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Polo-Rican posted:this poo poo makes me mad. world's lowest-effort crosswalk to allow people to cross from the bus stop to the YMCA, but no pedestrian path to enter the YMCA beyond walking down the road. and no sidewalks of course Get ticketed for walking across the grass
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lol at that intersection. just loving lol. why even bother with the crosswalk.
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Jokerpilled Drudge posted:lmao r/relationships thread was having an absolute real one when the topic of riding bikes with helmets came up The tidbit that in good bike infrastructure countries almost no one wears a helmet came up and it made a lot of people mad. There's this weird insistence that cycling is some kind of inherently dangerous activity and a fixation on helment scolding
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Jun 7, 2022 16:04
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Can't wait until we get to the point where pedestrians should be wearing helmets because there are zillions of things that are not cars that will gently caress you up. People trundling to the shops or the swimming pool at 8mph on a bike should not need a helmet. The idea that you should need special protective equipment to cycle for everyday journeys, is another thing that contributes to keeping people from taking bikes seriously as transport for everyday short trips. If you're on a race bike and travelling as fast as possible for leisure/fun/fitness, then yes, you should have a helmet because the speeds you can get to are going to be much more dangerous.
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Jun 7, 2022 16:05
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leftist heap posted:lol at that intersection. just loving lol. why even bother with the crosswalk. PA law provides for a crosswalk at all perpendicular curbs whether the crosswalk is painted or not, and in the absence of traffic control devices pedestrians have right of way. They're great places if you want to legally kill a pedestrian because regardless of what the law says you will never get charged for it unless you were drunk at the time.
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Jun 7, 2022 16:07
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Riflen posted:Can't wait until we get to the point where pedestrians should be wearing helmets because there are zillions of things that are not cars that will gently caress you up. Know what looks even dumber than a helmet? Brain damage
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Jun 7, 2022 16:08
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:it happened again Struck and killed lmao. No connection between these two, just killed by the hand of god
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Jun 7, 2022 16:12
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Driver operates vehicle, vehicle strikes pedestrian, pedestrian becomes injured. Clearly no one is at fault.
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Jun 7, 2022 16:14
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withak posted:Driver operates vehicle, vehicle strikes pedestrian, pedestrian becomes injured. Clearly no one is at fault. How about a compromise, any vehicle involved in a pedestrian fatality should be compromised to a permanent end in a car compactor.
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Jun 7, 2022 16:19
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withak posted:Driver operates vehicle, vehicle strikes pedestrian, pedestrian becomes injured. Clearly no one is at fault.
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Jun 7, 2022 16:21
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thetan_guy42 posted:a fixation on helmet scolding 'when i give helmets to cyclists, they call me a saint. when i ask why cyclists need helmets, they call me a ridiculous bike extremist'
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Jun 7, 2022 16:21
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Good couple days for this poo poo https://www.wpxi.com/news/local/loved-ones-remember-clairton-man-struck-by-killed-by-vehicle-i-376/WLMVDZHSMZCMRGSVNX37W44HXA/ quote:ALLEGHENY COUNTY, Pa. — A man was killed after he was struck by a vehicle on Interstate 376. If your car breaks down on a highway in America you're a fuckin' dead man, good lord. Stay in the car and get rear-ended, get out of the car and get run over, there is no winning option.
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Jun 7, 2022 16:33
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:Know what looks even dumber than a helmet? Brain damage If you're falling while travelling at jogging speeds, you've got problems that a helmet isn't going to solve. If your town or city is designed such that you feel you need a helmet to cycle at these speeds, then your town or city is probably badly designed. If you're trying to protect against injury from collisions with cars while cycling, then that helmet is not going to do anything when a 2000kg metal box squishes you into cat food and you probably shouldn't be trying to cycle there at all. And you assumed it's about "looking dumb", when it's about removing as much friction to cycle use for these common journeys as possible. Special gear beyond the bike and a lock, is just another thing to have to buy and remember to take and secure from thieves. All this stuff puts people off and as others have said, perpetuates the idea that it's inherently a dangerous pursuit.
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Jun 7, 2022 16:34
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Riflen posted:If you're falling while travelling at jogging speeds, you've got problems that a helmet isn't going to solve. Falling and striking your head from a standstill can and does cause traumatic brain damage. quote:And you assumed it's about "looking dumb", when it's about removing as much friction to cycle use for these common journeys as possible. So it's just the seatbelt argument all over again.
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I mean if I was walking and tripped/fell head first into a metal post like these I would be worried about how bad it might scramble my brains. Even a concussion isn't something trivial. poo poo happens, people fall, if you want to wear a helmet going at a jogging pace when on a bike, I would understand, but also I'm not going to wear a helmet jogging so I would understand not wanting to wear one? idk, it's not like a helmet is difficult to wear either
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Jun 7, 2022 16:40
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We had to rent a car for a trip down to the states this weekend and it sucked. Our hotel was across the street from a starbucks but because they were tearing up the five-lane stroad (to make it a seven-lane stroad lol) there was no sidewalk on the side with the starbucks, so I had to walk on the shoulder with cars slamming past just to get there. What really fucks me up about car-dependent infrastructure is how it's simultaneously self-perpetuating and self-defeating.
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Jun 7, 2022 16:56
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Walk through the grass. Even if there is a sidewalk, experienced pedestrians in Houston prefer to walk through parking lots. It's a lot safer than walking on a sidewalk that is right next to a road of cars speeding over 45 mph.
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Jun 7, 2022 17:35
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There was no grass, it was just fenced off construction and the road itself. There were big signs that were like "open during construction!" and absolutely no thought put into the fact that anyone might consider walking in.
