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Deadly Ham Sandwich posted:Genius! The last phase of my car ownership before I got rid of it entirely was angrily going out once a week to idle the stupid thing for a few minutes so the battery would stay charged. Good luck in Houston, looking back on it I'm not sure how I didn't die on my bike there, but fortunately only 1 car swerved at me as a joke.
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Deadly Ham Sandwich posted:Bollards are the solution. You press the walk sign, and bollards block the road. when you think about how terrifying and deadly this would be for drivers, there’s no way. imagine if something could just appear in front of your car and there’s no way you could have stopped and it kills you!
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CongoJack posted:There is a few of these kind of things near me, I stopped at one when there was someone waiting to cross and some peice of poo poo in a giant gleaming pickup behind me was gesticulating wildly at me for having the audacity to yield to a pedestrian. There's one of these near me too:  it's there specifically because there's an elementary school there away from a normal crosswalk, the speed limit is 25mph, and it lights up like a Christmas tree, and people still do not give a gently caress. They drag race through this little commercial area at 40mph.
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RRFB's are completely useless Even HAWK signals are kind of dubious compared to normal lights in terms of actually getting drivers to stop but drivers just universally ignore RRFB's. I assume most drivers just don't think they have to stop for them but I wouldn't be surprised if some drivers are just missing them since they aren't where they're looking and I think they're actual barely visible in some light conditions too. Edit: This is a dumb one I've encountered:  Two lanes in each direction on a road that encourages people to speed and it has tons of traffic at a lot of times of day. It's totally unsafe for it to be an RRFB and I don't understand why they didn't just make it a normal light. At least there's sort of an island in the middle. mystes has issued a correction as of 00:01 on Jul 22, 2022 |
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a few states (i know indiana does) have giant signs at some busier ones that read "STATE LAW: MUST [STOP] FOR PEDESTRIAN IN CROSSWALK" and i've still almost been hit in those exact crosswalks with those signs.
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Peanut President posted:a few states (i know indiana does) have giant signs at some busier ones that read "STATE LAW: MUST [STOP] FOR PEDESTRIAN IN CROSSWALK" and i've still almost been hit in those exact crosswalks with those signs. Maybe they should try tweeting about it, you probably almost got hit because they didn't tweet about it.
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mystes posted:RRFB's are completely useless I think you hit on the real issue of RRFBs: they're like a thoughts and prayers device placed at incredibly dangerous crossings
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I was impressed with the RRFB that the city installed on the main bike path, but it was thoroughly vandalized within a few weeks of deployment, and local residents keep destroying it as soon as the road crew installs new poles
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I had to look up a video of these RRFBs in action. God drat it's stupid. How did anyone think this is a good idea? Maybe it will encourage more drivers to stop for pedestrians, but the real danger is the 10% of drivers that will run over a pedestrian through negligence. If you aren't paying enough attention to notice a pedestrian at a crossing, then a flashing light probably won't help you either. The "i hate cars solution" is bollards pop out when you hit the cross walk button to murder any driver that would harm you. The actual intelligent solution would be traffic calming to force cars to slow down at the cross walk, like bollards to narrow the road or a high raised crossing that acts like a giant speed bump. Skinnymansbeerbelly posted:I was impressed with the RRFB that the city installed on the main bike path, but it was thoroughly vandalized within a few weeks of deployment, and local residents keep destroying it as soon as the road crew installs new poles
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Actually to be fair there are a couple RRFBs on one bike path around here that are okay but they are 1) motion activated and trigger well before you get to the crossings and 2) are in low traffic places where drivers already almost always stop for bikes at the crossing, so they really just serve to give drivers who were already going to stop a little advance warning that a bike is approaching, and I guess given those conditions they aren't completely terrible. In every other situation (so like 99% of the ones I've seen) they're just garbage where someone must have thought "well we should put a light here but that would slow down cars so let's just put a homeopathic light up instead" mystes has issued a correction as of 03:12 on Jul 22, 2022 |
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Deadly Ham Sandwich posted:LOL where was this? Del Paso Boulevard in Sacramento, one of the few at grade crossings on the river trail and by far the busiest.
