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[quaawaa]

Some more lunacy:






A Dutch person comments that this is stupid and illegal:


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[reptile baht spaniard rid]

Maybe they're hoping to corner the technical market.

The USA is unironically trying to consider fielding EVs for war purposes. It is to laugh.

Agreed on the tourist lines; but that’s the key - do the tourists use the normal lines or is it some stupid train from airport fifty billion miles from the city kinda thing.

Another sad thing with ass transit is for it to be “working” it has to be crowded.

the dream given:



The reality:



The very mass transits they love are the ones that aren’t being used! All the shit they say you can do while riding you can’t because you have to stand! New trolley cars are designed with fewer seats and more standing area, Auschwitzs style.

As to above the laws of physics are different in Netherlands ebcause it is heaven; and everyone there has a glorified body and can walk through walls. Aquinas talked about it.

 

[DeadwastePrime]

The reality:

the article in question

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

the article in question

Yep, illustrative and trying to find a nice picture of the new yawk subway felt like a fools errand

The whales bagina trolley goes directly through niggertown and has had at least three major successful expansions; each one was strongly opposed by your basic bitch liberal and was finally pushed through by promising balls of police

 

[WelperHelper99]

Some more lunacy:
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A Dutch person comments that this is stupid and illegal:
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Wait did he cut holes in the door for this stunt?

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

Wait did he cut holes in the door for this stunt?

Looks like redneck venting- used in a bathroom or similar to let air flow through when you don’t have proper ventilation.

(As an aside as an autistic I am required to love trains, and I love mass transit, as it is just a subsidy for carbrains if you think about it properly)

 

[WelperHelper99]

Looks like redneck venting- used in a bathroom or similar to let air flow through when you don’t have proper ventilation.

(As an aside as an autistic I am required to love trains, and I love mass transit, as it is just a subsidy for carbrains if you think about it properly)

Could be... but it also could be to take this photo, because a door would act as one hell of a air brake at bike speed, possibly throwing the rider from the bike. This seems staged.

 

[jje100010001]

I have been thinking about notjustbikes comment on how America is a "lost cause" in regards to infrastructure, and he's wrong on every level. He of all people should know about the reversals other countries have done to their city structures and it's a fact that America could easily become walk-based just by changing rules in regards to suburbs, just allowing people to run businesses outside their homes and allowing different types of buildings to be set up around suburbs.

What I'm trying to explain is that the reason he thinks this is because he thinks his political opponents, the SUV drivers he hates so much deserve their unhappy fate and it should stay like that for them. His whole channel isn't trying to change anything, it's just him showing off efficient liberal governance and disparaging drivers for not considering the humanity of others while doing the same himself.

I innocently once wrote a message on one of his YouTube videos asking for a video on some case study examples and strategies on ways to convert ‘stroads’ to his much-vaunted Dutch roads, and he told me that Strong Towns had already done it and so it was useless, and refused in a way that implied that I was insulting him and wasting his time by asking.

So yes, he’s on his high horse, and his channels are ultimately about sneering at stupid unenlightened Americans rather than effecting positive change.

Personally, I much prefer an over-enthusiastic transitboo like RMTransit over urbanist complaint personas like Alan Fisher, CityNerd, and Not Just Bikes.

Here we go again...

Let's pick two random points in the middle of fucking Amsterdam
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16 minutes by car, 35min by transit, 30min by cycle, 1 hour 44 minutes by foot.

But Amsterdam is probably designed around cars anyway. Let's try Tokyo.
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It's 9am in Tokyo, hence the traffic conditions. And yet, driving a car is faster than any other option.

Fine, let's try Manhattan.
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Whoa - taking the subway is only 5 minutes slower in this one. That's pretty good, but the car still wins. How do they keep doing this?

Fundamentally, the thing that soaks up the most amount of time during a car trip to an urban centre can be parking, which is inevitable unless you take a car share or taxi ($$$).

