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a_pineapple posted:excuse me, drivers, would you mind, slowing down, pretty please no
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a_pineapple posted:excuse me, drivers, would you mind, slowing down, pretty please ok
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Sep 30, 2022 02:43
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a_pineapple posted:excuse me, drivers, would you mind, slowing down, pretty please maybe
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76l55QX-V-Y I wanted to post this because it really shows why transit in both LA and the US as a whole is such a mess. The new K line starts with a subway essentially for several stations, then goes above-ground…fine, and afterward starts going through multiple intersections where it doesn’t even took like the train has full signal priority. So you build this entire project which cost 2b+, has a decent underground section, then immediately knee cap it by not even allowing uninterrupted transit across its route. LA has massive transportation issues and it is clearly affecting the growth of the city, but status matters far more than efficiency. Ardennes has issued a correction as of 03:30 on Sep 30, 2022 |
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Sep 30, 2022 02:56
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a_pineapple posted:excuse me, drivers, would you mind, slowing down, pretty please they'll slow down for accidents, maybe we can just put fiery wrecks on every corner as a traffic calming measure
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:they'll slow down for accidents, maybe we can just put fiery wrecks on every corner as a traffic calming measure Drivers are way ahead of you on that one
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Ardennes posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76l55QX-V-Y Seattle has a couple of idiotic sections of the light rail that are at grade on road and every month or so some loving moron just takes a right turn or left turn illegally into it and gets absolutely creamed.
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a_pineapple posted:excuse me, drivers, would you mind, slowing down, pretty please  WHAT DID YOU SAY TO ME
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Sep 30, 2022 03:46
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Imagine having to enforce traffic laws without the ability to kill.
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Electro-Boogie Jack posted:hahaha jesus christ, the reason why DC opposes switching traffic enforcement to a department of transportation responsibility instead of the cops Honestly if a driver is being crazy violent, just let them go. Then show up to their home later and tow their car and crush it into a small cube. Banks snatch people's cars all the time. BRAKE FOR MOOSE posted:while people were out there cleaning up the station and assessing the new damage, some dipshit wasn't looking, missed the curve, ran up on the curb, and slammed their car into the people at the bikeshare station. PittTheElder posted:Needs more bollards Deadly Ham Sandwich has issued a correction as of 04:55 on Sep 30, 2022 |
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Sep 30, 2022 04:52
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Deadly Ham Sandwich posted:The real reason is traffic enforcement is the majority of what cops do. haha, not here! our cops have pretty much stopped all traffic-related enforcement. which, you know, good... but no one else is doing it instead
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someone on a chat channel was telling me they never had to get any work at all done on their EV. I asked "not even brake pads or tires?", and they told me they're just replacing the car before it ever needs new tires and they're saving the environment
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Blockade posted:someone on a chat channel was telling me they never had to get any work at all done on their EV. I asked "not even brake pads or tires?", and they told me they're just replacing the car before it ever needs new tires extreme rob rhinehart soylent-guy energy who was saving the environment by never washing clothes and buying new ones off alibaba when they got dirty speaking of which, what is that freak up to these days? the ~tech~ microdosing lsd poly-phasic sleeping biohacking era seems like it was so long ago and a weird distant fever dream at this point
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Electro-Boogie Jack posted:haha, not here! our cops have pretty much stopped all traffic-related enforcement. which, you know, good... but no one else is doing it instead it's not even so much that cops "do traffic enforcement" it's that they like having the excuse to pull people over for unprovable alleged traffic offenses and then gently caress with them/ruin their lives/murder them and if you take traffic enforcement away from cops then they have to think of another excuse
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Cops definitely exaggerate how dangerous traffic stops are. I've had cops flank my car with flashlights and sniff my soda for alcohol during routine traffic stops (first was because I forgot to renew my registration. Second was because my tail light had gone out). One time I was donating clothes at goodwill and a cop accused me of living out of my car.
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Blockade posted:someone on a chat channel was telling me they never had to get any work at all done on their EV. I asked "not even brake pads or tires?", and they told me they're just replacing the car before it ever needs new tires A cop got shot during a routine traffic stop here back in 2005. The State Police responded by getting the highway named after the cop who got shot and resolving to never pull anyone over ever again on that highway. You can do 120 mph out to the airport if you want. The cops will come scrape you up once you crash, or scrape up the victims of your negligence, but they will never pull you over for driving like Richard Petty.
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:A cop got shot during a routine traffic stop here back in 2005. The State Police responded by getting the highway named after the cop who got shot and resolving to never pull anyone over ever again on that highway. You can do 120 mph out to the airport if you want. The cops will come scrape you up once you crash, or scrape up the victims of your negligence, but they will never pull you over for driving like Richard Petty.
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Sep 30, 2022 14:47
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traffic enforcement should be done by cameras, just mail tickets to people who speed and if they get too many tickets revoke their license and boot their car. simple as.
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Sep 30, 2022 14:57
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this is not a carceral solution because that would require incarceration. the bad drivers can be free, they just cant drive anymore. thems the breaks.
