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BIG-DICK-BUTT-gently caress posted:Very interesting chart, but fatalities is kind of a crude metric. Wearing a helmet can spare you from brain damage and the ensuing disabilities. I know a couple of people who are only alive because of wearing a helmet biking. I think it's bad when people die completely preventable deaths or get preventable brain damage 
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WaryWarren posted:Yes, I haven't noticed any yard signs when I've been back to Illinois to visit family. My neighborhood in MN is littered with them and people still drive 40+ down side streets with cars parked on one or both sides of the street. Minneapolis/St. Paul/A lot of the first tier burbs also set city wide speed limits to 20 MPH except when marked higher elsewhere so everything but major roads is 20 MPH. No one follows that, but it's something I guess.
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Kicked Throat posted:but i like parking on hennepin when i go to the restaurants. lol has this guy ever actually tried to park on Hennepin? Total poo poo show. I used to live in an apartment on 26th and Emerson with a parking lot in the ALLEY, was much nicer to walk than trying to find parking around there.
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actionjackson posted:the area being referred to (uptown), is one of the few parts of the city where you could very reasonably live without a car though. just about every kind of business is right on hennepin or within a few blocks, and hennepin going north goes through downtown and then NE (which is the main "art" area). the city council meeting is actually happening right now, and whether or not to approve the 24/7 bus lanes on hennepin is on the agenda. likely to pass, but hopefully with a veto proof majority. When I lived in uptown and had a WFH job I sometimes went weeks without driving, it was great.
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actionjackson posted:the area being referred to (uptown), is one of the few parts of the city where you could very reasonably live without a car though. just about every kind of business is right on hennepin or within a few blocks, and hennepin going north goes through downtown and then NE (which is the main "art" area). the city council meeting is actually happening right now, and whether or not to approve the 24/7 bus lanes on hennepin is on the agenda. likely to pass, but hopefully with a veto proof majority. https://mobile.twitter.com/StarTribune/status/1537507217867513856 passed, not veto proof though.
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Jun 16, 2022 19:58
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Boywhiz88 posted:I moved to a suburb (Blaine) in 2010 and got a bike. My first ride, which was on a sidewalk, someone drove by and yelled gently caress You out of their pickup. The sidewalk was parallel to the street, so there was no interference. Assuming you mean Blaine, MN, I'm not surprised. Absolute poo poo hole suburb. I wouldn't bike on the streets (or apparently even next to them) in the twin cities burbs besides maybe some first ring ones.
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Jul 15, 2022 15:30
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Kicked Throat posted:a major avenue started construction to go from 4 lanes to 3 with a center turn lane(express game of chicken lane) That's one way to take care of Wedge left turners blocking traffic.
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Jul 19, 2022 22:05
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ate poo poo on live tv posted:Living in Chicago I never understand cities that DON'T have thier airports connected to their transit systems. It's just the most natural obviousl place to extend the train to. This includes DC, NYC, DFW etc. major metor area's that have either had mass transit for years, or are finally building it out, and they still can't seem to connect their airports. It's bizarre. Even the very limited light rail in Minneapolis will take you from the airport to downtown, or even to St. Paul.
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Jul 22, 2022 20:57
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The suburb where I grew up in MN just voted to reject a rapid bus line from entering the city because dangerous minorities from the big city might use it to come to the suburbs.
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actionjackson posted:which suburb? Boywhiz88 posted:I’m guessing White Bear Lake. I did my best to Google after he said that cause I was like “who was up for BRT?” So I could be wrong! that's the one! White Boy Lake as it's also known. Growing up my dad used to take the bus to downtown St. Paul for work. It picked him up a block from our house, he didn't have to deal with traffic/parking and his work subsided his bus pass. He loved it. Since then they've severely reduced the bus routes, now he'd have to drive to a park and ride at the maplewood mall to get downtown with a bus. Luckily he's retired now.
