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Sphyre posted:just a heads up for lobster shirt JUST ONE MORE LANE BRO, JUST GIMME THREE MORE LANES AND I CAN FIX IT, JUST TEN MORE LANES THATS ALL I NEED, SEVENTEEN MORE LANES,
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Sphyre posted:just a heads up for lobster shirt finally, enough lanes!!
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Also, public transportation should be self funded because that is only fair. Oh yeah and Texas spends about 10% of its total budget just on highway construction. Ardennes has issued a correction as of 14:42 on Sep 18, 2022 |
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Sphyre posted:just a heads up for lobster shirt looks like poo poo
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Sphyre posted:just a heads up for lobster shirt Electro-Boogie Jack posted:JUST ONE MORE LANE BRO, JUST GIMME THREE MORE LANES AND I CAN FIX IT, JUST TEN MORE LANES THATS ALL I NEED, SEVENTEEN MORE LANES, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShS4eCfWUdM this is further evidence that civil transportation engineers are driven purely by the thanatos instinct
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Legit thought it was parody at first glance
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jesus christ, texas
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have they tried to cut down on unnecessary travelling
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Public transportation wouldn't work in America. Not enough people are traveling to the same place at the same time. Americans: 
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Sphyre posted:just a heads up for lobster shirt why can't i find this on their twitter, was it deleted? edit: oh that's fb i'm dumb actionjackson has issued a correction as of 15:34 on Sep 18, 2022 |
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Sep 18, 2022 15:32
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It's on their facebook
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quote:“I just want it over with,” said Ted Pitchford, 55, who lives in Webster and works in downtown Houston. 
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larper posted:by 2030 houston will be a completely gridlocked highway interchange 200,000 lanes wide Not true. It will also be parking lots.
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Deadly Ham Sandwich posted:Not true. It will also be parking lots. elonm is going to eliminate the need for parking lots. your car will just circle the block while you work.
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*cocks handgun* I can help
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The truly baffling thing is I poked around on google maps and the traffic isn't really that bad in that area. Houston is pretty hosed up.
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distortion park posted:This is both the best thing about the funeral and also makes me mad. Get on the bus Joe! I'd use it as an excuse to skip the whole affair, personally.
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lobster shirt posted:looks like poo poo Looks like a parody
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remember when we closed down the 405 and the resultant "carmageddon" to add more lanes and it obviously didnt do poo poo?
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Wolfy posted:The truly baffling thing is I poked around on google maps and the traffic isn't really that bad in that area. Houston is pretty hosed up. TXDOT want to widen I-45. It's the large highway that runs from Dallas-Houston-Galveston. You see, if they widen the highway at Webster, that will allow TXDOT to shove even more car traffic faster into Houston, causing more traffic congestion in Houston. Then TXDOT will have more reason to widen the highways in Houston to alleviate that congestion.
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Lanes for the Lane God.
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Smythe posted:remember when we closed down the 405 and the resultant "carmageddon" to add more lanes and it obviously didnt do poo poo?
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New trains coming https://www.alstom.com/press-releases-news/2022/9/tgv-m-takes-new-step  sexy
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Wolfy posted:In LA's defense metro realized what a waste that was and will have some form of transit through there by 2040 or whatever. At least they're trying. I don't know if LA could ever really have an effective transportation system to be honest. Not only is expansion happening far too slow versus the issues the city is facing, but it is also just so physically big it is pretty difficult to actually design a "cost effective" system. New York at least has the building blocks, but LA...it is just going to take a long time. I would say in general that the US is pretty far gone at this point: the few cities that have some the elements of some type of system are just not livable for normal people. If anything the only real thing that keeps the US together is oil production in the Gulf, if that dropped off, the US really would be screwed and the USD wouldn't be enough to save it.
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Ardennes posted:
you could say that about any major oilfield though, and gulf production is dwarfed by onshore fields. like the permian produces over 5 million barrels/day and the gulf produces less than 2 million. overall offshore production is like 15% of the US total.
