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There isn't an urbanized place on Earth (save for third world free-for-alls) where cyclists don't have signs and signals.
This guy is probably a fucking plague who the locals hate.
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There isn't an urbanized place on Earth (save for third world free-for-alls) where cyclists don't have signs and signals.
This guy is probably a fucking plague who the locals hate.
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Oh I don't doubt the locals hate him. As the Japanese would classify him, a Gaijin. He just stays in the city, doesn't see how the rest of the country works, undoubtedly pisses off the shops, etc.
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Suburbs are actually the most popular form of urban development, even amongst the youth. Anti-suburb and anti-car people only exist on the internet and in government/think tanks.
Don't show Jason this, he'll have a heart attack and start screeching about auto-industry propaganda and Americans not being well-traveled enough to know what's good for them.
70% of zoomers actually like low density areas:
and more urban residents move to the suburbs than vice-versa:
I suspect the change between 18-29 and 30-49 isn't a generational difference; the latter group has kids and realizes that it sucks to raise them in a dense area. For all of Jason's talk of how great it is to raise kids in Amsterdam and how much it sucks to raise kids in American suburbs; the American suburbs have a much higher birth rate.
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If this logic was correct then we would find the best road etiquette in the area with the highest degree of car ownership.
Yet...it seems the time I spent in LA would disprove this and it seems their is better road etiquette in rural areas.
Perhaps their is something wrong with their culture and they just refuse to change.
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Absolutely. The freeways in Houston are great, but has the same jackass driver behavior as every other major city (and as far as jackass driver behavior goes, Houston isn't unusually bad). But you know the deflection to this would be "carbrains are subhuman, therefore, there is no infrastructure that would please them" or worse, "Good road infrastructure makes for worse driving" (which would also be wrong, if we look at third-world driving).
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I like how anybody who criticizes people peeing in public is branded as a carbrain. The dude said nothing about cars or trains and only expressed disapproval of antisocial behavior but apparently anybody who points out homelessness and social problems is carbrained.
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His paper's doomed before the start—if his idea that "car-dependent infrastructure" is bad, then implying that people are evil or stupid for driving cars kind of makes any change moot, right? If you're implying that most of the population is evil or stupid, then that's not going to change depending on what transportation mode the city has.
Plus, his professor, while I can imagine definitely left-wing, also probably drives a car. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that his paper will probably be never mentioned again on the subreddit, because he's either going to wise up and rewrite it (or change the subject entirely), or go humiliate himself when, among other things, he tries to list Strong Towns as his "source".
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He's a Canadian from Newfoundland currently studying abroad in Belgium:
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I wonder if he's actually tried to interact with European bureaucracy, used their health care system, or even paid income tax.
He definitely hasn't stepped a meter off campus because Leuven has Canadian style suburbs:
and they also have "stroads":
Hilariously, despite being an /r/fuckcars member, he tried to get a European driver's license:
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Guess he wasn't able to get his €14 ticket, or he got it and it wasn't fun.
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NJB and his ilk sure aren't doing much to defeat the stereotype that cyclists have a death wish and ignore all traffic laws. All I'm saying is, in an accident between a cyclist and a car, the car gets minor, repairable, probably driveable damage, and the cyclist ends up in the hospital or worse. Of course I'm sure the simplest solution, far easier than cyclists paying attention and obeying the law, is to simply ban cars. Thank you, Jason.
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I'm sure they wouldn't object to bicycle licences? They used to be common.
They would improve traceability & safety, reduce theft and make cyclists more accountable to pedestrians and other road users
They would improve traceability & safety, reduce theft and make cyclists more accountable to pedestrians and other road users
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Licenses? Safety? Accountability? Worrying about crime? FUCKING CARBRAIN! Members of the Bicycle Politburo are exempt from such things. On a more serious note, what about freight vehicles? Surely they want those banned as well, even though they're what makes their urban lifestyle possible.
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Calvin took a bus to school, and his mom would drive him if he missed it. Calvin’s dad was a patent examiner in a moderately tall office building. He may have commuted to work by bus sometimes but he definitely used the car (it was blocked by Calvin’s snowmen at least once). He rode bikes for fun on the weekends and loved the cold.
Arguably the people like Calvin’s dad are the real “carbrains” - comfortable enough in their privileged day-to-day life with their car that they dream of weekend life all the time.
