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[Atypical Dog]

I can see my niggas in dallas for decently cheap when its finally built. (it will be destroyed by a hurricane)

Can't be destroyed if it gets buried in red tape like the California rail or HS2.

A better solution would be to widen I-45 from two to three lanes, which would be far cheaper and doesn't require eminent domain. Luckily, TxDOT is already planning on doing that and unlike Texas Central, they can build their project without any money from non-drivers/riders (TxDOT's budget comes from gas taxes, oil refining taxes, vehicle registration fees, sales taxes on cars, tolls, and the federal Highway Trust Fund (which is funded by gas taxes)).

Quawaa strikes again. Road infrastructure os a lot easier because it's not a one-off and has a lot better funding.

The two terms that hate the most combined together are "bicycle" and "lawyer". In my mind I immediately default to thinking of them as ambulance chasers Saul Goodman types after one of their clients did something stupid and wants a payout.

Ace attorney witness where they ride their bike into court and pedal it around the courtroom as they get stressed.

Their witness/culprit breakdown is biking so hard the chain breaks and they crash.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

The two terms that hate the most combined together are "bicycle" and "lawyer". In my mind I immediately default to thinking of them as ambulance chasers Saul Goodman types after one of their clients did something stupid and wants a payout.

Lawyers by and large are all scum. There was one guy in Minnesota who appeared to be an exception only to turn around and be an even bigger piece of shit than possibly imagined.

 

[JJLiautaud]

Lawyers by and large are all scum. There was one guy in Minnesota who appeared to be an exception only to turn around and be an even bigger piece of shit than possibly imagined.

There is a sandwich aficionado lawyer in Ohio who seems pretty cool however.

 

[An Sionnach Seang]

and London Bridge, which as the name suggests was build on a bridge

or rather, next to it - and the area was a lot less built up in 1838 than it is today
(as an aside, the reason London has no single central station, and the Underground exists, is because railway companies were legally blocked from building terminal stations within the City of London in the 1840s; what later became the Underground was built to link the existing termini together, and in the early days it was used as much for freight as it was for passengers)

 

[BulkForceFive]

Can someone smarter than me explain why every single "fuck cars" bicycle argument ultimately starts and ends with "I am on a bicycle, the city should be designed around that"?

My personal interpretation is that it's similar to arguments from a lot of other groups where the goal is having power over other people. If you think back to school, you had the kids who would physically take what they wanted, and the kids that would run to the teacher and squeal to get what they wanted, or at least to ruin someone else's day. Bicyclists want to be given free use of the whole road like a car, but they screech and piss and cry when you ask them to abide by traffic signals, use safety devices or put lights and turn signals on their bike.

 

[LaxerBRO]

Psycho biker confronts skater driving to skatepark.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

Psycho biker confronts skater driving to skatepark.

Huh, guess that thing about the "I have more rights than you" wasn't bullshit.

He should've just told the cycloid subhuman to leave and left the scene. Anything more and that's when Mr. Sidearm will make his appearance.

 

[Lobster Cult High Priest]

Psycho biker confronts skater driving to skatepark.

Why does he look like Ron Perleman.

Now I want a remake of Sons of Anarchy but instead of petty criminal bikers it's lycra wearing Faggots.

 

[Meriasek]

Amsterdam has CARS?!?:
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Street Parking is good (because Amsterdam is perfect):
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Ah, the delicious tears when they realise that their holy lands aren't filled with ideologues like them, but merely pragmatic people.

 

[quaawaa]

Ah, the delicious tears when they realise that their holy lands aren't filled with ideologues like them, but merely pragmatic people.

Since I made that post there's been some more funny comments:

Why didn't the Dutch ban cars?

Office buildings should be banned because they require people to commute to them:

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

Honestly keeping tourists off the roads is a darn good goal for a pubic transit system.

If these people weren’t so “fuck cars” but instead sold it as “there won’t be as many cars in the road if we build X” they’d get more success.

