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Deadly Ham Sandwich posted:Right turn on red is just an American thing, right? Like jaywalking. I was pushing my bike across this crosswalk once  and a driver went around me into oncoming traffic rather than slow down to let me cross. There's no light so peds always have right of way under PA law. Once I was crossing here at this intersection:  and a driver turning right on red nearly hit me. When I waved at him he leaned out of his window, yelled "gently caress YOU!" and zoomed off down the street, running the red at the next intersection. You know he went home and told his wife that some guy "jumped out in front of him" too.
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War and Pieces posted:Slow/safe drivers are unironically responsible for road rage unironically, but, like, sarcastically?
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:When I waved at him he leaned out of his window, yelled "gently caress YOU!" and zoomed off down the street, running the red at the next intersection. You know he went home and took it out on his wife and assaulted her. fyp
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Blockade posted:https://twitter.com/thornhawthorne/status/1527646165096865797 One of the things I learnt from a relative's geography degree is that, at least in one perspective, disabilities are created by the context. Everyone has their own particular body and mind , with specific limitations and abilities. In a certain built environment you might consider yourself significantly disabled, in another much less so. Like those anti-scooter barriers they put on bike paths in the UK - if you can lift your bike over you can use them fine, if you can't what could have been an easy trip becomes impossible. If you don't consider yourself disabled imagine they put up olympic hurdles on the sidewalk - an athlete might still get around easily enough, but would you? How many people are made disabled by our urban forms?
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people-centric cities I hate those barriers so much. We call them "cycle traps". Around here there's three in a straight line, two are open so anyone can go through, the third one was open for a while, then somebody shut it. We opened it again. They shut it and smeared axle grease all over it. We opened it again. They put a bolt into the lock and then bent it into place so it can't be opened by anyone. This isn't being done by the council, just some idiot. Nettle Soup has issued a correction as of 08:06 on May 21, 2022 |
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Blockade posted:https://twitter.com/thornhawthorne/status/1527646165096865797 it's called Universal Accessibility or Universal Design. they'd probably know this if they cared
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Nettle Soup posted:people-centric cities you can rent angle grinders from most hardware stores ;)
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Considering it!
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Blockade posted:https://twitter.com/thornhawthorne/status/1527646165096865797 every time there is any mention of reducing driving or parking a whole army of people will immediately pipe up and whatabout elderly people going to appointments or how will disabled people possibly cope without driving a car right into the middle of the city. they don't give a poo poo about any of that but they know it plays well and will continue to prop up the status quo, which is "I get to drive anywhere, everywhere and at any time I want at high speeds and gently caress you"
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A fairly dense development is being constructed nearby, it took years and is super necessary. I still remember seeing a comment in a neighborhood Facebook group from a last that amounted ro “I’m in my 90s and I don’t see how this would appeal to me.” It took me a lot of energy to not just tell her that she was more likely to be dead by the end of development. Such shortsighted worldview. Not thinking about any other generation, just her own old rear end self.
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TeenageArchipelago posted:also this one: lol died because he had to play a lovely mobile game. if he was on a train he could play his game all he wants
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Notorious R.I.M. posted:it's called Universal Accessibility or Universal Design. they'd probably know this if they cared 
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:I was pushing my bike across this crosswalk once No light crosswalks are free kill zones I hate them
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Nettle Soup posted:people-centric cities Can you post a picture of one of these? I tried searching for "cycle trap" but that returned literal punji pits.
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Boot and Rally posted:Can you post a picture of one of these? I tried searching for "cycle trap" but that returned literal punji pits. https://www.sustrans.org.uk/our-blog/opinion/2020/june/why-removing-restrictive-barriers-must-be-part-of-our-response-to-covid-19  There are loads of different designs around, sometimes standard bikes can get through but any alternative mobility devices can't (cargo bikes, wheelchairs etc), sometimes they are effectively pedestrian only
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Wait wait what the hell I'm off transit twitter for a week and now they arguing if the term "walkable cities" is ableist? no fuckin wonder we can't ban the cars these dorks are debating semantics while drivers are laughing all the way to the gas station
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ate poo poo on live tv posted:Speed limits are set for revenue generation not safety. gently caress off. let this be a lesson that car brain can come for any one of us
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Have a car-free plaza. https://twitter.com/alanthefisher/status/1527737724479873026
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TeenageArchipelago posted:also this one: quote:“There’s a global race to AVs. Do we want China to win that race? Or do we want to lead?" Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash, argued. "Do we want all the safety, faster traffic and mobility benefits to go abroad, or do we want to win this future and deliver for the American people?" I loving hate cars
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Self driving cars are so terrible they need a bailout from the government. This isn't a possibility I had considered, but of course it's going to happen.
