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Boywhiz88 posted:Sorry you were caught in a school zone. Maybe just don’t speed.  Revising street infrastructure to discourage dangerous driving is a positive goal that should be pursued, but I've seen plenty of wildly unsafe driving on extremely narrow, low-visibility roads that says no amount of infrastructure change outside taking cars off the road completely (  ) is going to fix the problem of aggressive and negligent driving. Structural change needs to go hand in hand with societal change to smack down sociopathic behaviour.
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my college town was pretty good. I could walk to campus from my apartment, I could walk to the grocery store, the main street with a bunch of poo poo to do, and there were 2 bars that were basically just across a parking lot or a street. it was still pretty car dependent though, but the bus service was good.
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Aug 10, 2023 16:27
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Cugel the Clever posted:how dare u, don't u know it's literally impossible not to drive to the absolute maximum speed the road infrastructure allows??? drivers have zero agency once they get behind the wheel,,, I live on a one-way street with on street parking on both sides, so it can be pretty narrow in the evening or if there's something going on. the most dangerous drivers are usually people who work for like doordash or whatever. although they're incentivized to drive as fast as possible so lol
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Aug 10, 2023 16:29
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Pittsburgh has buses and its old enough that not every road is a highway and it's physically possible to walk around so unfortunately that actually probably makes it like 90th percentile for the us maybe not that great for biking but at least nowadays you could get an ebike to handle the general hilliness
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Aug 10, 2023 16:30
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College towns are much better than the median for walkability. Even their stadiums have much smaller parking lots than pro teams and I strongly suspect it's because they've got a baked in audience within pissing distance
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Aug 10, 2023 17:10
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Milo and POTUS posted:they've got a baked in audience within pissing distance
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Aug 10, 2023 17:28
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they've definitely got a baked and pissed audience close by
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Aug 10, 2023 17:29
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Cugel the Clever posted:how dare u, don't u know it's literally impossible not to drive to the absolute maximum speed the road infrastructure allows??? The hands down fastest way around here to piss people off behind the wheel is do 25mph in a 25mph zone and stop fully at all stop signs. Elicits honking, swerving, etc every time.
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Aug 10, 2023 17:31
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Milo and POTUS posted:College towns are much better than the median for walkability. Even their stadiums have much smaller parking lots than pro teams and I strongly suspect it's because they've got a baked in audience within pissing distance yeah I remember someone maybe here maybe somewhere else saying the reason americans get so nostalgic for college days is that it's the only time in their lives they lived somewhere walkable and all of the social benefits that come with it. and yeah. when I was a student at KU, we had a respectable football team and since I had a student athletic pass I got tickets to all the football and half of the basketball home games (the pass was like $150, tickets to go see Mizzou @ KU this year are like $250 a piece if you're not a student lol). I have fond memories of waking up with my now fiancee on saturday morning, walking to our friend's house a half mile away, pregaming and walking a couple of blocks to the stadium, watching the game and then going to house parties the rest of the day. can't do that now. not just because I can't handle a hangover either. going to a monday big XII homegame at allen fieldhouse was a needed reprieve from studying. hell I'd settle for being able to walk to a bar to watch a game now spacemang_spliff has issued a correction as of 17:39 on Aug 10, 2023 |
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Aug 10, 2023 17:35
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Milo and POTUS posted:College towns are much better than the median for walkability. Even their stadiums have much smaller parking lots than pro teams and I strongly suspect it's because they've got a baked in audience within pissing distance Many schools also have limited amount of land and are forced to do the math on whether it's best spent on classrooms and dorms or on free parking for game day.
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Aug 10, 2023 17:42
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This happened recently here and a bunch of people crawled out of the woodwork to complain about how dangerous these dividers are to unsuspecting drivers
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Aug 10, 2023 17:56
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Crashing into a stationary object and blaming the stationary object ftw
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Aug 10, 2023 18:33
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leftist heap posted:This happened recently here and a bunch of people crawled out of the woodwork to complain about how dangerous these dividers are to unsuspecting drivers Call me callous, but I don't think drivers who don't suspect stationary objects near the road should be allowed to drive.
