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i commute on a bike because im not a terrified fatass that has to shield oneself in a living room on wheels, surrounded by every modern amenity at all times, the windows rolled up soundly to keep out all human contact
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funy commuter
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:there is also option 3: dedicated busways. costs a little less than elevated rail, but delivers the same performance Bus rapid transit is almost always a better idea than streetcars. You can take advantage of some existing infrastructure and the train-like stations and service make the white flighters feel better. The buses can also drive around parked cars
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Imgur > Things Fitting Perfectly Into Other Things
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Cygni posted:the downside of BRT in the states is that white/rich people hate buses, especially in some cities where they see buses as devices for subhuman pig people americans think that mass transit is a communist handout to the underclass designed to get people hooked on government assistance. and yet they're somehow doing the Lord's work by driving on federally funded highways in their private vehicle (likely made by a company bailed out with federal money)
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:a real BRT system, with dedicated busways that are not mixed with traffic, is just as fast as a subway. the stigma disappears pretty much overnight i hope you're right. my midwestern city is adding one soon and i hope it works out
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subway is seriously imba in Cities:Skylines
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ometro posted:http://www.ometro.com/index.php/announcements/bus-rapid-transit/ sounds like we'll get pre-boarding fare payment but a kind of half-assed dedicated right of way
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a reminder that buses were implemented in many cities as a literal conspiracy to destroy streetcar lines and sell buses
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Shaggar posted:bicycles are not transport. I guess I recreated to work today then.
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pointsofdata posted:Idgi, why would they be parking lanes? People who park in bus lanes should get fined. Same with driving in it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0wY-hvMC44
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i think one of the answers as to why cities love light rail is that since the old days of streetcars is that they have always been used speculatively. developers used privately owned streetcar lines to service their own suburbs with the idea that the streetcar line would make money off of the suburb, and the suburb and associated retail would fill out because of the streetcar line. developers have always done this with rail, and since the 50's, with bypasses and highway structures that are state and federally funded. now that the possible places for suburbs are pretty well filled out in most cities, developers are looking to gentrify existing inner-city neighborhoods by using government subsidized light rail to the same effect.
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:this is a lot of words for "transit oriented development" every few weeks i get an effortpost stuck in my posting colon. once i squeeze it out i can get back to my usual diarrehic poo poo-posting
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Feb 10, 2016 21:08
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Triglav posted:how is it elitist when, as you said, gently caress the poors? how is it the poors fault the rich cant bike because they moved far away? my city was made after cars and everything seems fine here, in the community they all left to move to the suburbs from (now they moving back tho $$$) in a typical post-war suburban town, it's thought that only poor people or those with DUIs should be without a car, therefore everyone on a bike is suspicious. it's considered elitist when people who can afford a car use a bike instead. the typical suburbanite living the dream off of a 6 lane highway, 10 miles from a grocery store can't fathom why someone would choose to cycle as a means of transport except as an expression of highfalutin liberal frippery
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pointsofdata posted:One thing that often annoys me are those lovely little patches or verges of bushes that people build to pretend the new development is green or something. They're a waste of space and I variably look like poo poo. would make way more space to consolidate all that land into a park elsewhere instead Why yes, this is a noble country manor for for the English countryside! Just look at the 6ft tall locust tree and three hostas!
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pointsofdata posted:One thing that often annoys me are those lovely little patches or verges of bushes that people build to pretend the new development is green or something. They're a waste of space and I variably look like poo poo. would make way more space to consolidate all that land into a park elsewhere instead These are actually required by zoning/building codes though. This is why when you park at a store or someplace recently built, you can choose to dodge cars in a hazardous concrete wasteland or walk through rocky outposts of decorative thorn bushes. It's a cruel joke played on suburban shoppers by civil engineers.
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May 24, 2016 19:45
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Like any newly built public space, parking lots are actively hostile to pedestrians, despite the fact that their purpose is to convert cars to pedestrians.
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May 24, 2016 19:49
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I went to Maine for vacation. We ate lobster and went sailing. It was good.
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infernal machines posted:yeah, it's a different use case my city burned all the streetcars in the 50's in a massive bonfire. the only one remaining was used for a Spaghetti Works, but now that's been dismantled and scrapped too. ed. found a pic of it. 
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minivanmegafun posted:grid system superiority. there's no reason to favor my street over the surrounding ones indeed. my street is choked with parked cars on either side, speedbumps, off-center intersections, and stop signs, making it infuriating driving through it, but pleasant and safe to cycle.
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Satellit3 posted:that sounds p unpleasant in general actually it sucks to drive through, which is the point
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