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More of that design https://twitter.com/DE_Gifford/status/1518954363682803712?t=TYmYjMcfEJCKWYUj_qil_Q&s=19
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Apr 26, 2022 16:17
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WaryWarren posted:yeah, I'm in the process of moving from Roch to the cities. I've driven this stretch of highway before, but this time I thought of this thread while doing so. you should post with us in the minneapolis thread if you haven't already, it's pretty cool
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Apr 26, 2022 16:28
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mystes posted:I ended up looking around some places in the UK on google maps/streetview and it's interesting how despite being fairly car-centric and having a relatively bad reputation for cycling infrastructure, it seems way better than the us simply by not having so many absolutely crazy stroads? As a UK/Netherlands dude who has stood staring at the Target across the road from the hotel in suburban Virgina (I think?) with a crosswalk a mile up the stroad, this sounds pretty much right. The UK is car-centric, but it's been grafted on to a pre-car world for the most part. We still have people who go puce at the mention of bicycles of course. I just got back from London, and even the larger roads don't feel as hostile as those images. Not sure how to describe it, it's like the road is at least somewhat part of everything, rather than "this is special car place, car only, look how straight and car-shaped, hands (feet) off!". Helps that there's no such thing a jaywalking, so Londoners just treat the road as a place to be crossed where convenient.
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Apr 26, 2022 16:59
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Fitzy Fitz posted:More of that design just walk, the hamburger people need to walk anyways
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Apr 26, 2022 17:41
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AnimeIsTrash posted:cars are all bad AnimeIsTrash posted:This is me anytime I have to drive. Cars............ not even once
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Apr 26, 2022 19:41
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mystes posted:All the standards that engineers use are just completely hosed. Even in places that have repeated pedestrian deaths it's virtually impossible to fix because of that. It's completely infuriating. even at the worst of the uk's full blown car centric planning there was always some deference to pedestrians (and to a lesser extent, cyclists). the first round of modern roads in the 1930s were built with high quality segregated cycle lanes in both directions:  a lot of these were lost to road widening schemes or just plain forgotten about until recently, but there's been a campaign to reclaim them. The one near me has been cleaned up and marked out like a new cycle lane. the concrete paradise post war new towns were built around the car but with some attempts to make them usable without (Cumbernauld in was sold as having "no traffic lights, no pedestrian crossings, no parking meters" because they designed it so that pedestrians and cars were kept apart) the worst car brained infrastructure didn't come about until the 1980s and 90s when they started building out of town shopping centres, retail parks and isolated housing estates. my nearest retail park was built in the mid 90s but it was another ten years before they added a single bike rack, despite it being very accessible by bike.
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Apr 26, 2022 20:36
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It may just partly be that there was so much less undeveloped land in the UK by the time car brain seriously kicked in, but even if I try to search for "shopping centre" on google maps in the UK it's just nothing compared to the insanity in the US. A typical mall in the US looks like this:  The road to the right has like 6 lanes including turn lanes. You would die if you tried to bike there. The problem is that probably MOST new roads (except for residential cul-de-sacs) created in the last several decades are garbage like that. You can't get anywhere without crossing tons of these. American traffic engineers think they're great. If you're in a country that doesn't have this problem you're really lucky because it actually won't be that hard to undo the damage. It's already not impossible for walking/biking and if you make it a bit better and the number of people not using cars increases, it will get easier and easier to improve things. In the US so many places are built in a way where you would be insane not to drive even if you want to bike/walk and even if magically everyone agreed that they wanted that it might not even be doable with the way things are currently designed (with people driving 20 miles to buy groceries) mystes has issued a correction as of 21:06 on Apr 26, 2022 |
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Apr 26, 2022 21:01
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https://twitter.com/uncledoomer/status/1518735976922861571?s=20&t=PBIeUQeY9I48w8_i99y-9g
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Apr 27, 2022 01:42
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Fitzy Fitz posted:More of that design lmao why isn't there a zebra crossing from the island across the lane turning to the left
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Apr 27, 2022 04:24
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El Pollo Blanco posted:lmao why isn't there a zebra crossing from the island across the lane turning to the left Because it would slow down the cars.
