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Wolfy posted:In theory this could work but you know this street is signed for 25 yet the cars are going 45 so that crossing is loving terrifying Cars do indeed haul rear end on that street when they can.
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Xaris posted:in oakland, absolutely i can confirm that street and others you are expected to go no less than 45 on or else its road-rage time. everyone flies at twice the speed down residential and ped streets and runs reds or stops constantly there. yeah. realistically outside either automated bollards or expert marksmen defending crosswalks/cycle lanes they're going to continue to be honeypots for people who think they matter in carworld.
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TeenageArchipelago posted:I would prefer for all of the crossing points between bike paths and vehicle paths to be where the vehicles are at a stop, rather than when they are still going 25+
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also you cant guarantee most of the vehicles that are at a stop are also still not going 25+ red signs and lights are mostly a suggestion to heed if you're feeling like it, otherwise the seas will always part for you like moses so just go for it
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That's what the bollards mentioned earlier in the thread are for
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what if bollards came up at red lights. would be pretty funny
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A MIRACLE posted:what if bollards came up at red lights. would be pretty funny All You Haters Suck My Bollards
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all of this sounds very expensive to implement and maintain. may i propose simply banning cars
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Petanque posted:all of this sounds very expensive to implement and maintain. may i propose simply banning cars
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Petanque posted:all of this sounds very expensive to implement and maintain. may i propose simply banning cars but how will senile disabled dementia patients go to the pharmacy???
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https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/128761766/speed-limit-of-50kph-on-transmission-gully-link-roads-to-be-reassessed There's some amazing car brain quotes from city councillors in this one  Train posting is good posting El Pollo Blanco has issued a correction as of 04:40 on May 26, 2022 |
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Kicked Throat posted:count the malls in bangkok's mall district: not only can you catch a metro train to this area, you can also get there by these rad canal buses https://youtu.be/HDfpfIGPmj8
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Brawnfire posted:150,000 bats ON A BUS
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upsidedown posted:not only can you catch a metro train to this area, you can also get there by these rad canal buses i spent a day riding those for fun once, they are great. it felt like everywhere they take you is super walkable market streets.
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https://twitter.com/tomflood1/status/1529439115447615489
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When I commute to work by car, it's not at peak rush hour times. Even still, I notice a lot of pickup trucks driving around. There are a lot of unemployed farmers and construction workers. lol
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truck makers realizing that advertising to people who pretend to need their truck for work was missing part of the market with marginally more self awareness
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wow mos def has really fallen
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leftist heap posted:truck makers realizing that advertising to people who pretend to need their truck for work was missing part of the market with marginally more self awareness How about a subcompact that's just studded with diamonds?
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mystes posted:I've they're just going to cut the crap and market to people who are like "yes I am in the market for a car that's a Veblen good" could they not make them so stupidly big and heavy at least? It is America.
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I do some carpentry, and a pick up truck is dog poo poo for hauling lumber. The bed isn't even long enough to lay down a 8' board. My station wagon has the same carrying capacity as most trucks. The real working man drives a van or drags a cargo trailer. I know these trucks aren't meant for work or hauling cargo. They're meant for consumers trying to reinforce their masculinity through their consumer choices.