I think they’re so far gone they literally believe people like sitting in traffic.

 

[quaawaa]

If these people weren’t so “fuck cars” but instead sold it as “there won’t be as many cars in the road if we build X” they’d get more success.

That's what most public transit supporters think, which is why transit projects always fail to meet ridership projections unless there are no alternatives.

The Onion wrote a great article almost 25 years ago satirizing that exact thought process:

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[An Sionnach Seang]

Ah, the delicious tears when they realise that their holy lands aren't filled with ideologues like them, but merely pragmatic people.

they'd shit a brick if they found out the Netherlands has the highest density of motorways in Europe

 

[Meriasek]

Since I made that post there's been some more funny comments:

Why didn't the Dutch ban cars?
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They really have weird ideas about how Europe is. Nearly everyone has a drivers license, and yeah, getting a car and using it is totally normal. If you're a student or mid to late 20s single or couple in a big city, maybe you don't have a car and no need for it, but most will at some point get a car. Even if they still prefer the bike or public transport.
It's just pragmatic, not a lifestyle choice that defines who they are.
Many families will try to live in a single family house, and even when they have a cargo bike, they'll likely have a car as well.
Because it's just the pragmatic choice.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

Office buildings should be banned because they require people to commute to them:

"Nowhere near anything" (you know, except for the new housing built out in those areas) is how you build new industries. You look at Silicon Valley, the cities that would become synomymous with the companies they headquartered—Cupertino, Sunnyvale, Mountain View...these places were all fruit orchard country in 1960. (Wikipedia mentions it was one of the biggest fruit-growing regions in the world with 39 fruit canneries at its peak).

Bell Labs of AT&T made its biggest impacts on the world when they moved out of New York City after World War II to a new facility in New Jersey specifically designed for the corporation.

There was a time post-WWII when the multi-tenant office building surged (which helped redevelop the dying downtowns) but the idea of big companies renting generic office suites has been falling out of favor since before COVID (an archived article from 2017 as an example). The features that FAANG-type companies boast of only come with suburban corporate campuses.

Why didn't the Dutch ban cars?

I've said before that everywhere on earth has cars, and if they don't it's either a tourist attraction, a particularly small inaccessible village, or both. Places without car access have plummeting populations. Pilottown, Louisiana had people before Katrina when it wiped out the place but was well on its way to death (the one-room school and similarly tiny post office closed decades before), while the sunken-city part of Venice continues to bleed people at a continuous pace.

 

[Yamamura]

I've said before that everywhere on earth has cars, and if they don't it's either a tourist attraction, a particularly small inaccessible village, or both. Places without car access have plummeting populations. Pilottown, Louisiana had people before Katrina when it wiped out the place but was well on its way to death (the one-room school and similarly tiny post office closed decades before), while the sunken-city part of Venice continues to bleed people at a continuous pace.

It's one of those things where people who have an abundance of something like to complain about it because they can't imagine doing without. I have family from overseas who lived in cramped urban areas and when moving to the suburbs that urbanists hate so much their first instinct wasn't to complain about walkability or cars, it was about how having a house this big back home is a dream to them.

 

[quaawaa]

Ontario just saved Toronto from itself.
Jason is very mad about that, despite repeatedly claiming that he no longer thinks about North America:

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[Xarpho's Return]

It's easy to say Canada did something right for once, but it goes to show something—going nuts on the "delete car lanes for bike lanes" policies are UNIVERSALLY UNPOPULAR with people even in "liberal" areas. They can cry about "muh conservatives" and "muh boomers" but the reality is only a tiny group of sociopaths like them.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

They can cry about "muh conservatives" and "muh boomers" but the reality is only a tiny group of sociopaths like them.

Oh no! Urbanists have fucked over my commute into Lego City! It's now twice as long! I'll build a bike and make it take four times as long *record scratch* wait, no, I'll build a killdozer and knock over city hall!

 

[underwalking]

"BECAUSE CARS KILLED MY GRANDMA, OKAY!?"