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Ardennes posted:I don't know if LA could ever really have an effective transportation system to be honest. Not only is expansion happening far too slow versus the issues the city is facing, but it is also just so physically big it is pretty difficult to actually design a "cost effective" system. ardennes im sure u dont need me to tell u this but los angeles used to have the most expansive mass transit system in the country possibly the world.... ??
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you can just build trollies. you can pay money to build trollies its easy. just put them in the street. very very easy. just gotta WANT IT
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Smythe posted:you can just build trollies. you can pay money to build trollies its easy. just put them in the street. very very easy. just gotta WANT IT
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lobster shirt posted:you could say that about any major oilfield though, and gulf production is dwarfed by onshore fields. like the permian produces over 5 million barrels/day and the gulf produces less than 2 million. overall offshore production is like 15% of the US total. u jerk off to this?
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AnimeIsTrash posted:u jerk off to this? no i think it's bad, there should be less oil
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Busted a spoke on my cargo bike Oh well, after a year of putting it through hell, and performing basic maintenance i hit a problem I couldn't solve Took the tyre off, rode the backup bike to the bike shop rim in hand $50 later I'm getting the spoke replaced, a wheel true and a smile If I'm paying $50 worth of maintenance a year on a vehicle that cost me $300, that's not bad imho It's pretty good my thinks In short cars suck, bikes rule Enjoy my local Bikeway that allows me easy access to the city faster than any other mode except maybe helicopter 
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thats a nice bikeway OP wanna ride that bikeway
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lobster shirt posted:you could say that about any major oilfield though, and gulf production is dwarfed by onshore fields. like the permian produces over 5 million barrels/day and the gulf produces less than 2 million. overall offshore production is like 15% of the US total. Okay, let me correct that, if the US lost one of its major fields or started seeing major declines in a couple of them, it wouldn’t go well. The US couldn’t afford its trade deficit to explode while giving control over oil prices to OPEC at the same time. Smythe posted:ardennes im sure u dont need me to tell u this but los angeles used to have the most expansive mass transit system in the country possibly the world.... ?? It used to but not only that was a long time ago (and that infrastructure is gone) but LA simply sprawled far out of control. Something is better than nothing, but LA is probably beyond saving at this point. It isn’t the only city either. A big part of the solutions that are available,, in particular, light rail in the US usually has fairly low capacity, large distances between stations in awkward areas, and usually goes pretty slow due to lack of right of ways. It just takes forever to cross LA by transit. You could try to make Metrolink more of a s-bahn system but it would take quite a bit of planning. Ardennes has issued a correction as of 23:19 on Sep 18, 2022 |
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Sphyre posted:thats a nice bikeway OP There is a section near here that does the whole raise sections to forces cars to give way. Then a lovely active travel path that straight shots right into a city center. I am not exaggerating when I say it is faster than driving. The power of "20 kmph bike on a direct safe route" is incredible The Bikeway infrastructure is world class here but no where near enough Slowly more and more is popping up, we had a successful trial of a counter flow bike lane in the city and it's been wildly popular
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Ardennes posted:It used to but not only that was a long time ago (and that infrastructure is gone) but LA simply sprawled far out of control. Something is better than nothing, but LA is probably beyond saving at this point. It isn’t the only city either. by god if we put a man on the moon we can close some dang ol traffic lanes and put a trolley on it. i believe in us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Jestery posted:Busted a spoke on my cargo bike that's alot for a spoke replacement+true
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BIG-DICK-BUTT-gently caress posted:that's alot for a spoke replacement+true True: $25 Smile: $20
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BIG-DICK-BUTT-gently caress posted:that's alot for a spoke replacement+true It's not as bad as it sounds It's not something I can do, and I like my local bike shop
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My uneducated opinion is that we shouldn't be trying to build transit for all of sprawled America. We should be trying to rebuild urban cores. If people want to drive in from wherever, it's not like that can be stopped, but don't design the city to facilitate it. I don't know what this would look like in LA, but start somewhere and people will probably like it.
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