go into the street to get around. and i can't imagine it's easy for someone in a wheelchair, and even for an older or less abled but ambulatory person i bet these sections are tricky to navigate. we spend huge amounts of money keeping the roads in good condition but the meager pedestrian infrastructure (the sidewalk is also only on one side of one street in this neighborhood, other streets have nothing) is falling apart and unusable for a lot of people lol. death to cars.
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lobster shirt posted:i took my kid for a walk today, the sidewalks here are so bad. like multiple bumps high enough that you have to lift the stroller up to push it over, and two sections where tree roots have pushed the sidewalk up by like a foot. this is relatively easy for me to navigate even pushing a stroller, but when my wife goes through these areas she has to go into the street to get around. and i can't imagine it's easy for someone in a wheelchair, and even for an older or less abled but ambulatory person i bet these sections are tricky to navigate. we spend huge amounts of money keeping the roads in good condition but the meager pedestrian infrastructure (the sidewalk is also only on one side of one street in this neighborhood, other streets have nothing) is falling apart and unusable for a lot of people lol. death to cars. had people on my next door whining about pedestrians on the streets because of our dogshit sidewalks. they would rather blame pedestrians for walking in 'unsafe conditions' rather than slow down or pay attention while driving in a giant metal death machine.
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pointsofdata posted:simpsons_skin_color_chart.jpg What simpsons skin color chart
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