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https://twitter.com/Jalopnik/status/1666878146422136832quote:Wiklöf, who owns Wiklöf Holding estimated to be worth $10 million, may regret speeding this time, but this isn’t his first infraction by a long shot. In the last decade Wiklöf has racked up over $300,000 in speeding tickets.
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leftist heap posted:i think I'm somewhat sympathetic to arguments that things like speed cameras have issues in the US due to, you know, how monstrously hosed up the country is from top to bottom, but also the people making the arguments seem to think that literally nothing can ever be accomplished short of a revolution which doesn't seem like it's gonna happen any time soon. this same sort of thing seems to happen with gun control It could happen. I know I was rude earlier to this post: Deadly Ham Sandwich posted:But yeah, more speed cameras. Also have the cameras not administered by the police. ... but in the US that would mean wrestling the cameras and tracking systems away from the cops on a city-by-city and county-by-county basis. Not impossible, but it would be an incredibly huge undertaking and very uncharacteristic of the US. So from where I'm sitting "speed cameras now, police reform later" might as well be wishing on a star. Irony.or.Death posted:your concerns are reasonable and valid but also so completely devoid of context that they are stupid. yes, it is true that anywhere in the US that gets speed cameras will do it the dumbest way possible. it is also true that the dumbest way possible is still better than no speed cameras, because they are they only way we're getting any sort of traffic enforcement that isn't just random summary executions for driving while black and if we do not start getting traffic enforcement people are just going to keep running over more and more small children/pedestrians/cyclists/pets/storefronts/living rooms/other cars/loving anything they can fit under their new truck. Yeah, someone who got shot in the arm by a jumpy cop during a traffic stop would have been better off getting a ticket in the mail. No argument there. I'm just not convinced we're coming out ahead by giving those same cops more tools to track us. wash bucket has issued a correction as of 19:55 on Jun 8, 2023 |
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wash bucket posted:It could happen. I know I was rude earlier to this post: They're already tracking you with an entirely separate and vastly more complex and effective system, right now. Automatic speed cameras and red light cameras are not part of that system.
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Look I'll drop the speed camera thing. It doesn't matter what I think because we're already miles down this road and we're going to see where it ends up like it or not.
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wash bucket posted:It could happen. I know I was rude earlier to this post: you've turned me around. we should get rid of licensing requirements (tracks you and your car) and fascist road signage (which is all of them), brought to you by the same folks in charge of speed cameras in MN. the construction workers can go gently caress themselves.
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mawarannahr posted:you've turned me around. we should get rid of licensing requirements (tracks you and your car) and fascist road signage (which is all of them), brought to you by the same folks in charge of speed cameras in MN. the construction workers can go gently caress themselves. the construction workers most at risk from unsafe drivers are road crews. are you sure you want to support the monsters building and maintaining the asphalt rivers of death?
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1 night in jail for every time your phone moves at a sustained rate of 31 mph or more
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mystes posted:put the cameras everywhere
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https://twitter.com/MikeLindblom/status/1666797399220846595?s=20 $200,000 per parking space. There will be no charge for using those spaces.
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Ham Equity posted:https://twitter.com/MikeLindblom/status/1666797399220846595?s=20 lmao graft has completely crippled this country
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this thread contained a cool finding Re: WFH and public transit https://twitter.com/icgee/status/1665739397008879616 https://twitter.com/icgee/status/1664401233791074313 https://twitter.com/icgee/status/1664401244155150337 https://twitter.com/icgee/status/1664401252644446211
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:noted weed dad and travel guy Rick Steves did a series of episodes about Switzerland and was big on pointing out that you don't need a car to tour there, you can just get around via trains. seems awesome. can confirm. I recently visited this small island in the middle of lago maggiore for a day trip entirely via public transit e: not just trains though, we have very important ferries, faniculars, gondolas, and busses run by the post office to get to remote trail heads webcams for christ has issued a correction as of 21:06 on Jun 8, 2023 |
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:lmao graft has completely crippled this country What do you have against the profit motive and also jesus webcams for christ posted:can confirm. I recently visited this small island in the middle of lago maggiore for a day trip entirely via public transit the better gardens are at the other end of the lake! jk, theyre all great. Mr. Sharps posted:rick steves ftw
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The MTA complains about lower ridership all the time. and blames it on remote work but then refuses to run more trains on nights and weekends. headways on some lines are regularly 20 minutes on the weekend. not to mention the number of lines that get rerouted with explanations that may as well be hieroglyphics
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the nyc speed cameras are administered by the department of transportation not the police. so even in the usa it is possible.
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lobster shirt posted:the nyc speed cameras are administered by the department of transportation not the police. so even in the usa it is possible. in a police state, all departments are the police department.
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lobster shirt posted:the nyc speed cameras are administered by the department of transportation not the police. so even in the usa it is possible. Aight well I'm glad to have an example in the US where the police aren't directly administering and monitoring them. Everything I've ever found were local journalists trying to blow the whistle on the police running them with the same system they use in their cars to track and log license plates. Presumably because some vendors are out there selling all-in-one systems to city governments.
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a friend and I were complaining together recently about how poo poo transit is in the SF Bay Area, and how baffling it is that despite its unambiguous shittiness on a world scale, the SFBA is still easily in the top 10 metros in the US for transit. Maybe top 5. My friend pointed out that if you think about the characteristics of a city and the services and amenities it should offer to its residents, it's possible that New York is the USA's only actual city. everywhere else is just a big town, or a bunch of sprawl scattered in between freeways. I'm aware that NYC has its own problems, like for instance the subway there is falling apart because there's not enough money going into it, but at least it's got something to criticize. something you can roughly stack up against the metros in Paris or Moscow, or against the U and S bahns all over Germany. You can't even do an apples-to-apples comparison of transit in the Bay Area against someplace like Tokyo.