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quote:Jessica Raubenolt and her daughter Lillia were trying to cross the street at West Knights Avenue in what police later described as a "lawful crossing." Before they could make it across, the mom and baby were hit by a 2018 Ford Mustang, racing another northbound vehicle. Jessica, a 24-year-old in town from Ohio, was killed in the crash. Her 21-month-old daughter Lillia was badly injured and died at the hospital a day later. Tampa responded by lowering the speed limit to 35 and making the pedestrian crossings more visible with lights and signs.  I think it's an improvement... i just can't help but feel like it's an ugly band-aid that doesn't do much to address the problems of having cars driving near people, and certainly doesn't do anything about assholes going 102mph. The two signs telling you where to stop aren't even standardized!! It's like they just recently invented the idea of stopping for pedestrians and are testing things out for the first time.
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In Germany people have been tried and convicted for murder after, well, murdering people by overspeeding so at least there is some recognition that car "accidents" are not really that accidental
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Norton posted:I think it's an improvement... i just can't help but feel like it's an ugly band-aid that doesn't do much to address the problems of having cars driving near people, and certainly doesn't do anything about assholes going 102mph. The two signs telling you where to stop aren't even standardized!! It's like they just recently invented the idea of stopping for pedestrians and are testing things out for the first time. On top of being unwilling to do any actual work or regulatory effort, American government is incompetent and ineffectual.
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Norton posted:Tampa responded by lowering the speed limit to 35 and making the pedestrian crossings more visible with lights and signs. holy poo poo its not going to stop tampa drivers lmao that city is probably one of the worst in terms of car infrastructure alone, absolute mess because of it
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every crosswalk should also be a speed bump high enough that the heads of drivers don't even come up to the waists of pedestrians. then you wouldn't even need a streetlight. but mostly crosswalks shouldn't exist. sidewalks either. a complete network of pedestrian (bicycle, personal mobility vehicle, etc) pathways should intersect the road network at as few points as practical. e: ive said this before in this thread. everyone buy A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander
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mazzi Chart Czar posted:Had this really messed up thought. What if the reason we are starting to see a sort of end of car-concentric living is due to baby boomers collectively becoming too old to drive and are transforming the usa, yet again, to fit their needs and wants. We're gonna have to wait until that generation is gone, unfortunately. In metro Atlanta, probably one of the most sprawled areas of the country, boomers are just building entirely new suburbs to retire in. My mom moved into one recently, and she's already protesting a new apartment development nearby "because of the traffic it will generate." I don't think anyone has protested the numerous subdivisions of SFHs, like her neighborhood, that also generate traffic. They do actually recognize the value of non-car travel, but instead of supporting anything public they just buy golf carts and hire charter buses.
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SKULL.GIF posted:Have a car-free plaza. look at this ableist bullshit
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ate poo poo on live tv posted:Speed limits are set for revenue generation not safety. gently caress off. Peanut brain. https://twitter.com/DavidZipper/status/1527992709146869761
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 imagine a world where when given a choice, people would rather travel for leisure than for work urine one
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distortion park posted:https://www.sustrans.org.uk/our-blog/opinion/2020/june/why-removing-restrictive-barriers-must-be-part-of-our-response-to-covid-19 Basically these yeah. This seems like a good selection:  There's a nice one here placed right at the bottom of a very short, steep hill, getting the panniers through that is fun...
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Those are very weird to me as an american because i feel like the UK is better for walking/cycling in most other ways but I don't think I've ever seen something like that in the US.
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mystes posted:Those are very weird to me as an american because i feel like the UK is better for walking/cycling in most other ways but I don't think I've ever seen something like that in the US. Same. That poo poo is baffling to me.
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Are they meant to keep bikes out?
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a_pineapple posted:Wait wait what the hell I'm off transit twitter for a week and now they arguing if the term "walkable cities" is ableist? That's the purpose of wreckers, preserve the status quo under the guise of social justice.
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I'm specifically talking about highways. Cars don't belong in cities. In fact this solution spain came up with is actually the real car brain. Just ban the cars from the city. It's not hard. The city in Spain existed before cars, you don't have to build around them ate shit on live tv has issued a correction as of 18:50 on May 21, 2022 |
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Fitzy Fitz posted:Are they meant to keep bikes out? Motorcycles and scooters primarily, but yes. A lot of these paths were built with the idea that it was pedestrians vs cars & bicycles rather than pedestrians & bicycles vs cars. around my way a lot of them have been removed in the last few years. the cycling infrastructure in my area is substantially better than it was ten years ago.
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