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iospace posted:Car drivers in a nutshell. OK fine gently caress car drivers because they're mostly just terrible but whose loving idiotic idea was it to put an at-level train track down a street? Or to put a street along a train track? Whichever came first, the second one should not have.
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Memento posted:OK fine gently caress car drivers because they're mostly just terrible but whose loving idiotic idea was it to put an at-level train track down a street? Or to put a street along a train track? Whichever came first, the second one should not have. Usual answer: the town grew around the railway because it was the loving railway, man!
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Nov 14, 2019 02:21
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rich new yorkers actually built their palaces with ramps so they could roll greasily from one feast, into the tube, and be pneumatically lifted via steam operated escape shaft back into their next banquet.
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Nov 14, 2019 02:26
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Street-running train tracks weren’t really a problem before there were assloads of cars on every street as it turns out.
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Nov 14, 2019 02:48
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For a brief moment, between the invention of the train and the invention of the car, man and machine lived in perfect harmony. There were no accidents whatsoever.
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Nov 14, 2019 03:21
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Ah yes because that's what I meant and not that personal automobiles take up a poo poo ton more space in the street than pedestrians and the odd horse cart.
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Nov 14, 2019 03:25
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corgski posted:Ah yes because that's what I meant and not that personal automobiles take up a poo poo ton more space in the street than pedestrians and the odd horse cart. The horseshit took up a lot of room in the street.
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Nov 14, 2019 03:27
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corgski posted:... the odd horse cart. Ahh yes, the odd, rare horse cart you might see one or twice a day. 
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Nov 14, 2019 03:33
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How about you share a picture of the sort of town where there actually were freight tracks in the street instead of the busiest street in NYC.
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Nov 14, 2019 03:40
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Busiest street in the city? But I didn't post a pic of your moms bedroom. 
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Nov 14, 2019 03:52
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E: nvm
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Nov 14, 2019 03:57
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https://youtu.be/d1ilzk_uOAo
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Nov 14, 2019 04:01
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Eh, don't know how to get this to post directly in mobile Ohio highways are action-packed today https://imgur.com/gallery/Wx3Izik starkebn fucked around with this message at 04:12 on Nov 14, 2019 |
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Nov 14, 2019 04:09
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Always a fun time watching someone watch/film crashes on the highway from the safety and comfort of their driver’s seat.
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Nov 14, 2019 05:13
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNT9campEhQ
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Jerry Cotton posted:Usual answer: the town grew around the railway because it was the loving railway, man! Yeah but you don't need to make the main road run concurrent with the railway. Here's a random town I chose in western Victoria, Kaniva. Yellow is the railway, red is the highway and main road that was put through afterwards. The railway went through this area in 1885, and every road around it was either built next to it or has a bridge going over it.  It doesn't seem that hard?
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Nov 14, 2019 06:09
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why did canada make a railway to a city sized for ants?
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Nov 14, 2019 06:34
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:why did canada make a railway to a city sized for ants? Australia?
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Nov 14, 2019 06:43
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Why did Canada build a railway to Australia?!
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Nov 14, 2019 06:53
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Mineral extraction.
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Jerry Cotton posted:So, why would someone remove the thingy? Look, someone removed it about 5 years ago and it got lost ok? So far nothing bad happened so it wasn't really necessary anyway! Now get to work cutting that wood or are you some kind of pussy?
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Nov 14, 2019 10:12
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Baronjutter posted:I love DNE but I'm having trouble with his podcasts because his perfectly fine co-hosts just go off on tangents for 75% of the run time.
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Nov 14, 2019 15:15
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Uthor posted:Yes, then spend almost fifty minutes talking about the boat in the fifty minute long video about the boat. This is why I don't like podcasts. If I wanted to listen to people ramble on and never get to the point I'll just go to the pub.
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Nov 14, 2019 16:49
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It's way better if you just chill out and treat it like a skate class where the teacher bullshits with the A students while you're playing Sonic Advance on GBA.
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Memento posted:
If it weren't for the few scattered concrete blocks to the right of the truck, and the broken parts of the wall on the top left, this scene almost looks completely fine; I'd think I was just looking at a building that had a truck-sized doggy door where they just plow through and it opens upward to let them pass.
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Nov 15, 2019 06:16
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Memento posted:Yeah but you don't need to make the main road run concurrent with the railway. According to posters in the Canadian Debt Thread, half the buses in Canada run on a one-way loop so "doesn't seem that hard" isn't something I would get too caught up on when it comes to planning things relating to towns and transport.
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Nov 15, 2019 06:23
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Difficulty in planning isn't really ever the reason for bad transit in North America, it's usually hostility to the idea of public transportation in general. Car culture is super deeply ingrained and there is very rarely any budget being made available for people who ride transit (ie poor people, the disabled, people who give a poo poo about the environment, etc).
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Nov 15, 2019 06:28
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Is there anywhere detailing how hosed Venice is with the ongoing flooding? Apart from the tourist spots.
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Classon Ave. Robot posted:Difficulty in planning isn't really ever the reason for bad transit in North America, it's usually hostility to the idea of public transportation in general. Car culture is super deeply ingrained and there is very rarely any budget being made available for people who ride transit (ie poor people, the disabled, people who give a poo poo about the environment, etc). Yeah "culture" aka lobbying from car companies.
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SelenicMartian posted:Is there anywhere detailing how hosed Venice is with the ongoing flooding? Apart from the tourist spots. I refer you to the documentary "Erik the Viking" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8IBnfkcrsM
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Nov 15, 2019 15:22
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LifeSunDeath posted:Yeah "culture" aka lobbying from car companies. That's a bunch of hot nonsense. It's absolutely cultural. Look at the Facebook comments on anything bike infra-related on your local newspaper.
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Nov 15, 2019 16:50
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LifeSunDeath posted:Yeah "culture" aka lobbying from car companies. And buying and dismantling of buses, cable cars, etc... Judge Doom's plan in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" was a thing that really happened, though with slightly less anvil dropping.
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Nov 15, 2019 16:52
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The Guardian is on the Venice flooding. Venice council flooded moments after rejecting climate crisis plan https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/15/venice-council-flooded-moments-after-rejecting-climate-crisis-plan quote:Veneto’s regional council rejected a plan to combat climate change minutes before its offices on the Grand Canal, in Venice, were flooded, it has emerged as the city continues to battle high water levels.
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Boogalo posted:Here's an educational and also thread favorite video. I love that guy's honesty. It was a big part in why I ended up buying a saw stop. Edit: well that and this: AFewBricksShy posted:Are we still doing pictures of stupid self inflicted injuries? AFewBricksShy fucked around with this message at 17:15 on Nov 15, 2019 |
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pseudorandom posted:If it weren't for the few scattered concrete blocks to the right of the truck, and the broken parts of the wall on the top left, this scene almost looks completely fine; I'd think I was just looking at a building that had a truck-sized doggy door where they just plow through and it opens upward to let them pass. I thought they were stairs the truck had backed into. Then I realized it was a dump truck.
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LifeSunDeath posted:Yeah "culture" aka lobbying from car companies. Yes, it's loving "cultural." Cops literally will not stop for pedestrians in "right of way" crosswalks. They won't issue tickets for people breaking that law either. Ever. The ONLY time cops stop for people in a crosswalk is when they've pre-arranged for a television station to film them.
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LifeSunDeath posted:Yeah "culture" aka lobbying from car companies. Um I mean we both know that North American culture is decided entirely by who can lobby for their poo poo most effectively.
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MisterOblivious posted:Yes, it's loving "cultural." I almost got run over by a cop turning left on a red while another cop across the street watched and laughed. Can confirm.
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