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Then they've already got all your info already. I just want it to be less likely I get pulped walking my dog in the evening and nobody else has put forward any proposal more serious to stop that from happening. Why wait around doing nothing for no reason other than vague government bad libertarian ones? Every day action is delayed is another dozen dead kids, and every day that number ticks up a bit more too.
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Milo and POTUS posted:That's not gonna work. Maybe a threat of violence like some road rager brandishing a gun oh we've got that too. this morning I saw a lady blow a red light so she could sit a half block away at the next light where we all ended up seconds later. she also had a tiny dog in her lap with its head out the window and I think there's a correlation here.
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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:people driving cars should be made to feel as oppressed as possible at every turn
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zero knowledge posted:a friend and I were complaining together recently about how poo poo transit is in the SF Bay Area, and how baffling it is that despite its unambiguous shittiness on a world scale, the SFBA is still easily in the top 10 metros in the US for transit. Maybe top 5. My friend pointed out that if you think about the characteristics of a city and the services and amenities it should offer to its residents, it's possible that New York is the USA's only actual city. everywhere else is just a big town, or a bunch of sprawl scattered in between freeways. A lot of it is also just uneven across the Bay Area, the city has decent coverage and a good mix of lines, but otherwise BART is ridiculous (very low frequency, high fares, safety is an issue), and Caltrain is getting better, but it is even more expensive. In the end, it is still California, and about 90-80% of the Bay Area you still need a car. A lot of it is 1. none of the major systems are really integrated with each other well outside of Market Street, 2. there are very clear capital projects that need to happen, such as a second trans-bay tunnel that are still decades away (if ever happen), and 3. outside of Muni, transit is priced with the expectation you have money to throw at it, and 4. San Jose's LRT is completely useless. Also, I don't know why BART is being expanded to Santa Clara when there is going to be an electrified Caltrain line right next to it. Basically, the Bay Area systems just seem more chaotically run and funded compared to almost any metro area in not just the US, but probably the world at this point. I think SF actually made some decent improvements in recent years with its new BRT/bus lanes, which obviously are fine for the areas they are serving, and expanding MUNI to Chinatown was probably justifiable, but that is really just investment in north or northeast SF which is just a really small part of the Bay Area. Basically, it isn't that there isn't infrastructure or no improvements being made, but there is no coherent vision or affordable structure, so it is a complete mess. -------- NYC for the most part, at least has a unified system under the MTA (New Jersey is its own issue), but as long as it remains under the state it isn't going anywhere, and it has such high costs/decades of lack of maintenance that the Federal government also just has to step in at some point. I know some (former) New Yorkers like Rossman want to just blame corruption/incompetence/unions etc, but at the end of the day you can't just run a system built (and still largely unchanged) from the early 20th century without having to pour tens of billions in it to modernize it. There is no such thing as a free lunch. ----- It is better than LA where it is just the idea of the system and neither Metro or the city really care because it is "just for poor people." Yeah, occasionally some stations are built every few years, but there is little to no desire to make it an efficient and comfortable system that is a real alternative to cars. That goes for most of the car culture cities in the US. Ardennes has issued a correction as of 12:19 on Jun 9, 2023 |
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Milo and POTUS posted:What's the oldest part of the nyc subway anyway, I'm seeing '85 on wikipedia but I don't know what it is, says a structure you're asking 1885, right?
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Milo and POTUS posted:What's the oldest part of the nyc subway anyway, I'm seeing '85 on wikipedia but I don't know what it is, says a structure The earliest tunnels were built at the turn of the century, but eventually they were connected to pre-existing elevated lines in the boroughs.
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mawarannahr posted:in a police state, all departments are the police department. Abolish all government, that sure sounds like a good idea that no crackpots are in favour of. I mean, maybe you kinda need a hard reset in the USA, but I'm pretty sure that less government because government bad is a dumbass libertarian take
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Ardennes posted:I think SF actually made some decent improvements in recent years with its new BRT/bus lanes, which obviously are fine for the areas they are serving, and expanding MUNI to Chinatown was probably justifiable, but that is really just investment in north or northeast SF which is just a really small part of the Bay Area. Basically, it isn't that there isn't infrastructure or no improvements being made, but there is no coherent vision or affordable structure, so it is a complete mess. I don't want to be a one sided doomer so it's worth noting that Van Ness BRT is a big success and I am hopeful it'll lead to more such projects (the 38 Geary is begging for it). But it's so hard to be optimistic about the future of transit in the SFBA when BART is on the verge of catastrophic collapse, Muni service keeps getting cut back, and the only things that governments seem to want to spend money on is widening freeways and deploying sheriff's deputies to "compassionately" lock up drug users.
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New chapo premium ep just opens with bashing cycling for like 5 min ugggh just gently caress off
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lol chapo has been/is 100% an op to redirect youth interest in leftist politics into reactionary outlets
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BonHair posted:Abolish all government, that sure sounds like a good idea that no crackpots are in favour of. no government 🔜 no road. end of story!  I'm being sarcastic in response to someone else's ideas itt mawarannahr has issued a correction as of 16:18 on Jun 9, 2023 |
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