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Peanut President posted:a few states (i know indiana does) have giant signs at some busier ones that read "STATE LAW: MUST [STOP] FOR PEDESTRIAN IN CROSSWALK" and i've still almost been hit in those exact crosswalks with those signs.
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i used to live right next to that sign, weird!
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Fitzy Fitz posted:It's honestly scarier to use a crosswalk and trust that people will yield vs "jaywalking" when you see a gap. At least then you can size up the situation and know that no one is going to stop yep. Drivers simply can’t be trusted. I’ve had people stare directly at me as they roll through stop signs right when I’m stepping into the street. Might as well be invisible
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heated game moment posted:yep. Drivers simply can’t be trusted. I’ve had people stare directly at me as they roll through stop signs right when I’m stepping into the street. Might as well be invisible I had a guy years back get out of his car and try to pick a fight with me because I crossed in front of his car which was stopped at a sign.
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these days I'm often pushing a stroller around the city and it's amazing to see drivers continue to run stop signs and red lights and violate my right of way in crosswalks even with a loving one year old right in front of them. starting to feel like I don't even have to make the case that cars are bad anymore because these drivers are doing it for me
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https://www.outsideonline.com/culture/love-humor/nick-offerman-column-thoreau-candy-rear end/ I read this this morning and rode my bike in instead of walking/busing like I usually do, and I had a lovely ride. Bikes!
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definitely posted this before but it's extremely disheartening how many people don't slow down or even give me very much space when i am pushing my son around on his stroller in my neighborhood. we don't have sidewalks (houston is hell, even relatively central neighborhoods) so i am walking around on residential streets, but people still zoom by at like 30 mph with barely a foot of clearance. that kind of hostility to adult pedestrians is normal but it shocks me every time that people seem to not even care about a kid young enough to be in a stroller. i hate this place sometimes lol
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Electro-Boogie Jack posted:these days I'm often pushing a stroller around the city and it's amazing to see drivers continue to run stop signs and red lights and violate my right of way in crosswalks even with a loving one year old right in front of them. starting to feel like I don't even have to make the case that cars are bad anymore because these drivers are doing it for me Yesterday at a T intersection I saw a guy make a right on red onto the long leg of the T, pull a U turn, and take a right to keep going straight. Impressive rules lawyering to save 10 seconds.
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Deadly Ham Sandwich posted:Bollards are the solution. You press the walk sign, and bollards block the road. I can never get enough of these classics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIas-5pwpZk
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jackhunter64 posted:I can never get enough of these classics:
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mystes posted:I can't wait for AnimeIsTrash to come in and saying that we're all wrong for enjoying videos of cars getting wrecked by bollards A stressed restaurant worker here went into a parking garage and smashed up some expensive cars with a fire extinguisher. A radio guy here got mad about it because, and I quote, "I hate it when people beat up something that can't fight back." Like the cars were living beings or something. Carbrain really fucks you up.
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:A stressed restaurant worker here went into a parking garage and smashed up some expensive cars with a fire extinguisher. A radio guy here got mad about it because, and I quote, "I hate it when people beat up something that can't fight back."
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Important reminder that car companies hate you and are actively working for you to die. https://twitter.com/michael_ulf/status/1550178413876576257?t=Yy65fhwS8n1LAmImQzI4yQ&s=19
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Cugel the Clever posted:Important reminder that car companies hate you and are actively working for you to die. terrible city
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Living in Chicago I never understand cities that DON'T have thier airports connected to their transit systems. It's just the most natural obviousl place to extend the train to. This includes DC, NYC, DFW etc. major metor area's that have either had mass transit for years, or are finally building it out, and they still can't seem to connect their airports. It's bizarre.
