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spiritual bypass posted:also thr tax revenue from a parking lot is way less than filling the same space with even the shittiest of shops yeah one of the things that kinda opened my eyes from Shoup's writing on "the cost of free parking" was... the cost of turning land into a parking space, when it could be used for literally anything else
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Megamissen posted:i havent had any bad experiences with drivers but part of that, aside from luck and living in a less car-brained country, is probably that i wear normal clothes when cycling high-vis and helmets make cyclists less likely to be perceived as human https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1369847823001018#f0010  
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the only kind of high viz that would possibly make a positive difference in this country is a rifle slung over your shoulder
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Irony.or.Death posted:the only kind of high viz that would possibly make a positive difference in this country is a rifle slung over your shoulder If you will be carrying it on a bike then you will want to wrap it with some reflective tape also.
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Rifle would take too long to unsling. Mount a gun on the handlebars like a technical or like it's WW2, or open carry a pistol on your left side so it's most visible to drivers. Then it's a real threat even if they hit you.
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You need a cargo bike with a Maxim gun team in the back.
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Cup Runneth Over posted:Rifle would take too long to unsling. Mount a gun on the handlebars like a technical or like it's WW2, or open carry a pistol on your left side so it's most visible to drivers. Then it's a real threat even if they hit you.  this but on a cargo bike
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corona familiar posted:panniers full of thumbtacks Didn't someone say they rode around with a pocket full of rocks?
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Mauser posted:Didn't someone say they rode around with a pocket full of rocks? im not sure i said it here but it was a timbuk2 bag and yes, i had folks try to swerve into me or jokingly threaten it intentionally multiple times (like they would do it then slow down then do it again) and I needed a better way to be defensive toward that
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raggedphoto posted:https://bikeportland.org/2023/07/03/protestor-blocks-bus-and-bike-lanes-on-division-with-his-car-376795 mystes posted:other places like paris have also made great strides but that requires a consensus that cars shouldn't have priority in cities
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Irony.or.Death posted:the only kind of high viz that would possibly make a positive difference in this country is a rifle slung over your shoulder Someone in another thread IIRC posted about riding to the range with his rifle and said that it was the only time drivers gave him a wide berth.
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:Someone in another thread IIRC posted about riding to the range with his rifle and said that it was the only time drivers gave him a wide berth. i feel like this was recent and that there was a pic
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evil_bunnY posted:Does no one in portland own a slingshot? How does this guy still have intact car windows?
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mystes posted:Strong Towns is run by a conservative and I think it's essentially aimed at people involved in planning in local municipalities and responding to the idea that car-centric development focused around big box stores is good because it will bring in tax revenue by saying "actually this poo poo costs a ton to maintain and it's going to bankrupt you eventually so it's unsustainable." This makes sense and I agree it’s good even if not entirely convincing in its methods to me lobster shirt posted:the point strong towns makes is that it's not just the roads that car centric infrastructure makes unsustainable but the whole pattern of development - water, sewer, gas, electricity are all too expensive to deliver given the revenues that can reasonably be extracted from that same area. yeah the roads are going to get really lovely but you'll also end up with undrinkable water, sewage pipes that break constantly, power outages, flooding if you need to have flood defense stuff in the area, none of it can work. Right, but the people living in the unsustainable burbs are presumably working and providing value somewhere else. Like it wouldn’t surprise me if a high density residential district in an urban area also was ‘unsustainable’ and didn’t bring in property taxes enough to pay for the services provided. If the high density residential zone happens to be “part of” an overall sustainable city for financial/government purposes, and the low density burbs aren’t — that doesn’t really matter to me personally and seems kind of arbitrary. But I see how it would matter to planners for those municipalities like mystes says
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Cup Runneth Over posted:high-vis and helmets make cyclists less likely to be perceived as human im lycra gray/black so i should be dead
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RadiRoot posted:im lycra gray/black so i should be dead better dead than fred m8
