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[reptile baht spaniard rid]

The fact that their “look how horrible America is” images are so recognizable, and so memorable means that they’re actually relatively rare.

I still like the response of posting some asinine wide urban train station/rail yard and saying “just one more train, bro”.

 

[WelperHelper99]

The fact that their “look how horrible America is” images are so recognizable, and so memorable means that they’re actually relatively rare.

I still like the response of posting some asinine wide urban train station/rail yard and saying “just one more train, bro”.

I still don't get the one with the McDonalds and gas stations. Its a example of industry. You can fuel up your car, get a burger, then zip right on the highway in minutes. It's efficient as fuck. It's what is great about America.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

I still don't get the one with the McDonalds and gas stations. Its an example of industry. You can fuel up your car, get a burger, then zip right on the highway in minutes. It's efficient as fuck. It's what is great about America.

It’s even worse because it’s a zoom lens that compresses everything. It’s just any highway interchange where traffic is diverted to a surface street as a “shortcut”.

The other one they love is the Katy Freeway which is incredibly wide and huge and like again they always show weird zoom photographs of it to make it look even more strange.

 

[Ensok]

Another thing with Breezewood is that if you look at a map it's pretty much directly in the middle of a triangle made by Pittsburg, Philly, and DC/Baltimore. If you go from Philly to Pittsburg or Pittsburg to Philly etc. it's the perfect stop and that's why it's like that.

 

[quaawaa]

Urbanists are coomers:



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[Paper Machete]

One thing I don't understand about these people is their inability and unwillingness to understand that some of the differences they describe between different areas are based on the needs and desires of those areas. There are real cultural differences between rural, suburban, and urban areas, even in the same country, even in the same state. They like to think everything is a social construct that was chosen arbitrarily and that "fix" things you just need to get people to decide to choose a different one. It's many layers of retarded and arrogant.

And no, public transportation would not work for rural areas. Because few people need to go anywhere at the same time, to the same vague areas, or enough all at once to justify car pooling let alone a bus. Riding your bike takes to long to get anywhere and you only do that recreationally if you're rural, not as a legit method of transport. A lot of rural people rely on their cars to have jobs in town. It would be impossible to do otherwise.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

Rural busses can work - but they’re defined transportation for rare trips into town, not commuters.

https://farmboymusic.bandcamp.com/track/country-bus

A small rural town meets every single one of their requirements except it’s not a soyboi filled bughive.

 

[ComStar]

It's not just by someone who knows nothing about the way churches operate (differences in theology, etc.--and the idea of "plethora of protestant denominations in the US is enabled by the automobile infrastructure" is preposterous—the first church schism happened nearly a thousand years ago), it's the way urbanists think in general.

Hell, even i who live in Europe know that the great religious awakenings in the US happened before 1900 AD.

What a fucking moron.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

Almost all (oldest kids at least) first car is the oldest car the family owns, which is often left over from when the family was small.

A first car being the minivan means you’re probably the younger set and the family is mostly covered in minivans at the time.

Only rich faggots buy a car directly for a kid, usually justifying it as “muh safety” as if not dying as an idiot teenager isn’t more about not being a dumbfuck vs safety equipment.

The sedan was the oldest and crappiest car at the time. It had a very loose steering wheel.

And no, public transportation would not work for rural areas. Because few people need to go anywhere at the same time, to the same vague areas, or enough all at once to justify car pooling let alone a bus. Riding your bike takes to long to get anywhere and you only do that recreationally if you're rural, not as a legit method of transport. A lot of rural people rely on their cars to have jobs in town. It would be impossible to do otherwise.

I looked it up; in rural areas, Lyft and Uber don't even operate. Not that a driver would get much work outside besides "drive Miss Mildred to church" and "drive Jim Bob home from the bar".

Hell, even i who live in Europe know that the great religious awakenings in the US happened before 1900 AD.

What a fucking moron.

You don't have to be religious to understand how denominations and theology work; at the very least there's a different crowd. Given the general /r/fuckcars attitude of recreational drinking, do you want to hang out in the "cool" bars or the closest one with the sad old alcoholics and those dreaded right-wing opinions?

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

I looked it up; in rural areas, Lyft and Uber don't even operate. Not that a driver would get much work outside besides "drive Miss Mildred to church" and "drive Jim Bob home from the bar".

Rural areas often have one taxi/transit/drunk vehicle and it’s often the tow truck driver getting paid by the state to move some disabled lardass from one place to another. Rural areas really are the heartland for multi-talent renaissance men; everyone does multiple things out of necessity and nobody specializes much. Even the town rapist will have to do other odd jobs.

 

[Xentor]

It had a very loose steering wheel.

The steering (tie) rods were fucked.

 

[JJLiautaud]

Breezewood isnt a city

Its a town at best

Might even only be a townSHIP if incorporated at all.

