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[Xarpho's Return]

Any of you ever hear of Ottawa's BRT to LRT conversion? Years ago they had one of the best transit systems in north america, super reliable and fast, a mix of separate roads for busses and bus lanes, it worked really well and a much larger than usual percentage of commuting was by bus. Then they spent most of the 2010s converting the separate roads to train lines and dug a subway under the core.

The result? Now it's very unreliable, slower, and transit ridership is way down even factoring in losses from the pandemic days. Even worse they somehow managed to buy trains that don't work when it's too cold or snowy (in Ottawa...).

And it cost like 3 billion dollars.

From mousing around on Google Earth it looks like they didn't do anything actually useful with it like "see if we can convert some of the old bus ROW back into usable streets" or "since we're reconfiguring all this stuff around the highways let's see if we can modernize the ramps"...

They do that all the time. Whenever someone tells them that they LIKE driving or living in a house, they get told that they've never lived in a city so they don't know what they're missing. Even telling them that you have lived in a dense city is not enough to derail them from their script, they'll just assert that whatever city you lived in wasn't a "real" city.

That's not an urbanist-exclusive tactic, a woman who doesn't buy into the latest feminist shit is told that she has been manipulated by the patriarchy (or some shit) while here the "patriarchy" is "Big Oil".

Most people have never had a friendly interaction with a cyclist:

"It's too loud" (then drive a car, which is quieter); "it's too dangerous for the user" (then drive a car and definitely don't use a bicycle).

 

[Yamamura]

/r/fuckcars discusses motorcycles:
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TL;DR:
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Motorcycles are bad because you have to wear a helmet on them:
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Most people have never had a friendly interaction with a cyclist:
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Rural people can just take their pedal bike on a twice daily bus:
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Remember, these people hate 50cc motorcycles common in the third world:
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Motorcycles, unlike e-bikes, aren't used for utility:
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Electric motorcycles exist, by the way.
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Wait till you hear what the average New Yorker thinks of e-bike deliverymen:
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Motorcycles are as bad as cars:
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Motorcycles are dangerous (but e-bikes are not?):
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Wait til they find out that the Surron is considered an e-bike. They hate mountain bikes, no doubt this would be even worse to them.

 

[Kyria the Great]

Something I don't understand is why do they hate mountain bikes? Generally on average they're cheaper than a road bike, can take them on dirt trails, and it's people going to use it. Are they just elitist pricks ?

 

[Jotch]

Something I don't understand is why do they hate mountain bikes? Generally on average they're cheaper than a road bike, can take them on dirt trails, and it's people going to use it. Are they just elitist pricks ?

It is the bike version of a pickup truck.

 

[The Real Slim Shady]

No, you have to buy the carbon chassis road bicycle with titanium gears, that has wheels so thin it cannot ride on anything other than asphalt roads and bike ways. Why would you even go offroad on a bicycle? There's dirt and ticks and mosquitoes in WILD FORESTS. It's illegal to drive off road, you are hurting the nature!! You have to crash into people in the tiny city park on the paved ways.

 

[BulkForceFive]

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I can understand why some Euros buy American trucks (you get the foreign flex and they're as comfortable as a Merc or BMW SUV) but I'm dying to get inside the mind of the Japanese Ameri-truck enthusiast. Also did someone go muddin' in that Dodge, in Tokyo prefecture???

American car offerings could be so much cooler and far more diverse - and probably would be if the roads were designed and maintained better and most of the biomass currently on them was deported, put back in the kitchen or pillow'd where applicable so it could once again become the sole domain of the Young White Male as God intended - but I completely understand why the average normie would take a fullsize quad cab over a ute or take a Suburban over a sporty low-slung wagon any day of the week. The comfort, utility, versatility, reliability, low maintenance cost, passenger safety and fuel economy competitive with passenger vehicles is the obvious choice for people that don't care about cars or engaging driving experience at all but also recognize how much better driving is than any other form of getting around or transporting things.

