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FreeRangeHexagon posted:I think this is because for most Americans they literally can't imagine none car dependent urban design, it's like how fish don't notice water I had a conversation with a colleague at work once about driving vs taking the bus and in the process he revealed he hadn't even thought of the buses/public transit as something political. Like winter follows autumn and buses are worse than cars, just a fact of nature.
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withak posted:You could basically just coast by at 10-15mph and let the kids roll out of the passenger side. Maybe put in a bed of sand or pea gravel to help break their fall.
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Greatbacon posted:I had a conversation with a colleague at work once about driving vs taking the bus and in the process he revealed he hadn't even thought of the buses/public transit as something political. He is correct in a way because they are not "political" in the way most people think of that word. There is no Partisan divide to argue over, every political party is in agreement that everyone having their own car is a good thing.
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:He is correct in a way because they are not "political" in the way most people think of that word. There is no Partisan divide to argue over, every political party is in agreement that everyone having their own car is a good thing. One of the underrated lovely things about the two party system is that it means that things that the two parties don't disagree on just get defined out of politics. If the ranked choice voting people got their way the Dems and Reps would still probably dominate electorally. But at least it could create a niche for minor parties to turn things into political issues. As far as I can tell the whole point of the Lib Dem part in the UK is that they are a sort of vacuum that sucks up all the policies that have a constituency that is ignored by the two main parties. I'm not saying that the Lib Dems are the ideal of what a third party should be, but the fact that they can survive is probably better than a complete two party duopoly over everything.
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my neighbor who used to have a honda accord now has this lol https://carbuzz.com/cars/porsche/cayenne/2022-porsche-cayenne-s quote:Although it commands a premium of almost $20,000 over the base Cayenne offering, there’s very little to differentiate the Cayenne S from that cheaper model. Only the color of the brake calipers, the difference in exhaust tip arrangement, and the addition of a panoramic sunroof give you clues as to this model’s enhanced performance. Still, once you realize that this model’s engine produces 434 hp and can achieve 164 mph, the premium seems justifiable. actionjackson has issued a correction as of 23:55 on Oct 11, 2022 |
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Saw this while I was out for a walk 
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actionjackson posted:my neighbor who used to have a honda accord now has this lol
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Jogging in Houston, I saw someone riding a cargo bike with kids in the bucket. It was one of those cargo bikes with the cargo space in front of the rider. It's kind of astonishing to see so many more bikes since the pandemic. There is a notable amount of e-bikes in the last year. I also saw someone with a fancy golf cart on the street. Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:Saw this while I was out for a walk It looks like a boxy lifted station wagon.
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Not just bikes but also every other micromobility thing. I've seen so many odd kinds of scooters.
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Drunk driver in a car killed a student on a ride share escooter. The city immediately leapt into action to address the problem! https://twitter.com/Pflax1/status/1579920583340351488?t=oEBdf4pqNMiPWFXjBcoDYg&s=19
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Cugel the Clever posted:Drunk driver in a car killed a student on a ride share escooter. The city immediately leapt into action to address the problem! quote:A crash report police says Howard was driving anywhere from 50-70 miles per hour when she hit Stratton. The report says witnesses in the area saw her swerve into the bike lane and hit him. She was also driving on the sidewalk.
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Brilliant response given that it wouldn't have been any different if he had been on a bike or walking on the sidewalk.
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https://twitter.com/_elkue/status/1580175819799830528?t=6YHMB24R7o8Cm_RvRC-JVQ&s=19 It's not legal to even drive a tractor trailer on this street, by the way, it's not a designated truck route.
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Fitzy Fitz posted:Brilliant response given that it wouldn't have been any different if he had been on a bike or walking on the sidewalk. I think they're missing the real culprit here, which is clearly the sidewalk.
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if ur in a car I hope that it turns into a freaking cannon and fires you out of it!!! !! I'm not even joking right now, I seriously believe that if you drive you should be fired out of a cannon because you're a freaking CLOWN!! ! drivers, they're the worst
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eXXon posted:I think they're missing the real culprit here, which is clearly the sidewalk. what's it doing, just laying there next to the road?
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This wouldn't have happened if that bike lane and sidewalk was an additional car lane.
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I think things are generally improving and people are more in favor of non-car solutions these days, but it's still amazing that the pro-car solution to drunk driving is apparently a curfew for people not in cars.