It’s not dissimilar to how short plane trips are sometimes more inconvenient than equivalent train trips, due to the need to travel to the airport (which can be outside the city in some cases), go through security, and then repeat the same thing at the end of a trip.

That being said, in equivalent transit cases, it would be the bus ride from a subway station, or a walk home.

 

[quaawaa]

A fan of Jason asks him for a video about crime and public transit:

Jason’s response:

Apparently, crime is due to systemic issues unique to the United States.

For someone who doesn’t care about America, he certainly spends a lot of time hating on it. You can’t blame his fans for thinking he’s passionate about American urban design.

He won’t be making a video about why his fans can’t find love:

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[talk talk talk]

The problem is niggers.

The first people to tell you the problem is niggers are black folks. They know niggers when they seem them. Chris Rock was right.

 

[SwanSwanson]

First one is Katy Freeway in Houston, but a wide angle shot that distorts scale (you're looking at 5 miles of roadway). Not sure of the second one.

They're both in houston lol. There are pockets of walkability in American cities, specifically downtown which people adore.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

They're both in houston lol. There are pockets of walkability in American cities, specifically downtown which people adore.

I looked up the bottom picture. It sure as fuck isn't downtown Houston.

It's actually an outdoor mall addition to First Colony Mall, a very suburban mall (surrounding by surface lots) in a very suburban area. (While I can't find the exact perspective, you can see The Blue Fish, the restaurant in the background here, as well as the rust-colored canopies). This was already pointed out by someone else yet for some reason you doubled down on it as an example of "walkable cities".

Despite this amazing show of retardation, you have given an excellent example of what bugmen think they want. Given how many people on /r/fuckcars unironically cite Disney theme parks as an example to their vision (or to a lesser extent, touristy but impractical areas like the Venice islands), they really don't want "walkable cities", they want to live in a shopping mall. Walkable, sterilized, convenient...hell, if you count something like The Domain in Austin, it includes grocery stores, apartments, and Amazon AWS offices, a perfect package for your bugmen needs.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

Despite this amazing show of retardation, you have given an excellent example of what bugmen think they want. Given how many people on /r/fuckcars unironically cite Disney theme parks as an example to their vision (or to a lesser extent, touristy but impractical areas like the Venice islands), they really don't want "walkable cities", they want to live in a shopping mall. Walkable, sterilized, convenient...hell, if you count something like The Domain in Austin, it includes grocery stores, apartments, and Amazon AWS offices, a perfect package for your bugmen needs.

which is hilarious, because I know of five or six areas just around here where you can do exactly that, literally live in a shopping mall via attached or almost-attached apartments

of course, all five are in "suburbs" ahahaha

the other thing you note is that teh bugmen DON'T actually live in Venice, or disneyland (the second being technically impossible unless you have zee skills) - and if you talk to those who DO live in Venice, they often kinda hate it, precisely because it IS living in a damn theme park being gawked at by tourists 24 hours a day.

I innocently once wrote a message on one of his YouTube videos asking for a video on some case study examples and strategies on ways to convert ‘stroads’ to his much-vaunted Dutch roads, and he told me that Strong Towns had already done it and so it was useless, and refused in a way that implied that I was insulting him and wasting his time by asking.

this "deferral to strong towns" is probably the biggest example of it being a cult; dailyrake did some digging and strong towns doesn't have much evidence or solutions for anything, and yet they ALL just refer you to it. It's the "did you read the bitcoin whitepaper" of the urban cultists.

notjustbikes knows, HE KNOWS, and the reason he doesn't want to push it is those "racist suburbanites" are literally his mealticket because he makes money from these videos which are watched by fat lazy liberals in the very suburbs that are voting against adding niggerimporter lines.

it's also interesting that they do some not-so-subtle slight of hand between suburbs and rural areas; things that are true of a town of 500 that is 120+ miles from any major city tell you NOTHING about a suburb of said major city.