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Deadly Ham Sandwich posted:I know these trucks aren't meant for work or hauling cargo. They're meant for consumers trying to reinforce their masculinity through their consumer choices. last weekend I saw an old black lady wearing all purple and a big purple hat driving the biggest Silverado I’ve ever seen, which was also purple, so you’re wrong
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mawarannahr posted:last weekend I saw an old black lady wearing all purple and a big purple hat driving the biggest Silverado I’ve ever seen, which was also purple, so you’re wrong ngl she sounds cool
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Deadly Ham Sandwich posted:The real working man drives a van or drags a cargo trailer. Oh, you're a tradesman and "need" your pickup for "work"? just buy a van. Oh, you somehow "need" a load area accessible from three sides for some reason? Well your pickup's bed is tiny, buy a van with a bed  
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Deadly Ham Sandwich posted:I do some carpentry, and a pick up truck is dog poo poo for hauling lumber. The bed isn't even long enough to lay down a 8' board. My station wagon has the same carrying capacity as most trucks. The real working man drives a van or drags a cargo trailer. The popular new thing is for the 10,000 contractors around here to tow these huge loving trailers behind their giant lifted trucks when they drive down to Home Depot to buy a contractor pack of boob lights for their latest remodel 
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I volunteer at a food bank, and over the pandemic we've shifted so that instead of the usual "come in and pick what you want like a store with some dignity" approach now it's just loading boxes into trucks and cars as they file past. Don't like/won't use/ are actually allergic to some items? Sorry, everybody gets the same, move along. For the most part it has not been a positive change. Among all the other little inconveniences that come with this shift is one really annoying factor that becomes a sticking point every single time: for some reason, all rear-hatch vehicles made in the last 30 years seem to need their own completely different, proprietary latch mechanisms in the back. I have no loving clue why door handles are more or less standardized but the way to open the rear hatch is one of like 45 different designs- sometimes it's a button, sometimes it's a latch, sometimes it's a button AND a latch, sometimes the button is hidden under or inside something, sometimes the latch is flush with the door and you'd need a loving jeweler's torque to find it if you don't already know, sometimes the driver actually opens and closes the hatch with a powered door mechanism and if you try to open it by hand it can break (so why do they even still include the hand-latch on the back if you're never supposed to use it!?!?!?!). Frequently any one of these designs is further complicated by already having been broken at some point long before, so the driver tells you to jiggle it or "push harder" or, often, "here let me do it it's weird". Every time this happens it slows the whole process down and it's a pain in everybody's butt while we have to stand there waiting holding boxes and flats of food, and there's yet another Myst puzzle to figure out before you can load any of it. It blows my mind that with all the talk of automotive engineers winning awards and poo poo, nobody has standardized something as dirt simple as the mechanism to open and close the cargo area. This truck discussion makes me realize what it actually displays: how little a priority the cargo space actually is on these vehicles. It's an afterthought, which is why you put the C-team on designing those parts, which keeps this one niche of the field intensely stupid. It's maddening.
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that sucks I’m sorry. how do you get food if you’re too poor for a car?
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There's a 90s open bed Hilux on my street that is tiny compared to current models and also looks to have about twice the space in the bed The front of the hood is below my waist level compared to a current Hilux which is close to shoulder height lol
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mawarannahr posted:that sucks I’m sorry. how do you get food if you’re too poor for a car? Technically we're not supposed to give people on foot anything which is intensely stupid, so often people who do have a car will pick up for other people who don't too and take it to them. This is very cool of them, but also requires way more paperwork, of course. We also have people come up in ATVs and golf carts and stuff some times just to qualify. It's ridiculous and sad. indigi posted:put the box in the back seat maybe This is often the workaround but is also regularly confounded by people bringing their kids and dogs with them, which I understand having to do if you can't leave them at home or if you have to drive several counties over to get food (Wyoming is a particularly weird place for charities because everything's so spaced out, people will often end up coming from two counties over to the food bank they're supposed to go to, let alone if they're double-dipping which a lot of people do by driving all over the state, which yeah, is also kinda nuts). Less excusable is the people who don't clean their vehicle out at all and then want all 4 boxes and it's suddenly Filthy Tetris time.
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:The 1936 FHA Underwriting Manual explicitly said that race mixing wasn't going to be allowed in FHA-underwritten housing developments  tear it all down
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BoldFrankensteinMir posted:Technically we're not supposed to give people on foot anything which is intensely stupid, so often people who do have a car will pick up for other people who don't too and take it to them. This is very cool of them, but also requires way more paperwork, of course. We also have people come up in ATVs and golf carts and stuff some times just to qualify. It's ridiculous and sad. This is insane. There can be no justifying this, but what's the official reason? And where is this godawful punitive garbage happening?
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TeenageArchipelago posted:I assume that it's a COVID policy to limit close contact with the staff? I assume it helps spread COVID among total strangers riding with each other, hurting especially the poorest people and anyone who empathizes with them even when they’re hard up themselves. god drat.
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