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[reptile baht spaniard rid]

Just wait till he injuries someone when the ladder stabs someone he doesn’t see because it’s blocking his view

Ideally one of the cops in his town should pull him over and beat his ass for being a retard

I sometimes wish the greats from the silent movie era were still alive; Buster Keaton or someone similar could make an absolutely hilarious "cargo bike guy" movie.

In fact, any idiots reading this; you could make one too. Probably would get millions of views from lovers AND haters.

 

[quaawaa]

/r/fuckcars discusses their "15 minute cities":

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Turns out that "15 minutes" is a flexible amount of time:

lol fat:

The Holy Land is unwalkable and bike-dependent:

Turns out that the closest store isn't always the best one:



According to OP's website, Houston is a 15-minute by bike city:

and the core is 15-minute by foot:

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[Xarpho's Return]

and the core is 15-minute by foot:

Notice that the "by foot" area is clusters by freeways or wealthy areas and the largest of the red blobs in both of the "bike/walk" areas are actually large parks.

That being said, it's complete garbage either way. One of the categories they measure is "healthcare" but if I'm sick or injured I will be not be going by bike or walking.

 

[Yamamura]

That's the mindset of the bike cult bughive as a whole.

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This would never sit well with the average redditor who has a collection of toys, video games, comic books, arcade/pinball machines, Minimalism isn't for everyone and trying to enforce that on everyone isn't a solution. Innovation stagnates when people aren't free to have the space to do what they feel like.

lol fat:

Humans are designed to (...) walk

Humans can also use their brains and invent tools as well. By that logic we could also be smashing crabs open with our fists.

 

[LaxerBRO]

ol fat:

I bet this factory worker will love nothing more than to walk 30 minutes each way a couple times a week for life's little wants.

 

[Bonesjones]

This would never sit well with the average redditor who has a collection of toys, video games, comic books, arcade/pinball machines, Minimalism isn't for everyone and trying to enforce that on everyone isn't a solution. Innovation stagnates when people aren't free to have the space to do what they feel like.

It's not really minimalism when you don't have any interests nor hobbies except complaining on the internet.

 

[Marvin]

According to OP's website, Houston is a 15-minute by bike city:

and the core is 15-minute by foot:

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Looking at Baltimore, it's even better, but it's a coastal city, so that's to be expected.

On foot:


For comparison, these is the actual proper city borders:


I tried to get the screenshots to line up, but the beltway in each screenshot is a good reference point to compare.

But yeah, looking at that, basically huge chunks of the city are 15 minute walkable neighborhoods.

Hell, when we add bikes into the mix:


The whole metro area including all the surrounding suburbs are easily 15 minute neighborhoods by bike.

I know this has been obvious the whole time, but this is clearly about something other than actual urbanism. I think it's probably 65% about aesthetics (redditors wanting to live in an episode of Friends) and 35% about politics (ie self hating americans).

I don't drive (epilepsy), so my whole life I've had to deal with public transit and cycling and walking and stuff like that. Sometimes it sucks, but in general, living in an east coast city, you can get around decently enough.

I couldn't live out in the sticks, so I moved to somewhere more accommodating of my condition, which is the city.

Urbanist dweebs really just want to impose their goofy fantasies about sitcom urban living onto random midwestern towns, instead of saving up their money, nutting up, and moving to the already existing urban places.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

I know this has been obvious the whole time, but this is clearly about something other than actual urbanism. I think it's probably 65% about aesthetics (redditors wanting to live in an episode of Friends) and 35% about politics (ie self hating americans).

The politics thing is interesting, as the urbanist crowd is entirely left-wing but they get pushback in areas that would be considered safe blue. Kind of a whitepill when it comes to the actual public acceptance of notions like "traffic calming" that don't get rolled into other bills.

 

[Sexy Peach Emoji]

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I bet this factory worker will love nothing more than to walk 30 minutes each way a couple times a week for life's little wants.

Ah, but you see, after we get rid of the cars, he will have another job where he's not standing in the factory. Maybe something more like therapy, or art. He just needs to unlearn his carbrainism first.

 

[Eternal Gopnik]

That being said, it's complete garbage either way. One of the categories they measure is "healthcare" but if I'm sick or injured I will be not be going by bike or walking.

Also, "Education" just means "there is something marked as a school within X distance on Google Maps", it doesn't distinguish between a preschool, a university, and a language school.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

I know this has been obvious the whole time, but this is clearly about something other than actual urbanism. I think it's probably 65% about aesthetics (redditors wanting to live in an episode of Friends) and 35% about politics (ie self hating americans).

It’s worse than that. Those I could respect.

It’s literally the incel cope of I’d have a job and wife and family if someone installed a bitch on my dick.

