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[ComStar]

I was raised to never assume too quickly, yet from the posts your average bike freak makes, they sound like they're having an internal breakdown whenever they see someone driving a truck with an empty flatbed. It should be loaded 24/7 because otherwise you're a shithead for taking up too much space without using it for its intended purpose, I guess.

Thing is, even if you hauled shit 24/7 with your big-ass truck they still think you should just get a cargo bike instead. Rain? Get a raincoat and suck it up. Freezing cold? Dress warmer. Unable to haul a couch with a cargo bike? Just own less stuff, chud. Live just outside of say, Elaine, Arkansas? Move into a city, get a pod, own nothing and be happy. Go to the third place. Sit next to junkies and niggers on the bus. Pay out the ass for a glorified windowless closet in a lifeless highrise.

These people hate your car. They hate your house. They hate you. Spend any time at r/fuckcars and you will see for yourself

He is dubbed by a different person in the German dubs, but I think that's more due to the dubs being made in Germany, and Arnold not having the time to come here and dub himself.
He has a strong Austrian accent which would be funny in German, but after all these years I doubt he even remembers German much.

He speaks ein bisschen Deutsch in this interview. It's from 2017, so it's kind of recent.

 

[Meriasek]

Thing is, even if you hauled shit 24/7 with your big-ass truck they still think you should just get a cargo bike instead. Rain? Get a raincoat and suck it up. Freezing cold? Dress warmer. Unable to haul a couch with a cargo bike? Just own less stuff, chud. Live just outside of say, Elaine, Arkansas? Move into a city, get a pod, own nothing and be happy. Go to the third place. Sit next to junkies and niggers on the bus. Pay out the ass for a glorified windowless closet in a lifeless highrise.

These people hate your car. They hate your house. They hate you. Spend any time at r/fuckcars and you will see for yourself




He speaks ein bisschen Deutsch in this interview. It's from 2017, so it's kind of recent.

Aight, he still speaks German I guess.
Well, Austrian dialect, but still.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

Whenever I go on youtube and see a comment bitching about "muh trucks" they never really have a real point. It's all based on feelings for them ranting about how big trucks are, but ignore factual points like newer trucks having ABS while older ones didn't come standard. It comes down to the same thing about guns and which one looks scarier.

Not to mention their "pulping kids" graphics never account for cameras on trucks. There are many reasons why it's dishonest but it's the most shameless "WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN"-style "reasons" out there.

The US does have that huge diesel fleet.... Class A railroads lease and swap locomotives all the time. There's plenty to spare from a publicly -accessible "power pool" and "foreign power" is a frequent sight on the lines . Since locomotives are like planes? They aren't making money if standing still? No sane railroad turns down a request to use their stuff.

Just the other day, a freight through town here had 3 locomotives at the head, all three were for different lines, one Norfolk Southern (the actual company running the show), one Canadian National and one Kansas City Southern, and a FOURTH railroad, the North Shore, owns the actual track and had just leased out "trackage rights" for them to use.

It can be done.

You're missing the point. The original point of contention was "why don't they use trains to evacuate people" from Hurricane Milton, and while it could be done (including routing locomotives from other parts of the country to pick up more people) in theory, it's wildly impractical to do so.

And bike vs pedestrian is a real problem. Bikes tend to behave around cars because they lose out dead. They just crush pedestrians.

The most advantageous is road / sidewalk / bike path where the bike path is entirely separate. But that’s more expensive

My personal conclusion is that building Netherlands-style bike lanes wouldn't be very useful in America because cyclists would blow through sidewalks when convenient and pedestrians would use the dedicated bike path.

 

[LaxerBRO]

Steve Forbes has caught on to the Fuck Cars grift:

 

[quaawaa]

/r/fuckcars shared some funny anti-cyclist memes today:



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[quaawaa]

Jason is having his fans brigade the public comments on the NHTSA's proposed SUV and truck pedestrian safety regulation

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Imagine the look on their faces when the pickup trucks pass the new tests with flying colors.

Also, pedestrian deaths have nothing to do with truck height or road design like urbanists claim but rather with people jaywalking across busy roads at night:

• Light conditions: 76% of pedestrians were killed in collisions that occurred when it was dark, with another 4% occurring during dusk or dawn (Schneider, 2020). Retting (2021) notes that during the years 2010-2019 —a time when pedestrian fatalities have been increasing—the number of pedestrian fatalities that occurred in the dark increased by 58%, while daylight fatalities increased by 16%.
• Roadway location: 73% of pedestrian fatalities occurred at non-intersection locations (Schneider, 2020). A study linking FARS data with roadway data and aerial imagery to identify pedestrian fatality “hot spots” found that common characteristics of these locations included five or more lanes to cross (70%), speed limits of 30 mph or higher (75%), and traffic volumes exceeding 25,000 vehicles per day (62%) (Schneider et al., 2021).
• Time: 25% of all pedestrian fatalities occurred from 6 p.m. to 8:59 p.m. and 26% from 9 p.m. to 11:59 p.m. (NCSA, 2023c)

and "social-behavioral mechanisms":

