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if only they knew how much in common they have
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# ? May 27, 2022 01:05 |
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# ? May 27, 2024 14:37 |
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probably won't last for long in this poo poo rear end country but DC is taking the fight to the trucks https://twitter.com/DavidZipper/status/1529830472330711041?s=20&t=CPMCsZ1fw4yN_43ezrYwVQ
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# ? May 27, 2022 01:06 |
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peebike
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# ? May 27, 2022 01:06 |
Samuel Glompers posted:This is insane. There can be no justifying this, but what's the official reason? And where is this godawful punitive garbage happening? Rural Wyoming, and I have no idea how they justify it except that it is simply not considered. I'm extremely weird out here as a bike-rider, most people here think of cars as shoes, they assume everyone has at least 4 lying around. I had a lease for a small lot in-town out here for a while, and it explicitly stated I'm not to have more then 7 vehicles parked on the property. I see why, half the homes around here look like miniature junkyards there's so many car and truck parts littered around. Lots of snowmobiles and ATVs too, and some bikes, even nice ones. But I rarely see anybody riding one. I agree that it's not fair and the beef is with the Food Bank of Wyoming people, who are just terrible. We used to partner with Food Bank of the Rockies who I had worked with before in Colorado, and they're not bad. They have issues but they're a hundred times better than Food Bank of Wyoming. When Covid started everything got shifted around, and the program has been hanging on for dear life ever since, we even have to bring our own bags and boxes and tape from home most of the time. I've complained in-person before about other issues and been slapped down by our abysmally rude representative, and they don't seem to respond to emails etc, so I honestly have no idea how to fix things. It all may be moot anyway because we keep getting told that rising gas prices are making the truck they ship things out here on too expensive and that might end the program. I think that's a flat-out lie, but if that's the excuse they latch onto for killing the program, then I'll just have to shrug and accept it I guess. It's more than a little frustrating.
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# ? May 27, 2022 01:11 |
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how many of you have added an ebike to your transport mix. give it a go. it whips
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# ? May 27, 2022 01:17 |
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Favorite pro-bike/anti-car resources? Doing a presentation next week on the subject of bike commuting and want to turn people onto stuff like “Not Just Bikes.”
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# ? May 27, 2022 01:41 |
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I've been enjoying CityNerd, though he is a bit drier than a lot of the similar channels Just search "stroad" on YouTube and you will get 5-6 different channels, I assume that you can do the same on Google to find resources that aren't YouTube
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# ? May 27, 2022 02:16 |
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Dog Case posted: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 But the box might scuff my bed.
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# ? May 27, 2022 03:02 |
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Mayor Dave posted:probably won't last for long in this poo poo rear end country but DC is taking the fight to the trucks this is great but even 500/yr is like a tenth of what it should be for starters. and we should also make it clear that the 6k limit is eventually going to be a 5k limit, and people driving these things into the city will be charged as well, and...
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# ? May 27, 2022 03:18 |
Registration fees based on weight have been around for decades, there is nothing groundbreaking about this. There's like 10 states that already do that.
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# ? May 27, 2022 03:23 |
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An apartment's car stacker died 9 months ago in Australia, no stacker no car. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmLp4UBdqB8
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# ? May 27, 2022 03:23 |
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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 well they have to drive over the speed limit to keep up with traffic or else it's really dangerous
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# ? May 27, 2022 04:21 |
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y’all folks ready to get tactically urban?"the failing seattle times posted:When the crosswalk at 83rd and Greenwood showed up last September, it didn’t look like all the others. Rather than the piano key pattern used by the Seattle Department of Transportation — staccato bars of white paint, separated in pairs of two — this one was a series of large, evenly spaced white blocks. this city hates pedestrians more than its drivers do in my experience, which is a hell of a feat
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# ? May 27, 2022 04:48 |
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A MIRACLE posted:what if bollards came up at red lights. would be pretty funny if only drivers had to fear for their own lives the same way non-drivers have to do in their presence
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# ? May 27, 2022 05:01 |
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The people who usually spend their days complaining about bike lanes in my city have branched out into complaining about curb extensions at intersections because they slow down people making right turns.
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# ? May 27, 2022 05:05 |
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making cars safer for the occupants and deadlier for everyone else, a continuing saga
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# ? May 27, 2022 05:06 |
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gone private what was this
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# ? May 27, 2022 06:05 |
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SMILLENNIALSMILLEN posted:gone private what was this a picture of ebike next to an American-style truck
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# ? May 27, 2022 06:11 |
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Painting an "illegal" pedestrian crossing here is a bigger offence than running someone over in a car lmao loving lol
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# ? May 27, 2022 06:38 |
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mawarannahr posted:a picture of ebike next to an American-style truck That was captioned something along the lines of "one of these things makes people see you as forcing your lifestyle on others" I feel like it was worded better but I can't remember it
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# ? May 27, 2022 06:51 |
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ah https://twitter.com/wippdrechler/status/1529920018867179539
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# ? May 27, 2022 06:56 |
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mawarannahr posted:y’all folks ready to get tactically urban? People need to upgrade from guerilla crosswalks to guerilla bollards.
