[i love cars] I don't need a Tesla to take big loads

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mystes: May 31, 2006

You have to understand that the husbands literal entire identity is probably being a person who drives a truck

# ? Sep 19, 2022 20:39

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500excf type r: Mar 7, 2013; I'm as annoying as the high-pitched whine of my motorcycle, desperately compensating for the lack of substance in my life.

Polo-Rican posted:

chicago has the second-best public transit in the country. (unfortunately "the country" is the united states)

dxt posted:

Chicago's public transport is among the best in the country lol

Lmbo

# ? Sep 19, 2022 20:39

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud: Apr 7, 2003; Can't post for 3 hours!

mystes posted:

You have to understand that the husbands literal entire identity is probably being a person who drives a truck

she says he's an accountant so yeah

# ? Sep 19, 2022 20:40

mystes: May 31, 2006

He just needs a cheaper male compensation/cosplay fantasy hobby like collecting knives or something imo

# ? Sep 19, 2022 20:42

Fitzy Fitz: May 14, 2005

He could get really into Kei trucks

# ? Sep 19, 2022 20:44

actionjackson: Jan 12, 2003

Polo-Rican posted:

New Jersey actually has a handful of towns with nice direct rail access to NYC. Orange, South Orange, West Orange, Maplewood, etc... the rail runs right through the town and it's actually possible to walk to the stations from your home, which is absurdly rare in the united states

check it out... a rail line that gets you to manhattan in 20 minutes, which isn't cut off from the town itself! there are houses, businesses, and restaurants on the same street!!
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7315728,-74.2756988,3a,65.2y,183.08h,91.16t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sEHyzd8UoEeyGj1t-jBr9hA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

(NJ also realizes how valuable this is, and property taxes in those areas are absolutely absurd - much higher than in nyc itself)

where are you getting 20 minutes from lol

# ? Sep 19, 2022 21:05

Ferdinand Bardamu: Apr 30, 2013

The buses in Chicago are pretty awful in the best of weather, and the L often has delays or not enough trains for the amount of people during rush hour. So, you end up waiting on the platform as train after train passes you by. I never really experienced that in northern Italy outside of strikes. Berlin, Munich, Vienna, Stockholm all kick Chicago's rear end.

# ? Sep 19, 2022 21:14

webcams for christ: Nov 2, 2005

actionjackson posted:

where are you getting 20 minutes from lol

the beautiful town of secaucus

# ? Sep 19, 2022 21:18

Boywhiz88: Sep 11, 2005; floating 26" off da ground. BURR!

Cars suck! I hate them.

# ? Sep 19, 2022 21:26

Suplex Liberace: Jan 18, 2012

Saw a car fly down a road that has been converted to a no cars road. Good thing there was nobody on it or it could have been bad.

# ? Sep 19, 2022 21:53

Ardennes: May 12, 2002

Yeah, as bad as the DC metro has been having it, no way is it worse than the L. The more you live outside the US, the more you realize how humiliating and depressing it is to live there without a car.

India has 6 new metro systems being built to put the US in perspective.

Ardennes has issued a correction as of 23:03 on Sep 19, 2022

# ? Sep 19, 2022 23:01

actionjackson: Jan 12, 2003

webcams for christ posted:

the beautiful town of secaucus

yeah it's just over an hour it looks like, which is still awesome of course, but i was like 20 min is it a bullet train

# ? Sep 20, 2022 00:02

SMILLENNIALSMILLEN: Jun 26, 2009

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

The responses to that are amazing, including one guy shrieking at her that she shouldn't be making financial demands of the man she's having a third child with, and another post saying she should have asked herself if she could afford a third child before getting pregnant instead of expecting her husband to downsize.

lmao you aint kidding "compromise by buying an suv" ???

