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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. none of those palm trees are native btw and they provide zero shade hate them
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actionjackson posted:you're telling me you can hear traffic two miles away? are you an owl? The sound carries, there's nothing between me and the freeway except open air
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How can you hear the traffic from two miles away over all the traffic from less than a mile away?
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Fame Douglas posted:You can still hear highway traffic pretty far away in quiet rural environments. Two miles is really far. I can see vehicles driving down the road a mile away from me (I know because we're surrounded by mile roads), but I definitely can't hear them.
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Karach posted:Two miles is really far. I can see vehicles driving down the road a mile away from me (I know because we're surrounded by mile roads), but I definitely can't hear them. Without obstruction in a quiet environment you'd be able to hear freeway noise (~90dB) from well over five miles away.
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Karach posted:Two miles is really far. I can see vehicles driving down the road a mile away from me (I know because we're surrounded by mile roads), but I definitely can't hear them. The speed is the most important part. If you have some rural roads with a speed limit of 30-55 you'll rarely hear the traffic. If you have a freeway with speeds of 65+ you'll be able to hear it from further away.
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I have been trying to get stereo field recordings of birds without using highly directional mics and let me tell you, I loving hate cars. Planes can go gently caress themselves too.
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I hope when gas becomes unaffordable that all trucks will have their beds cut off so they can be made into horse-drawn trailers.
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Cup Runneth Over posted:none of those palm trees are native btw and they provide zero shade But it's the desert! Have to have middle eastern palm trees in the American desert!
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Cup Runneth Over posted:none of those palm trees are native btw and they provide zero shade Loitering in public places is against the law
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watching some movies and my favourite car trope has to be when cops or whoever is staking out a person and they just sit in the front seat of their car in broad daylight like they're invisible
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To be fair the other option in that situation in the US is being shot by the police when they come looking for the guy who hasn't lived there for seven years You'd think he could somehow the license suspended purely for using an invalid address if not for being someone who shouldn't be allowed to drive though considering that you legally have to notify the DMV when you move in Virginia? mystes has issued a correction as of 22:48 on Feb 24, 2022 |
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this is the rendering for the I-94 we'd like, it was designed by Ian Lockwood who has done a lot of freeway removals https://twitter.com/OurStreetsMpls/status/1496160667220549634
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Interesting approach with some balls https://twitter.com/braitsch/status/1496645418876227588?s=20&t=aB1y4iz21_1vXva6eQFUWw
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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 When I was in Taiwan five years ago, they had e-mopeds that used battery shares, so you'd just drop off your dead battery in the charging station and pick up a live one in exchange. I have no idea what the externalities of that are, but it looked pretty awesome, and a lot of their street infrastructure is built for mopeds.
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Ham Equity posted:When I was in Taiwan five years ago, they had e-mopeds that used battery shares, so you'd just drop off your dead battery in the charging station and pick up a live one in exchange. Stupid loving cars making it harder to be a wannabe mod. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onHc06vX0k0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnSPCi7ARkg
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mystes posted:To be fair the other option in that situation in the US is being shot by the police when they come looking for the guy who hasn't lived there for seven years Would not want to smoke weed in that house for sure
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Lol yeah that guy is gonna get shot when they finally come looking for mr. ticket
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one more reason why train good car bad: https://twitter.com/markito0171/status/1497282601521926145?s=20&t=alLKN9M7pklIpgi6mD5O7w
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instructions unclear, used all the train tracks for tank traps.
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in reference to my previous post with the twin cities boulevard rendering by ian lockwood (look him up btw he owns), I read a comment that those neighborhoods would be gentrified to hell if they built it, which is an interesting argument. a lot of those areas have very low housing costs because they are right next to the freeway (for example cedar-riverside, home to most of the Somali community). not sure how to best respond to that because it does have a lot of merit.
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actionjackson posted:in reference to my previous post with the twin cities boulevard rendering by ian lockwood (look him up btw he owns), I read a comment that those neighborhoods would be gentrified to hell if they built it, which is an interesting argument. a lot of those areas have very low housing costs because they are right next to the freeway (for example cedar-riverside, home to most of the Somali community). not sure how to best respond to that because it does have a lot of merit. Welp I guess in our current capitalist hell-society better things aren't possible. Good Job everyone. Because any kind of improvement would benefit the rich, the only fair thing to do is to maintain the status quo.
