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sat on my keys! posted:https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2023/01/10/breaking-cyclist-killed-on-unprotected-part-of-ninth-street-bike-lane-in-park-slope/ Those parking spaces are more valuable than cyclist blood.
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Deadly Ham Sandwich posted:Those parking spaces are more valuable than cyclist blood. To be fair there are virtually no practical uses for cyclist blood.
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:Sure, let's subsidize drivers to the tune of another $225m, why not I'm tried of my tax dollars going to subsidize the wasteful and excessive lifestyle choices of other people
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Do any government people want to help me pay for food? No? OK
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gradenko_2000 posted:rode my bike today. 13 kilometers. january weather is nice  One was so loving erratic, he had no idea he was inches from being splattered by a bus that had to swerve to avoid him.
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teethgrinder posted:Ugh it meant all the crappy cyclists were out too. Running reds to pass me and then blocking the lane. You want the bitch about cyclists thread. There’s probably one in gbs.
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Epic High Five posted:I'm tried of my tax dollars going to subsidize the wasteful and excessive lifestyle choices of other people gas should absolutely be taxed more
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teethgrinder posted:Ugh it meant all the crappy cyclists were out too. Running reds to pass me and then blocking the lane. lmfao
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teethgrinder posted:Ugh it meant all the crappy cyclists were out too. Running reds to pass me and then blocking the lane. That's how I know tourist season is in full swing. I'm not far from the beach so a lot of where I live is designed to be cycle-friendly (to the extent that it can be in the US) with bike lanes even in the back neighborhoods off the main roads and they're generally used as intended but some of the most reckless cyclist behavior I see casually correlates with the annual increase in density of license plates with Je Me Souviens on them
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Lib and let die posted:Je Me Souviens is this French for "Salt Life"?
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Fitzy Fitz posted:is this French for "Salt Life"? Well gently caress it is now
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Loucks posted:You want the bitch about cyclists thread. There’s probably one in gbs. edit: oh gently caress my avatar 
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:gas should absolutely be taxed more Gonna disagree with you there, it should be banned. Gotta have both sides of the argument.
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not sure how to feel about further disadvantaging through regressive taxing people who have to drive a bunch of spacetime from affordable housing to unaffordable workplace
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mawarannahr posted:not sure how to feel about further disadvantaging through regressive taxing people who have to drive a bunch of spacetime from affordable housing to unaffordable workplace this situation only exists because driving was heavily subsidized to begin with
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lobster shirt posted:the gas tax should be precisely one thousand dollars per gallon probably close to the actual cost accounting for all the externalized costs afflicted on the earth and all her children
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:this situation only exists because driving was heavily subsidized to begin with well yeah but to undo it are we gonna give them money or just start the taxing and see where it lands ?
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The sprawl problem will only go away when it becomes too expensive for Americans to drive an average of 40-50 miles a day. We created that problem by subsidizing the driving and by subsidizing the artificial country estates that we moved white people to in the post-WW2 era.
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mawarannahr posted:well yeah but to undo it are we gonna give them money or just start the taxing and see where it lands ? Idk maybe build a poo poo ton of commie blocks to move truck drivers to.
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The United States put itself in a relatively unique situation by channeling white people into fake country estates post-WW2 and then subsidizing business to move to those country estates at the expense of already developed areas. So now some of the most desirable places to live in America are these artificial country estates, the country has spent eighty years using racial animus to poo poo on urbanized areas, and it's going to be very difficult to overcome generations of propaganda and revert our living patterns.
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His Purple Majesty posted:Most white Americans would sacrifice their first born child if it meant they didn't have to interact with black people on a regular basis. How can we convince people to move to urban areas in a country that specifically went out of it's way to defacto and dejure segregate people based on race?
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Fitzy Fitz posted:Cities have successfully been rehabilitated in a lot of people's minds, but the housing shortage, low gas prices, lack of alternative transportation, etc. mean that even people who want to live in the city move to the suburbs anyway. A> Cities were sorta rehabilitated but housing wasn't expanded in any meaningful way in most of them B> Around here people who "love the city" and "want to live the city lifestyle" make a fuckin' beeline for the suburban (white) school districts the minute they have kids, and I doubt that's restricted to here.
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Fitzy Fitz posted:Cities have successfully been rehabilitated in a lot of people's minds, no way. if anything, the polarization has been made permanent. as of the past few years, the suburb dwellers i know would go the rest of their lives without visiting a city if they could
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i would definitely live in a denser part of houston (lmao) if it was affordable to do so, unfortunately even a 1200 sqft bungalow is like a million dollars now
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lobster shirt posted:i would definitely live in a denser part of houston (lmao) if it was affordable to do so, unfortunately even a 1200 sqft bungalow is like a million dollars now lol Houston was the last big city I could think of where people would talk about how housing was affordable if it's dead there it's dead everywhere I guess
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Polo-Rican posted:no way. if anything, the polarization has been made permanent. as of the past few years, the suburb dwellers i know would go the rest of their lives without visiting a city if they could Social media around here straight up tells people that if they put their kids in the city schools here they're committing child abuse (the pittsburgh city school district has better outcomes than the rural school district I grew up in lol)
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:lol Houston was the last big city I could think of where people would talk about how housing was affordable oh there are still plenty of affordable homes - i just looked on zillow and saw a 4/4 3k sqft house going for 300k - but you have live in the middle of loving nowhere and drive everywhere
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Cup Runneth Over posted:Is 300k what's considered an "affordable" home now. Is this like "access to affordable healthcare" heres one for under 200k, very far away from everything: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/6440-Alisa-Ln-408-Houston-TX-77084/28377934_zpid/ not as big though
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There were actually affordable homes in Houston within the 610 loop until the fracking boom in 2010s. Now even a dilapidated bungalow is over $400k. You can find a cheaper home in an outlying suburb, but you're not in the city anymore. Or you're probably near something that will give you cancer, like a concrete batch plant. Rust Belt cities are much more affordable, like Pittsburgh. It's weird to think of Houston as the 4th largest city of the US. It really doesn't compare to NY City, Chicago, or LA.
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sat on my keys! posted:https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2023/01/10/breaking-cyclist-killed-on-unprotected-part-of-ninth-street-bike-lane-in-park-slope/ Great angst for cyclists: people keep dying Great angst for drivers: nowhere to park Truly these are the same.
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Ensign Expendable posted:Great angst for cyclists: people keep dying
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For the record, I hate cars and the context of my whine was mostly that the bike infrastructure is so terrible. In the case of the cyclist that almost killed himself, he dropped off the curb of what passes for a separated bike lane in Toronto (Sherbourne for locals) to pass someone without looking, directly into the path of a bus that had to swerve to avoid splattering him. I'm also pissed that the office my company just moved into (Sugar Beach) has ruined the old lake shore MUP by essentially forcing pedestrians onto it. The new buildings basically use the MUP as a sidewalk when there used to be distinct routes for pedestrians and cyclists. Never mind the loving billion dollar expressway rehab/realignment has destroyed the MUP connection to the east for minimum three more years assuming no delays.  This new office should have been a beautiful glorious bike ride, but somehow everything has gotten far worse in the last few years. teethgrinder has issued a correction as of 01:44 on Jan 11, 2023 |
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