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Going by what I see on Twitter these PSAs really, really did not work lol
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mortons stork posted:they recently built a shopping mall right behind me (which is bad) but they also added a couple footpaths and added extra streets that lead to it directly, which is nice since the shopping mall connects radially to other places i want to go and the footpaths are legit car-free zones, connecting to a metro station, which is pretty cool scatter nails in the road at night. dont actually do that though.
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Oct 25, 2022 19:15
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lol what
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Oct 25, 2022 19:18
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what a loving idiot
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Oct 25, 2022 19:18
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ArmZ posted:scatter nails in the road at night. (sung to the tune of 'Blackbird')
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Oct 25, 2022 19:20
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He says he didn't take a train because he had to be on zoom calls the whole way. Not really weird that he'd have to pay extra for what is essentially a private, moving conference room.
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Oct 25, 2022 19:27
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Honestly, great use case and pricing scheme for cars right there. I guess our trains don't have conference rooms that you can rent like in other places.
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Oct 25, 2022 19:30
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Fitzy Fitz posted:Honestly, great use case and pricing scheme for cars right there. I guess our trains don't have conference rooms that you can rent like in other places. Anywhere's a conference room if you're white man enough
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Oct 25, 2022 19:42
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I mean if he absolutely feels he needs that and it's worth paying for because his time is so valuable and he needs to be on zoom calls, then fine, but he shouldn't complain about having to pay the tolls in both directions when he's taking an uber into another state
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Oct 25, 2022 19:42
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Trains have wifi there is no reason he couldn't zoom on the train.
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Oct 25, 2022 19:42
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they do actually have the option to rent a conference room on the italian high speed trains here. they call it executive level service and it costs >$200, which lol. but i guess if you have that narrow of a use case its a hell of a lot comfier than zooming in a car not that anybody cares about inconveniencing other passengers, most of my experience here on high speed rail is execs shouting in their phone to coworkers about this or that and loudly announcing that since the train was entering a tunnel they'd have to pick back up in a few minutes. i imagine most of them have even less issues just zooming the whole way through on a normal rear end train car
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Oct 25, 2022 19:47
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mortons stork posted:they do actually have the option to rent a conference room on the italian high speed trains here. mama mia!
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Oct 25, 2022 19:51
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mortons stork posted:they do actually have the option to rent a conference room on the italian high speed trains here. they call it executive level service and it costs >$200, which lol. but i guess if you have that narrow of a use case its a hell of a lot comfier than zooming in a car Literally everything is more comfy in a train, where you can actually relax, stretch your legs or even combine going places with working.
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Oct 25, 2022 20:00
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BonHair posted:Anywhere's a conference room if you're white man enough if you're white man enough you have your calendar blocked for when you travel and do not give a single gently caress honestly even if you're not particularly white man, you just say "nope" lol nothing that can be done on a zoom meeting is possibly emergent or important enough
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Oct 25, 2022 20:08
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Fitzy Fitz posted:Some new crossing signals are being added to a crosswalk I pass daily, and someone drove over and destroyed one of them before the work was even finished lol The city built an RRFB in a high incident location on the main cycle path, and it has been repeatedly vandalized to uselessness ever since. It's one of the ones where there had to be a grant, because the intersection really could have used better sight lines instead, but no one wants to pay for a city employee to cut the thicket.
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Oct 25, 2022 20:10
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Junkozeyne posted:If by street cars they means light rail why would you get rid of them in order to get more buses, they are superior in every way but cost (both money and intial effort) The bus is a relative of the car, so it's alright. Trains and (even worse) bicycles are products of communism and must be destroyed at every possibility.
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Oct 25, 2022 20:43
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Buses don't deserve to be compared to cars I'm sorry but despite their flaws they still own whereas cars are terrible 99% of the time
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Oct 25, 2022 20:48
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Skinnymansbeerbelly posted:The city built an RRFB in a high incident location on the main cycle path, and it has been repeatedly vandalized to uselessness ever since
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Oct 25, 2022 20:48
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It's my right as an american to inconvenience people, possibly to death
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Milo and POTUS posted:Buses don't deserve to be compared to cars I'm sorry but despite their flaws they still own whereas cars are terrible 99% of the time We covered this earlier, 4 wheels bad 2 wheels good
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Oct 25, 2022 20:49
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Skinnymansbeerbelly posted:The city built an RRFB in a high incident location on the main cycle path, and it has been repeatedly vandalized to uselessness ever since. It's one of the ones where there had to be a grant, because the intersection really could have used better sight lines instead, but no one wants to pay for a city employee to cut the thicket. Installing a bollard is a day of hard work, requires a bunch of power tools, and costs a few hundred $$$ of materials. Box of nails is about $25 and that poo poo falls off the back of contractors' trucks all the time.
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Oct 25, 2022 20:55
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distortion park posted:as a visitor i liked it. the town center is pleasant to walk around and the transport is excellent. Munich was the city I've been most surprised by recently, so many cyclists, cargo bikes and pedestrians, in a fairly large area around the city centre. It's obviously reached the tipping point where at least a few people feel confident enough to take their kids in a bike bucket, London is still way off that. Munich also has a very good (although expensive to use as a visitor) suburban and underground rail network. Worth reading the wikipedia page and taking a look at the expansion plans and construction costs if you want to get depressed Lived in Munich for a summer and loved it. Never once had a use for a car, I could walk/bike/train wherever I needed to go.