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:People attack fast food specifically as unhealthy, exploitative, etc because it's poor people food and it's easy to rally around classism and contempt for the poor. It's like discussing how horrible and destructive Walmart is, when big box retail in general destroys traditional patterns of commerce and relies on unsustainable global supply chains that weren't possible until fifty or so years ago. I don't shop at Walmart, I'm a Target shopper 
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Epic High Five posted:Just get a trailer jfc Those are for poor trashy people. I live in a shipping container
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Aug 12, 2022 20:33
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actionjackson posted:can't believe this intersection has the most bicycle crashes in minneapolis lol I've biked home drunk through that intersection so many times. RIP the hexagon and punk bowling mondays at the lanes.
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Ardennes posted:Also commuter rail in the US is usually almost unusable unless you specifically need to go to a CBD during rush hour, have a car to take to the station, and are willing to pay $6-10 dollars a ticket. I lived in Munich one summer and I walked to the subway that I took to the S-Bahn that took me to the bus that took me to work. It was great and I never once wished I had a car. I slept on the S-Bahn both ways everyday both ways and somehow never missed my stop.
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500excf type r posted:Holy poo poo I never understood bad public transportation until I spent this last weekend in Chicago. Chicago's public transport is among the best in the country lol
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Sanlav posted:Yesterday my train stopped in the bronx, about 2 miles before 125th. We sat for 40 mins while the police ran through the train to catch a 'trespasser' who fled paying a fare. He exited the train on the tracks and they couldn't find him. lol how much money did they waste chasing someone who skipped a $2.75 fare
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Sep 22, 2022 15:54
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There's no way I'd last a week on nextdoor, I prefer not knowing exactly how lovely and racist my neighbors are anyway.
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Mayor Dave posted:https://twitter.com/GernotWagner/status/1580607541838761986?s=20&t=Gem0H7wYHXU0xNwf0q3cjw Requiring a cop to help people cross the street safety is going to create jobs and increase the police state, it's a win win.
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Oct 13, 2022 20:27
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distortion park posted:as a visitor i liked it. the town center is pleasant to walk around and the transport is excellent. Munich was the city I've been most surprised by recently, so many cyclists, cargo bikes and pedestrians, in a fairly large area around the city centre. It's obviously reached the tipping point where at least a few people feel confident enough to take their kids in a bike bucket, London is still way off that. Munich also has a very good (although expensive to use as a visitor) suburban and underground rail network. Worth reading the wikipedia page and taking a look at the expansion plans and construction costs if you want to get depressed Lived in Munich for a summer and loved it. Never once had a use for a car, I could walk/bike/train wherever I needed to go.
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BonHair posted:In Copenhagen at least, we have dedicated personnel who have it as their job to check tickets in trains and buses. These people obviously have a lovely job, and it's not their fault, but it just feels so incredibly wasteful to have people running around doing something af unproductive as that. Kinda like the guys giving parking tickets, but without the benefit of loving with car owners. But we need a way to keep undesirables off the trains.
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Nov 1, 2022 21:17
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BonHair posted:They're already in their cars though? no you see we need to keep the poors off the train so that the good moneyed people will take the train instead of driving (they will never do this)
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BonHair posted:That's the part about sending a bill for repairs. Also I'd totally ride a tram with battle scars the tram is to be feared and respected
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Nov 11, 2022 16:40
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Deadly Ham Sandwich posted:Gas goes bad. I had to change my refueling from a full tank to a half tank just so I don't have to deal with old gas. put some stabilizer in it and it'll be fine for a couple of years.
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BonHair posted:My co-workers are unable to understand that I will in fact not be picking my kids up when they become teenagers, on account of them having bikes and also me not having a cult membership card. The idea that teenagers can in fact figure out how to get home to a very bike and bus friendly place, even when drunk, does not make sense to them. Sounds like they need to call CPS for your upcoming gross negligence
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I've been to Costco in multiple states. I've had a membership but also if you're on the road and on a severe budget, the Costco snack bar is a cheap source of food. All Costco parking lots are nightmares. No matter where you are. They're all insane. Even in Canada. It's an endless mystery to me. Haven't tried it during holiday season yet, but business costco is way less crazy than a regular one.