Race/ethnicity/national origin: Several studies have documented the overrepresentation of Black and American Indian or Alaska Natives in pedestrian-motorist crashes as well as immigrants and areas with low-incomes (Anderson et al., 2010; CDC, 2013; Chakravarthy et al., 2012; Chen et al., 2012; Schneider, 2020; Zaccaro, 2019). These disparities by race, aggregated at the national level, remain when controlling for population as measured by the Census and for pedestrian activity as measured by walking trips or distances by the NHTS (Schneider, 2020; Zaccaro, 2019).

In trying to understand higher pedestrian crash rates for recent immigrants in New York City, researchers postulated that social-behavioral mechanisms and differing “safety cultures” play a role in pedestrian crashes.

Surprisingly, the report admits that improving walkability increases pedestrian collisions:

A recent meta-analysis of motorist-pedestrian or motorist-bicyclist injury crashes estimated that there is safety in numbers for both pedestrians and bicyclists (Elvik & Bjørnskau, 2017). By their estimate, if the number of pedestrians or bicyclists doubles (100% increase), the increase in crashes is expected to be 41%.

So obviously the only way pedestrian deaths will be eliminated is if everyone drives.
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[Apple Porcupine]

Jason is having his fans brigade the public comments on the NHTSA's proposed SUV and truck pedestrian safety regulation

"If implemented correctly" Jason we know exactly what you think "implemented correctly" means:

 

[jje100010001]

Because it’s cheap to make a road a bit wider and paint a line.

A sidewalk can be as expensive as the whole asphalt road, especially if you do both sides.

And bike vs pedestrian is a real problem. Bikes tend to behave around cars because they lose out dead. They just crush pedestrians.

The most advantageous is road / sidewalk / bike path where the bike path is entirely separate. But that’s more expensive

But they never seem to make the road wider, they just take away vehicular lanes from what I've seen locally.

And they don't need to widen all sidewalks, maybe just one side? Also considering the amount of concrete curbs they tend to pour for protected bike lanes, I think the costs gets up there too for normal bike lanes.

In terms of pedestrian-bike interactions, there is a risk, but don't most bikes tend to be lighter, more maneuverable, and mostly slower compared to road vehicles? Honestly I think that bikes should use sidewalks if trails are not available outside of the city centres, rather than trying to mix modes of transport on the same road.

 

[McMitch]

In terms of pedestrian-bike interactions, there is a risk, but don't most bikes tend to be lighter, more maneuverable, and mostly slower compared to road vehicles? Honestly I think that bikes should use sidewalks if trails are not available outside of the city centres, rather than trying to mix modes of transport on the same road.

It doesn’t matter how maneuverable a bike is if the retard on top of it is going to just crash through pedestrians anyway. Nothing generates hatred for cyclists more than having to walk/drive anywhere near one: they will do everything they can, up to and including hurting themselves or others, to avoid having to alter their velocity in the slightest. The only acceptable path for cyclists is completely removed from reasonable society.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

That’s the real problem. Walkers start and stop at a moments notice, even runners just jog in place. Cars you don’t spend any of YOUR energy slowing or starting - but bikers are lazy fucks and just want to roll forever and will do literally anything to avoid stopping.

I’d support legislation to require electric motors in bikes to get them back up to speed and excessively harsh punishment for disobeying traffic laws.

(Part of that last is that for the longest time the only people actually using bikes were kids and teens who couldn’t really be effectively patrolled anyway).

 

[Seymour Duncan]

In terms of pedestrian-bike interactions, there is a risk, but don't most bikes tend to be lighter, more maneuverable, and mostly slower compared to road vehicles? Honestly I think that bikes should use sidewalks if trails are not available outside of the city centres, rather than trying to mix modes of transport on the same road.

Cars being heavy, unwieldy, fast and difficult to place correctly makes most drivers naturally give other objects more margin for error than technically necessary, the problem with cyclists is that bikes are extremely easy to place extremely accurately even at considerable speed and many lifestyle cyclists will absolutely abuse the hell out of this to maximize average speed. If it was just commuters pedaling around at 8-12 mph then things would be fine, but forcing the Strava niggers on the sidewalks means you have erratic unpredictable missiles whipping past you at 20-30 mph with mere inches to spare, so you better not reach down to tie that undone shoelace or you're getting mangled by a 200 pound flying object.