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Oct 25, 2022 21:13
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Milo and POTUS posted:It's my right as an american to inconvenience people, possibly to death I don't think that video is american op
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Oct 25, 2022 21:21
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also I think the british are actually way worse for parking on sidewalks than most of america somehow
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Oct 25, 2022 21:21
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maybe it just seems that way because more of britain has sidewalks though lol
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Oct 25, 2022 21:23
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American streets and parking lots are bigger. Less need to park on the sidewalk.
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Oct 25, 2022 21:27
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Fitzy Fitz posted:American streets and parking lots are bigger. Less need to park on the sidewalk. but it's a cheap and legal thrill
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Oct 25, 2022 21:38
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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mystes posted:The only sane solution in a situation like that would be to say "oh ok kids are crossing in this spot so we'll put in a traffic light so they can cross safely"
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Oct 25, 2022 21:55
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theres a bunch of apartments and restaurants where I live so people cross the road wherever they feel like it and the cars have to wait. feels good. though on the weekends you have to watch out for the drivers not in the know that block the sidewalk when turning and roll through stop signs
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Oct 25, 2022 22:37
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lmao not content with just axing the focus, ford is now dropping the fiesta in lieu of selling more 'compact SUVs'   quote:The popular Ford Fiesta is set to be discontinued as early as next year as costs of parts rise and drivers opt for SUVs, the BBC understands.
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Oct 25, 2022 22:38
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smart move. americans only want SUVs
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Oct 25, 2022 22:42
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Xaris posted:smart move. americans only want SUVs Truly, this has never happened before, and bit the car companies in the rear end, hard.
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i had the supreme american experience took a rock to the window on a highway that i was driving because my elderly father lives in a zero-transit area and needed to be taken to the doctor and whoops nothing but uber and uber refuses service to anyone who can't use a cellphone. love how it's ableist to ask for walkable cities but apparently it's not ableist to demand everyone be forced to drive a car then when getting the windshield fixed they ran out of resin so i had to come back another time after i came back and got it fixed i promptly got rear-ended 100' from the shop. at a red light. after i'd been stopped for a good 20 seconds. a+++++ excellent service, would destroy streetcars for automobiles again being forced to drive 18 hours a loving week every week this month has reminded me just how much i hate every second im forced into that cage. i'd almost completely cut out driving in favor of never leaving my hovel before that.
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Oct 25, 2022 22:46
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Xaris posted:smart move. americans only want SUVs you can have any car you want in the US, as long as its an SUV.
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Harik posted:being forced to drive 18 hours a loving week every week this month has reminded me just how much i hate every second im forced into that cage. i'd almost completely cut out driving in favor of never leaving my hovel before that. Everyone else hates being stuck driving eighteen hours a week too, and that's why everyone drives like a raged-out toddler
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:Everyone else hates being stuck driving eighteen hours a week too, and that's why everyone drives like a raged-out toddler 6 hours a day, 3 days a week. 30 minute break while he's at his appointment. it's way way worse than any commute i've endured. got to witness the fresh aftermath of someone nodding off doing 75 last time too, a car half its original length in a construction zone, in the center lane. nearly hit it at highway speed and so did everyone else so it can't have happened longer than 30 seconds before i got there. pretty sure they drifted off the road and into the jersey barrier, judging by the very large construction barrel permanently embedded in their engine compartment and conspicuous lack of other crushed vehicles. hope my 911 call saved them but it's likely they're just one of the 45k. probably the 4th fatal accident i've seen this month, come to think of it. which makes sense, i-4 racks the highest pile of corpses per mile in the nation and it's not even close. e: impossible to find anything about it because there's so many fatal wrecks on i-4 that even when you narrow it down to the intersection there's dozens of them Harik has issued a correction as of 23:21 on Oct 25, 2022 |
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Oct 25, 2022 23:13
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Can't spell "carbon free" without "car" explain that???? Didn't think so
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Oct 25, 2022 23:47
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:I'll never understand how an electric motor attached to some bogies is more expensive to maintain than an ICE engine + transmission + everything that goes into them. Our city's trolley bus system was shut down because of the huge maintenance cost of the lines and associated transformers etc. This isn't such a problem for trams as a driver can't rip the lines down by taking a corner wrong, or dropping the trolleys. This wouldn't have been an issue if upgrades and basic maintenance weren't completely ignored because of 3 decades of neoliberalism. Now we're getting a bad light rail service that won't be operational till 2040 lmao
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Fitzy Fitz posted:American streets and parking lots are bigger. Less need to park on the sidewalk. I'm always referencing Philadelphia, but there are actually blocks so narrow that you must park half on the street, half on the sidewalk. The taxonomy is 2 way traffic, street parking both sides 1 way traffic, street parking both sides 1 way traffic, street parking one side 1 way traffic, street/sidewalk parking one side No street parking at all, too narrow for most vehicles, sometimes there's garages
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The ultra tiny streets have great vibes and are thickly forested with bollards and planters
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