You claim you don't mind people living a different lifestyle from yours. And yet:
You then completely deny that my lifestyle is even POSSIBLE. This is very simply untrue. Think about it. None of what you claim requires everyone, everywhere to commute by car. God forbid there's a logistics-oriented area somewhere near a highway that can dispatch trucks to a place where you can't commute by car. Some urban district or two where personal cars are simply not accommodated does not break society. Calm down, society still works. Just don't drive there. Drive literally anywhere else and pretend the places you can't drive to don't exist.
You do you. I never demanded you live any in any specific way. I just wanted you to not actively fuck up my way of life. Your way of life is not threatened in any way. Is that too much to ask?
I'm willing to move far and beyond if there's literally anywhere that is better. For me, it involves gathering a lot of money, moving to a new country, learning a new language and culture, finding new friends and family, finding a new job and giving up everything I have here where I've born and raised. I can't do that on a whim.
You are ignorant of my situation, my life and my wants and needs. You are offensive and dismissing my dreams and choices. I am passionate about a great urban place I wish I could call home.
Streets are built specifically to accommodate different uses. The car is only a default if it's built as such. If a street is too narrow to drive a car in, is that a deliberate act of banning cars, or just a street that's not built to accommodate cars as you can still walk it?
Concrete lane barriers are useless for safety because they disappear at intersections in order to allow people to turn. Intersections are where the majority of bike-car accidents occur as it is very rare for a car to deliberately drive into a bike (and if they want to, a small curb won't do anything to stop a car). Their real purpose is to make it expensive to remove a bike lane.
Objection! they are only the 4th worst spawn of Satan.
I believe we call those "alleys" and they exist in every city. When you put it that way, all cities are pretty hostile to cars, don't you think?
That's not a bike lane, that's just a normal lane with a marking to indicate that bikes may be riding in it.
I guess one thing about concrete lane barriers prevent water from building up in the bike lanes in rain, but that means more cars running through water and creating splash areas.
I find this insulting, and hilarious because you aren't wrong.
My brother in Christ, I say this as a carless urban dweller: lol calm down.
I don't know where you live but I can give you a car free place where learning a new language isn't an issue. Mackinac Island, located in Lake Huron, between the lower and upper peninsulas of Michigan, is completely car-free (with the exception of a few emergency and occasional maintenance vehicles). Although in winter they use snowmobiles so not completely of private motor vehicles free but pretty much as close you can get. They don't even allow electric bikes, scooters or seaways without doctors note. Summer, spring and fall the island is for basic bikes and horses.
I disagree. I actually think there’s a ton of merit to most of what they say. Trains can be super efficient and if done well comfortable and populated. I think fundamentally they’re right that walkable, transit oriented cities are the future and are the best way to do things. The issue is they’re so smug and self assured I don’t care that they’re right, I want to own a gas guzzler and drive to the wall greens a few blocks over to spite them.
Perhaps he is on a quest to purge anyone/thing that would spoil his picture-postcard aspirations
I agree. No one should have a car. Cars are useless luxuries.
I'm just gonna do the Canadian thing and strongly suggest you kill yourself.
Roundabouts are another thing European-loving Americans are absolutely obsessed with, supposedly because of safety or efficiencybut actually because it’s “road calming” and makes it more irritating to drive.
Alternatives already exist for you...
Not really. They aren't an every corner thing at all but well situated round abouts are great. They can make semi busy intersections much easier because you only have to see and pay attention to who is in the circle and unlike with lights round about allows someone always be moving. This especially useful if you have intersection where you do get regular traffic from and to all directions but not evenly. That to be said some of them need lights nearby to section the traffic so that all directions can get in easily. Round abouts are only sometimes food.
Sadly Americans don't understand them and stop at entrances when there is no traffic and then go around them at 5 miles an hour, which then cause other people to think they can jump in front of them and then when you're like me and don't slow down more than necessary almost hit them since they don't understand Yield. And of course some jurisdictions put actual stop signs at the entrances.