 

[TORtlEMUStRaNSUS]

I hate big pavement princess trucks and cyclists. I am the radical "pro sedan" centrist.

 

[Bonesjones]

Also, pedestrian deaths have nothing to do with truck height or road design like urbanists claim but rather with people jaywalking across busy roads at night:

Every single pedestrian accident in my city over the past few years has happened in the poor nigger side of town on one road. Where people Jay walk with zero attention to anything and the people driving take red lights as suggestions and might stop for them 30 seconds after they change, if they feel like it. Or course there is zero police present to make people change how they drive.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

I hate big pavement princess trucks and cyclists. I am the radical "pro sedan" centrist.

I think everyone hates pavement princess trucks; I don't even know if the people who buy them love them.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nIJ2Vg_rBr4

Every single pedestrian accident in my city over the past few years has happened in the poor nigger side of town on one road.

This is how it is everywhere, almost all incidents are in very localized areas; if they can't "fix" the road it's because they can't fix idiots.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

/r/fuckcars shared some funny anti-cyclist memes today:

Someone out in the sticks is hauling oversize cargo (probably incorrectly, but whatever), someone on social media makes a joke, and Reddit immediately assumes that the driver is out to decapitate cyclists.

Classy.

Imagine the look on their faces when the pickup trucks pass the new tests with flying colors.

We know they do because they had a heart attack when there was an advertisement for the Ford F-150 in the Netherlands.

Because it’s cheap to make a road a bit wider and paint a line.

A sidewalk can be as expensive as the whole asphalt road, especially if you do both sides.

And bike vs pedestrian is a real problem. Bikes tend to behave around cars because they lose out dead. They just crush pedestrians.

The most advantageous is road / sidewalk / bike path where the bike path is entirely separate. But that’s more expensive

It's really not easy to widen roads because of right of way acquisition, engineering (roads are often built the way they are for drainage), and so forth. Adding a lane properly means rebuilding the curbs at the very minimum, and if those curbs actually drain into the gutter, that often needs to be torn out and rebuilt.

What I've seen in my town is demolishing a sidewalk and building a mixed-use path that's about the size of a lane itself, while not shaving away any additional right of way because it takes the place of the sidewalk and some of the grassy space.

Sometimes this space is compatible with existing bike lanes either to avoid cyclists getting clipped by cars turning right...the "right turn clip" can also be done cheaper with the dotted line trick (which of course cyclists hate, but don't they all?)

This is how it is everywhere, almost all incidents are in very localized areas; if they can't "fix" the road it's because they can't fix idiots.

Every once I've seen an article about "outdated" infrastructure in poorer/older neighborhoods (older, yes--I remember how in the older, less affluent city to the north had the "WALK/DON'T WALK" signals well into the 2000s...even NYC began replacing theirs in 1999) but can't make a real case as to why the outdated infrastructure is a problem and how the city's average stoplights (which aren't THAT better on average) aren't.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

It's really not easy to widen roads because of right of way acquisition, engineering (roads are often built the way they are for drainage), and so forth.

I meant during greenfield build - a 40 foot wide road vs a 50 footer isn’t terribly more expensive as it’s just basically materials and a few more passes of the machinery. Whereas a sidewalk is entirely different machines (unless it’s a concrete road but those are usually freeways).

 

[Grapefruit Soda]

Psycho biker confronts skater driving to skatepark.

Update on this angry cyclist story, the driver had his ticket dropped when he sent in the dashcam footage, and Gary Peacock paid his ticket and "apologized". Rare cop W in the footage ngl, the cyclist is so unironically retarded, the cop has to explain the ticket for like 4 minutes.

 

[The ShekelMonster]

Checking in about a year after I stopped the "Deboonking the Traffic Soyboys" articles. After skimming the last few pages, my read on the situation is that the Traffic Antifas are just as ridiculous as ever, but more marginalized, and their cultural heydey is in the rearview mirror. I also haven't seen any of their stuff on YouTube, but that's not much to go on.

 

[Markass the Worst]

After skimming the last few pages, my read on the situation is that the Traffic Antifas are just as ridiculous as ever, but more marginalized, and their cultural heydey is in the rearview mirror. I also haven't seen any of their stuff on YouTube, but that's not much to go on.

It helps that more people are aware of car hating faggots and the bullshit dishonest tactics they use to push their propaganda. To this day they still have to go "just read Strong Towns" instead of being able to defend their half baked ideas on the merits.

 

[BulkForceFive]

I think everyone hates pavement princess trucks; I don't even know if the people who buy them love them.

I do not care what other people drive because I don't have to pay their gas/repair bills. If they can afford to drive it, good for them and if they can't, it'll be repo'd and on the used lot for a substantial discount.