“If only I had a 15 minute walkable city then I wouldn’t be a fat incel redditor. I’d talk to cool and sexy people every day as I walked around doing cool and sexy things.”

What things do you do today to try to be cool and sexy?

“watch notjustbikes and porn and post on r/fuckcars and wait for nirvana.”

Ok then. Fires up large diesel with extreme prejudice and frankly lots of just juice.

 

[quaawaa]

An urbanist tries in vain to tell his fellow urbanists to "read another book":

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I wish he'd also write articles titled "Watch Another YouTube Channel" and "Read Another Blog".

 

[troonigification]

What I love the very most about not just bikes style urbanist leftists is every piece of content they produce, every word spoken, every video made, everything, is based around not noticing.

Never once will they drill down into why America's train systems are dogshit and intolerable to normal non-self hating people but Asian and even Russian rapid train systems are nice.

What truly separates BART from Singapore's MRT? Why don't Americans like living in a diversityville filled with crime where they never hear English spoken? Why don't they ever mention the second hand meth smoke you have to inhale in America's subways? Why don't they mention the odds of having your bicyle stolen? Why don't they talk about rational people avoiding having to live somewhere with high property taxes to finance the fruits of crime-tolerance and diversity? Why don't they talk about the union corruption endemic in Western cities whose retard employees are instrumental in making sure fucking shit all gets fixed?

No, let's focus on some monoethnic euro enclave whose pedestrian friendliness originated from pre-car infrastructure where they were too poor to afford car infrastructure post-WWII that has pivoted this historic happenstance into revisionism about urban genius planning. What's next? Talking about the great urban planning of African mud huts lmao?

 

[LaxerBRO]

Also, "Education" just means "there is something marked as a school within X distance on Google Maps", it doesn't distinguish between a preschool, a university, and a language school.

I will note that parents are especially selective about the schools their kids attend, up to renting out an apartment just to qualify for the district.

Teenagers can be selective as well, as they could prefer a certain high schools AP or sports program.

These fuckers seem to be wanting to throw everything on the wall and we will figure out the significant issues later.

Sorry, that's not how it works in society. There are consequences for actions and the public, especially at a local level, won't tolerate their lives being fucked with.

 

[Yamamura]

Sorry if this isn't 100% relevant, but Massachusetts reversed the ban on Kei cars/trucks.

Any bets on how fuckcars is going to react? On one hand they have one less point to bitch about now. On the other hand they could also try to spin this as a victory for them in a cope sort of way.

 

[Return of the Freaker]

Sorry if this isn't 100% relevant, but Massachusetts reversed the ban on Kei cars/trucks.

Any bets on how fuckcars is going to react? On one hand they have one less point to bitch about now. On the other hand they could also try to spin this as a victory for them in a cope sort of way.

"We should at least be able to have kei cars instead of child murdering small dick-mobiles!! Oh they're allowed now? Kei car bad. Carbrain"

 

[Autistic Gunspergings]

Sorry if this isn't 100% relevant, but Massachusetts reversed the ban on Kei cars/trucks.

Any bets on how fuckcars is going to react? On one hand they have one less point to bitch about now. On the other hand they could also try to spin this as a victory for them in a cope sort of way.

There's some loony comments being posted there too. this one stuck out to me. the classic "its not me, its EVERYONE AROUND ME!"

How many of them do you think are gonna seethe about this reversal whilst being completely fine with motorcycles being unbanned? Im betting 50% at least.

 

[quaawaa]

Any bets on how fuckcars is going to react?

Not at all:

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[Xarpho's Return]

What I love the very most about not just bikes style urbanist leftists is every piece of content they produce, every word spoken, every video made, everything, is based around not noticing.

It's a little more complicated than that, a lot of it is built on a foundation of lies. Almost every "fact" they cite is either made up or misrepresented to the point of fiction. This is where a lot of the Dunning-Krueger stuff comes into play.

But yes, "not noticing" is a big deal, and real-life situations are ignored. Yes, there are actually multi-family apartments in an urban area, no, restricting highway widening won't stem sprawl, and "eyes on the street" (a theory often promoted) is complete garbage, otherwise third-world countries and "enriched" European areas would be the safest places around.

Welcome to the thread btw

 

[LaxerBRO]

There was a heat wave in the West Coast about two weeks back and it seems the trains in California couldn't take 100F temperatures:
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Finally made it home after three hours of delays and transfers. Truly a shitty day to ride the train.

The new environmentally friendly locomotives that California demanded are literally frying, that's what an engineer told me earlier who runs them.

Looks like a lot of trains across SoCal are at least a bit delayed today. Stay safe.