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Jestery posted:This morning in my local city
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indigi posted:you had to take a nap during a ten hour drive?
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an actual frog posted:to whoever originally linked this channel, thank you Edit: Also why do they even keep it open when it's deep enough that there are tons of people literally standing around waiting to see cars fail to make it through for entertainment?! I like this video because you can see all the people standing around and there are kids cheering, lmao: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFRVVAYDB2Q&t=132s mystes has issued a correction as of 22:46 on Jan 27, 2022 |
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Jan 27, 2022 22:36
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Fitzy Fitz posted:My dream is that USDOT or NHTSA or whoever sets some standard that in practice requires every personal vehicle to look like the new USPS trucks
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Boywhiz88 posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/AndySlater/status/1487158883114172419 This is just an entirely different level of WTF
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Jan 29, 2022 16:25
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Cup Runneth Over posted:Just buy a Kryptonite lock, it's basically bike insurance. They cover up to $5k with the New York locks.
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Polo-Rican posted:I swear he posted this word-for-word a month ago
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Feb 1, 2022 14:26
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Cat Puke posted:The former police chief in the video calls the shooter's brake check "a de-escalation of what's to come." What do police think the word de-escalation means?
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Feb 2, 2022 03:50
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Ham Equity posted:I feel like maybe a public policy of "if someone throws a water bottle at you, please feel free to fire off 11 bullets on a freeway in the name of self-defense" creates some perverse incentives.
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Cugel the Clever posted:Driver strikes elderly woman in crosswalk, killing her. The video shows the driver is unambiguously in the wrong, but, as is often the case for automotive violence, they were allowed to just drive away and have yet to be charged. Edit: Also it looks like the pedestrian didn't have a helmet or a bell so it's clearly her fault mystes has issued a correction as of 18:51 on Feb 2, 2022 |
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Magic Hate Ball posted:someone posted a video of themselves cycling to the grocery store in germany in the fuckcars subreddit and it immediately drew out all the most carbrained defenses of living in a lovely suburban sprawl. i particularly like all the people who are like "who goes to the store every day" or "what if i need to buy three couches and a dozen watermelons" People can't even understand that it would be nicer to be able to walk across the street to pick up one or two items whenever they need them rather than having to drive 30 minutes each way to the supermarket. We can't make things better for walking/biking because everyone drives, so driving is the only serious mode of transportation, because we've made everything suck for walking/biking.
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BraveUlysses posted:imo nothing will change until the fossil fuel economy fully collapses, preferably in a very sudden way
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Lastgirl posted:thinking that roman history was full of horse traffic jams and new yorker accented romans screaming that they're walking over here. Edit: actually just do curb your enthusiasm but in ancient rome
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Cat Puke posted:The impacts of oil are going to destroy us long before we get a chance to extract the last of it.
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I just want to say gently caress cars, thank you
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Mayor Dave posted:I want to ride a bike on the 405 Sucks that that was like the only time in my life I'll ever get to experience not being in a completely hostile car-filled environment in the US (thanks Obama!). Dolphin posted:it wouldn't be very difficult to bring back street cars, the tracks are still there in like, 90% of us cities mystes has issued a correction as of 16:58 on Feb 3, 2022 |
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Of course street cars have the problem that ~there's too much traffic~ and of course you aren't allowed to take lanes away from cars to give streetcars priority or make lights turn green for them, that's just not allowed, sorry
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Dolphin posted:pictured: a tragedy
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Cup Runneth Over posted:can you really call it illegal when it went on in broad daylight and no one was ever punished? mystes has issued a correction as of 18:27 on Feb 3, 2022 |
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Boywhiz88 posted:https://twitter.com/fka2much336/status/1488225351532748811?s=20&t=NUIZLAwizJMfd1TlMNEN0g PeterCat posted:I have a knee jerk reaction to the "Not Just Bikes" guy mainly because his solution to transit is to move to the Netherlands. Which, ok, nice if you can do it but that's not a solution to anything. That and while I like bicycles, "evangelical" is how I would describe a lot of their advocates. It's "The Way" rather than a way. In the US, people will have to fight for years years trying to get a single .5 mile unprotected bike lane built. Not only is he correct in realizing that the situation is hosed it's 100% impossible to get what he wants in the US in the next 20 years, while his kids will be able to benefit from being able to bike around on his own, I think he may actually doing more good in the long wrong by just coming out and showing people in US how loving bad they have it, and that they shouldn't be happy with the useless poo poo most local places in the US are doing to allegedly make things better for walking/biking.
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Sphyre posted:obviously the honda driver was insane, but the truck driver chose to escalate and put other people's lives at risk by speeding up and attempting to block the honda as it was going for the dangerous pass. the only reasonable answer is that both drivers should be taken outside and shot in the back of the head
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Feb 3, 2022 23:09
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We had fully electric streetcars everywhere a hundred and twenty loving years ago And now it's like "oh we just need to wait for the tech bros to come and save us with $100k luxury electric cars , otherwise it's impossible to have electric vehicles"
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Dolphin posted:holy poo poo tell me more about this monkey fighting Boywhiz88 posted:https://twitter.com/fka2much336/status/1488225351532748811?s=20&t=NUIZLAwizJMfd1TlMNEN0g
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If it's once a loving month you'd think they could figure some way to deal with it
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Cup Runneth Over posted:gently caress cars
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People on bikes should absolutely not do dumb things to endanger pedestrians and other cyclists but it's true that most traffic rules aren't really necessary for bikes if they're just going like 10 mph and there are no cars.
