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Guavanaut posted:Bring in the interrogator. Would make a better Labour leader.
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Nuclear Spoon posted:the other major thing which sucks about cars in cities is that parking on the pavements turns a lot of two-way streets into one-way streets Which slows down traffic outside houses and is therefore good
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I have to admit that it was only after I posted the second time that I realized peoplebwere talking about dedicated busses for kids only that serviced schools as opposed to general public transport routes that also had kids on them. And I think parents are generally more inclined to let their kids ride those specific school buses than the normal transports. But from my experience, those bus routes always required the children to go to a specific place (usually a part of town and normally a part that was pretty close to the school itself) and they didn't just come to your door and pick you up to bring you directly to school. If more public transport means setting up bus services that will specifically go to people's houses to bring them to school that would be great, but I wonder how feasible that is particularly with people who live on the outskirts of town*. I still think there are going to be cases where families will have to use the car to bring the kid to school. Which might result in a permit system where you apply for a permit to be allowed drive to the school. But if the idea of free meals for kids make Conservatives mad, imagine trying to sell the idea of travel permits and watch them compare you to the Nazi's. *= Or in one sad case from a previous job, family lived in town X and brought their kids to that school. Went their for years and had lots of friends. Kid and his dad had to move to town Y for reasons, which was miles away from school X. The school X didn't have a bus route to town Y because why would it, it was miles away. And trying to find a method for the kid to keep going there that wasn't just "Dad books a taxi every day to pickup and drop off his kid to this school" was rough.
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Lets be real; school buses are a feral Lord of the Flies land in which one kid inevitably leaves with Dick written on his forehead.
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As lord of the flies goes that's a pretty good outcome, on balance
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The Question IRL posted:But from my experience, those bus routes always required the children to go to a specific place (usually a part of town and normally a part that was pretty close to the school itself) and they didn't just come to your door and pick you up to bring you directly to school. I grew up in the highlands and didn't realise this wasn't just how it was everywhere - we didn't quite get door to door service, you had to walk to the main road but that was only 5 minutes. Normal busses, but routes just for the kids in the mornings and afternoons. The catchment area for my secondary school was enormous, including posho kids getting trucked in from the commuter town outside of Inverness that was clearly way closer to the two schools in Inverness but for Reasons had them all getting brought over to the nicer safer rural secondary school. There was one memorable time when one of the bus drivers for that route absolutely hosed it on the little two lane road on the way in and slipped off the verge, parking the bus sideways in a farm.
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Diet Crack posted:Here have some driver brainworms just to exacerbate the point. How does this make sense? If it's a 30 zone do drivers also get all confused about how fast they are going, or 70 on a motorway (sorry officer I was distracted looking at my speedo to ensure I was bang on 70). What a load of shite, and what a oval office Laurence Fox is, glad Billie got out of that.
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We have dedicated School buses in Scotland, the council contracts it out to Bus/Coach companies for anyone outside of 2 miles from the school. They were a lawless terrifying place.
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dunno if this is still true 10 years later but: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/476635/travel-to-school.pdf tldr 50% of primary school kids are driven to school but only 20% of secondary school kids are. given allowances for rural areas poor infrastructure etc that seems really positive tbh? seems like one of those areas where the perception of school run mums in range rovers is wildly out from the actual reality, you probably just notice the range rover types more i guess
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Microplastics posted:As lord of the flies goes that's a pretty good outcome, on balance keep punching joe posted:How does this make sense? If it's a 30 zone do drivers also get all confused about how fast they are going, or 70 on a motorway (sorry officer I was distracted looking at my speedo to ensure I was bang on 70).
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i think my car doesn’t like to cruise control at 20 mph, but to be honest at that speed it seems to have enough background push to reach 20 without pushing on the pedal at all
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There's a difference between a set limiter (car is fully under your control but will not go over a certain speed until disengaged, now a legal requirement for all new cars) and cruise control (throttle set by speedometer without driver input until driver intervenes). The first is a good way to drive in a city without accidentally speeding and then soiling yourself (the Laurence Fox manoeuvre), the second is more for motorways.
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My mum's car sounds an alert whenever she goes above 30. She doesn't know how to disable it so it basically just rings constantly.
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keep punching joe posted:How does this make sense? If it's a 30 zone do drivers also get all confused about how fast they are going, or 70 on a motorway (sorry officer I was distracted looking at my speedo to ensure I was bang on 70). You tend to get an intrinsic feel for how fast you're going such that yeah, by and large you don't actually have to look at the speedo. A combination of sound, feel, and visuals of things moving outside the car can give you a surprisingly good intuitive sense of your speed, if it's a speed you drive at frequently. But like, I can also do that at 20, because 20 is a normal speed for a car to be going at because it's a normal speed limit to encounter, along with 40, 50, and 60. And if you are unsure about your speed, you can just drive slower, there is no obligation to hit the speed limit.
