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mila kunis posted:i was driving through indiana and experienced this once. long car line up in the drive through, i just parked and went in to get some coffee. done in 2 minutes. just cannot fathom why no one else was doing this Leave your car? Become a *spits* pedestrian??
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Jokerpilled Drudge posted:in VT we love to roast Connecticut for being a state of a bunch of lovely highways... of course we're quickly heading towards the same fate ourselves You're correct, Connecticut literally is nothing but a series of highways. You need to take highways to get anywhere, and the highways are clogged because there aren't any tolls, and there aren't any tolls because Connecticut people are scared of tollbooths (there was a crash at one in 1983 and they instantly tore every tollbooth down)
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Nov 7, 2022 04:24
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Of course Connecticut is a bunch of highways. It's New York's suburb and how are they gonna get to work with no highways?
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Nov 7, 2022 04:27
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Lol at the hazard lights and that last car sneaking in after the bus just before the video ends. Never change, Ust-kut https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elOkv1VQsOM
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Nov 7, 2022 06:29
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BonHair posted:Cool, that's how a lot of Danish ghettos got their start! The idea is good, but it's harder to avoid parallel societies. Especially if you put all your low income groups in the new development but people want to live in those places? Like you just have to not deliberately use the full force of government to segregate or else they pretty naturally fill up with a mix of people and become really nice communities
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Antonymous posted:yah minneapolis tore them up and took a photo of the city transit treasurer handing a Ford exec a check in front of the last one burning
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Nov 7, 2022 08:28
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actionjackson posted:
None other! They tried to repeat history at RanHam. They wanted to put it where the gas station is. The number of people who were excited for coffee that they could get a mile or two is any other direction was wild.
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Nov 7, 2022 08:34
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Ensign Expendable posted:Leave your car? Become a *spits* pedestrian?? Somewhere in USA, there's a guy who literally hasn't left his car in a year out of fear of becoming a pedestrian. Poop buckets and drivethroughs forever.
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Nov 7, 2022 09:33
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rip to a real one you faithfully performed your duty until being struck down in your teens by a rampaging car may you come back as a bollard
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Nov 7, 2022 10:28
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I'm renting a car and driving today (to a train station). There's a local train I could take instead, but it's so infrequent and has such bad reliability that I don't want to risk missing the long distance train I'm catching at the other end. The local one is only a couple of euros, but it doesn't matter as it is basically unusable for anything other than a casual shopping trip. Sucks rear end!
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Nov 7, 2022 11:34
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distortion park posted:I'm renting a car and driving today (to a train station). There's a local train I could take instead, but it's so infrequent and has such bad reliability that I don't want to risk missing the long distance train I'm catching at the other end. The local one is only a couple of euros, but it doesn't matter as it is basically unusable for anything other than a casual shopping trip. Sucks rear end! What country/area?
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Nov 7, 2022 14:06
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Ardennes posted:What country/area? This is in France - I tried checking the stats but SNCF only releases TER punctuality stats at the regional level (90.8% last month for me). Our tiny branch line doesn't get broken down but I think it must be several pct of that despite only running a few trains a day. Not as embarrassing as when I lived on what is now the LNER lines running into London and it had like 60% on time stats on a mainline.
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Nov 7, 2022 14:23
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Sounds like classic starve the beast: underfund a public service so bad that it doesn't work, then privatise or close it because it doesn't work
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BonHair posted:Sounds like classic starve the beast: underfund a public service so bad that it doesn't work, then privatise or close it because it doesn't work In England what is now LNER used to be a privatised company but it was so bad that I think TFL took it over. The trains are better now! Tories have renationalised a bunch of trains, turns out they don't have the guts to let the private sector run fully into the ground because loads of their voters use them to get into London
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Nov 7, 2022 16:19
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Boywhiz88 posted:None other! They tried to repeat history at RanHam. They wanted to put it where the gas station is. *checks map* randolph and hamline, where CDH is? i stopped at that gas station once. that would be hilarious to have a carbucks there too bad st paul didn't ban drive thrus like minneapolis 
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actionjackson posted:*checks map* randolph and hamline, where CDH is? i stopped at that gas station once. that would be hilarious to have a carbucks there They ended up slapping it in Sibley Plaza off of W 7th, and it snarls up that lot. Yeah, we should stop new drive through. Chik-Fil-A in Roseville is another one that looks wild a lot.
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these loving replies please end my life https://twitter.com/natalia_barbour/status/1588352869279076352
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Milo and POTUS posted:Is this the worst it's ever been for pedestrians in America fatality wise? I've looked up some info and it says it's a 40 year high but I don't know if that takes into account per capita stuff by year either. Helps that cars are bigger these days, with less visibility, and now engines are more efficient and can produce more power in less space so cars that are bigger than 70s monster trucks can accelerate much faster than lighter cars used to. F=ma won't ever fail you. And now with the electric pickup and SUV going to be mainstreamed this is going to be even worse since they can accelerate even faster.
