Drivers and flyers owned by snowflakes, I couldn't ask for a better Christmas present. Trains, meanwhile, are doing metal poo poo like lighting their switches and tracks on fire.
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# ? Dec 21, 2022 23:18 |
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Trogdos! posted:I pity Americans with the infrastructure they have instead Same, most Americans have absolutely no clue just how poo poo it is here. I wish emigrating somewhere were in the cards for me
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# ? Dec 21, 2022 23:42 |
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# ? Dec 22, 2022 14:12 |
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I hope their husband is asking the opposite question on r/fuckcars
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# ? Dec 22, 2022 14:19 |
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rode my bike today
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# ? Dec 22, 2022 14:27 |
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gradenko_2000 posted:rode my bike today a nine mile ride is only good for 800 calories. we live in such a scam universe
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# ? Dec 22, 2022 20:34 |
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800 calories is a lot
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# ? Dec 22, 2022 20:38 |
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Bikes are pretty efficient at saving energy though, that's why they have wheels and are pretty light. The goal of a good bike is to use as little energy to move as possible (so you can go fast/far).
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# ? Dec 22, 2022 20:45 |
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https://twitter.com/UrbanistOrg/status/1605941287076564993 Yes the tunnel cost $4 billion and is going bankrupt because nobody uses it but at least it freed up the waterfront to become a park Jk, we widened the streets there too and are building a new high-speed thoroughfare link but at least traffic is fixed Jk
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# ? Dec 22, 2022 20:50 |
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lobster shirt posted:800 calories is a lot
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# ? Dec 22, 2022 20:55 |
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Real hurthling! posted:a nine mile ride is only good for 800 calories. we live in such a scam universe This was for 103 miles over ~7.5hrs if you want to burn a little more
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# ? Dec 22, 2022 20:56 |
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cat botherer posted:And vastly more than OP actually burned going 16 km at a leisurely pace. yeah, all that stuff way overestimates, even with a heart rate monitor
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# ? Dec 22, 2022 20:56 |
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Nitevision posted:https://twitter.com/UrbanistOrg/status/1605941287076564993 Look, it is very reasonable to make the alternate hazmat route take you through the downtown corridor. Because the main highway also goes straight through he middle of the downtown corridor.
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# ? Dec 22, 2022 21:00 |
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If your downtown doesn't have hazmats in accident-prone moving containers, is it even worth living in?
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# ? Dec 22, 2022 21:09 |
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Nitevision posted:https://twitter.com/UrbanistOrg/status/1605941287076564993
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# ? Dec 22, 2022 21:09 |
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also kind of interesting to think about how bad weather can temporarily disable car brain, and appreciate how dangerous driving is https://twitter.com/the_transit_guy/status/1605788623529336832
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# ? Dec 22, 2022 21:24 |
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:yeah, all that stuff way overestimates, even with a heart rate monitor without a power meter, calorie and energy estimates for cycling have the accuracy of newspaper horoscopes
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# ? Dec 22, 2022 21:27 |
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lobster shirt posted:800 calories is a lot
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# ? Dec 22, 2022 21:28 |
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Agreed, highway ramps should require future users to slow down to 20 km/h to make the turn off the highway.
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# ? Dec 22, 2022 21:40 |
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highway ramps should actually lead directly to an incinerator
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# ? Dec 22, 2022 21:51 |
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Nitevision posted:https://twitter.com/UrbanistOrg/status/1605941287076564993
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# ? Dec 22, 2022 22:01 |
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lobster shirt posted:highway ramps should actually lead directly to an incinerator
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# ? Dec 22, 2022 22:08 |
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CopperHound posted:Was that tunnel made to replace the stacked above ground freeway, or in addition to the stacked freeway? It was to replace it, which was then demolished (admittedly it should have gone a while ago). There was a proposal to widen surface streets instead but instead pushed for a tunnel for a route that never got a tremendous amount of traffic in the first place. Also, there are building an above ground highway now as well even though the tunnel has plenty of capacity which means the tunnel will probably see almost no use. Oh and yeah there used to be a streetcar line that could have been hooked into the rest of the network, but they got rid of that too.
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# ? Dec 22, 2022 22:22 |
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Ardennes posted:It was to replace it, which was then demolished (admittedly it should have gone a while ago). There was a proposal to widen surface streets instead but instead pushed for a tunnel for a route that never got a tremendous amount of traffic in the first place. the viaduct was insane. while driving on it you could look down and occasionally see holes where concrete chunks simply fell out. if an earthquake had hit while it was still up it would have killed everyone who was on it
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# ? Dec 22, 2022 23:04 |
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Spergin Morlock posted:the viaduct was insane. while driving on it you could look down and occasionally see holes where concrete chunks simply fell out. if an earthquake had hit while it was still up it would have killed everyone who was on it
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# ? Dec 22, 2022 23:19 |
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Spergin Morlock posted:the viaduct was insane. while driving on it you could look down and occasionally see holes where concrete chunks simply fell out. if an earthquake had hit while it was still up it would have killed everyone who was on it Yeah the viaduct was a wreck and would have gone down in a major earthquake like SF, but they should have taken a page from SF as well as just replaced it with surface improvements, and rebuilt the streetcar, but instead they built a tunnel that was a huge boondoggle that is going to be a net loss. SF has actually been making some okay choices in recent years. I think the Central Subway was necessary to eventually hook up with Waterfront/Marine with the rest of the city along with the Van Ness BRT. The Geary BRT lanes seem actually useful as well. In addition, I was rather impressed with the improvements with the Presidio. Cal train electrification should also help. As an American city, it really isn't that bad beyond the strict limitations of BART. I wouldn't say the same for the rest of the Bay Area though. Portland opened a "BRT-light" on Division but after a few months they found out the new buses were defective... Ardennes has issued a correction as of 23:50 on Dec 22, 2022 |
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Nitevision posted:https://twitter.com/UrbanistOrg/status/1605941287076564993 I really want to get this tunnel named after the three people most responsible for pushing it: the Murray-Gregoire-Nickels Memorial Tunnel.