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ate poo poo on live tv posted:Welp I guess in our current capitalist hell-society better things aren't possible. Good Job everyone. Because any kind of improvement would benefit the rich, the only fair thing to do is to maintain the status quo. stfu bitch, I'm just saying that I can see a lot of Somali residents being concerned about this
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actionjackson posted:stfu bitch, I'm just saying that I can see a lot of Somali residents being concerned about this NIMBYism transcends race. Gentrification is indeed a problem, but it's existence isn't an excuse to not do anything. It's a separate fight but one that must be fought after infrastructure is re-built.
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So what I'm hearing is, we shouldn't make improvements that make land more valuable, because that value accrues to a few individuals rather than benefiting the commons...????
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I would say that at least in NYC, it's been the case that the government puts bike and safe streets infrastructure in neighbourhoods that are gentrifying or that they hope to gentrify. Safe streets are seen as an "amenity" and not basic infrastructure. People see that improvements get made only when new residents arrive who have more suction with city hall, and understandably get pissed. The status quo is also highly discriminatory though, as you probably know (look who's disproportionately killed by cars basically everywhere). Organizing with people concerned about street safety already present (there are always such people, they may just phrase things differently, lots of parents are concerned about their kids getting loving flattened on the way to school)can help. And trying to form a citywide plan so that every time a street gets resurfaced, for example, there should be safety improvements like bulb-outs, a bike lane, etc. included. Easier said than done. I've heard good things about the book "Bike Lanes are White Lines" on this topic.
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ate poo poo on live tv posted:NIMBYism transcends race. Gentrification is indeed a problem, but it's existence isn't an excuse to not do anything. It's a separate fight but one that must be fought after infrastructure is re-built. 90% of the harm of gentrification could be eliminated with one weird trick. Discovered by a chairman.
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actionjackson posted:in reference to my previous post with the twin cities boulevard rendering by ian lockwood (look him up btw he owns), I read a comment that those neighborhoods would be gentrified to hell if they built it, which is an interesting argument. a lot of those areas have very low housing costs because they are right next to the freeway (for example cedar-riverside, home to most of the Somali community). not sure how to best respond to that because it does have a lot of merit. this sounds like a good argument for instituting strict rent control and building social housing on some of the land recaptured from removing the freeway, not for accepting the status quo with the somali community living next to a toxic car sewer
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I'm seeing lots of people straight up blowing through red lights (like everyone is stopped and they just hop into the turn lane and keep going straight) and it's freaking me out.
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solution to gentrification: city wide safe streets and human centered design. also: full communism now.
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was walking my dog through a suburban neighborhood earlier today. we were on the sidewalk along the left side of the road when at one point we passed by someone who was idling on the curb, their car in the 'wrong' direction facing the opposing lane of travel. I noticed the driver was alone in their car, staring intently down at their phone. we continued another 50 feet or so down the road toward a stop sign where a pickup truck was stopped. they started forward, passed us, and then about a second or two later I heard a sickening crunch. I looked back and the person in the idling car I had just passed apparently pulled out of their spot at the exact moment the pickup was approaching and they slammed headfirst into each other. luckily the truck was still picking up speed from a dead stop because it only happened at about 15-20mph or so. no injuries. I didn't stick around. considering how straight that road was and how long that pickup was approaching us within our field of view, I can only imagine the driver I walked past never bothered to look up from their phone when they took their foot off the brake and started pulling out. lol
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Almost got murdered by a car today when it just blew a red. Then they got indignant when I threw my hands up at them.
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Suplex Liberace posted:Almost got murdered by a car today when it just blew a red. Then they got indignant when I threw my hands up at them. again, driver has the right to kill pedestrian. pedestrian does not have the right to make driver feel bad about it
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lol there were 443 attempted-murders by drivers this year, up 37% https://www.berkeleyside.org/2022/02/25/berkeley-traffic-collisions-fatalities-up-2021-police-data  hholy poo poo piss is right
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more road rage gun fire in seattlesome moron posted:For the second time in less than a week, police are investigating a reported case of gunfire on the road. This happened after 7 pm last night. The victim said she was driving northbound on West Marginal Way – somewhere between the 4700 and 6800 blocks – when another driver began swerving and tailgating her. That driver then turned off its headlights, sped up to get closer to the victim’s vehicle, and someone in the car fired what the victim said were eight to nine shots.She drove home and called police. Officers counted “four fresh bullet holes” in her car and noted its rear tire had gone flat.
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:I'm seeing lots of people straight up blowing through red lights (like everyone is stopped and they just hop into the turn lane and keep going straight) and it's freaking me out. yeah i was sitting at a stop light and a dude just went into the right turn lane and went straight through, didn't even look while cars went by in the crossroad at 60+ mph on a 4 lane highway
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