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Electro-Boogie Jack posted:DC-based safe streets doofus Gordon Chaffin, who generally means well but isn't always very bright, got into an altercation with a drivist that reminds me why I generally don't bother with direct confrontation the amount of people in this dude's mentions going with the "touching another person's sacred personal vehicle is assault, tresspassing and manslaughter" line is pretty indicative of terminal car disease. this ruined my day
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Fitzy Fitz posted:We have one particularly dangerous mid-street crosswalk here, so the city installed a bank of red flags that pedestrians could grab and wave as they cross the street. Absurd measures just to make walking possible. Never sure if satire or America.
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genericnick posted:Never sure if satire or America. People made fun of it a bunch and then all the flags were stolen. The city decided it wasn't cost effective to keep replacing them, so now it's just a regular dangerous crosswalk again.
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Fitzy Fitz posted:People made fun of it a bunch and then all the flags were stolen. The city decided it wasn't cost effective to keep replacing them, so now it's just a regular dangerous crosswalk again. 100% the first thing I thought reading your initial post about the flags is “wonder how long those stayed”
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SKULL.GIF posted:that's what he wanted you to think. he had nothing
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pointsofdata posted:if you try and talk to some people about this irl they look at you like you're mad. "What if we designed cities so we didn't need cars and could just walk everywhere instead" "But I live in (x) and I work in (y) so that wouldn't work" "Okay but what if (x) was closer to (y) so you didn't need the car" "I would still drive" "Why would you drive" "Because I don't like walking places" "What if it was more pleasant to walk places" "I just don't like walking" "Or you could take a bike" "Why would I do that when I have a car" It goes on and on and on like that. It is impossible to explain not having cars to someone who has needed to use a car every day of their life. Like I want to just grab them and drag them to Granada and be like "look, there's a bar down the street we can walk to, over there there's a shopping district where cars aren't allowed, let me show you how pleasant it is, look the streets are beautiful and pleasant and if there weren't these drat scooters imagine how much nicer it would be even more than it is right now" but nope. Americans literally cannot imagine life outside of car hell, it doesn't compute. They think "no cars" means they have to walk 15 miles to work along the side of a freeway while semi tractors blast by at 70mph.
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Enough people are so deconditioned by the car-based lifestyle that a 20 min roundtrip walk to get groceries (god forbid there's any kind of hill) really is a big demand. You can find plenty of people on Twitter bitching that it was the ordeal of a lifetime having to walk a mile to do something.
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sat on my keys! posted:Enough people are so deconditioned by the car-based lifestyle that a 20 min roundtrip walk to get groceries (god forbid there's any kind of hill) really is a big demand. You can find plenty of people on Twitter bitching that it was the ordeal of a lifetime having to walk a mile to do something. in all fairness, our infrastructure is so hostile to walking that you are almost guaranteed to have to be right up next to cars that don't think you have a right to be there
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pointsofdata posted:Needs more bollards Jersey barriers
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sat on my keys! posted:Enough people are so deconditioned by the car-based lifestyle that a 20 min roundtrip walk to get groceries (god forbid there's any kind of hill) really is a big demand. You can find plenty of people on Twitter bitching that it was the ordeal of a lifetime having to walk a mile to do something. I walk a little under a mile each way for groceries and it works but I would really like it if a good store were closer. Not having a grocery store within a mile of you in a dense urban area is a food desert, a serious walkable city wouldn't be like that
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i also think supermarkets only happened because of cars. you wouldn't be able to or want to fit one of those monstrosities in a sensibly designed urban space.
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Electro-Boogie Jack posted:DC-based safe streets doofus Gordon Chaffin, who generally means well but isn't always very bright, got into an altercation with a drivist that reminds me why I generally don't bother with direct confrontation Lol did the dude fake pulling a gun or knife out of the car
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^yes pretty sure i gave myself cancer replying to that twitter thread
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it took me nearly two hours to get a flu shot and pickup some takeout because i had to loving drive everywhere 
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Electro-Boogie Jack posted:DC-based safe streets doofus Gordon Chaffin, who generally means well but isn't always very bright, got into an altercation with a drivist that reminds me why I generally don't bother with direct confrontation Wow that's pretty brave, I would have biked away. Good on him for standing up against cars I would have crashed into them if anything
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Dolphin posted:i also think supermarkets only happened because of cars. you wouldn't be able to or want to fit one of those monstrosities in a sensibly designed urban space. Yep you only have full-size shopping carts where you have cars, because otherwise you're shopping for what you can carry. And funnily enough they metastasize some of the space issues of cars within the dimensions of the store interior
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The grocery dream is small well-stocked stores within walkable neighborhoods. Then you walk over and shop regularly throughout the week as you cook or need things, rather than making a big car-load trip less frequently. Then you have less food waste and less traffic, and more people served by grocery stores. It's better for everyone, especially people who cannot afford cars or to buy in bulk. Which is exactly why it will never be embraced in the USA.
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lil poopendorfer posted:Wow that's pretty brave, I would have biked away. Good on him for standing up against cars Deck myself out in football gear and punish cars in the bike lane with my body and physics.
