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[teriyakiburns]

>man fuck all these cars parking on the streets, pay for your own parking chuds!
>no you aren't allowed to have a driveway on your own property, park on the street! reeeeeee!

First of all, the guy is lying. There's off-road parking behind the house.

Front for proof.





It's a little cramped, but it's there. Hardly ideal, but arrangements could be made.

Second, and much as it pains me to seem like I'm agreeing with these people, this is an argument I've had here before: the local council own the sidewalk and they own the bus stop. And the bin. They control the right of access across it. He didn't gain a right of way across it (he probably couldn't have - the bus stop prevents it), which is something that even your own country requires for installing a driveway on a publicly owned road - that is, a road that isn't an easement across your own property. If he had owned the land under the road, he would have every right to dig it all up and install his driveway, but he doesn't. The council does. Basic property rights apply.

 

[Lobster Cult High Priest]

Sounds well and good, but the proposed road is a tunnel and not an above-ground highway. That could genuinely cause some trouble, but this does feel a bit like those “sacred land” claims Indians use to disrupt businesses they want to screw with.

It's the same vein as the Kosher certification scam where once a year you pay a Rabbi $5,000 to bless your meat packing plant staffed with Beaners and Jungle Asians (Hmong).

 

[Buttigieg2020]

It's the same vein as the Kosher certification scam where once a year you pay a Rabbi $5,000 to bless your meat packing plant staffed with Beaners and Jungle Asians (Hmong).

You can also get a halal certification by paying an Imam and showing him your $5000 dollar kosher certificate, as I found out recently.

I used to live in a “walkable community” and cyclists would literally plow through crowds of people. Total Cyclist Death.

 

[quaawaa]

Turns out taking transit anywhere but downtown sucks:


OP is a fat troon who lives in the DC area (most likely somewhere in DC's northern Maryland suburbs judging by his commute and him mentioning that a new light rail line opening in 2027 would shorten his commute).

Spoiler: Details

See how without the purple line, he'd is forced to go through downtown despite traveling from one northern suburb to another.

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The Gym of Life! (riding a motorcycle and pretending it's exercise):

A two hour commute isn't bad because he has no life:

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[Markass the Worst]

Very unrelated but I genuinely wonder how tranny-loving urbanists would react to this video.

 

[MS Paint Gigachad]

Very unrelated but I genuinely wonder how tranny-loving urbanists would react to this video.

VEry unrealted to your original point but this is literally how ebikes work.

EDIT, come to think of it an ebike is the unholy fusion of the horsepower of a real motorbike with the lack of licenses and helmets of a bike.

 

[WelperHelper99]

According to Euro NCAP, the Ford Ranger pickup is safer for pedestrians than many hatchbacks like the Renault Zoe:
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Ford Ranger Report
Renault Zoe Report

The truck is also significantly safer for the occupants as well.

Hmmm...sounds like urbanists memes like this:
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are completely made up.

What the urbanists fail to get is that bigger vehicles = bigger room for safety systems, both for passengers and pedestrians. They're so high on their car hate that they simply can't connect the dots

Turns out taking transit anywhere but downtown sucks:
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OP is a fat troon who lives in the DC area (most likely somewhere in DC's northern Maryland suburbs judging by his commute and him mentioning that a new light rail line opening in 2027 would shorten his commute).

Spoiler: Details

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See how without the purple line, he'd is forced to go through downtown despite traveling from one northern suburb to another.
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The Gym of Life! (riding a motorcycle and pretending it's exercise):
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A two hour commute isn't bad because he has no life:
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This is why like me, you must own at least a beater. My new-to-me 2003 Chevy Malibu is nothing to write home about, but it'll get me to work and back in 10 minutes, where walking takes a hour. Hell, it's fun to work on, which is what none of these transit trannies take into consideration. Nothing more peaceful than changing your own oil. Makes you feel reliable, confident, manly even. Also airing up your own tires. You can get a cheap compressor for 50 bucks, a cheap gauge around a dollar, no reason not to have one.

 

[Chuck McGill]

First of all, the guy is lying. There's off-road parking behind the house.

Front for proof.

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It's a little cramped, but it's there. Hardly ideal, but arrangements could be made.

Second, and much as it pains me to seem like I'm agreeing with these people, this is an argument I've had here before: the local council own the sidewalk and they own the bus stop. And the bin. They control the right of access across it. He didn't gain a right of way across it (he probably couldn't have - the bus stop prevents it), which is something that even your own country requires for installing a driveway on a publicly owned road - that is, a road that isn't an easement across your own property. If he had owned the land under the road, he would have every right to dig it all up and install his driveway, but he doesn't. The council does. Basic property rights apply.

Yeah, I can see that now that I'm looking at it a bit closer. I'll concede the point. I just find it amusing how obvious the catch-22 fuckcars is trying to put them in once you consider these people absolutely want that street parking gone and replaced with bike lanes, bollards, collective urban farms, or really anything that will irritate me as a car driver.