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Fitzy Fitz posted:Brilliant response given that it wouldn't have been any different if he had been on a bike or walking on the sidewalk. The article ended with a bunch of admonishments for safety for scooter riders. The dude wasn't doing anything wrong, it's loving ridiculous.
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i bought a racing wheel / pedal / shifter setup for my PC and after minutes of use i remembered i fuckin hate driving
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I’m on a tram looking at all the dark red roads on Google maps feels good man
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Fitzy Fitz posted:Brilliant response given that it wouldn't have been any different if he had been on a bike or walking on the sidewalk.
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mystes posted:Better ban walking too they effectively did that already   I used to work in this suburban office / retail park, they abolished all bus service inside the park proper and limited it to this concrete island along the servicing freeway. You've got to walk from there through insanely pedestrian-hostile poo poo to your destination. Many of people who staff these restaurants and stores have to dodge getting murdered by their customers on the way to work.
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Cugel the Clever posted:Drunk driver in a car killed a student on a ride share escooter. The city immediately leapt into action to address the problem! The other really frustrating thing about this one is virtually every headline describes it as a "scooter crash." It's not a loving scooter crash, it's a loving car murder.
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Auto violence is so common that the distinguishing factor is what kind of victim there was
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Dog Case posted:Love the crosswalk to ???  It really feels like malicious compliance sometimes
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Cup Runneth Over posted:
This kind of poo poo is all over my neighborhood and it never fails to make me mad.
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only one street in my neighborhood has a sidewalk (and its only on one side of the street lol), and its in such bad shape, like multiple sections of it are warped and hosed up from tree roots and soil shifting. in most sections it's difficult to use a stroller, and some sections are outright impassable with like a six inch upthrust. not that bad if you are able bodied obviously but anyone in a wheelchair, or me when i am taking my kid fo ra walk in his stroller, have to go into the street. and of course like half the houses have their gigantic trucks blocking the sidewalk. sucks. houston ba.d.
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Dog Case posted:Love the crosswalk to ??? They refused to cut down on lanes on that highway overpass so you get to dodge traffic going over it. There's a sidewalk 500 feet down the line.
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Pedestrians should avoid streets, crosswalks, bike lanes, and sidewalks for their own safety.
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This is the only bus stop in the entire development Then you get this lovely desire path heading over to that porkchop and overpass I posted earlier.  If you work on that side of the development, god help you
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lol every time i see one of those keep an eye out save a life stickers for motorcyclists we’re not gay bicyclists our safety is different!
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actionjackson posted:my neighbor who used to have a honda accord now has this lol It's funny that Porsche and Lamborghini are now just SUV companies that make sports cars as a side hustle, I don't get the point of buying an ultra powerful SUV, surely the centre of gravity is too high for handling to be good enough to take advantage of all that power. Though of course the answer is "they are never going to drive it that fast, it's just a status symbol that their car *could* do it".
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I don't get driving a powerful car as a daily driver. I couldn't use all the horsepower in my Corolla, even on the highway. Traffic is everywhere. lobster shirt posted:and of course like half the houses have their gigantic trucks blocking the sidewalk. sucks. houston ba.d. Deadly Ham Sandwich has issued a correction as of 18:54 on Oct 12, 2022 |
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Deadly Ham Sandwich posted:I don't get driving a powerful car as a daily driver. I couldn't use all the horsepower in my Corolla, even on the highway. Traffic is everywhere. In general I dont get the boomer "oh I love driving my car, its freedom, just open road" and im like idk what the gently caress poo poo was like in the stone age but i've never seen an "open road" outside of like 2am-5am driving.
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Ham Equity posted:The other really frustrating thing about this one is virtually every headline describes it as a "scooter crash." It's not a loving scooter crash, it's a loving car murder. one dead in a 7/11 crash after a suspected drunk driver drove through the doors and into the checkout counter. the local city council has responded by imposing a curfew barring the use and operation of convenience stores between the hours of 11pm to 7am
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silicone thrills posted:In general I dont get the boomer "oh I love driving my car, its freedom, just open road" and im like idk what the gently caress poo poo was like in the stone age but i've never seen an "open road" outside of like 2am-5am driving. The "public transport is bad because I don't want someone else to tell me where I have to go" argument also falls apart pretty quickly if you're mainly using your car to go to and from work and the shops. You're still letting the man tell you where to go but you've convinced yourself you haven't because you're doing it in a needlessly inefficient way.
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