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if super conductors are real they better float the drat cars over the street and give ground level back to the people. i guess being crushed by a dude parking on you would still be bad but maybe thats less newtons of force than being run over.evil_bunnY posted:Does no one in portland own a slingshot? How does this guy still have intact car windows? slingshots are regulated as weapons so if you are gonna do a felony and shoot at someone for political reasons dont do it like dennis the menance rogue 6 year old style cause you are a grown rear end goon and are still going to jail big time and ms. wilsons chiding cant save you. Real hurthling! has issued a correction as of 14:46 on Aug 2, 2023 |
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Jokerpilled Drudge posted:better dead than fred m8
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cool av posted:This makes sense and I agree it’s good even if not entirely convincing in its methods to me with a lot of infrastructure like sewers the cost per meter is largely the same regarless of use, 50 meters of sewer servicing a suburban street costs about the same to maintain as 50 meters servicing a street full of apartment buildings therefor the cost of infrastucture per resident is way higher in the suburbs another issue is that while the economic value of a suburb to a city falls over time the maintenance costs goes up
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cool av posted:This makes sense and I agree it’s good even if not entirely convincing in its methods to me high density residential will attract economic activity tho while diffuse suburbs maybe get a bank branch drive thru, fast food joint drive thru, and one walmart super center for the whole county
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pictured: Fred e: og fred also mounted a holster to his frame 
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webcams for christ posted:pictured: Fred Fred is my loving hero. Carried his bike on his shoulders across the goddamn Alps. Have you read Around the World on a Bicycle?
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/sigmamalefreud/status/1686526288415121408?t=ZNRaphGx90gZWDcFBY2Vhw&s=19  i need spider bot
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Jokerpilled Drudge posted:better dead than fred m8 Right said
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webcams for christ posted:pictured: Fred There's got to be at least one hipster out there who has mounted an auto & burglar to the frame
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raggedphoto posted:This thread rules and I had no idea it existed until it was linked in the bike commuting thread. I use to love cars but the more I learn about car culture, infrastructure and law the more I can't stand them, the added street racing, street takeovers and straight piped cars I am starting to hate them. "The War on Cars" podcast has been helpful to understand how we ended up with a car centric society that values drivers/cars over literal human life in a studied and cohesive way. I bike to work everyday and mostly find it pleasant, I am lucky that my 14 mile commute is mostly protected from traffic but still have run ins now and then with rear end in a top hat drivers. It's maddening how uncaring drivers are that they could end life with the jerk of a wheel or by checking their instagram while driving. quote:But after our chat, and in a moment of joy from making a communication breakthrough with someone who just hours prior I was yelling at and being ignored by, I tweeted a selfie with Philbrick. I thought it would be helpful, but many people were offended and shocked that I would sanitize a guy who showed up to a protest against a bike lane with a gun. It was a careless mistake I should not have made, and I have since deleted all the tweets about it. Lmao that’s the Portland I know and love, bike Portland guy has to apologize for a loving selfie
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HashtagGirlboss posted:Lmao that’s the Portland I know and love, bike Portland guy has to apologize for a loving selfie
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mystes posted:I don't think it's bad to expect that he not take a selfie to show what a great guy the insane anti-bike lane guy who pointed a gun at him was just because the guy ended up talking to him for a couple minutes without murdering him I think it’s missing the forest for the trees and completely doesn’t matter and the performative outrage and scolding is a waste of time
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RadiRoot posted:cop car nearby had an oopsie the other night. When they roll over like that and show you their belly it’s a sign of submission, give it a tummy rub 
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HashtagGirlboss posted:Lmao that’s the Portland I know and love, bike Portland guy has to apologize for a loving selfie Yeah people freaking out about the selfie really focused in on the wrong thing, I am all for not bothsidesing when it comes to assholes who pull guns on people but whatever. Edit: I find it funny that the time this guy wasted just standing by his car probably far exceeds any additional drive time he now has because of the bus/bike lane.
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/sigmamalefreud/status/1686526288415121408?t=ZNRaphGx90gZWDcFBY2Vhw&s=19 I'm the bully bars that get casually torn off lol
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raggedphoto posted:Yeah people freaking out about the selfie really focused in on the wrong thing, I am all for not bothsidesing when it comes to assholes who pull guns on people but whatever. Jonathon maus rules but his one failing(or strength?) is how nice he is to the people who treat him the worst
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