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[BulkForceFive]

/r/fuckcars user thinks that giving American teens free European vacations will make them hate cars

I support this because it will result in smug Euros getting blown out in online arguments. I see lots of Norte Americanos knuckle under to obvious bullshit because they've never seen European cities outside of travel shows.

 

[Arboghast]

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Holy fuck hahahahaha

Man oh man does that guy look like the biggest faggot on earth

 

[Lobster Cult High Priest]

His wife’s daughters don’t look too impressed.


It just made me realize that European cities smell like piss out of necessity. There are barely any public restrooms.

One of the great joys in life is being able to piss outside (if you live in the countryside)
L

 

[Hamstirer]

West Virigina doesn't deserve this:
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Haha so they are going to go to the hilliest hillbilly place they can find, to build their faggot loving bicycle city..... They would end up dead in a river by the locals after the first trans flag went up.

 

[Apple Porcupine]

They're proud of being useless cucks that contribute nothing to society and look back at their former selves with disgust.

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[Xarpho's Return]

They're proud of being useless cucks that contribute nothing to society and look back at their former selves with disgust.

Kind of reminds me of when trannies post old pictures of themselves when they were clearly male and a healthy weight.

Examples:

 

[TowinKarz]

Walmart is selling some of those silly things and they’re like $8k which sounds nice until you realize you can get a real truck for 2 to 3 times that toy.

That's more than a decent used car as-is.

Not to mention the raised sidewalks turn streets into shallow canals that help control the the flow of rainwater to drainage areas to prevent flooding.


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Or, as they were intended as first designed? Channel all the manure and shit and carcasses and general trash to flow AWAY from your front door and into the river. The point of the sidewalk (and building stoop) was to be a raised boardwalk so you wouldn't have to step IN the street for the pure nastiness of what was in there.

in some countries, e.g. Bongland, it's also legitimately illegal - red lights apply to all road users, not just motorists, though the coppers are never around to enforce this when you need them
to be fair, cyclists where I've lived (South and West Yorkshire) are more mindful of this, and generally more road-wise, than those in London and the south

Anything allowed ON the public road in the US must obey all rules and signages OF said road.

This includes bikes, horses, animal-drawn carts, ATVs, scooters, everything.... nobody using the street is exempted from stop signs, stop lights, restricted turns, etc.

An Amishman who runs a red light in his buggy can (and sometimes is) ticketed for it.

Though the chances of it happening are inversely proportional to how big an asshole you're being about it all.

Railroads used to deliver to surprisingly small customers, and also had their own trucking departments for handling less than carload (LCL) freight. They don't anymore because they hate switching maneuvers (takes time and requires them to pay employees). Can't powerlevel but you'd be amazed at how hard it is for even multimillion-dollar businesses to deal with railroads now.

90% of the freight cars in a train used to be boxcars. Today, less than 10% are. They really don't want to "waste" time and energy on having to use a full size car for an LCL load that has to make 3 or 4 moves before it reaches the destination. If it's not a unit train (all the same cargo going to the same place, like 50 cars of coal direct from mine to powerplant? Or 50 cars of containers direct from port to inland distribution? Or 50 tanks of ethanol direct from field to refinery?) modern railroads don't want to be assed about it because the half-loaded boxcar going to some end-of-the-line tool and die shop will earn them 40 cents as opposed to the $400 per loaded double-stack at the port. However, this situation has existed/been coming since the 60's when trucks became big enough and fast enough and the interstates mature enough that local, regional and LCL freight became a trucking biz, not an RR one. Look at pics or the old street maps of a major eastern city like Baltimore or Philly sometime, until just after WWII, there were tracks in the streets right up to the downtowns in lots of them because that was how your shops and warehouses took deliveries. By train.

Count up EVERY FedEX, UPS and Amazon truck you see on the freeway next time you're out there. 40 years ago? That would've all been train traffic.

They're bitching about cameras because it takes away their visibility argument. If you had a sensor that warns you when there's a child in front of the car it basically make this image fucking useless because it becomes a non issue.

It's already a non-issue because there is no way in the real world you will ever encounter 10 kids sitting in a line in the road with no warning and a perfectly rational/innocent excuse as to why. All these "but muh visibility!" arguments are absurd at their core because short of a spontaneous teleportation? There's no way a kid, or a whole field-trip's worth, can suddenly appear like that in the frontal blind spot of a truck with no warning to an alert and proper driver to avoid them. It's like arguing a cruise ship is unsafe because it doesn't have seatbelts in case of a sudden collision with land.....

