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Traffic is about to be so hosed around Atlanta from some construction on 285 that people might actually start begging for more MARTA service. I always thought disincentives for driving were the way to go, but I didn't think it would be from construction.
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A significant population of any major city, let alone Atlanta, would literally rather die than ever ride public transit
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Oct 7, 2022 15:01
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Ham Equity posted:I can assure you that this probably won't be the case over the next several years. Cops are going to ramp up the violence in proportion to climate disasters in order to maintain the comfort and property of the rich against the increasing tide of desperate, displaced people with nothing left. It is why they exist.
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Oct 7, 2022 15:03
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:A significant population of any major city, let alone Atlanta, would literally rather die than ever ride public transit It's true, and they may get their wish. 285 is a nightmare on a good day. This construction is supposed to last at least 8 months
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Oct 7, 2022 15:11
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Ask a random white Atlantan what MARTA stands for, for a good time
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Oct 7, 2022 15:16
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Ham Equity posted:I can assure you that this probably won't be the case over the next several years. The only response to escalating climate disasters and chaos will be more cops and more toys for cops. They go together hand in hand. The GOP and neoliberals will just race eachother to see who can put more armor and mounted machine guns on the cop SUVs faster.
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Oct 7, 2022 15:36
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personal cars are too unsafe and too wasteful to be the transportation system of the future. what if instead you were required to travel anywhere you want to go with a police officer, who was also your driver?
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Oct 7, 2022 15:38
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:Ask a random white Atlantan what MARTA stands for, for a good time MARTA hasn’t had any extension for 22 years, and before that really hasn’t been seriously expanded since the 1980s. The DC metro isn’t that different except that more and more commuters from Nova have to use it and so they can’t let the entire system collapse just yet. Public transit in the US is just one sad story after another.
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Oct 7, 2022 16:09
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A Police Department vehicle crashed into another car in the Bronx and careened onto a sidewalk on Thursday, striking a crowd of pedestrians and sending 10 people to the hospital, including a 5-year-old and a 2-year-old, a department official said at a news conference. The official, Jeffrey B. Maddrey, the Police Department’s chief of patrol, said two officers were responding to a report of a stolen car when they drove over the double yellow line in the road to get around a vehicle that was in front of them. But their car quickly hit another vehicle and veered out of control, mounting the curb and slamming into a crowd of people. “Of course we don’t want to see anybody injured, especially when the officers were trying to do the right thing,” he said. “They were trying to prevent a crime in progress, they were trying to apprehend someone who was ready to victimize a good person in the Bronx.”
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Oct 7, 2022 16:17
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eXXon posted:A Police Department vehicle crashed into another car in the Bronx and careened onto a sidewalk on Thursday, striking a crowd of pedestrians and sending 10 people to the hospital, including a 5-year-old and a 2-year-old, a department official said at a news conference. Incredible use of passive voice. stunning, really.
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Oct 7, 2022 16:32
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Sometimes a bunch of innocent people have to get hurt to prevent a property crime
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Oct 7, 2022 16:33
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i hate when my car veers out of control suddenly for no reason and strikes a bunch of pedestrians. oh well nothing i can do about it!
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Oct 7, 2022 16:37
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lobster shirt posted:i hate when my car veers out of control suddenly for no reason and strikes a bunch of pedestrians. oh well nothing i can do about it! Love the car, though
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Oct 7, 2022 16:39
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Clark Nova posted:Cops are going to ramp up the violence in proportion to climate disasters in order to maintain the comfort and property of the rich against the increasing tide of desperate, displaced people with nothing left. It is why they exist. and the core protected class will continuously shrink as conditions worsen
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Oct 7, 2022 17:31
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eXXon posted:A Police Department vehicle crashed into another car in the Bronx and careened onto a sidewalk on Thursday, striking a crowd of pedestrians and sending 10 people to the hospital, including a 5-year-old and a 2-year-old, a department official said at a news conference. Those pedestrians weren't sending their best. Some of them, I assume, were good people
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eXXon posted:A Police Department vehicle crashed into another car in the Bronx and careened onto a sidewalk on Thursday, striking a crowd of pedestrians and sending 10 people to the hospital, including a 5-year-old and a 2-year-old, a department official said at a news conference. Cops in Washington are pushing to be able to do more high-speed chases since they were disallowed in most situations a few years ago, and are almost certainly going to get it.
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lobster shirt posted:i hate when my car veers out of control suddenly for no reason and strikes a bunch of pedestrians. oh well nothing i can do about it! my fanfic of kit but a dodge challenger and racist gets more true by the day
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:That's why they're spiral stairs, old people aren't flexible and will jam up in them once falling Just imagining pushing a fallen down old person out of the spiral stairs of a trinity house with like a pizza paddle
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Oct 7, 2022 19:15
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Clark Nova posted:Cops are going to ramp up the violence in proportion to climate disasters in order to maintain the comfort and property of the rich against the increasing tide of desperate, displaced people with nothing left. It is why they exist. That's cool and true, but eventually that tide will be too much for them to handle, as cops are famously total cowards. These displaced people will likely still have held on to a gun or three from when they were still prosperous enough to afford them. I also highly doubt the rich will pay them enough to make it worth it. I'm reminded of Southern plantation owners refusing the Confederate army the use of their land or their slaves.