 

[quaawaa]

it's also interesting that they do some not-so-subtle slight of hand between suburbs and rural areas; things that are true of a town of 500 that is 120+ miles from any major city tell you NOTHING about a suburb of said major city.

I’ve lost count of the number of urbanists who sincerely believe that suburbanites have to drive 30 minutes to the nearest store.

 

[singlele]

live the full Cottagecore tradcath life, but can't because they associate non-urban life with bigotry and backwardness that goes against their sensibilities

On one hand I would personally prefer to live in a major city due to the convenience but on the other hand I just wanna buy a cabin innawoods and just chill there forever, maybe if I can work remotely. I was looking at cabins/cottages in New England and found a really cute one for $120k but it's been bought. Oh well, maybe when I retire in 40 years. These cottagecore people really think the pastoral lifestyle is like Stardew Valley or Animal Crossing.

Really telling on myself here but I understand the appeal of cottagecore - women in more traditional, modest clothing, an appreciation for nature and the environment, and pastoral living. But of course it's about anti-colonialism, LGBT (especially T) stuff, and anti-capitalism. It's totally antithetical to the traditional, natural, and bucolic parts of the aesthetic that they're so worried "the far right" finds appealing about it. Pardon my micro-spergout about a women's internet trend.

over-enthusiastic transitboo like RMTransit

I honestly liked RMTransit's content for a while. I particularly like his "explainer" videos, where he discusses a particular city's transit system at length. His videos talking about transit problems and existing solutions or remedies to them are also pretty interesting. He's the kind of harmless autist who's into transit that I can respect, but recently it feels like he's starting to lean into this crowd, which sucks since he's one of the few tolerable transit YouTubers. Would hate to see him become another Alan Fisher or NJB.

 

[Lobster Cult High Priest]

“How good ass transit is” is usually based on ridershit numbers, which basically works out to “how many poor ass niggers gotta use it to commit crime” - except for a very few places like honk konk.

FIFY

 

[Lord Quackers]

A fan of Jason asks him for a video about crime and public transit:
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Jason’s response:
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Apparently, crime is due to systemic issues unique to the United States.
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For someone who doesn’t care about America, he certainly spends a lot of time hating on it. You can’t blame his fans for thinking he’s passionate about American urban design.
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He won’t be making a video about why his fans can’t find love:
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He mentions the channel Knowing Better which is awful. He uses incorrect figures and statistics to make things fit his narrative. He did a video on Great Britain where almost everything in it was wrong; so as a source of info he is useless

 

[WelperHelper99]

The problem is niggers.

The first people to tell you the problem is niggers are black folks. They know niggers when they seem them. Chris Rock was right.

There is a difference between a black man and a Nigger. You choose to be a nog by being a general pain in the ass to EVERYONE around you. Speaking from personal experience, the blacks I know are pretty nerdy and intelligent, good people, but then again, they don't live in the bug hives.

I’ve lost count of the number of urbanists who sincerely believe that suburbanites have to drive 30 minutes to the nearest store.

Walmart is literally 5 minutes from my house in a car. 5 minutes.

one hand I would personally prefer to live in a major city due to the convenience but on the other hand I just wanna buy a cabin innawoods and just chill there forever, maybe if I can work remotely. I was looking at cabins/cottages in New England and found a really cute one for $120k but it's been bought. Oh well, maybe when I retire in 40 years. These cottagecore people really think the pastoral lifestyle is like Stardew Valley or Animal Crossing.

The feeling is mutual. Either convinence or peace, you can only have one. But it would be nice to have a big chunk of land, shoot cans on the property, get starlink or something like it so you still have high speed internet in the woods, and just sit on the porch setting off fireworks whenever you want.

 

[teriyakiburns]

He did a video on Great Britain where almost everything in it was wrong

He did? This I have to see.

 

[Lord Quackers]

He did? This I have to see.

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