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# ? May 27, 2022 14:02 |
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Deadly Ham Sandwich posted:People need to upgrade from guerilla crosswalks to guerilla bollards. mystes has issued a correction as of 14:11 on May 27, 2022 |
# ? May 27, 2022 14:08 |
Deadly Ham Sandwich posted:People need to upgrade from guerilla crosswalks to guerilla bollards. https://twitter.com/CyclingTodayEn/status/838154079574568961
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# ? May 27, 2022 16:26 |
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quote:A spokesperson for the city said the plungers were not placed by the city and police said the person responsible could be cited for littering. The city is aware of the intersection and that is has long-term plans to make improvements.
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# ? May 27, 2022 16:29 |
mystes posted:Wow, the city is aware of the intersection! Reassuring! I can't find the article now but someone did the same thing overnight in Denver with toilet plungers on a bike lane after a cyclist got merked and the city was bragging about how they removed all the plungers before noon.
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# ? May 27, 2022 16:31 |
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It's dumb how they often say they removed the stuff that people added but are vaguely thinking of making some improvement (but won't actually, of course) but I found the phrasing "aware of the intersection" here particularly dumb because they're not even saying they're aware of complaints about the intersection or something like that. It's like... yeah, they're the city the intersection is in. How the gently caress could they NOT be "aware" of the intersection? Are there intersections that they somehow AREN'T aware of? Also, in a perfect world I feel like they shouldn't even be allowed to remove zebra stripes or bollards that people add as long as they're done properly (in some places there are decisions about whether to make specific crossings "crosswalks" but in California as in some other states like Virginia I think there are always "crosswalks" at intersections even if they aren't marked so they don't even have that excuse so by removing zebra stripes that people have added it seems almost like they're trying to illegally pretend the crossing isn't a "crosswalk"). Edit: I also hate how the bar for getting any improvement made for pedestrian safety is so ridiculously high whereas if it was something affecting cars they would probably be out there within 24 hours. mystes has issued a correction as of 16:51 on May 27, 2022 |
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mystes posted:Edit: I also hate how the bar for getting any improvement made for pedestrian safety is so ridiculously high whereas if it was something affecting cars they would probably be out there within 24 hours. They way I had it explained to me was that it was very easy for cities to build things that comply with their traffic enginnering design manual - which was usually based on 1950s or 60s traffic management philosophy and deals entirely with moving as many cars as quickly as possible through an area. If they want to build a strode they can just do it - it's right there in the list of approved designs. All the designs that increase pedestrian safety tend to be a lot more modern and not in the official manual, so each one is a special project that requires extra meetings and community input and consultants, etc..
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# ? May 27, 2022 17:06 |
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mystes posted:Maybe someone should figure out how to make normal-looking functional traffic signals for crosswalks as cheaply as possible. You don't have to - in France (unlike the UK) they don't require signals at ped crossings, just paint. Obv they aren't as good, but it means there are loads of them and they can be installed quickly and cheaply. Pedestrians have right of way as well, so you don't have to wait for a light, just make sure the driver has seen you and they'll slow down. Perhaps won't work on some lovely stroad though unless the system is really hammered home in more urban settings
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# ? May 27, 2022 19:23 |
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distortion park posted:You don't have to - in France (unlike the UK) they don't require signals at ped crossings, just paint. Obv they aren't as good, but it means there are loads of them and they can be installed quickly and cheaply. Pedestrians have right of way as well, so you don't have to wait for a light, just make sure the driver has seen you and they'll slow down.
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# ? May 27, 2022 19:39 |
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got my bike out of the shop time to Ride! To! Work!
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# ? May 27, 2022 19:45 |
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did you know the head of your local department of transportation has a deviantart account?
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# ? May 27, 2022 20:15 |
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https://twitter.com/ihatetef/status/1530253209041833987?s=20&t=pkYxHGHFG57AN1VIO3ZUnw
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# ? May 28, 2022 01:50 |
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Mayor Dave posted:probably won't last for long in this poo poo rear end country but DC is taking the fight to the trucks people who buy and feed something like an F250 to use at city MPG and prices won’t blink at $500/year, they’ll bitch and moan but it won’t change anyone’s mind. it should be 1k minimum, also measure driver line of sight over the hood, and quadruple any parking or moving violation fines
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# ? May 28, 2022 01:58 |
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PittTheElder posted:https://twitter.com/ihatetef/status/1530253209041833987?s=20&t=pkYxHGHFG57AN1VIO3ZUnw lmfao its like a zombie movie
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# ? May 28, 2022 02:16 |
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BIG-DICK-BUTT-gently caress posted:lmfao its like a zombie movie I’ve never seen a zombie movie where the zombie is driving. gently caress that driver
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# ? May 28, 2022 02:17 |
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indigi posted:quadruple any parking or moving violation fines yes
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# ? May 28, 2022 03:03 |
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PittTheElder posted:https://twitter.com/ihatetef/status/1530253209041833987?s=20&t=pkYxHGHFG57AN1VIO3ZUnw arrrgh conflicted about this one lmao
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# ? May 28, 2022 07:11 |
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the answer is obvious: though you may leave the car the car does not necessarily leave you, and can persist as a state of mind / being
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# ? May 28, 2022 07:49 |
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# ? May 27, 2024 14:37 |
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Boywhiz88 posted:Favorite pro-bike/anti-car resources? Doing a presentation next week on the subject of bike commuting and want to turn people onto stuff like “Not Just Bikes.” The war on cars podcast
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# ? May 28, 2022 07:52 |