This isn't the fault of trucks, though. America gave up on 'engaging driving experiences' a long time ago, possibly even the 70s depending on who you talk to. I mean, it's taken GM with their millions of RnDbuxx HOW long to do a mid-engine Corvette? And lets not talk about what they did to the Fiero...

Any of you ever hear of Ottawa's BRT to LRT conversion? Years ago they had one of the best transit systems in north america, super reliable and fast, a mix of separate roads for busses and bus lanes, it worked really well and a much larger than usual percentage of commuting was by bus. Then they spent most of the 2010s converting the separate roads to train lines and dug a subway under the core.

The result? Now it's very unreliable, slower, and transit ridership is way down even factoring in losses from the pandemic days. Even worse they somehow managed to buy trains that don't work when it's too cold or snowy (in Ottawa...).

And it cost like 3 billion dollars.

Ottawa is bisected by a major highway (unlike say, Toronto) with lots of interchanges so they already had great bus service, apart from the articulated buses fishtailing and wiping out in wintertime. The O-train is barely useful for funneling people from Barrhaven to downtown and does fuckalll for the workers in Kanata and Nepean and Orleans-Rockland. Also it cost 3billy while reusing a ton of trackage from CP which goes to show you what a fucking money pit it was.

 

[quaawaa]

I can understand why some Euros buy American trucks (you get the foreign flex and they're as comfortable as a Merc or BMW SUV) but I'm dying to get inside the mind of the Japanese Ameri-truck enthusiast.

They're the inverse of weebs, instead of liking trains, convenience store junk food, anime, and J-pop, they like trucks, muscle cars, Harley’s, airsoft guns, Westerns/Cowboy stuff, and rock-and-roll.

Famous ones include Hirohiko Araki (creator of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure) and Hideo Kojima (creator of Metal Gear).

Also, because of protectionist engine displacement taxes, you have to be rich to afford an American vehicle in Japan, so driving one around is a nice way of showing off your wealth.

 

[Yamamura]

Something I don't understand is why do they hate mountain bikes? Generally on average they're cheaper than a road bike, can take them on dirt trails, and it's people going to use it. Are they just elitist pricks ?

Partly yes, one part I think it's due to a mountain bike not being "ideal" for commuting compared to their beloved Dutch bikes; however most of the time I see some who isn't a bike snob getting around using a bike 9/10 times it's a mountain bike. Which makes sense because they make a lot of them. Also the road conditions are not always great so the mountain bike lends itself well to that sort of thing.

The other thing is I think they just don't like the mountain bike crowd for the same reasons as mentioned with the pickup truck crowd that they just view them as dude bro chuds I suppose.

 

[quaawaa]

Guerrilla road markings aren't fun anymore:




Note that there's an official sign telling cyclists to dismount and walk their bikes on the sidewalk:

Clearly the locals have gotten frustrated with them ignoring that sign and slowing down car traffic.





This road is not too narrow for a 30 MPH speed limit:





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Examples of them applauding illegally painting road markings:

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[Yamamura]

> Do you have a lot of Amercians living in this town

Funny how they're unable to fathom how anyone outside of America is annoyed by cyclists. Are the Americans you speak of in the room with us right now?

 

[Return of the Freaker]

Funny how they're unable to fathom any anyone outside of America is annoyed by cyclists. Are the Amercians you speak of in the room with us right now?

No, they're inside his woman

 

[quaawaa]

Jason's paypigs are canceling their subscriptions to him and his friends:

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Also, Nebula (the "by creators for creators" video site that Jason is invested in) takes a larger cut than YouTube (the evil megacorporation) does:

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YouTube ad revenue and YouTube premium subscriptions are split 55/45 in favor of the video maker and memberships/superchats are split 70/30, again in favor of the creator.

 

[Markass the Worst]

Motorcycles are dangerous (but e-bikes are not?):

FortNine has a good video arguing that e-bikes are actually more dangerous than motorcycles. Of course, the comments have been invaded by urbanists too.