And that picture is of the road connecting the PA turnpike to 2 other higways, of course it looks like that, every off ramp in the US does too if they have travel services.

The willful misrepresentation of this as a typical American main street is more than avit dishonest.

Its amazing how composition can effect the beauty of a place.

 

[quaawaa]

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Its amazing how composition can effect the beauty of a place.

Amsterdam-Centrum is a beautiful place:

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I'd rather cross an 6 lane "stroad" than walk through a rape alley.
Obviously, most of Amsterdam doesn't look like this.

 

[pellegrino31415]

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My God these people are retarded. Euclidian Zoning has nothing to do with the geometry of lots or street layouts. But everything to do with the court case Euclid, OH. v Ambler. Where SCOTUS found that land use zoning, including but not limited to Function (res, com, ind), building setbacks, lot size etc, was an acceptable use of police powers.

Background: Euclid wanted to keep the poors out so set up harsh, for the time, zoning regulations, and Ambler had a a parcel of land and wanted to build a factory there. So Ambler sues the town of Euclid to allow the factory to be built. Because until that time all zoning cases that SCOTUS ruled in were found to be unconstitutional. Well SCOTUS ruled in favor of Euclid, and the plot laid empty untill WW2 where a factory was built by either GM or Ford.

More Spergout: Euclid set an awful precedent on the order of Roe v Wade. It has been used to increase the ever growing police powers and I think it was actually used as a justification for some New Deal legislation. Ergo Euclid delenda est.

 

[Yamamura]

Urbanists are coomers:

I'm guessing they're missing the entire genre of Japanese porn where a school girl gets molested on the train.

 

[ComStar]

Spoiler: First off

I wasn't calling you a moron. I'm a bit unsure about how i sounded in my post now that i reread it, so i just want to make that clear.

And i should have kept the second part of my post. It was something about the great awakenings being enabled not by Big Car (because they didn't exist), but by preachers who were willing to strike out on foot or on horseback/stagecoach/train to spread the word of God.

But we can't expect urbanists to know any history now, can we?

You don't have to be religious to understand how denominations and theology work; at the very least there's a different crowd.

Not to the urbanist, as you pointed out. Just plop down a generic Temple building and hey presto: Faith meter filled!

Given the general /r/fuckcars attitude of recreational drinking, do you want to hang out in the "cool" bars or the closest one with the sad old alcoholics and those dreaded right-wing opinions?

Can i drink wine coolers and smoke weed on the train instead? That's one of the things that make them better than cars, according to various /fuckcars users.

 

[AnotherOne]

One thing I don't understand about these people is their inability and unwillingness to understand that some of the differences they describe between different areas are based on the needs and desires of those areas. There are real cultural differences between rural, suburban, and urban areas, even in the same country, even in the same state. They like to think everything is a social construct that was chosen arbitrarily and that "fix" things you just need to get people to decide to choose a different one. It's many layers of retarded and arrogant.

And no, public transportation would not work for rural areas. Because few people need to go anywhere at the same time, to the same vague areas, or enough all at once to justify car pooling let alone a bus. Riding your bike takes to long to get anywhere and you only do that recreationally if you're rural, not as a legit method of transport. A lot of rural people rely on their cars to have jobs in town. It would be impossible to do otherwise.

A lot of them don't think suburban/rural areas should exist at all. The inconvenience is part of the program.

 

[Rudolf's Friend]

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Its amazing how composition can effect the beauty of a place.

Should mention too that the picture they use is at least 15 years old based on the logos of the businesses.

 

[An Sionnach Seang]

A lot of them don't think suburban/rural areas should exist at all. The inconvenience is part of the program.

they'd shit a brick if they found out about where I live (the metropolitan county of South Yorkshire) which is about 600 square miles and has a population density of 2,300 per square mile
this sounds very crowded, until you look at how it's distributed: there's one big city (Sheffield), one big town (Rotherham), two medium-sized towns (Barnsley and Doncaster), about 12 small towns between all four districts, and loads of small rural and semi-rural communities in between them
it has a similar kind of population distribution to England in general, but the high population density results from the fact the actual settlements are a lot closer together than is typical elsewhere in the country - in many cases, several adjacent villages have run into each other to form townships
this means the city is relatively easy to get to, but it's also a lot easier to get out and move out of, and there's no shortage of countryside, woodland and moorland in the area; there's not enough flat land to build sprawling suburbs, so the natural beauty starts the moment the houses stop

to add insult to injury (for them, at least) Sheffield also has a large part of the Peak District national park right on its doorstep

 

[quaawaa]

A hockey player who was cycling was killed last night by a drunk driver. While tragic, he was biking on a rural road with no shoulder after dark in the middle of a storm.

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Guess /r/fuckcars' reaction?

Language police:

I'm pretty sure British people would also recommend against doing what the hockey players did:

They should build bike lanes on all rural roads:

Bike lanes are bad though:

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