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ate poo poo on live tv posted:Living in Chicago I never understand cities that DON'T have thier airports connected to their transit systems. It's just the most natural obviousl place to extend the train to. This includes DC, NYC, DFW etc. major metor area's that have either had mass transit for years, or are finally building it out, and they still can't seem to connect their airports. It's bizarre. Even the very limited light rail in Minneapolis will take you from the airport to downtown, or even to St. Paul.
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ate poo poo on live tv posted:Living in Chicago I never understand cities that DON'T have thier airports connected to their transit systems. It's just the most natural obviousl place to extend the train to. This includes DC, NYC, DFW etc. major metor area's that have either had mass transit for years, or are finally building it out, and they still can't seem to connect their airports. It's bizarre. As for Dulles... I haven't lived there since like 2016 and the silver line has taken forever but I guess the second phase is finally being finished and will go to the airport now except that IIRC it will go somewhere weird like the long term parking lot and require a shuttle or something dumb like that because they picked a bad design to save a little money. The old WMATA bus to dulles was actually pretty decent but for some reason the people operating the airport hated it and refused to provide any indication of its existence or where in the airport it departed from for years. The weirdest thing was how after they finished phase one of the silver line they were trying to promote this terrible and very expensive private bus service that went from the end of the silver line to the airport (I assume bribery was involved). mystes has issued a correction as of 21:06 on Jul 22, 2022 |
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mystes posted:The airport that's actually in DC has been connected to transit forever and flying out of when you're in downtown DC is one of the best airport experiences because of that. yeah i'll do just about anything to fly out of national instead of dulles or bwi
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today there was apparently a "go slow" protest on the motorways in the UK, as a protest against high petrol prices. not quite sure why any particular fossil fuel company is supposed to notice but I'm all for it.
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telling how they thought that going slower would be a sufficiently bad thing. BP is going to recoil in horror from the psychic damage of a car not going full speed.
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lobster shirt posted:definitely posted this before but it's extremely disheartening how many people don't slow down or even give me very much space when i am pushing my son around on his stroller in my neighborhood. we don't have sidewalks (houston is hell, even relatively central neighborhoods) so i am walking around on residential streets, but people still zoom by at like 30 mph with barely a foot of clearance. that kind of hostility to adult pedestrians is normal but it shocks me every time that people seem to not even care about a kid young enough to be in a stroller. i hate this place sometimes lol Why is this shocking? Americans don't give 2 shits about kids. It's almost as if we're a garbage people lobster shirt posted:terrible city All told it's probably the worst in the country.
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dxt posted:even to St. Paul. horror of all horrors jk
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jackhunter64 posted:I can never get enough of these classics: why do multiple people touch (and taste?) the car blood that spilled on the ground in the 2nd one???
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Milo and POTUS posted:All told it's probably the worst in the country. Yeah landfill for the most egregious dregs of American culture
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distortion park posted:today there was apparently a "go slow" protest on the motorways in the UK, as a protest against high petrol prices. not quite sure why any particular fossil fuel company is supposed to notice but I'm all for it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoCX_UOFpVk fela kuti recognized the strangling nature of the automobile / capitalism combo and put it to music way before any of those dopes had the idea. and now they adopt his protest to try and sustain the same lifestyle he was deriding! ha!!
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ate poo poo on live tv posted:Living in Chicago I never understand cities that DON'T have thier airports connected to their transit systems. It's just the most natural obviousl place to extend the train to. This includes DC, NYC, DFW etc. major metor area's that have either had mass transit for years, or are finally building it out, and they still can't seem to connect their airports. It's bizarre. Our new light rail system (starting I 2025 ready in 2035 lmao) was originally running to our city's airport but then that was canned because people felt like light rail to an airport was a bad investment because rich people could get taxis there instead. (Note it also passed through most of the biggest central suburbs to get to the airport, including a relatively poor immigrant/refugee suburb )
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