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Aug 10, 2023 18:45
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genericnick posted:If those things weren't so loving expensive. Not like a car of course, but stilll. sim posted:More than you think, I imagine. People are just A) busy with their lives and don't have time/interest in politics (especially contacting their city council members) and B) unaware that things could be better or different. That's why I really think a lot of good comes from just using your bike for normal things and showing people what's possible. evil_bunnY has issued a correction as of 19:00 on Aug 10, 2023 |
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Aug 10, 2023 18:56
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In 2022, the average American spent $10,728 on car ownership. That's a lot of ebikes. Median personal income in the US in 2021 was $50,392 for men, and $36,726 for women. It's wild that an ebike is derided as an expensive toy but nobody blinks at the idea of spending 1/5th or more of your gross income on a car.
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Aug 10, 2023 19:02
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:In 2022, the average American spent $10,728 on car ownership. That's a lot of ebikes. And 10k/year doesn't even get you like, a *nice* car.
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Aug 10, 2023 19:03
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evil_bunnY posted:owning a car would pay for a new e-cargo bike every 2 years lol, and that's only riding a couple hundred k a month. It's really depressing how car ownership costs don't scale down as much as you'd think if you drive less but still need the car occasionally. When we went from 2 cars to one car, insurance costs only dropped $10/mo. Yes, I shopped around and hustled, insurance companies charge more comparatively if you have more drivers than cars. Even if you're only driving 3,000 miles a year, you're still on the hook for registration, potentially with the extra anti-EV or hybrid taxes a lot of states have passed, a new set of tires every 6 years because of age, fluid changes. Looking at my family's car expenses, insurance costs are by far the biggest thing and those don't seem to scale up or down by how much you drive as much as you'd expect. We bought our cars more than 4 years ago like sane people, and I sold my Ford Fiesta during peak car bubble for $4k more than I bought it for new and Carvana will still offer what we paid for our Kia new as a trade in value, so my observation is that cars no longer depreciate, which makes car ownership cheaper.
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Aug 10, 2023 19:09
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Thought you guys might appreciate this in light of last week’s conversation about cycling safety quote:Portland Police Sgt. Ty Engstrom says people have become entitled on the roadways. quote:My feeling is pedestrians need to have a role of making themselves more visible because the driver as they're driving, what they're picking up on is going to be movement or some sort of visibility, being able to identify something out there in the road," Johnson said. "And they're scanning and sometimes the wipers are going, it's raining, it's dark. Sometimes the dash lights are there so they can't see as well as a pedestrian often thinks they're being seen
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Aug 10, 2023 20:07
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going back to the city nerd video on the twin cities, my only issue is his comments is that he thought the perception of certain areas being unsafe for transit was overblown. That's definitely not true, and I think him being male is a part of that. There are definitely women I know here who stopped using transit after covid started, not just general safety issues, but being sexually harassed, fondled, etc. One woman told me that's why she stopped using transit when she lived in Chicago. So the car is a way to protect yourself from that. obviously more people on transit = more safety, but more safety requires more people, so it's a catch-22
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Aug 10, 2023 20:12
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evil_bunnY posted:It was like that 10 years ago for us too. People were staring as if I were riding a supersport. Every time I show up at the trail head with my MTB towed by my e-cargo people still wanna talk/ask questions. I wanna ask questions. What's your setup ? Got my fancy new cargo bike yesterday   It'll replace this one : 
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evil_bunnY posted:
Jumping on the "show people what's possible" bandwagon. People are always doing a double take when I fit an entire grocery cart full into 4 panniers. Hopefully a thing switched from impossible to possible in their mind and that will inform how they think about their city and how it's used.
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Aug 10, 2023 20:20
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HashtagGirlboss posted:Thought you guys might appreciate this in light of last week’s conversation about cycling safety evil_bunnY has issued a correction as of 20:25 on Aug 10, 2023 |
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Aug 10, 2023 20:20
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HashtagGirlboss posted:Thought you guys might appreciate this in light of last week’s conversation about cycling safety it is true that visibility worsens if you are driving in the rain or at night but the safe ting for a driver to do in those scenarios is to slow down, but thats anathema to suggest and nobody would do it anyway
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Aug 10, 2023 20:22
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Noosphere posted:I wanna ask questions. What's your setup ?
