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mystes posted:I feel like in a lot of places, it doesn't even matter how successful these road closures were; permanently keeping the road closed was never even a possibility. Restaurant owners are the stupidest loving people you ever met
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Jokerpilled Drudge posted:plz dont drill your bike But the weight savings
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Leroy Diplowski posted:Sweet! Post a pic when you get it and don't drill any holes in the frame. Jokerpilled Drudge posted:plz dont drill your bike
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# ? Feb 23, 2022 13:46 |
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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.... people drilling out their aluminum handlebars to attach grips. I've seen seat posts too small with the clamp bending the frame around them. Quick releases levers completely opened and then threaded down to hold wheels in. Rusted P-Clamps disintegrating on the rear triangle. All of these moments lost like sweat on the asphalt edit: you can just clamp/velcro poo poo to your bike, do that instead. Or if there are threaded "eyelets" you attach stuff there Jokerpilled Drudge has issued a correction as of 13:53 on Feb 23, 2022 |
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What is going on in Paris https://twitter.com/DavidZipper/status/1496103677127446541?s=20&t=_lfRTn37XNU4JKXMA0b6IA
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Fitzy Fitz posted:What is going on in Paris i love this
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Jokerpilled Drudge posted:edit: you can just clamp/velcro poo poo to your bike, do that instead. Or if there are threaded "eyelets" you attach stuff there why don't i just lash it on with a jungle vine while i'm at it
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:why don't i just lash it on with a jungle vine while i'm at it why dont I lash you with a jungle vine mister take a look, no lashing or anything required just all velcro. bet the bags cost a fortune altogether. I prefer the rack with panniers, or even more so just wearing a messenger bag or backpack. Everyone has their own taste which will take a while to develop Jokerpilled Drudge has issued a correction as of 14:12 on Feb 23, 2022 |
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bi crimes posted:i love this As long as they are also fining the car alarms that get set off by the motorcycles.
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# ? Feb 23, 2022 14:52 |
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I think people downplay noise pollution, like what are you, upset about being in the city around people? But when auto noise pollution is removed you might realize you couldn't actually hear people before.
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Complaining about something that allows me to live where i do and all that, but i live out in the country and right now, inside my house with the windows closed i can still occasionally hear traffic on the highway a mile and a half away
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Fitzy Fitz posted:I think people downplay noise pollution, like what are you, upset about being in the city around people? But when auto noise pollution is removed you might realize you couldn't actually hear people before. I wanted to live somewhere relatively dense and at least a mile away from major roads and highways, and that filters out the majority of places around here. I live in a spot 2 miles from downtown and a mile from the nearest highway, and the noise is so annoying. Depending on environmental conditions, sometimes the noise is minimal, but on some cold, windy nights, it's loud. Holidays and COVID gave me a taste of what it'd be like if the cars were all destroyed, or the highway was ripped out, and I long for it. The noise is all from the god damned suburbanites, driving in from outside of town to do literally anything because they live in voids with nothing, and they complain about the noisy city and the homeless lol
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Dog Case posted:Complaining about something that allows me to live where i do and all that, but i live out in the country and right now, inside my house with the windows closed i can still occasionally hear traffic on the highway a mile and a half away Used to stay out in a camp in i-10 in a pretty heavily forested area and even in the earliest hours of the morning it was rarely truly quiet. You could hear this dim droning from cars many miles away even
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I live in a college town that sees a regular fluctuation of like 30,000 people between breaks in school. I'm out there walking every day, so I hear the difference when the students are gone. The quiet is beautiful. You can hear birds, people talking across the street, and even the rustling of leaves. I do meditative walks where I just focus on my senses, and even a single approaching car is an overwhelming roar that drowns out everything else.
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Milo and POTUS posted:Restaurant owners are the stupidest loving people you ever met if it's any consolation, even if you have restaurant owners on your side it turns out the car-centric status quo is still almost impossible to overturn there was a major effort to turn 18th street in DC into a pedestrian street. it's a really good choice for something like that, and a lot of the major lifting was done by businesses on the street. when the pandemic started our mayor briefly relented and let them have a mangled version of a pedestrian street, but then after a few weeks the administration said it was bad because it was actually too successful and it was drawing too many people so they had to close it. the whole episode shows how you just cant win with car-brained governments, either fewer people showed up so they could say it isn't very popular and close it, or a bunch of people show up and now they have to give all the space back to cars to eliminate a public health hazard. the neighborhood committees and businesses and activists were all on the same side, it didn't matter
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mystes posted:I feel like in a lot of places, it doesn't even matter how successful these road closures were; permanently keeping the road closed was never even a possibility. all small business people have massive car brains
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Fitzy Fitz posted:I think people downplay noise pollution, like what are you, upset about being in the city around people? But when auto noise pollution is removed you might realize you couldn't actually hear people before. when I moved to the country, I realized how intolerable the noise in cities is. it's like a constant low-grade headache. biking infrastructure sucks in the country, unfortunately.
