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Martian posted:Not my own picture but a promotional one, but we use one of these (Thule Coaster XT) to take the kids to daycare on our way to work. It's also great when we go grocery shopping, because you can easily detach it from the bike, then it becomes a big stroller that you can take into the store. It has even has a small 'trunk' behind the bench for the groceries. Are these a thing at all in the US? They exist in the US but they're not terribly common.
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Martian posted:Not my own picture but a promotional one, but we use one of these (Thule Coaster XT) to take the kids to daycare on our way to work. It's also great when we go grocery shopping, because you can easily detach it from the bike, then it becomes a big stroller that you can take into the store. It has even has a small 'trunk' behind the bench for the groceries. Are these a thing at all in the US? you're welcome to risk your own life and brave the US urban bike lanes but to bring an innocent toddler along is criminally negligent
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yeah the only ones I have ever seen in the wild (i.e. not in a store) were on suburban cul de sacs in upper middle class neighborhoods and in the parks attached to those neighborhoods, anything else would generally involve way too much travel in close proximity to high speed traffic for any sane person to want to bring their toddler
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Martian posted:Not my own picture but a promotional one, but we use one of these (Thule Coaster XT) to take the kids to daycare on our way to work. It's also great when we go grocery shopping, because you can easily detach it from the bike, then it becomes a big stroller that you can take into the store. It has even has a small 'trunk' behind the bench for the groceries. Are these a thing at all in the US? not in the US, but these trailers are too big for most of the grocery stores in my city to use as a cart. I don't think I've ever seen one indoors except at like home and garden centers. but I am happy to see more and more bike parking specifically for cargo bikes or bike+trailers around
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Ham Equity posted:So is anyone ever going to do anything about AnimeIsTrash's incessant trolling, or is that mod-sanctioned trolling? AiT posts "cars ftw" once a day. You'll be fine lol
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mawarannahr posted:it's some kind of... automotive insanity lmao could you imagine if the i hate cars posters were making GBS threads up AI threads and how fast the sanctioning would come edit: actually maybe they are chill I dunno I never go in that subforum edit 2: burley trailers et al are great but I think these days most people are carting around their kids on the back of their rad wagon or their Yepp bike seats. I think the Urban Arrow or other bakfiet style bikes are the best for this kind of thing Jokerpilled Drudge has issued a correction as of 12:28 on Mar 29, 2023 |
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Filthy Hans posted:you're welcome to risk your own life and brave the US urban bike lanes but to bring an innocent toddler along is criminally negligent Can't figure out how I feel about this.
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Fitzy Fitz posted:Can't figure out how I feel about this. it's a classic case of car brain, one of the most common kinds tbh
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Jokerpilled Drudge posted:it's a classic case of car brain, one of the most common kinds tbh killing my child to own the car brains
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Adjectivist Philosophy posted:killing my child to own the car brains carbrainishly telling people that riding a bike with their kid is homicide Cars have really scrambled some brains. Especially us Americans
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why, you're just a negligent parent if you don't get the biggest SUV you can afford and use it to drive a half mile to drop off and pick your kid up from school
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Adjectivist Philosophy posted:killing my child to own the car brains okay again, the car would be the thing killing you. you don't deserve to die for riding a bike in the street, you understand that right?
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Jokerpilled Drudge posted:why, you're just a negligent parent if you don't get the biggest SUV you can afford and use it to drive a half mile to drop off and pick your kid up from school the only 2 options which way western man
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:okay again, the car would be the thing killing you. you don't deserve to die for riding a bike in the street, you understand that right? it is possible to be both correct and dead at the same time!
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Adjectivist Philosophy posted:it is possible to be both correct and dead at the same time! what thread are you in
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Adjectivist Philosophy posted:it is possible to be both correct and dead at the same time! what you are describing/promoting but don't realize is called authoritative car culture. I think you might be in the wrong thread!
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Jokerpilled Drudge posted:what you are describing/promoting but don't realize is called authoritative car culture. I think you might be in the wrong thread! tell it sis!
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cars are fail
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you can agree a dangerous situation shouldn't exist without putting a child's life at risk to prove the point. sorry if this is 2 controversial 4 u
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Adjectivist Philosophy posted:you can agree a dangerous situation shouldn't exist without putting a child's life at risk to prove the point. sorry if this is 2 controversial 4 u aids
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riding a bike isn't literal suicide jfc you are so mixed up "cars are so dangerous the only logical conclusion is everyone should drive everywhere!" gently caress off!
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Adjectivist Philosophy posted:you can agree a dangerous situation shouldn't exist without putting a child's life at risk to prove the point. sorry if this is 2 controversial 4 u oh my god man shut the gently caress up already
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gbs brain
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calling the cops on my neighbor for letting her kids walk home from school, she's a negligent parent they could get hit by a car
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:calling the cops on my neighbor for letting her kids walk home from school, she's a negligent parent they could get hit by a car i have dated multiple people who have worked in child-focused social services and this call happens with alarming frequency
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:calling the cops on my neighbor for letting her kids walk home from school, she's a negligent parent they could get hit by a car calling the cops on someone is more negligent then putting a kid in a bike carrier on a busy road. bad analogy
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oh i know, there was an article in this thread about a mom who got arrested for letting her son out of the car three blocks from home to walk lol
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My children are fedaykin for cycle culture and if yours aren't you are a bad parent.
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cars are killing machines y'all are doing a no-growth by not driving one
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e.pilot posted:Catch y'all in the bike and aviation threads, unbookmarking this one. Can't say I blame you.
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another day, another massive crash inside the tunnels that are the only link between downtown and the eastern suburbs, increasing everyone's commute coming in that way by over an hour. Wonder how long people are gonna keep doing this daily car commute thing. The Martin Luther King Jr busway completely bypasses that tunnel but the commuters are too good to take the bus for some reason
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But remember, it's the people in this thread who are the psychos.
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Ham Equity posted:So is anyone ever going to do anything about AnimeIsTrash's incessant trolling, or is that mod-sanctioned trolling? 
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:another day, another massive crash inside the tunnels that are the only link between downtown and the eastern suburbs, increasing everyone's commute coming in that way by over an hour. Wonder how long people are gonna keep doing this daily car commute thing. I watch the local news every morning, and one of the main segments that they switch to constantly is the traffic updates (Imagine getting a degree in meteorology and then getting stuck giving traffic updates every day). This is Atlanta, so there are like 4 million people all converging on the city from the larger metro area, and they all get stuck in the same traffic. Atlanta is supposed to be a major city, but look at this poo poo -- this is not how a major city should function: 
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I'm well aware of what your typical Atlanta suburbanite thinks MARTA stands for also 3.5%, good lord
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It would have been loving thrilling and a source of joy to ride in the back of a cargo bike as a kid rather than being stuffed into the backseat of a Toyota 8 times a day
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"changing" lol
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Atlanta seems like an utter hellscape stuck in a past where cars are always going to be cheap and freely available. That new development they built for the Braves' stadium is straight out of 1970s-1980s planning.
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I moved to Boise last year to be closer to family and while it remains an extremely car dependent city I've been pleasantly surprised by how bike friendly the downtown core is. There are some separated bike lanes, lots of bike parking, and it's pretty well utilized as well. There's a 21-mile greenbelt that a lot of people use for commuting which is well maintained and I see people with kids in seats and trailers every day when I walk my dog along it. Don't get me wrong, public transit may as well not exist and a ton of the city remains effectively inaccessible without a car, but it's reassuring to know that even in a city this in love with cars there's the possibility of growing other transportation methods alongside it
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Boise is 90% white. For some reason it's easy to get good infrastructure built in primarily white cities. Makes u think
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