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

They're proud of being useless cucks that contribute nothing to society and look back at their former selves with disgust.

What did you used to do?

Help make food to feed the world.

What do you do now?

Be a boring urbanist cuck fed by the work of others.

 

[Yamamura]

They're proud of being useless cucks that contribute nothing to society and look back at their former selves with disgust.

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This somehow annoys me even more. His opinion changed because his wife changed jobs. He's someone who understands why you need certain tools to do certain jobs and willfully denies it now because his own life circumstance changed, but not like it did for everyone else.

It's like saying "I used to need a gun to defend myself while living in the ghetto, but now that I moved out of the ghetto so I don't need one and don't think anyone else should need one either".

Also who is against combines? How many children do combines kill every year? What are you going to do harvest wheat with your hands?

 

[quaawaa]

This somehow annoys me even more. His opinion changed because his wife changed jobs. He's someone who understands why you need certain tools to do certain jobs and willfully denies it now because his own life circumstance changed, but not like it did for everyone else.

It's like saying "I used to need a gun to defend myself while living in the ghetto, but now that I moved out of the ghetto so I don't need one and don't think anyone else should need one either".

Also who is against combines? How many children do combines kill every year? What are you going to do harvest wheat with your hands?

He claims to have worked in "corn research" but he looks really young in that photo. My guess is that he grew up on a farm but left as soon as he could and now hates on his family and old friends for being backwards to fit in with the hip crowd.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

He claims to have worked in "corn research" but he looks really young in that photo. My guess is that he grew up on a farm but left as soon as he could and now hates on his family and old friends for being backwards to fit in with the hip crowd.

It could also all be performative bullshit, the same way fatrick the fat faggot with bitch tits, is a "conservative firebrand."

 

[Xarpho's Return]

He claims to have worked in "corn research" but he looks really young in that photo. My guess is that he grew up on a farm but left as soon as he could and now hates on his family and old friends for being backwards to fit in with the hip crowd.

He looks like a high school student, probably got into college on "top 10%" in a tiny high school, turned into a simp in college.

 

[DavidS877]

Count up EVERY FedEX, UPS and Amazon truck you see on the freeway next time you're out there. 40 years ago? That would've all been train traffic.

Just off I-5 in Oregon they put an intermodal hub to move containers from trains to trucks and vice versa.

Guess what.

Rail is usually only cost-effective when goods are transported 500 or more miles, according to supply chain experts. Millersburg and Seattle are 230 miles apart. That meant that trucks would remain a cheaper option for Willamette Valley farmers, the analysis said. Smith, who had helped pitch and refine the plans for Millersburg from late 2017 to the summer of 2019, said this was a concern he had flagged to the project’s supporters in Linn County.

Not one container has moved through the facility.

https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2024/01/16/behind-schedule-over-budget-state-backed-rail-projects-costing-70-million-sit-idle/

https://archive.ph/JOPax

The coping and seething is amusing. Surely one day the trains will come.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

It’s the same problem with transit - even if speed is relatively high, mode switches cost you everything. Car or truck can be door to door whereas trains basically cannot be.

 

[TowinKarz]

The coping and seething is amusing.

Especially those who pocketed six figures in consulting fees telling them to build it being absolutely ass-blasted that anyone would question if they deserved the cash.... "It wasn't my CHOICE to build it, it was only my RECOMENDATION!"

"Well, your recommendation was clearly wrong"

"Are YOU an urban planner? No? Well shut up and PAY ME!"

 

[IdiotPlusPlus]

It’s the same problem with transit - even if speed is relatively high, mode switches cost you everything. Car or truck can be door to door whereas trains basically cannot be.

This is where they could make progress, I dunno about in America but here Freight Trains are charged by the Track owner by weight and by distance for each km they travel, where trucks aren't, mainly because everyday people subsidise the roads they use, you eliminate that disparity then suddenly trucks aren't as appealing for anything other than last mile freight or time critical point to point.
You get more of that freight, as RORO or Container Craned, off City Streets and some urban highways/freeways and you can improve traffic around City Ports and there is less need for Town Bypasses on Major Freeways, allows Industry to build up in regional areas again around inland ports or resource point, etc.