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leftist heap posted:all small business people have massive car brains this also sucks because they have an oversized voice. there's one locksmith near me that's loudly opposing a new open street, and all of the old chuds are like "how dare you open street advocates ignore the locksmith?? his shop has been open in this community since 1960!!" it's like, dude... locks are still going to exist after the open street... the locksmith will be fine
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It's just really amazing when you think about it how cars have ALL THE STREETS and you simply aren't allowed to say "hey let's take away this one street and use it for pedestrians but cars can still use EVERY OTHER STREET that run parallel to it" because, no, cars have to have every single inch of available space.
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Small business owners are convinced that no one will shop at their store unless they can always park in a curb space right out front like in the movies.
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gently caress cars and gently caress Texas.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxP442T-aZ0
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bi crimes posted:I wanted to live somewhere relatively dense and at least a mile away from major roads and highways, and that filters out the majority of places around here. I live in a spot 2 miles from downtown and a mile from the nearest highway, and the noise is so annoying. Depending on environmental conditions, sometimes the noise is minimal, but on some cold, windy nights, it's loud. Holidays and COVID gave me a taste of what it'd be like if the cars were all destroyed, or the highway was ripped out, and I long for it. The noise is all from the god damned suburbanites, driving in from outside of town to do literally anything because they live in voids with nothing, and they complain about the noisy city and the homeless lol i live in a high-rise that's not on any busy streets but my balcony faces a freeway that's 2 miles away and it's still so loving loud i can't bear to spend time out there
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Fitzy Fitz posted:What is going on in Paris
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Xaris posted:wow very racist of parisians to hate poor people who have to drive loud car. smdh
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Oh man. What do you do when you have broad support for a project, go through all of the proper procedures, but then feel hamstrung because a portion of the opposition is non-white? https://twitter.com/sandypsj/status/1496548944721195013?s=20&t=a0n57nC-4AsCTqkx-EvciQ
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Cat Puke posted:gently caress cars and gently caress Texas.
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Fitzy Fitz posted:Oh man. What do you do when you have broad support for a project, go through all of the proper procedures, but then feel hamstrung because a portion of the opposition is non-white? Could people just post the article, rather than making Twitter link you have to click through twice to get to the actual story? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti..._source=twitter PeterCat has issued a correction as of 19:58 on Feb 23, 2022 |
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I like it when people link the tweets
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So, from the article, bike lanes are considered gentrification? Like, it's better to chain poor people to cars than make it easier to get around by bike? https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/oct/05/blame-bike-cycling-contribute-city-gentrification
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PeterCat posted:So, from the article, bike lanes are considered gentrification? Like, it's better to chain poor people to cars than make it easier to get around by bike? I'm gonna say based on the people I've seen who use bikes most frequently in my area: this idea is not based in reality, but based on a preconceived notion someone set out to prove.
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PeterCat posted:So, from the article, bike lanes are considered gentrification? Like, it's better to chain poor people to cars than make it easier to get around by bike? it’s gentrification and individualism when you take transportation alternatives to driving a car
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bi crimes posted:it’s gentrification and individualism when you take transportation alternatives to driving a car We need a non-carbrained robert moses. Bulldoze entire streets for parks and bury high-speed passenger rail underneath.
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This one breaks my brain. The Metropolitan African Methodist church in Washington D.C. wouldn't let the city put a protected bike lane in front of the church, citing the loss of parking. Here's what the street in front of the church looks like. I don't know how much parking they think they're going to lose on such a narrow street: Here's the article, I'm quoting it due to the paywall: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/mike-debonis/wp/2013/08/15/how-a-downtown-bike-lane-has-become-a-political-headache/ WaPo posted:How a downtown bike lane has become a political headache
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OK, then leave the parking on both sides and get rid of a car lane instead. (Actually slightly more realistically: Take the current car spaces on one side and make them a bike lane. Take one of the car lanes and allow parking in it on Sundays or maybe non rush hour hours every day.) mystes has issued a correction as of 20:31 on Feb 23, 2022 |
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mystes posted:OK, then leave the parking on both sides and get rid of a car lane instead. I think that's supposed to be an unprotected bike lane on the right? But those things scare the poo poo out of me. It's like the lane you can see on the right side of the road here. Yeah, just an narrow painted lane on a 40mph road, also the right turn into the shopping area cuts over the lane as well, so I just ride on the sidewalk instead of risking my life.
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PeterCat posted:This one breaks my brain. The Metropolitan African Methodist church in Washington D.C. wouldn't let the city put a protected bike lane in front of the church, citing the loss of parking. Here's what the street in front of the church looks like. I don't know how much parking they think they're going to lose on such a narrow street: Here's an idea, street parking should be illegal everywhere.
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ate poo poo on live tv posted:Here's an idea, street parking should be illegal everywhere.
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why can this church stop a bike lane from being built anyways. the on street parking is on the street. it doesn't belong to them. it's not yours. gently caress you
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ate poo poo on live tv posted:Here's an idea, street parking should be illegal everywhere. i keep seeing vehicles parked in driveways sticking out into protected bike lanes and it's giving me dangerous thoughts
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