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# ? Dec 23, 2022 01:13 |
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i hate most city sims don't even have the option of building things without the implicit assumption that all your citizens will have a car and drive it everywhere unless you play 'medieval misery simulator'
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# ? Dec 23, 2022 02:52 |
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cowboy beepboop posted:i hate most city sims don't even have the option of building things without the implicit assumption that all your citizens will have a car and drive it everywhere unless you play 'medieval misery simulator' Where can I buy this simulator? tia
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# ? Dec 23, 2022 02:59 |
Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:Where can I buy this simulator? tia There's a few: https://store.steampowered.com/app/773790/Ostriv/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/690830/Foundation/ probably more I don't know about, and coming soon is https://store.steampowered.com/app/1363080/Manor_Lords/ I guess https://store.steampowered.com/app/858810/Dawn_of_Man/ could be argued to count as well?
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# ? Dec 23, 2022 03:04 |
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Thank you, I love misery simulators
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# ? Dec 23, 2022 03:10 |
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cowboy beepboop posted:i hate most city sims don't even have the option of building things without the implicit assumption that all your citizens will have a car and drive it everywhere unless you play 'medieval misery simulator' this is why Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic is the best city builder sim, because it actually models each individual car as matched to each family, and models the actual transit from home to work, and the need for parking, such that it accurately models the painful lesson that if you try to move to a model of private car ownership, even as few as a hundred cars will start choking the gently caress out of your streets
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# ? Dec 23, 2022 04:02 |
Yeah, workers and resources is great in that it makes private car ownership a deliberate choice you have to make as a "prestige" thing, and then it immediately fucks everything you worked so hard to build. Incredible, 10/10 no notes.
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# ? Dec 23, 2022 04:26 |
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gradenko_2000 posted:this is why Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic is the best city builder sim, because it actually models each individual car as matched to each family, and models the actual transit from home to work, and the need for parking, such that it accurately models the painful lesson that if you try to move to a model of private car ownership, even as few as a hundred cars will start choking the gently caress out of your streets I was going to get that game until I saw a review that said people won't transfer between modes of transport and the only workaround is a checkbox to force buses to dump all their passengers at a single train station, which seems... not great.
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# ? Dec 23, 2022 04:26 |
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eXXon posted:I was going to get that game until I saw a review that said people won't transfer between modes of transport and the only workaround is a checkbox to force buses to dump all their passengers at a single train station, which seems... not great. seems pretty true to life tbh
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# ? Dec 23, 2022 04:30 |
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cowboy beepboop posted:i hate most city sims don't even have the option of building things without the implicit assumption that all your citizens will have a car and drive it everywhere unless you play 'medieval misery simulator' I assume Sim City came from someone seeing traffic demand modeling and thinking, "yeah that's a game"
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# ? Dec 23, 2022 04:37 |
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cowboy beepboop posted:i hate most city sims don't even have the option of building things without the implicit assumption that all your citizens will have a car and drive it everywhere unless you play 'medieval misery simulator' that game has bicycle/pedestrian paths, trains, subways, ferries, buses, trams you can even limit vehicle traffic in areas and ban semi trucks from using residential streets, you could build a city that had hardly any road traffic in it, it just takes more planning wifh where you place transpo infrastructure and jobs so that they're accessible on foot
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# ? Dec 23, 2022 04:42 |
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City skylines has a lot of transit options, they just don’t have the whole production/resources aspect. That said, I think you need mods for slightly more esoteric stuff. The original Simcity was really simplified and only had rail or roads. 2000 had subways and buses but subways were pretty awkward to build.
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# ? Dec 23, 2022 05:05 |
yeah that is one of the things that cities skylines does that separate it from basically all of the "modern"-type city builders that came before is that it actually models pedestrians and bikes as valid transportation methods (in addition to busses and trains and subways and so on) and I think now it even has a way to do pedestrian-only areas by default instead of needing a mod? anyway, it's a real neat citybuilder slash traffic sim where you can really get in to playing around with trying to model non-carbrained cities and I recommend it and people who are just building satan's spaghetti freeway interchanges are missing the best parts of it imho colossal order started out making the cities in motion games which are literally entirely about building mass transit infrastructure inside an existing city and that mindset and experience definitely shines through into skylines
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# ? May 25, 2024 14:22 |
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every so often i get this little magazine in the mail from the college within the U of Minn. that I graduated from look at this stupid poo poo "We don't just want to make the car smart - we also want to make the infrastructure smart by using advanced network communication technologies such as 5G and edge computing" "Think of it as air traffic control, but for self-driving vehicles. Zhang's team will develop new models and algorithms to move us closer to edge-assisted intelligent driving systems. Unlike the larger-scale cloud computing, edge computing puts the data closer to the location where it's being generated, at the "edge" of the network. actionjackson has issued a correction as of 18:18 on Dec 23, 2022 |
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