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i had to use a car today in the environment cars are ... well not good but not the worst possible transportation method for. actual agriculture. not suburbs with some cow pastures that are just waiting on the developers to get approval but deep into the citrus groves. it was astounding how much better it was. narrow roads that follow meandering cowpaths or streams, 2 lanes, crossings are 2v2 with a stopsign not 5v5 with a dozen ways to intersect another car. it's not like it was an empty road, there were a lot of vehicles on it, but because it was narrow and had a lot of curves nobody was trying to do 100 in a 55. they were fixing part of the road where the floods washed it out and i had to wait a while for them to finish what they were doing on the one passable lane and i just killed the engine, rolled down the windows and relaxed. Everybody was stopped so no road noise! a luxury i forget when it's omnipresent around here. an hour later back in the wasteland of stroads there was also construction and it was loving miserable. creeping a few inches at a time, having to watch other lanes to make sure nobody's trying to shove over because you got an extra 10 inches in the last five minutes... the contrast was night and day i hate driving and i doubly hate being forced to drive 6 hours a day 3 days a week (fri, sat, sun) because of the other uniquely american misery: healthcare. but i still have to admit that i can see why people remember driving more fondly, it didn't used to be this bad.
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Oct 7, 2022 22:37
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Ham Equity posted:Cops in Washington are pushing to be able to do more high-speed chases since they were disallowed in most situations a few years ago, and are almost certainly going to get it. One of the cases that actually made us change the rules originally happened right next to my house. Cops decided to light up to chase someone for something hella minor, like the plate lit up for a bench warrant, started chasing this guy and eventually, right next to my house, dude slams into a guy on a motorcycle who was a completely uninvolved and the motorcyclist died. Cops chasing people is one of the dumbest things possible and always results in more people getting hurt.
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Lib and let die posted:Incredible use of passive voice. stunning, really. The media is absolutely complicit in the crimes that neoliberalism fosters. it's unreal
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Try to imagine the agony meted out with no cameras to see
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Milo and POTUS posted:The media is absolutely complicit in the crimes that neoliberalism fosters. it's unreal it's their actual job to do so so it's not some big surprise that they do it.
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just did a 2 mile walk through downtown and was almost hit by cars 3 times. at each of a stop sign, red light, and at a sidewalk X parking lot driveway cutout.
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Cup Runneth Over posted:Those pedestrians weren't sending their best. Some of them, I assume, were good people that 2 year old was no angel!
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does “someone who was ready to victimize a good person” mean that there hadn’t even been a crime yet? I don’t speak bootlicker
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:A significant population of any major city, let alone Atlanta, would literally rather die than ever ride public transit why though? when i visited atlanta i took the metro from the airport and it was pretty good. clean, fast, seemed to have ok frequency. seemed way better than the big slow heavy rail I am used to here in Sydney
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cowboy beepboop posted:why though? when i visited atlanta i took the metro from the airport and it was pretty good. clean, fast, seemed to have ok frequency. seemed way better than the big slow heavy rail I am used to here in Sydney Because black people also use it, that is enough. I guess it is slowly changing but Australia uses a lot of what we would call commuter rail: full scale trains on a set timetable. The US had a point in the 1970s where a “commuter metro” concept was developed: you would have speed/comfort of more traditional metro (or subway system) with more widely placed stations/longer headways usually geared to suburban communities. The result was “okay.” Essentially, DC/Atlanta/the Bay Area have sort of a high speed RER system.
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Oct 8, 2022 10:09
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That's a shop, right?
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genericnick posted:That's a shop, right? it’s the future
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eXXon posted:A Police Department vehicle crashed into another car in the Bronx and careened onto a sidewalk on Thursday, striking a crowd of pedestrians and sending 10 people to the hospital, including a 5-year-old and a 2-year-old, a department official said at a news conference. https://twitter.com/liamstack/status/1578134743094333440?s=20&t=r4AvneOddwnPKPH6MBSI1w
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"i get better visibility because I sit higher up"
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roundabouts!!! how it started:  how it's going:  round round like a record baby  roundabouts, gently caress yeah  actually gently caress it just go straight over
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Horace posted:roundabouts!!! first as tragedy, then as face https://twitter.com/Boenau/status/1578413727363125248
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This is a valid point but at the same time I sort of feel like the US isn't even really doing much for electric cars either. Obviously there have been tax incentives for electric cars so it's fair to say that more has been done for electric cars than for bikes, but it still feels like the US isn't even seriously interested in pursuing electric cars so much as (as with self-driving cars) people like them because they can point to the possibility of them taking over in the future as a reason why it's okay to keep driving fossil fuel powered cars today rather than trying to reduce car dependency, so it's actually more convenient for everyone to simply keep them off on the horizon as something that's not quite ready for everyone to use but is definitely going to magically fix the carbon emissions from cars any day now. Everything about carbon emissions is like this really. We know the actual changes we need to be making literally right now or we're hosed, but since nobody wants to make them, we instead focus on the possibility of potential future technologies that would make those changes unnecessary if they actually existed right now as a reason why we somehow don't need to make the changes now. We should be building bike infrastructure and electric streetcars/trains right now everywhere they're practical to reduce emissions from transportation as much as we can, but simply doing that would be admitting that cars might not be the future and even hinting at that possibility is political suicide in the US, because among other things, it would mean that a huge amount of homes in dumb places are going to be worthless in the future and tons of americans have their entire life savings in those homes mystes has issued a correction as of 15:27 on Oct 8, 2022 |
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electric cars and chargers will be options for people with enough money, who also tend to have their own indoor garage space to charge it easily. otherwise, eh
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