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Apr 27, 2022 04:29
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The biggest crime in history is the fact that pedestrians don't require insurance like drivers do. Imagine if a pedestrian just ran out into traffic and hit my car, whose going to pay for it? That piece of poo poo just waltzing around, uninsured, without a care in the world. Disgusting
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Apr 27, 2022 04:35
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Is there anything indicated where that intersection in the video is? Maybe it would make more (or less) sense looking at it on google maps Edit: Eventually in the thread someone said "E. Canal St." so it looks like its this: https://goo.gl/maps/JJcbQFokyUnDwdqw6 It actually seems significantly worse than it even looks from the video (lol) The road at the bottom left of the video is a highway that I guess ends right there mystes has issued a correction as of 05:00 on Apr 27, 2022 |
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Apr 27, 2022 04:44
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 https://twitter.com/uncledoomer/status/1518735976922861571 https://www.facebook.com/neworleanscadillac/videos/5051795661575814/ SMILLENNIALSMILLEN has issued a correction as of 05:25 on Apr 27, 2022 |
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Apr 27, 2022 05:23
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TeenageArchipelago posted:The biggest crime in history is the fact that pedestrians don't require insurance like drivers do. Imagine if a pedestrian just ran out into traffic and hit my car, whose going to pay for it? That piece of poo poo just waltzing around, uninsured, without a care in the world. Disgusting Sidewalks are not free so I reccomend that all pedestrians register their shoes with Shoe tabs yearly, and since pets have 4 paws you need to register each pet as 2 people. Bundle with pedestrian insurance
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Apr 27, 2022 05:40
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Lastgirl posted:https://twitter.com/uncledoomer/status/1518735976922861571?s=20&t=PBIeUQeY9I48w8_i99y-9g lmfao is there anyone under the age of 80 buying a buick or cadillac
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Apr 27, 2022 05:44
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Xaris posted:lmfao
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Apr 27, 2022 13:02
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Well there's your problem https://twitter.com/mnolangray/status/1519068067573116929?t=fDD1HCFjeHrK671kBcC0eg&s=19
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Apr 27, 2022 13:08
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lmao my only hope for car safety at this point is threatening vigilante group scaring violent drivers to keep in line
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Apr 27, 2022 13:10
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Fitzy Fitz posted:Well there's your problem
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Apr 27, 2022 13:35
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mystes posted:The road to the right has like 6 lanes including turn lanes. You would die if you tried to bike there.  There's a crosswalk here and multiple people still die going across every year, usually workers taking a bus to the poorly-placed stops. They don't even charge the drivers.
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Apr 27, 2022 14:14
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mystes posted:Unfortunately American fire departments also want to only buy the biggest fire trucks they can so they demand that streets constantly be made wider. I saw the most badass little firetruck in rural Kentucky. It looked like they built it themselves -- just a truck with a big tank of water on the back.
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Apr 27, 2022 14:20
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:
lol look at how tiny those buildings look
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Apr 27, 2022 14:29
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Fitzy Fitz posted:Well there's your problem thats because we're hamburger people
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Apr 27, 2022 15:29
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Jokerpilled Drudge posted:lmao my only hope for car safety at this point is threatening vigilante group scaring violent drivers to keep in line
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Apr 27, 2022 16:29
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Jokerpilled Drudge posted:lmao my only hope for car safety at this point is threatening vigilante group scaring violent drivers to keep in line It'll be shut down faster than any leftist group
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Apr 27, 2022 22:25
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WaryWarren posted:I drove on the highway heading south of the Twin Cities last weekend. It's a four lane highway with a grass median, where it alternates between limited access (on/off ramps) and at-grade intersections. The speed limit is 65 mph but everyone was going 70-80 mph. What absolutely poor road design lol. 69 is the correct speed for 52. That being said, the engineering of 52 just shows how much climate change is going to gently caress things up. I drive it every other week, including today! Drove in the insane fog that caused some fatal accidents a few months back. Great examples of people driving so terrible. Anything with wind is cause for consternation as well.
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Apr 27, 2022 22:32
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5QyCifgL4g Car brain tells you that it's cool to threaten to shoot someone whose going to put a magnet onto your car. The punishment for petty vandalism is death, administered by Chudge Dredd
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Apr 27, 2022 22:39
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Should have gotten his licence plate. What a piece of poo poo
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Apr 27, 2022 22:53
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Fitzy Fitz posted:I saw the most badass little firetruck in rural Kentucky. It looked like they built it themselves -- just a truck with a big tank of water on the back. A proper sized firetruck  
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Apr 27, 2022 23:42
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https://twitter.com/JoeyKaotyk/status/1518973621670416384?s=20&t=B9Uhymup7zVzxKv9nPUZCw Meanwhile, Americans will speed up to hit you if you're in a crosswalk but I guess there needs to be a crosswalk first
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Apr 28, 2022 01:44
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TeenageArchipelago posted:The biggest crime in history is the fact that pedestrians don't require insurance like drivers do. Imagine if a pedestrian just ran out into traffic and hit my car, whose going to pay for it? That piece of poo poo just waltzing around, uninsured, without a care in the world. Disgusting lmao you jest but we just had the court case where a pedestrian was required to pay for the damage to the car that hit him.
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Apr 28, 2022 03:42
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TeenageArchipelago posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5QyCifgL4g The loving cops at the end are the cherry on top. “Oh well, we can’t really charge him because…”
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Apr 29, 2022 00:54
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what if we made fence posts mobile
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Apr 29, 2022 00:58
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NoU posted:https://twitter.com/JoeyKaotyk/status/1518973621670416384?s=20&t=B9Uhymup7zVzxKv9nPUZCw This is how you cross streets in Cambodia too. Locals will take pity and walk across with you when you stand there frozen at the edge of traffic. And as scary as it is, it actually works because A) everyone cooperates, and B) most vehicles are small and open, like motorbikes. There are lots of four-way intersections with no traffic lights or signs, and people breeze through them by simply slowing down and weaving around each other. E: didn't even notice this was a crosswalk. I'm talking about crossing mid-street with no markings at all.
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Apr 29, 2022 01:28
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It should be no sweat for motorists to ignore a bicycle in an intersection
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Apr 29, 2022 03:38
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More deaths per year than aids lol
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