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Cyclist hit by car in the Holy Land:
The accident wasn't the cyclist's fault, but I bet they wished that they wore a helmet. /r/fuckcars (and in this case Dutch cycling culture) really hurts people when they tell them that infrastructure is the only thing necessary for safety.
Bonus: Someone tried to make the tired joke about ambulances costing money in the US, only to be told by OP that they also cost money in the Netherlands:
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The accident wasn't the cyclist's fault, but I bet they wished that they wore a helmet. /r/fuckcars (and in this case Dutch cycling culture) really hurts people when they tell them that infrastructure is the only thing necessary for safety.
Bonus: Someone tried to make the tired joke about ambulances costing money in the US, only to be told by OP that they also cost money in the Netherlands:
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God damn, they really are basement dwellers. You'd have to be pants-on-head retarded to equate newer trucks with poverty. I'm convinced these fags have never traveled outside their own respective countries, let alone their own towns/cities.
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More importantly a semi-new (looks to be late 00s or early 10s Ram) truck in the Netherlands. He must be paying at least mid 4-figures on gas taxes for that thing. That is not a low income thing to own.
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Thank you for adding this completely useless information that doesn't even answer what the truck is doing in the Netherlands, as if there needs to be a reason. But criticizing white people is easy up-votes on Reddit.
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Well, that isn't sinister at all..."You're not different, you're WRONG!"A youtube channel named Internet Impact with 500k subs published this video about influencers glamorizing moving to big cities.
It was posted to r/notjustbikes and the general reaction was one of confusion and negativity.
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Including a youtuber who Jason frequently promotes going by the name of Yet Another Urbanist:
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While I had to watch the video twice to understand its point (then again I do that a lot with urbanist videos because they're brain rot), it's not that hard to understand. It's about how influencers (such as Casey Neistat) glamorize life in the big city and how along with criticisms of suburbia from the likes of Not Just Bikes and centuries-old anti-car arguments, people might be enticed to move there, only to find it's not what it's chalked up to be and they'll end up resigning themselves to thinking maybe suburbia isn't that bad then will move back there.
Note that the conclusion is treated as a bad thing by Internet Impact, it's why the title says "May Lead to Bad Urban Planning". Because people who go through this will end up thinking suburbia is better and the author is actually on the side of the urbanists here.
Of course in classic NJB fashion, Jason clearly didn't watch the video and makes some unrelated point about Americans being so sheltered they don't know Europe and Amsterdam exist (even though the video cites NJB and plays his B-Roll of riding around Amsterdam).
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(Hilarious how he says NYC/SF are overrun with cars, and says their transportation systems are chronically underfunded when NYC's is the most overfunded system in existence with massive cost overruns compared to other transit systems around the world.)
I'd make some point about how Jason can't seem to understand why people might not want to live in big cities and dense areas (Internet Impact's whole point) or why his "education" doesn't work, but that's giving him too much credit and assuming he watched the video.
Btw you'll like this @quaawaa, Jason says he isn't cherry-picking anything when he does his livestreams riding around Amsterdam:
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Besides no mention of the Randstad, I'd love to figure out what else is wrong with his statement.
Since Jason is going to only be on Mastodon for the foreseeable future, let's look at some of his toots.
Trouble may be brewing on the horizon for Jason's single user instance:
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He used to run his own email server and kept ending up on spam blacklists
The fediverse will probably end up outlawing single user instances because of spam, at that point he'll have to grovel to instance operators to specifically unblock him.
It gets even funnier when you realize this comes not even 12 hours after Jason is smug about how twitter isn't blocking links to his instance:
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More traffic engineer hate (along with his weird insistence that American cities are "designed wrong", whatever that means):
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Big words from someone who "just a guy who travels around" (or whatever his words were), but it's probably more of an extension of the "I am right, you are wrong, therefore, you deserve everything bad to you" view of things where they are justified in whatever they do because they believe they are in the right. This line of thinking is why Kiwi Farms and Josh get blackholed constantly and why we have to access KF on Tor, or why our three-lettered agencies can do some pretty despicable things domestically and overseas and not face the consequences of their actions.
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Well, he did ask. But even as an American he should know that such a thing is extremely localized. I can turn on any radio station and I won't be able to find what the daily traffic is like in Albuquerque or Oklahoma City or Tampa or Chicago because I'm not in those markets and is not useful to anyone. And they do primarily pop up on profitable drive-time radio stations, when they can still eke out money no matter what hack is running a show.
Not to be done by Americans, here's some Eurotards from /n/ yucking it up about people they only make assumptions about.