# ? Sep 20, 2022 00:18

FreeRangeHexagon: Apr 17, 2022

# ? Sep 20, 2022 00:25

leftist heap: Feb 28, 2013; Fun Shoe

it�s cheaper to rent a truck/van whenever or get poo poo delivered than to own a pickup. I love pickupbrain losers treating it like some savvy utilitarian choice. all pickup owners are Hank Hill before he realizes the car dealship has been ripping him off for like 25 years

# ? Sep 20, 2022 00:26

FreeRangeHexagon: Apr 17, 2022

leftist heap posted:

it�s cheaper to rent a truck/van whenever or get poo poo delivered than to own a pickup. I love pickupbrain losers treating it like some savvy utilitarian choice. all pickup owners are Hank Hill before he realizes the car dealship has been ripping him off for like 25 years

Whenever I walk past the house of my neighbour who owns a Dodge Ram I can't help but think of how small the cargo bay is relative to the size of the vehicle. The whole thing just seems impractical. This is in Australia, so he would have had to pay to import it as well because Dodge don't have any dealerships here.

# ? Sep 20, 2022 00:31

cowboy beepboop: Feb 24, 2001

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

often have to move furniture because of young kids??

# ? Sep 20, 2022 02:20

mystes: May 31, 2006

cowboy beepboop posted:

often have to move furniture because of young kids??

They might have to replace the furniture every five years as the kids grow up. Definitely worth owning a truck for.

# ? Sep 20, 2022 02:40

Good Soldier Svejk: Jul 5, 2010

I hate cars and regressive politics but I still enjoy watching old Top Gear/The Grand Tour

am I a bad leftist

# ? Sep 20, 2022 02:42

Suplex Liberace: Jan 18, 2012

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

I hate cars and regressive politics but I still enjoy watching old Top Gear/The Grand Tour

am I a bad leftist

No laughing at the cocks that are James, jaremy, Richard is very fun.

# ? Sep 20, 2022 02:43

skooma512: Feb 8, 2012; You couldn't grok my race car, but you dug the roadside blur.

mystes posted:

One weird trick to get americans to ride rail

GM use to make locomotives.

Like you putter around in your 6.7L turbo diesel all you like sweetie, this EMD SD70 has 4000hp, 16 cylinders, and can tow a 50 car consist up a mountain and on down, which probably also included your little toy truck :smug:

# ? Sep 20, 2022 02:46

Smythe: Oct 12, 2003

going to a dodger game and taking the dodger bus from union station. they gave it its own temp dedicated busway via cones now. very quick trip. godly. thank you Eric

# ? Sep 20, 2022 02:47

Xaris: Jul 25, 2006; Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry

Fitzy Fitz posted:

It's funny how many hiking trail reviews/comments on AllTrails insist you'll need a truck or SUV to navigate service roads and get to trailheads. I have always managed just fine in a small sedan. They'll come up with whatever justification they need.

i used to take the company prius to hosed up mucky bumpy construction sites and offroad all the time lol. there's like only a few instances where a truck would have been of any use

i told my boomer boss to get a bench seat 2002 ranger or tacoma so we could do rock cores. instead he bought a 2020 jeep grand cherokee laredo suv piece of poo poo that died in a year. and because he loved it so much, he immediately bought a second one after the first one died.

# ? Sep 20, 2022 02:55

skooma512: Feb 8, 2012; You couldn't grok my race car, but you dug the roadside blur.

Smythe posted:

going to a dodger game and taking the dodger bus from union station. they gave it its own temp dedicated busway via cones now. very quick trip. godly. thank you Eric

The first time I went to Dodger Stadium I saw the parking lot and knew that I had to GTFO by the 9th inning because gently caress being there when everyone else is leaving.

If only there was some way to efficiently transport 50,000 people to one place :thunk:

It's ok, Frank Mccourt has to make money so none of that is allowed. Also it might hurt someone's view of the freight yard and Two Towers jail.