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Nov 7, 2022 19:52
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skooma512 posted:Helps that cars are bigger these days, with less visibility, and now engines are more efficient and can produce more power in less space so cars that are bigger than 70s monster trucks can accelerate much faster than lighter cars used to. F=ma won't ever fail you. This in addition to the general comfort of the occupants. In a modern comfort class SUV you're almost completely insulated from the outside world. Going 95mph feels like nothing. Makes you feel safer than you are, and god drat anyone on the other side.
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Nov 7, 2022 19:58
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a_pineapple posted:and god drat anyone on the other side. Actually it's the driver who's damning people on the outside
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Nov 7, 2022 20:21
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Doing an MRI-Simmons consumer survey right now and really letting them have it on the car questions (establishing myself as an irrelevant outlier)
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Nov 7, 2022 20:27
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Boywhiz88 posted:They ended up slapping it in Sibley Plaza off of W 7th, and it snarls up that lot. Yeah, we should stop new drive through. my parents live just north of that more like oldsville
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Nov 7, 2022 20:55
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Cars give us good things like this https://twitter.com/WUTangKids/status/1589689500594077696
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Dizzy and disoriented man climbs back in behind the wheel.
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I'm glad that guy got his rear end kicked. By a PT Cruiser driver no less.
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Martian posted:Cars give us good things like this saints row 2 npcs
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The guy driving that truck almost hit a tree seconds in lol
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Martian posted:Cars give us good things like this now thats a pt cruiser bruiser
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There's a much higher chance that would have ended in a gun fight in another state
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Fitzy Fitz posted:There's a much higher chance that would have ended in a gun fight in another state I was just thinking this, but my state is so red that I get to play “spot the poorly-concealed pistol” whenever I go out. Guess it cuts down on fistfights if you want to silver lining as hard as possible.
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a_pineapple posted:This in addition to the general comfort of the occupants. In a modern comfort class SUV you're almost completely insulated from the outside world. Going 95mph feels like nothing. Makes you feel safer than you are, and god drat anyone on the other side. my lovely car rattles like a coffee can full of loose change and legitimately feels like it's gonna explode at any moment whenever I go above 80 and that's how it should be for everyone imo* *jk, no one should have a car at all
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God Hole posted:my lovely car rattles like a coffee can full of loose change and legitimately feels like it's gonna explode at any moment whenever I go above 80 and that's how it should be for everyone imo* Well if people are gonna drive it should be as unpleasant as possible. Make it a decision worth taking.
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distortion park posted:In England what is now LNER used to be a privatised company but it was so bad that I think TFL took it over. The trains are better now! Tories have renationalised a bunch of trains, turns out they don't have the guts to let the private sector run fully into the ground because loads of their voters use them to get into London LNER is run by the 'operator of last resort' since Virgin East Coast hosed things up in 2018. They are essentially a collection of consultants and managers hired by the government who take over the senior management from failed train franchises while retaining drivers, crew, etc. This is actually the second time the East Coast line has been run by a government operator since privatisation; the first time was after National Express made a hash of it in 2009. It's still not proper nationalisation as the idea of the OLR was to keep things running until the franchise could be handed over to a successful private sector bidder, but after the Virgin East Coast debacle it doesn't look like anyone else will be taking a stab at it. The OLR also runs Northern and Southeastern, and will almost certainly take over the West Coast before too long. And similarly in both Scotland and Wales, rail services have been taken over by the devolved governments from the failed private sector operators. In conclusion, gently caress you John Major
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SimonSays posted:Well if people are gonna drive it should be as unpleasant as possible. Make it a decision worth taking. There's a YouTube channel that does test drives of old lovely cars from communist Russia and everyone should have to drive pieces of poo poo like that imho
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bull bars are stpuid and they also make the car more dangerous to everyone, even to the car theyre attacehd to because they gently caress up crumple zones and air bag deployment sensors
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:There's a YouTube channel that does test drives of old lovely cars from communist Russia and everyone should have to drive pieces of poo poo like that imho I know more than a few slavs who've had a Lada in their family for generations, driven daily on some of the worst roads in the world and held together entirely with "tape and paper clips"
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God Hole posted:I know more than a few slavs who've had a Lada in their family for generations, driven daily on some of the worst roads in the world and held together entirely with "tape and paper clips" I learned to drive on a 2109 without a speedometer, airbags, or seat belts, and I turned out fine.
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My knee was bandaged up, so I didn't want to ride my bike to the grocery store yesterday. I drove my car instead. What a miserable experience. Even in the paved over car hell city, cars travel slower than bikes in traffic. The grocery store also has a ton of traffic all around it because everyone is shopping for groceries at this time, so it's a complete traffic jam into the parking lot. What the gently caress is wrong with people? Why would you want this? It's miserable. Normally I can ride my bicycle leisurely past traffic, past the traffic jam of parking, lock my bike at the store entrance. Maybe I'll see one other bike at the bike rack. Next time I'll ride my bike and let my knee bleed everywhere.
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