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Weembles posted:Many schools also have limited amount of land and are forced to do the math on whether it's best spent on classrooms and dorms or on free parking for game day. It's a great illustration of how limited parking isn't the end of the world. College football hasn't ended just because everyone can't park directly outside the stadium. People find a way. There isn't enough space on campus here to accommodate every student commuting by car. A lot of them freak out initially when they aren't awarded parking, but then they just figure something out.
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Aug 10, 2023 20:26
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I saw a dude on a cargo bike on my way to work yesterday. he had a big sign hanging off his back rack that said THIS VEHICLE MAY TAKE THE LANE and it's the only time I've ever seen a giant painted sign on someone's vehicle and thought "This person is actually super smart."
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Aug 10, 2023 20:26
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HashtagGirlboss posted:Thought you guys might appreciate this in light of last week’s conversation about cycling safety I'm going to start carrying a gigantic 5 tier sheer white wedding cake which sways and wobbles ever so precariously
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Aug 10, 2023 20:27
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lobster shirt posted:it is true that visibility worsens if you are driving in the rain or at night but the safe ting for a driver to do in those scenarios is to slow down, but thats anathema to suggest and nobody would do it anyway Listen, the more cars there are, the more dangerous it is. If they go as fast as possible, they will reach their destination faster and therefore there will be less cars, which will be safer. Also with sufficient speed you won't notice that you hit someone.
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Aug 10, 2023 20:27
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HashtagGirlboss posted:Thought you guys might appreciate this in light of last week’s conversation about cycling safety how the gently caress do you make yourself more visible to people who aren't even looking out their windshields
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Aug 10, 2023 20:28
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look bud those texts aren’t gonna send themselves
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Every time I read/hear the "pedestrians must be more visible thing" I think of the "what are you supposed to do??" call from here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5u0khFnHUg&t=30s
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:In 2022, the average American spent $10,728 on car ownership. That's a lot of ebikes. Got curious about my household math and between payment, insurance, and gas we spend ~$500 / month on our one car. That's with no daily commute too. So yeah, we could just be buying a brand new ebike every quarter or so for what we spend on a car.
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Aug 10, 2023 20:31
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the jumbo pillars on every modern car put an enormous blind spot right where a pedestrian waiting to cross would be if the car is stopped at an intersection. it loving sucks!
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Aug 10, 2023 20:32
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HashtagGirlboss posted:Thought you guys might appreciate this in light of last week’s conversation about cycling safety
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Twerk from Home posted:It's really depressing how car ownership costs don't scale down as much as you'd think if you drive less but still need the car occasionally. We got really lucky and bought a new car right before the chip shortage so we got $5K off from the dealer, $4K back on our taxes for it being a plug-in hybrid. Moved to a new place where I could bike to work so we sold the new car to Carmax for $3K over the sticker price and walked away making money on the car, used some of it to buy a e-cargo bike! HashtagGirlboss posted:Thought you guys might appreciate this in light of last week’s conversation about cycling safety PPB is the worst and I am worried about continued support for bike infrastructure since the number of people bike commuting has been dropping since the pandemic.
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Leroy Diplowski posted:Jumping on the "show people what's possible" bandwagon. People are always doing a double take when I fit an entire grocery cart full into 4 panniers. Hopefully a thing switched from impossible to possible in their mind and that will inform how they think about their city and how it's used. 
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Noosphere posted:I wanna ask questions. What's your setup ? Do you like it more than the taga? I badly want to replace our Taga 2.0 because it's just so slowwww
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That's awesome!  A week's worth of laundry for my partner and I including sheets and towels, 14 mile round trip with all of it easy peasy.
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evil_bunnY posted:Can't show you now because it's setup for commuting/school right now but it's just a standard rack, and one of those panniers you can fit a front wheel into. Cool stuff ! Thanks for the link. trevorreznik posted:Do you like it more than the taga? I badly want to replace our Taga 2.0 because it's just so slowwww Agreed with the slowness of the Taga. It's a great machine, but I really dislike going father than a few km with it. Since I moved to an area with more traffic, and with the summer heat, I resolved to get an ebike. So far it's a blast ! Suprisingly tricky to ride compared to a normal bike at first, but having a motor is just so nice with a big heavy cargo bike.
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