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Sphyre posted: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 and in the article they talk about how their church members spend 10s of thousands a year on spaces in parking garages so like - use those??
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Xaris posted:wow very racist of parisians to hate poor people who have to drive loud car. smdh honk honk honk!
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Feb 23, 2022 20:55
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A lot of the membership is rich and well connected is why lol also lmao @ implying that a bike lane on a public street desecrates the memory of the slaves that built a private church abutting it
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Feb 23, 2022 20:56
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PeterCat posted:I think that's supposed to be an unprotected bike lane on the right? But those things scare the poo poo out of me.
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Feb 23, 2022 20:56
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Should just do like San Francisco and not enforce double-parking on Sundays near churches. bonus: Forces neighbors who park on the street to plan on doing stuff car-free on Sundays because they are blocked in. withak has issued a correction as of 21:00 on Feb 23, 2022 |
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Feb 23, 2022 20:58
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I was looking forward to spring cus i'll be able to bike again, but y'all reminded me of the loud fart bikes that flood the town the minute it's warm. maybe ill start shooting them this year
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Feb 23, 2022 20:59
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Is a loud motorcycle better or worse than a car? They're smaller and get better mpg than a car but also they're loud and have the associated leather pirate cosplayers
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Feb 23, 2022 21:03
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Dog Case posted:Is a loud motorcycle better or worse than a car? They're smaller and get better mpg than a car but also they're loud and have the associated leather pirate cosplayers the ones actively destroying my hearing forever? they are unforgivable
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Feb 23, 2022 21:04
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there are loud cars but the loud motorcycles are much louder in my experience. probably better for the environment if you only look at mpg but holy poo poo Shut The gently caress Up, Boomers
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Feb 23, 2022 21:13
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Dog Case posted:Is a loud motorcycle better or worse than a car? They're smaller and get better mpg than a car but also they're loud and have the associated leather pirate cosplayers motorcycles are better if presented in the false dichotomy between no cars vs no bikes. but they should hold the same space in the public transportation hierarchy: not a consideration at all.
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Feb 23, 2022 21:16
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I can't justify this but I feel convinced that the kind of people who deliberately produce as much road noise as possible could be altogether removed from society and not be missed for a moment. Probably be a relief to the people who know them.
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Feb 23, 2022 21:23
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If it's not a train, tram, bus or bike it has no place in society. Subways are underground trains. Funiculars are trains on slopes. Ferries are floating buses. This covers all acceptable vehicle options, no further discussion required.
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Feb 23, 2022 21:34
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Loud engines don't bother me too much, it's the loving cacophony of tire noise on a high traffic road. Maybe we can ticket all cars making tire noise until no cars remain?
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Feb 23, 2022 21:42
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I've introduced a law mandating that all roads have the lowest possible friction coefficient to ensure peace and tranquility for all residents and passers-by of anywhere cars may be present
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Feb 23, 2022 21:45
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Skateboards and little scootery things should be allowed. Ive seen a lot of people using those lately.
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Feb 23, 2022 21:50
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electric scooters are super cool and would probably be my vehicle of choice in a car-free world for traversing urban spaces quickly
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Feb 23, 2022 21:56
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krPQ1PMM00Y
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Feb 23, 2022 22:00
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Somebody will have a bigger card and then we're just back to loud motorcycles all over again
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Feb 23, 2022 22:04
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withak posted:Should just do like San Francisco and not enforce double-parking on Sundays near churches. lol San Francisco doesn’t enforce double parking. most of the time anyways. there’s a lot of streets where a lane has just turned into defacto street parking with dozens of Uber eats and door dashers double parked back to back with hazard lights on. last time I was on haight it was entirely filled double parked with giggers Shattuck in Berkeley is the same with an entire lane and bike lane pretty much just packed with hazard light parked cars from like 6pm to 10pm
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Feb 23, 2022 22:05
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I like the idea of an electric motorcycle because it could charge almost fully in the time it takes to get groceries.