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Well, there is an obligation but on the other side of the line.
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so many times - especially of a morning - i have seen someone do something insane to try to get in front of someone else, only to end up sat at traffic lights or queued at a roundabout anyway wazzocks, just wazzocks!!!!!!!!!! 
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crispix posted:so many times - especially of a morning - i have seen someone do something insane to try to get in front of someone else, only to end up sat at traffic lights or queued at a roundabout anyway This was a highlight of when I had a long driving commute - watching some guy behind me furiously weaving, finally overtake me doing 40 on a 30 road and then I'd catch up to him at the next 3 sets of traffic lights.
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ro5s posted:This was a highlight of when I had a long driving commute - watching some guy behind me furiously weaving, finally overtake me doing 40 on a 30 road and then I'd catch up to him at the next 3 sets of traffic lights. this is when you give him the golf clap in his rearview mirror
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Guavanaut posted:Shows poor literary analysis, there isn't even a character called Dick. Still, at least he never gets to have the kids in the back
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I got Car Door'd while cycling home from work today, so my enthusiasm for "but what about the drivers" is pretty low right now
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ro5s posted:This was a highlight of when I had a long driving commute - watching some guy behind me furiously weaving maybe he had a looming deadline
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Failed Imagineer posted:It's a shame that Florence Pugh is cool, talented and beautiful but her dad is a Can't believe someone who sent their kid to private school is a oval office.
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kingturnip posted:I got Car Door'd while cycling home from work today, so my enthusiasm for "but what about the drivers" is pretty low right now gently caress, you alright?
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Nuclear Spoon posted:the other major thing which sucks about cars in cities is that parking on the pavements turns a lot of two-way streets into one-way streets Especially when everycunt thinks they're too important to try and get their wheels on the pavement. There's a road near me that must get blocked up once a day by people just going in from different ends at the same time and you could solve almost all of by driving down the road with a big magnetic crane and shifting all the parked cars two feet over. And taking the SUVs away to be quietly crushed into a cube
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You aren't actually supposed to park on the pavement, in some places I believe you'll get ticketed for it, and it also obstructs the pavement for people who need to use it.
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Man bought private jet with borrowed council money https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66340991 quote:A businessman cheated a council out of tens of millions of pounds and went on a spending spree with the cash, an investigation has discovered.  
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OwlFancier posted:You aren't actually supposed to park on the pavement, in some places I believe you'll get ticketed for it, and it also obstructs the pavement for people who need to use it. There's a box junction in my village where the 2 main roads in the village connect. It also happens to be immediately in front of the chemist & pub and also next to the village shop. So people stop in it an awful lot. And get out. Never mind that it's a fairly busy junction where it's extremely hard to see if there's traffic coming from your right when you go to it. And of course there's an army base nearby, & sometimes the bus company use coaches, which means there's routinely very large traffic that struggles to get past because some selfish oval office has parked there. The selfishness is impressive.
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crispix posted:Man bought private jet with borrowed council money Been reading about this today. It is absolutely astonishing. The council just kept happily handing this guy cheques for 40 million pounds for him to spend on Lambos. Now they’re totally broke and the Council Tax is going to go through the roof.
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big scary monsters posted:It's not really necessary that every last child is served by a school bus. Inevitably there will be some who can't use it for whatever reason. But the outliers The Question IRL talks about are not an argument against improving public transport and discouraging car use - if you take 90% of the school run cars off the road then you've done a lot to solve the problem and the roads become better for the 10% who absolutely have to drive their kids in as well. Unfortunately they pulled another bus line here to a small village, it was mainly a postal bus, but yeah even that got the axe.
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DesperateDan posted:gently caress, you alright? Cuts and bruises. Lots of bruises. Probably the best outcome from something like that.
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kingturnip posted:I got Car Door'd while cycling home from work today, so my enthusiasm for "but what about the drivers" is pretty low right now Hope you're okay OP and also took the wing mirror off.
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kingturnip posted:Cuts and bruises. Lots of bruises. We love our door-zone bike lanes don't we folks?
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smellmycheese posted:Been reading about this today. It is absolutely astonishing. The council just kept happily handing this guy cheques for 40 million pounds for him to spend on Lambos. Now they’re totally broke and the Council Tax is going to go through the roof. he had that much money and he still drank lambrini? i'm almost impressed
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crispix posted:Man bought private jet with borrowed council money There's a Podcasting is Praxis episode on this! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhuAwklhqzo
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cat botherer posted:Thank God. Dooring injuries can be among the worst. I hope you got the driver's info. Remember you carfuckers, do the Dutch Reach (not just a sex thing) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeM984dk220
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