And now that I'm looking at it a bit closer, I'm beginning to wonder if this even went down the way they say it did. As you've pointed out, they're misrepresenting things with the way that photo is angled, and there conspicuously isn't an article backing up what the OP is saying, meaning there's really nothing to back up their version of events. It seems to me like if the property owner really was trying to pave his driveway without seeking out the permission of whichever relevant authority, he'd hit a dead end since he'd need to have a dropped curb put in, and I can't believe they would allow that part to be modified without permission.

 

[quaawaa]

Urbanist Civil War!

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The author:


This article was too much even for Jason:

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[Markass the Worst]

How do I know this is bullshit? Because ST and NJB appear in the same Kiwifarms OP.

Seriously though this is retarded, which also makes it even more hilarious.

 

[General Emílio Médici]

It's happening

Retard Fight

 

[Wash away the rain]

I hope this escalates to a hot civil war atleast then they would be helping the planet by not taking up space.

 

[pellegrino31415]

VEry unrealted to your original point but this is literally how ebikes work.

EDIT, come to think of it an ebike is the unholy fusion of the horsepower of a real motorbike with the lack of licenses and helmets of a bike.

You say unholy, I say the one true faith. Now i would still wear a helmet on one but at least I can fuck around without a license.

 

[talk talk talk]

This is the sort of Gish-gallop hit piece fake Britbong union-busting faggot Nathan J Robinson really loves.

 

[teriyakiburns]

This article was too much even for Jason:

I get the feeling strong towns is shortly going to be formerly Chuck's.

(Now sneed is strong towns' best friend!)

 

[I'mma real anime gurl]

The Nigger killing that Cyclist live on video may've killed the Urbanist cause.

 

[Curzon Dax-sama]

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"I'd rather spend 3 hours a day around obnoxious niggers than one hour in a car"
This is totally reasonable and absolutely not fucking insane.

 

[Norbert the Tiger]

A friendly reminder, Mass Debates exists for a reason.

I looked for a fair amount of time, is there a mass debates thread to discuss these issues (aside from the cyclist one). I looked and did not see.

I have not read this thread in its entirety and have to say there is a fair amount I agree with some of these creators. I don't like suburban sprawl, or stroads, and I think the lack of urban planning in North America is appalling.

That stated, so many of these creators stare right in the face of certain difficult truths, such as issues with certain demographics being racially committed to crime, and just do not seem to get it.

One video that demonstrates this is by CityNerd. There is much I agree with him about in principle, but his smug manner, overt femininity makes him insufferable. I recently watched this video. I have not double checked each zip code, but many are places you probably do not want to live because of that black racial commitment to crime bit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrl0PagJe18

Towards the end he recommends Cheyenne, Wyoming, with a blatantly partisan quip about his the politics of his viewers by and large and flipping two Republican Senate seats.

 

[Ghostse]

Anyone who unironically uses "Carbrained" or "stroad" is self-identifying as a complete fucking tool and a moron. Only mock, never bother debating.

Daily reminder that "Stroad" is a made up word by a CIVIL engineer with zero experience in traffic engineering because he's butt-hurt he can't strut around in his stupid-sexy-flanders lyrca shorts every place he wants.
He uses a bullshit head-cannon definition of "Street" and "Road"; the only real difference is that "Street" is urban and "road" is rural. Urban streets tended to be narrower, be lined with shops, and be more meandering because they were in cities with lots of population density, and used to transit intra-city destination. Roads only tended to have Inns/Taverns on them because thye were Rural and mainly used to travel between long distance destinations.
Strong Towns faggot should be using the correct term "Urban Arterials" but firstly he's a faggot civil engineer and second that doesn't give his soyboy fans a cool term to own the chuds with.

This isn't to say that he doesn't make some good points or disagree the average Urban Arterial is complete shit. But turning every place into a bughive is not the solution. But as a civil engineer "cram them in and stack them high" is all he understands.

Parking mandates require developers to include a minimum number of parking spaces (whether they’re needed or not) in their projects, which ties up developable land and turns large swaths of cities into mostly empty parking lots.

It always astounds me when these people turn into simps for developers.
UNDERGROUND PARKING IS A THING.
Parking structures are a thing.
Developers hate them because they cost money.

Do you think the developer is going to charge less because they could build a second structure now that useful idiots have allowed them to cram them right next to each other?

The Brownstoners fought against top-down, Robert Moses-style projects and celebrated “traditional” development by slowly rehabbing old housing stock. But as Suleiman Osman documents in The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn, they were frequently at odds with the borough’s poor, “who often sought more modernist public housing and development projects built for them.”

Literally and unironically shilling for the Projects. Do lefties ever actually listen to the shit that falls out of their own mouths?