That analogy only works if the parking spaces are 50' x 50' or if you have 2 tiny drawers.Parking lots are bad when they're empty and bad when they're full:
To be fair, those people are already brain damaged.
I've been waiting for their sub to gain public notoriety for a while, similar to antiwork on Fox News. It would be an interesting sight to see them publicly explain their ideas to other people outside of their group.
if it's locked up they'll just smash up your bike and/or set it on fire, and the insurance firm will still punish you for owning something worth stealing
Who hurt you and your bicycle friend?
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I hate to say this, but that could also be said of a car as well, where someone could vandalize or destroy it. Maybe I'm confused if you're talking about a bike as in motorcycle or bicycle, but I don't think people usually take out insurance on bicycles (unless you're one of the fuckcars people spending $2000 on them) or bicycle helmets.
If there was a semper fi for reddit that lost_in_life_34 guy deserves one for calling them out. I found it funny that the urbanist immediately jumped to the "it's in the video look it up on this subreddit" response and the other guy said he's aware of that video and it's wrong. These urbanists really don't know how to cite something that's not just a video created by a grifter.Which one of you is this:
I’m sure there are lawyers in the NJB / Strong Towns audiences that are willing and crazy enough to do such a lawsuit
Cigarette companies actually lied to the public about the dangers of cigarettes. This is by far the least egregious commercial with some even saying that doctors found no health issues with Chesterfield / Fatima smokers:
Red light cameras are a huge missed opportunity for urbanists to score favor by advocating against them. They could easily make the "incompetent/malicious traffic engineers are literally murdering people" argument here they do elsewhere, but they don't. They don't even have to do any of the work themselves, they can just link to redlightrobber.com and Road Guy Rob videos.
They also seem to believe that turning right on a red should be illegal even if you stop first because carbrains can't see the crossing pedestrians, so to them the biggest drawback of a red light camera (that it fines people who turn on yellow as if they had run straight through on a red) is a feature, not a bug.
Based Volkswagon Jetta TDI driver.
A bicycle is a lot more vulnerable to a lot of things. Even rails, which is "good" urbanism, can be catastrophic to a bicycle if it doesn't hit it a perpendicular angle.
Warning signs exist but you know most cyclists are too stupid or arrogant to use them.
This is another example of "it's not about being pro-pedestrian, it's about punishing drivers". And you know why they can't--bringing up Road Guy Rob would be an L because RGR isn't an anti-car urbanist, and they don't want anyone getting ideas. (Not to mention the economic costs of money leaving the community...but economic costs are only worthwhile if they can support their own ideas).
Textbook example of cherry-picking right here.
Don't worry, people like Jason Slaughter will still bitch and moan when street parking spaces are removed but replaced with underground parking spaces.
I'm starting to think that it's because there aren't any "good" examples. I don't know of a single place on Earth that has reasonable (first world) standards of living, is clean, populated with lots of people, has thriving businesses, etc. that is also devoid of private vehicles. (There are places like Mackinac Island but they don't have much population, Mackinac has less than 600 people, also see this post.)
Exactly, the Hooters in Ginza is much nicer and only 27 minutes away by train.