# ? Sep 20, 2022 03:04

Petanque: Apr 14, 2008; Ca va bien aller

Suplex Liberace posted:

Saw a car fly down a road that has been converted to a no cars road. Good thing there was nobody on it or it could have been bad.

sounds like you need some more bollards

# ? Sep 20, 2022 03:23

Polo-Rican: Jul 4, 2004; emptyquote my posts or die

actionjackson posted:

where are you getting 20 minutes from lol

Hey man I was only like 100% off leave me alone

# ? Sep 20, 2022 04:45

Precambrian Video Games: Aug 19, 2002

Polo-Rican posted:

New Jersey actually has a handful of towns with nice direct rail access to NYC. Orange, South Orange, West Orange, Maplewood, etc... the rail runs right through the town and it's actually possible to walk to the stations from your home, which is absurdly rare in the united states

check it out... a rail line that gets you to manhattan in 20 minutes, which isn't cut off from the town itself! there are houses, businesses, and restaurants on the same street!!
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7315728,-74.2756988,3a,65.2y,183.08h,91.16t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sEHyzd8UoEeyGj1t-jBr9hA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

(NJ also realizes how valuable this is, and property taxes in those areas are absolutely absurd - much higher than in nyc itself)

It's also a $7.75 fare to NY Penn and then you have to wait at the absolutely insane NJT area at NY Penn to run to the single door servicing the platform that only gets announced max 5 minutes before the train leaves. But yes, I acknowledge this is top tier by US public transit standards.

Also,

Harik posted:

Any structure within X feet of a road (like say a bus shelter?) must also be breakaway. obviously anyone in a bus shelter has no value to society anyway, not like a good car driver.

bvj191jgl7bBsqF5m posted:

https://twitter.com/chrisdoyle78/status/1571970917869449216?t=_xeYs_epRazZRLaRLAYotg&s=19

so conflicted. Man was in bus shelter but has car??

# ? Sep 20, 2022 05:12

Xaris: Jul 25, 2006; Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry

i took home a bolt ev for a week from my company's fleet motor pool and drat its a lot of fun for being a car

still sucks poo poo because cars bad, but it's way more fun to drive than my hrv, and very small by 2022 americar standards.

# ? Sep 20, 2022 05:45

Suplex Liberace: Jan 18, 2012

Petanque posted:

sounds like you need some more bollards

Yah I agree big time

# ? Sep 20, 2022 06:15

mystes: May 31, 2006

https://mobile.twitter.com/chrisdoyle78/status/1571970917869449216

# ? Sep 20, 2022 13:31

Pepe Silvia Browne: Jan 1, 2007

what was he doing there? why would he be there when he has a car?

# ? Sep 20, 2022 13:40

mystes: May 31, 2006

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

what was he doing there? why would he be there when he has a car?

It's very suspicious and clearly requires further investigation to determine if he should be charged with murdering himself.

He might have even committed the heinous crime of walking to the bus shelter.

mystes has issued a correction as of 13:46 on Sep 20, 2022

# ? Sep 20, 2022 13:44

webcams for christ: Nov 2, 2005

eXXon posted:

so conflicted. Man was in bus shelter but has car??

# ? Sep 20, 2022 13:48

Pepe Silvia Browne: Jan 1, 2007

I need a true crime podcast series looking into why this man was in the bus shelter

# ? Sep 20, 2022 13:57

Fitzy Fitz: May 14, 2005

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2022/09/15/mile-high-city-halts-two-highway-expansions-and-gives-the-money-to-transit-instead/

quote:

Colorado will cancel two planned highway expansions, citing a new climate rule that advocates say should be a model for communities across America.

Officials at the Colorado Department of Transportation were set to announce on Thursday that they would halt plans to widen two freeways in the Denver region, including a particularly controversial project along Interstate 25 that would have deepened already-stark divides in some of the Mile High City�s most underserved low-income communities. Those included the Sun Valley and Valverde neighborhoods, both of which are bordered by the 4.5-mile stretch of road that would have been expanded, and whose residents already report some of the highest rates of asthma in the state.

CDOT�s decision to nix the project, along with the cancellation of a second highway expansion along Colorado Route 470 in the southeastern quadrant of the city, will free up more than $100 million in funding that the state says it will devote to enhancing the region�s bus rapid transit network and making the I-25 corridor safer and easier to navigate, particularly for people outside cars.