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Nov 23, 2022 18:05
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BonHair posted:Our friends the bollards have a new partner: the bus ditch. Basically you need to be bus width or two wheels to pass. It went up shortly before Christmas and has claimed 20 cars already. 
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:A Bethel Park man is being charged for allegedly driving to the Bethel Park police station while intoxicated to confront officers about a previous interaction. Hmm I don't agree with his car driving policy, but I do approve of his fighting cops policy.
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https://twitter.com/ErikSolheim/status/1632546284883116036 meanwhile China has a train that builds railroads as it runs.
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lil poopendorfer posted:What about this post cops aren't people so it's ok
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Jokerpilled Drudge posted:starting to think car
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Mar 29, 2023 20:43
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Maybe it was a bad idea to make many of the main ways people socialize involve drinking alcohol while making driving a car the only way to get from place to place. Unless one of these things changes, drunk driving isn't going away.
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Polo-Rican posted:there's no sight sadder than a guy eating a sandwich in his car yeah that guy should be going into a crowded applebees to catch covid with everyone else!
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Polo-Rican posted:i can actually feel the bread crumbs and lettuce smears on the smartphone glass in this reply I'll have you know I eat microwave bullshit from costco or leftovers for my sad car lunches. It'll be nice enough outside soon so I can eat in the park instead 
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NeatHeteroDude posted:the safety of subways etc. vary widely but in my/my wife's experience like 7/10 rides are fine and the remaining ones are either a little stressful or unsafe. the big thing is that you don't know when the ride will be safe or stressful, it feels like you have to be alert all the time. for us all it really took was one bad trip to make every subsequent trip very stressful, and i was pretty happy when we could finally afford cars to drive I used to sleep on the train on my way to/from work everyday it ruled. Granted I was a white dude living in Munich so other people/locals may be a very different experience.
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Civilized Fishbot posted:Frankly the best thing we could do for public transit in this city would be to build a bunch of good public shelters so the public transit infrastructure doesn't have to serve both functions. absolutely, public transit being dangerous is a symptom of much bigger issues. One of the local news stations here in Minneapolis did a scare story about how dangerous it is to ride the light rail, they showed some people using drugs in order to drum up support to fill the trains and stations with cops. https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/wcco-cameras-capture-rampant-drug-use-on-metro-transit-light-rail-trains/
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The actual biggest problem with the light rail in Minneapolis is it only goes from the mall of America to downtown and from downtown to St. Paul. Unless you need to travel between those points it's not very useful.
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I went for a bike ride for the first time this year, I rode over to a lake and then around the lake then back home and it was very nice. 
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BonHair posted:One might hope that the lack of funding for public infrastructure, even roads, and the huge cars might cause the road system to deteriorate so far that it no longer supports cars. the solution will be bigger trucks that can handle the deteriorated roads
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webcams for christ posted:I had devolved to wearing exclusively athleisure in like 2018, but my current shop steward wants me run to take over this spring, so I've been trying to dress like someone who sits down with management for negotiations on behalf of colleagues with 30 years of seniority over me. and then the tricky part is making sure it's also suitable for bike commutes. Tracksuit. Great for exercise and implying you have mob ties during negotiations.
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lobster shirt posted:theres a lot to hate about houston in general but i do like that all of our sports stadiums are centrally located and accessible by public transit. you can ride the light rail or the bus to go see any of our teams, it's very easy. hell the light rail can drop you off directly at the soccer and football parks. Same in Minneapolis/St. Paul. The light rail doesn't go very many places, but at least you can take it to sporting events/the airport. I used to go to Twins games and have a couple of beers at a bar after the game so the light rail wouldn't be as busy, was nice.
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