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Thank god self driving vehicles are going through arrive Any Day Now. We'd better tear up all the remaining transit systems to get ready for them so we can be ready to magically save the environment.
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bi crimes posted:is there any large city in the US that is not horrible for cycling in? I’m in Austin, and despite its supposed “cyclist” friendly bullshit, I’ve been hit downtown once and had a lot of close calls on quiet residential streets that are close to the university and downtown Unfortunately even a lot of people who regularly ride bikes in the US are so brain poisoned they will refuse to admit that. mystes has issued a correction as of 17:00 on Feb 8, 2022 |
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Solaris 2.0 posted:Paris is apparently going all in on bike/pedestrian friendly streets. That is probably more discouraging than encouraging for the US though; we fundamentally don't have the right attitude about it, so it will literally never happen even though it could be accomplished extremely quickly.
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BIG-DICK-BUTT-gently caress posted:Did you not ride your bike as a kid? Kids usually rode on the sidewalks where I grew up This probably isn't helped when people are now driving huge SUVs that have terrible lines of sight. also, sidewalks don't really connect continuously in any sane way in a lot of place I think in most of the us people just aren't going to let kids bike on their own nowadays even if they stick the the sidewalk even where it used to be common. mystes has issued a correction as of 22:27 on Feb 9, 2022 |
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Cat Puke posted:What's a pushbike? It's also crazy the degree to which kids just aren't allowed to even walk beyond their house on their own at all now in the US. mystes has issued a correction as of 22:28 on Feb 9, 2022 |
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That's what happens when bike riders are infected with car brain
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I wish I was so cool that I could be introduced as the person who invented a groundbreaking method of counting bats and then went on to use martens to destroy cars.
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Cup Runneth Over posted:https://bikeportland.org/2012/04/25/20-years-later-john-foresters-effective-cycling-to-be-re-published-70941 I guess some of the stuff he says is sort of reasonable as advice for people who are determined to ride a bike in the completely unsafe conditions in the US, but he sucks mostly because he actually wanted to keep things that way He actively fought against bike infrastructure and tried to convince local governments not to build it. Even worse, he convinced TONS of recreational cyclists in the US to fight against bike infrastructure tooth and nail themselves, to the point that being opposed to it was pretty much the consensus for decades. It's only really in the last 10 years that the damage started to be undone because cyclists realized that the situation is completely hosed in the us, possibly because thanks to the internet you can just go on YouTube and realize how much worse it is for biking than other countries Incidentally, John Forester apparently refused to ever even visit Amsterdam too even though he insisted their bike infrastructure must be bad and you would think someone who spent his whole life pontificating about such things would at least want to see how it actually worked. mystes has issued a correction as of 12:52 on Feb 11, 2022 |
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There is sort of a problem (vicious circle) in that even if Americans already felt like they WANTED to not rely on cars (which is not generally true), the way everything has been designed means that most Americans living even in places where it theoretically shouldn't actually be necessary to have cars do in fact own cars and use them for everything. This means that when you take away parking spaces, there probably are going to be people living right there who were actually using those spaces and even if there are still enough spaces, it might at least become slightly harder for them to park their cars. It's kind of hard to fix this problem when the extent of what you're doing is just taking the spaces away to built a lovely unprotected bike lane or something that the people living there are never going to use. You have to go even further to actually provide real alternatives that are going to make people be willing to get rid of their cars so you don't need as many spaces in the first place, but that's even less politically feasible, so I think we're kind of stuck. From the other perspective, maximizing the amount of free car parking like we're currently doing means that there's zero incentive for people to not own cars even if they don't really need them, which means that everyone has a car (so there isn't enough parking and it's hard to eliminate). I guess one option that will hopefully become more common is to encourage new development/redevelopment near transit with less parking so the people moving in at least won't have cars which would provide more space for things over than government subsidized car storage. It would probably be better to start charging for parking in some manner so that there is more pressure on people to not own so many loving cars if they can avoid it. mystes has issued a correction as of 17:19 on Feb 11, 2022 |
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Fitzy Fitz posted:Not sure what to make of this. It's like a gondola lift but in Macon, GA? Just build loving trains people
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Riding bikes on sidewalks at slow speeds is fine if you yield to pedestrians. It's not anywhere as dangerous as cars. It just sucks for biking that way.
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Cugel the Clever posted:On my way back from grocery shopping the other day, a completely silent Prius turned out to be behind me at every stop for a few blocks. Cars shouldn't be audible from more than 15 feet away, but it's certainly unnerving to have a two-ton chunk of metal quietly stalking you. If we're not going to ban cars outright, some kind unobtrusive audio cue seems valuable.
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Fitzy Fitz posted:Georgia outlawed cellphones while driving (unless you have a hands-free setup), but now they're trying to re-legalize phones when you're stopped at a red light.
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