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Feb 23, 2022 22:18
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Epic High Five posted:A lot of the membership is rich and well connected is why lol that was pretty explicitly how the churches on 9th st were able to derail the bike lane project there for a few years, the mayor's senior aide goes to one of them and teamed up with the churches to convince the mayor to drop the street redesign - even after DDOT reworked the whole thing to ensure they wouldn't lose any of their precious parking spaces i think some of this is a cynical strategy by the churches, who are telling their congregations that bike lanes cause gentrification and then claiming victory in the battle against gentrification by stopping them from getting built; eventually the whole thing becomes a fight over a symbolic value that the churches themselves have assigned to bike lanes and not the actual merits of the project itself. a lot of the churches have really cool histories and have been an important part of the district's society, and it sucks that this is how a bunch of them are operating these days. some of the same ones leading the charge against bike lanes are operating rental properties as slum lords, and still others have cleared out their properties and are marketing them as 'luxury' apartments now, which might be part of the reason why they're so eager to talk about gentrification as if it's caused by bike lanes and not housing.
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Feb 23, 2022 22:18
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just gonna go ahead and boost these from the aliexpress thread
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motorcyclists have the dignity to mostly just off themselves rather than other road users for the most part at least
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leftist heap posted:motorcyclists have the dignity to mostly just off themselves rather than other road users for the most part at least
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E motorbikes are kinda dumb because in order to go as fast as a bike that barely sips petrol you need to add a huge amount of battery weight for the high voltage and high discharge rate required E mopeds make more sense as you're only aiming for 50-60kph top speed on a lighter chassis, and 50 miles of range on a charge is fine for most cities I imagine
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Wolfy posted:Loud engines don't bother me too much, it's the loving cacophony of tire noise on a high traffic road. Maybe we can ticket all cars making tire noise until no cars remain? i'll have you over for 1 hour on a nice sunday afternoon and you'll change your mind, lol
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Feb 24, 2022 01:38
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By me the people with the loudest engines only come out in the godforsaken middle of the night.
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Sphyre posted: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 Is a man not entitled to the bike off his lane?
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El Pollo Blanco posted:E motorbikes are kinda dumb because in order to go as fast as a bike that barely sips petrol you need to add a huge amount of battery weight for the high voltage and high discharge rate required this is why there should be a balancing factor of every driver having their choice of whip, flail, or nailbat
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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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Mayor Dave posted: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 you're telling me you can hear traffic two miles away? are you an owl?
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withak posted: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. I remember a few years back Houston shut down a stretch of road for cars for a few hours on one weekend. I was in the comic shop on that road a few days before and the owner was bitching about how they were going to have no customers at all, because how would they be able to get to the store?!?! When the street was shutdown I swung by and the store was more crowded than I had ever seen it before.
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small biz boomer brains is just amazing i worked for a smallbiz boomers for almost a decade before getting into public work and i dont know how i put up with it for so long. just so much dumb poo poo. people complain about 'bureaucracy and red tape' and poo poo in public work and well yeah, but everyone is extremely professional and it's also there for a reason. he also bought two brand new jeep grand cherokee laredos as company cars. the first one had the transmission die after like 8 months and other problems that shouldn't have been problems. even after all the problems "dont worry it's fine its still under WARRENTY!"", and they thought it was a good idea to buy a second loving one. thing is unwieldy for a city and useless for job sites too.
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PeterCat posted:I think that's supposed to be an unprotected bike lane on the right? But those things scare the poo poo out of me. I just realized that people have almost certainly been hassled for "furtive glances" while walking because they were checking for traffic
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Fitzy Fitz posted:Skateboards and little scootery things should be allowed. Ive seen a lot of people using those lately. Are you talking about those little foldable scooters that hansel had in zoolander? I hope those come back
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actionjackson posted:you're telling me you can hear traffic two miles away? are you an owl? You can still hear highway traffic pretty far away in quiet rural environments.
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Fame Douglas posted:You can still hear highway traffic pretty far away in quiet rural environments. I don't think they're building too many high rises in quiet rural environments
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Dog Case posted:Is a loud motorcycle better or worse than a car? They're smaller and get better mpg than a car but also they're loud and have the associated leather pirate cosplayers im ashamed to admit this but I never get mad at obnoxious motorcyclists bc I know they're probably gonna end up w horrific injuries. They pose less risk to other motorists and pedestrians too so.. "not great, not terrible"
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Milo and POTUS posted:Are you talking about those little foldable scooters that hansel had in zoolander? I hope those come back Yeah lots more people started riding them recently. I don't know if it's just because the tech is finally practical, they got to try the rental scooters and liked them, or the pandemic just pushed them to do something else. But lots more college students are riding stuff like that than they were a couple of years ago.
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