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The city proper is fine but good god the suburbs of ATL are a goddamned wasteland without rival
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Nitevision posted:The grocery dream is small well-stocked stores within walkable neighborhoods. Then you walk over and shop regularly throughout the week as you cook or need things, rather than making a big car-load trip less frequently. Then you have less food waste and less traffic, and more people served by grocery stores. It's better for everyone, especially people who cannot afford cars or to buy in bulk. Which is exactly why it will never be embraced in the USA.
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I used to take the bus to work and the bus stop was right next to a big grocery store, it was great to be able to stop in and get 3 things on my way home when I needed so I could avoid the thing where you only go once a week or less and amass a huge list of poo poo to buy, I think that's one of the major issues with american supermarkets. every other person I see in there is some mother with a fully loaded cart and I imagine they're just trying to get all their shopping done for the week so they don't have to drive out and do this bullshit again any time soon
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so much space just thrown away then think about how much of it is built on what was farm land Suplex Liberace posted:Just throw your bike on people yakuza style if they go in the back and grab something and hide it in their shirt. Its why bikes are aluminum now. 
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El Pollo Blanco posted:Lol did the dude fake pulling a gun or knife out of the car I’ve been “threatened” w a gun because I gave someone the finger for honking while I was turning into a supermarket parking lot. I put quotes on because it was a teen who said it, and I never saw it, but like… such loving entitlement. I’m a big fan of people saying it’s a race thing.. like no, rear end in a top hat! These people loving sucked!
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fwiw they will probably be less willing to park in the bike lane in the future but you are at an extreme tactical disadvantage in a situation like that and in terms of "forcing" someone to move it will be very hard and risky unless they are very polite. Best just to give em a bit of a shock and gtfo of there before they can react to you
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Suplex Liberace posted:Deck myself out in football gear and punish cars in the bike lane with my body and physics. if you ever get bored during your commute, a good way to kill time is to practice removing your u-lock from its frame holster while riding
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THere was an iconic vid from 2 years ago where a ny cyclist smashed a car with his lock and jumped on top of it, leaned his head back and roared. He had long dreads so it looked like some Predator poo poo
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lil poopendorfer posted:THere was an iconic vid from 2 years ago where a ny cyclist smashed a car with his lock and jumped on top of it, leaned his head back and roared. He had long dreads so it looked like some Predator poo poo https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7500151/A-different-kind-road-rage-man-slams-bike-lock-car-middle-busy-NYC-street.html lovely source but this is what I was able to find.
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Boywhiz88 posted:https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7500151/A-different-kind-road-rage-man-slams-bike-lock-car-middle-busy-NYC-street.html I appreciate the effort but no. It was a lovely vertical vid showing the part after he smashed the car, where he was literally standing on top of the roof, u lock in hand, and he leans back and roars triumphantly. I think the video was released w a "help us find this criminal" article ive searched and searched but to no avail
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OMG I found it!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAMveJvAC90
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Around here the forest service has had its budget cut to near zero after decades of successful neoliberalism, so there are never any rangers or patrols or enforcement of any rules. The shitheads have finally figured this out and started taking their dirt bikes and jeeps on hiking trails and wilderness areas more and more. It's really great to be off in the middle of a national wilderness area and then have to jump off the trail to make way for a pack of dirt bikers who all play dumb about the rules. Love to road rage in the middle of nowhere.
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lil poopendorfer posted:OMG I found it!!! wow, president zerk biker
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Pryor on Fire posted:Around here the forest service has had its budget cut to near zero after decades of successful neoliberalism, so there are never any rangers or patrols or enforcement of any rules.
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lil poopendorfer posted:OMG I found it!!! o captain my captain o7
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I worked with a woman whose husband was decapitated when he rode his ATV on someone's land who had cables set up to stop ATVers. Again, America is full of psychos.
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the bitcoin of weed posted:the amount of people in this dude's mentions going with the "touching another person's sacred personal vehicle is assault, tresspassing and manslaughter" line is pretty indicative of terminal car disease. this ruined my day I realized on my second watch that the woman hits it waaaay harder than the OP. lil poopendorfer posted:OMG I found it!!! King!
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Fitzy Fitz posted:I worked with a woman whose husband was decapitated when he rode his ATV on someone's land who had cables set up to stop ATVers. Again, America is full of psychos.
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Boywhiz88 posted:I’m a big fan of people saying it’s a race thing.. like no, rear end in a top hat! These people loving sucked! yeah, I don't think the white privilege angle makes that much sense in this case. the driver is completely blocking a bike lane and reacts with with over the top fury when he gets called on it; that's lovely, toxic car culture on display. the driver asks the cyclist if he's a cop for trying to use his bike in a bike lane, but i have no doubt he would lean on the horn or pull off a punishment pass if he felt inconvenienced by a cyclist in front of him on the road. all the people saying it was wrong to touch the car are perhaps right in that it's a move so likely to incite violence that you could consider it the wrong move, but that's all symptomatic of how skewed the terms of engagement are for drivers. a driver can hit and kill someone and it'll be considered an oopsie, but if you pat the trunk of their car it's a justification for lethal violence.
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