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lobster shirt posted:this is not a carceral solution because that would require incarceration. the bad drivers can be free, they just cant drive anymore. thems the breaks. have you considered that not having a car is like prison? no I don't want to do anything to change that either
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mystes posted:It's amazing how cops love to beat up and kill people who can't fight back but the second there may be even the slightest threat to their own safety they run away as quickly as humanly possible 
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Blockade posted:someone on a chat channel was telling me they never had to get any work at all done on their EV. I asked "not even brake pads or tires?", and they told me they're just replacing the car before it ever needs new tires I will forever maintain that Ban all cars tho
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https://twitter.com/WedgeLIVE/status/1575714599575654400?s=20&t=YQgXRUEqGmVeeTfuZZ6AzA Destroy cars.
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Boywhiz88 posted:https://twitter.com/WedgeLIVE/status/1575714599575654400?s=20&t=YQgXRUEqGmVeeTfuZZ6AzA Deploy a bollard in the bike lane.
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Yeah that is solved by literally one bollard
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a car in every garage, a bollard in every driveway
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Crossposting!Cugel the Clever posted:Got out to a memorial ride this evening for a cyclist murdered by a hit-and-run driver at the West Seattle low bridge this summer. Was neat, had at least a hundred folks of all ages on bikes on a relatively easy route.
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Blockade posted:someone on a chat channel was telling me they never had to get any work at all done on their EV. I asked "not even brake pads or tires?", and they told me they're just replacing the car before it ever needs new tires reading this has made me indescribably angry, do people do this because the idea of getting a car serviced is just too scary or something? I can't even fathom this thought process. The absolute apex of bourgeois liberalism.
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FreeRangeHexagon posted:reading this has made me indescribably angry, do people do this because the idea of getting a car serviced is just too scary or something? I can't even fathom this thought process. The absolute apex of bourgeois liberalism. There's a huge group of people that just view cars as appliances to be handled by the dealer and then immediately traded in for a new one the moment it starts getting icky. Lots of people just lease cars for a year or two and get rid of them because of this. There's very little service required anyway if you stick to that cycle.
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Pryor on Fire posted:There's a huge group of people that just view cars as appliances to be handled by the dealer and then immediately traded in for a new one the moment it starts getting icky. Lots of people just lease cars for a year or two and get rid of them because of this. There's very little service required anyway if you stick to that cycle. i know people do it, I just can't get into the mindset of someone who does, even if you only view a car as a means of getting from point A to point B wouldn't you want to keep your appliance running?
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If a car can fit in a bike lane the bike lane is too wide. Like shrink the bike lane 6 inches and make the curb juuuust high enough that it would make driving in them extremely bad for a car. Or yeah just put a single bollard at the entry/exit of the bike lane near the intersections this is not hard like how much money are DOTs spending on implementing and replacing these lovely solutions when they could just do it right in the first place SHEESH like honestly I don't even need the green paint or antyhing like that just gimme da bollards
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Wider bike lanes are better and too many bollards can be dangerous for cyclists so I'm not totally convinced that changing bike lanes to ensure cars definitely can't get in them is necessarily always the right solution. They really just need to make parking in bike lanes a $300 fine and driving in them that plus license suspension, and enforce it really strictly. Of course good luck with that in places where cops do traffic enforcement. mystes has issued a correction as of 15:53 on Oct 1, 2022 |
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Yeah the childish naivety about how laws get enforced in this thread is overwhelming at times. They passed a law here that said you have to give cyclists 3 feet of space when passing and the sheriff held a press conference where he said that the law was stupid and he personally didn't like it and it's unenforceable so 10 years later there have been zero tickets written. When you talk about how things ought to be a certain way what you're actually saying is that you're begging a bunch of right wing cops to make the world the way you think it ought to be. Pryor on Fire has issued a correction as of 16:00 on Oct 1, 2022 |
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lol, imagine electing sheriffs. Real countries simply promote police chiefs internally so that loyal lifetime public servants arbitrarily decide not to enforce any traffic laws.
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Pryor on Fire posted:Yeah the childish naivety about how laws get enforced in this thread is overwhelming at times. They passed a law here that said you have to give cyclists 3 feet of space when passing and the sheriff held a press conference where he said that the law was stupid and he personally didn't like it and it's unenforceable so 10 years later there have been zero tickets written. Cops suck, but I don't see how making a bunch of changes to bike lanes that restrict whole classes of users like cargo bikes and three wheeled bikes while also making them less pleasand and more dangerous to use really helps us either. If spiting drivers is the only real goal, let's just fence off the entire lane and then stay home and do zwift rides? Bike lanes are real things in the real world now. That means we're stuck dealing with the hard questions like the police. There's no avoiding it without giving up on the whole project.
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several people have said to me they bought their brand new car because the old one was "about to start generating big bills". yeah, your 8 year old toyota avensis was about to generate a £35,000 bill, very savvy to buy a new one.
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