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Jun 7, 2022 17:39
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:Falling and striking your head from a standstill can and does cause traumatic brain damage. actually it's not it's just *rattles off a roster of increasingly irrelevant and more derivative niche case exceptions* wait
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The Dutch are a deranged, racist and profoundly ignorant people, almost as bad as the perfidious Boer or Pom. Why would you not wear a helmet biking because they don't wear them?
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thetan_guy42 posted:There's this weird insistence that cycling is some kind of inherently dangerous activity in America it sure as gently caress is, see the topic of this thread
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El Pollo Blanco posted:The Dutch are a deranged, racist and profoundly ignorant people, almost as bad as the perfidious Boer or Pom. Why would you not wear a helmet biking because they don't wear them? You wear a bike helmet for safety. I wear it in solidarity with ruthless imperialism. We are not the same.
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Magic Hate Ball posted:We had to rent a car for a trip down to the states this weekend and it sucked. Our hotel was across the street from a starbucks but because they were tearing up the five-lane stroad (to make it a seven-lane stroad lol) there was no sidewalk on the side with the starbucks, so I had to walk on the shoulder with cars slamming past just to get there. What really fucks me up about car-dependent infrastructure is how it's simultaneously self-perpetuating and self-defeating.
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Electro-Boogie Jack posted:helmet use rates are almost nonexistent in countries where cyclists are incredibly safe compared to here, because they've put the work into making sure that the environment is safe for cyclists. if you're mountain biking down a cliff or something sure, wear a helmet, but someone going a few blocks to the store or dropping off their kids at school absolutely should not need a helmet to do it, and the constant societal pressure to wear one exists because we haven't put in the work to make it safe to do so. what if you're just super clumsy?
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this guy owns https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1347133/Disabled-man-banned-using-road-tank-wheelchair-killjoy-DVLA-chiefs.html quote:
wheelchairs aren’t cars and car law is trying to hold back England’s real majesty.
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https://twitter.com/60Minutes/status/1515838336707051523?s=20&t=QcEJrVdoCz7OVnTu_7lzOA
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interesting Ballard pastiche
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Take my car in for service, they replace the cover gaskets, now the blower has oil fumes, take it in again, they can't figure it out, take it again for an oil change and for them to actually please fix this poo poo, it turns out it was the filler cap. Fine, that's 15 bucks. Drive it away, stop, restart engine, check engine light, camshaft position sensor. Honda want 170 bucks for that loving sensor. I can't even diagnose it myself unless I can find a multimeter in my tools or around the office. I have no faith in taking this to any mechanic because I'm sure I'm going to get it back with a different problem. I can't take of it myself because I just have a bare space in a parking lot with whatever tools I can find, and I only have like one day a week I'm not required to be somewhere (by car) to take care whatever its latest loving need is. If only I could just share a large vehicle with many other people, and this vehicle goes back to a garage at night with technicians who know what they're doing and have the right tools to take care of it, and they have extra ones in case that one needs to be fixed.
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:why is everyone hooting and hollering about helmets i only like helmets with chemical weapons
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skooma512 posted:If only I could just share a large vehicle with many other people, and this vehicle goes back to a garage at night with technicians who know what they're doing and have the right tools to take care of it, and they have extra ones in case that one needs to be fixed. ok, sure. and I bet you want to not have Kill Zones 6 feet from every building, too. and while we're at it why don't we give you enough money for your work to buy food and shelter, and a comfortable retirement, too?? get out of here.
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actionjackson posted:in America it sure as gently caress is, see the topic of this thread which is why you should go ahead and wear a helmet if you're so inclined, but the danger comes from cars hitting cyclists all the time and helmets do exactly nothing to prevent that, all they do is give you an extra dice roll to maybe not come out of it super hosed up. telling cyclists to wear helmets is what you do in your bad hosed up country instead of fixing your streets, and thinking about helmets as the guarantor of safety instead of road design/vehicle design/enforcing the law on drivers is a great way to ensure that people keep getting hit.
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Electro-Boogie Jack posted:which is why you should go ahead and wear a helmet if you're so inclined, but the danger comes from cars hitting cyclists all the time and helmets do exactly nothing to prevent that, all they do is give you an extra dice roll to maybe not come out of it super hosed up. telling cyclists to wear helmets is what you do in your bad hosed up country instead of fixing your streets, and thinking about helmets as the guarantor of safety instead of road design/vehicle design/enforcing the law on drivers is a great way to ensure that people keep getting hit. I think we could have the greatest bike streets in the world and as long as they were operated by americans, people are gonna die. If fewer.
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if you come off your bike because of a bad bit of road or something you didn't see at night, while going at 30+kmh, you want to be wearing a helmet, idiots
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what’s a kmh
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wearing a fully aerodynnamic suit including padded helmet for increased speedwalking efficiency + coverage in case i fall like huel from hit series Breaking Bad (only possibly in america because of his freedom to drive a winnebago out into the beautiful countryside to cook meth)
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Milo and POTUS posted:I think we could have the greatest bike streets in the world and as long as they were operated by americans, people are gonna die. If fewer. uh sure, maybe, i guess. in the meantime in real life and not in a hypothetical we have insanely lovely streets and far and away the highest helmet usage in the developed world, and that clearly isn't the solution because we also have cyclist death rates that would make people in other countries blush, including countries where almost no one wears helmets
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https://twitter.com/darth/status/1534341250043633664?s=20&t=Ybcr_NmJz2XgbJ0TaR6DEw
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El Pollo Blanco posted:if you come off your bike because of a bad bit of road or something you didn't see at night, while going at 30+kmh, you want to be wearing a helmet, idiots and if you're riding at 10km/h in a well lit city with good bike roads you probably won't need one. how is this hard to understand
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every cyclist should be required to wear warhammer power armor equipped with bolters capable of penetrating through cars and plasma weapons for destroying tesla cars (the ones that fail to self detonate)
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