The annoyance with Urbanists is that trains are just an excuse to attack cars/trucks, as I point out to people more people/freight on trains is good if you are in trades or need to drive as it means less idiots on the road with you, Which is why they should support it even if they don't directly use it, Urbanist though just seem more interested in mocking 'the lower classes' rather than, you know, promoting solutions, which is usually why shit they propose never works as well as they claim, it's not about fixing things, it's about shitting on 'others' they don't like.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

It just made me realize that European cities smell like piss out of necessity. There are barely any public restrooms.

Public restrooms are almost an indication of quality-of-life. The only place where I've seen areas with no public restrooms are in homeless areas, like downtowns or other shitty areas (Northline, Houston, I'm looking at you).

90% of the freight cars in a train used to be boxcars. Today, less than 10% are. They really don't want to "waste" time and energy on having to use a full size car for an LCL load that has to make 3 or 4 moves before it reaches the destination. If it's not a unit train (all the same cargo going to the same place, like 50 cars of coal direct from mine to powerplant? Or 50 cars of containers direct from port to inland distribution? Or 50 tanks of ethanol direct from field to refinery?) modern railroads don't want to be assed about it because the half-loaded boxcar going to some end-of-the-line tool and die shop will earn them 40 cents as opposed to the $400 per loaded double-stack at the port. However, this situation has existed/been coming since the 60's when trucks became big enough and fast enough and the interstates mature enough that local, regional and LCL freight became a trucking biz, not an RR one. Look at pics or the old street maps of a major eastern city like Baltimore or Philly sometime, until just after WWII, there were tracks in the streets right up to the downtowns in lots of them because that was how your shops and warehouses took deliveries. By train.

There were lots of other things that fell out of favor as far as trains went. In Houston, there are lots of old spurs that went to warehouses that for as little profit they were they got stripped out, long complicated spurs that required going forward, backing up, going forward, etc. and so on.

Although it was mostly due to rail consolidation, the 1960s was when railroads started to disappear from smaller towns because the need for them just evaporated to zero.

To be fair, there's a lot of what happened to the rail industry in the 1970s and 1980s. There was a lot of rules and regulations on the freight rail industry when it was the only game in town, and those rules and regulations were working against them by the 1970s when trucking was taking over. The Staggers Act did away with that, and rules continued changing in the 1980s (cabooses weren't required after 1982, so the railroads dumped those too). They did keep the Railway Labor Act, which gave the government a kill switch to shut down strikes (both Reagan and Biden used it).

Just off I-5 in Oregon they put an intermodal hub to move containers from trains to trucks and vice versa.

Guess what.

It's not even particularly convenient. The location requires a few turns to get off the highway to access it. It would be iffy even if it was a truck stop (you know, the types with a large convenience store and a fast food or two) and absolutely a hard sell if you expected people to stop and transfer stuff.

 

[IdiotPlusPlus]

It's not even particularly convenient. The location requires a few turns to get off the highway to access it. It would be iffy even if it was a truck stop (you know, the types with a large convenience store and a fast food or two) and absolutely a hard sell if you expected people to stop and transfer stuff.

I love that The Cannabis Shop has direct access to the off-ramps but the intermodal doesn't xD

 

[Lobster Cult High Priest]

Especially those who pocketed six figures in consulting fees telling them to build it being absolutely ass-blasted that anyone would question if they deserved the cash.... "It wasn't my CHOICE to build it, it was only my RECOMENDATION!"

Total MBA Nigger death

 

[Midwit]

The middle class doesn't really exist in cities. The equivalent is a moderately safe and inexpensive but run-down part of town.

The middle class definitely exist in cities, when they're young. They'll infest all the trendy parts of the city but when they start to settle down they'll relocate to the suburbs and commuter towns so that the new young'uns can take their place.

It just made me realize that European cities smell like piss out of necessity. There are barely any public restrooms.

One time when I was walking to the shop at night I saw a kid squatting outside the wall of a pub presumably taking a shit, and when I walked past he said "don't mind me mate" like it was something normal, and I also saw an old guy taking the piss in an alley leading to the back of a bunch of terrace houses even though his own terrace house was only a couple of minutes away. This is in a semi-rural market town so I dread to imagine what it's like in a larger city.