 

[Kyria the Great]

Jason's paypigs are canceling their subscriptions to him and his friends:
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Also, Nebula (the "by creators for creators" video site that Jason is invested in) takes a larger cut than YouTube (the evil megacorporation) does:
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YouTube ad revenue and YouTube premium subscriptions are split 55/45 in favor of the video maker and memberships/superchats are split 70/30, again in favor of the creator.

Tom Nicholas is a breadtuber whose video on Fascism is quite bad as he doesn't even engage with any of the minds behind it to understand the ideology. The fact that breadtuber content is actually declining puts a big smile on my face as perhaps their big rise was artificial.

Big hopes it happens to Jason, especially since unlike most Breadtubers he has a borderline hostile relationship with his audience.

 

[Baraka Obama]

FortNine has a good video arguing that e-bikes are actually more dangerous than motorcycles. Of course, the comments have been invaded by urbanists too.

I don't have time to watch right now but it would seem obvious considering how motorcyclists wear DOT rated helmets, and at a minimum a sturdy jacket & jeans if not borderline body armor, plus how motorcycles can keep up with regular traffic and generally obey normal traffic laws.

The average guy on an ebike is going 40km/h in a bike lane or weaving in and out of traffic while wearing a tshirt and a piece of foam on his head.

 

[Dante Alighieri]

Jason's paypigs are canceling their subscriptions to him and his friends:
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Also, Nebula (the "by creators for creators" video site that Jason is invested in) takes a larger cut than YouTube (the evil megacorporation) does:
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YouTube ad revenue and YouTube premium subscriptions are split 55/45 in favor of the video maker and memberships/superchats are split 70/30, again in favor of the creator.

I hope these fucks have to get a real job

 

[Kyria the Great]

I hope these fucks have to get a real job

Exactly as I really don't wish the worst on many of them, I think a real job would stop the mental masterbation

 

[Yamamura]

Jason's paypigs are canceling their subscriptions to him and his friends:
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Also, Nebula (the "by creators for creators" video site that Jason is invested in) takes a larger cut than YouTube (the evil megacorporation) does:
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YouTube ad revenue and YouTube premium subscriptions are split 55/45 in favor of the video maker and memberships/superchats are split 70/30, again in favor of the creator.

I highly doubt it's occurring for the reasons Jason is saying. People are VERY willing to spend money on media they like, especially leftists who love to give people like Hasan Piker money. If you can't get them to give you money that's a skill issue.

I suspect a larger reason for the decline in money is due to people getting bored of the subject. I've stop donating to things I used to like because I just got bored of the project and stopped following it. Jason's cope is he must believe that his fans are on their last dime and would LOVE to give him money if only they had it. No they just moved on.

If Jason can't even secure a Raid Shadow Legends sponsorship as I said skill issue.

"Speaking of car free transport, you know what I do in my free time I save while on the train from not taking car dependant transport? I play Raid Shadow Legends. It's my favorite mobile game to play on the go. Use my promo code STROADS and get 3 premium characters for free and join the mobile sensation that is RAID SHADOW LEGENDS"

 

[Markass the Worst]

I don't have time to watch right now but it would seem obvious considering how motorcyclists wear DOT rated helmets, and at a minimum a sturdy jacket & jeans if not borderline body armor, plus how motorcycles can keep up with regular traffic and generally obey normal traffic laws.

The average guy on an ebike is going 40km/h in a bike lane or weaving in and out of traffic while wearing a tshirt and a piece of foam on his head.

Yup, you summarised the entire video. As a bonus, the video was created specifically to respond to retards who argue that motorcycles are more dangerous than e-bikes.

 

[Flaming Insignias]

Yup, you summarised the entire video. As a bonus, the video was created specifically to respond to retards who argue that motorcycles are more dangerous than e-bikes.

Seemed straightforward to me. E-Bikes are roughly comparable in power to a Moped, and yet the laws still treat them as if they are conventional bicycles, allowing for them to be used by people who are not prepared for the power available and/or power-tripping psychos who are now engaging in dangerous riding with a motorized vehicle. I’m not big on regulating everything to death, but the fact that people feel so offended by the thought that e-bikes can be dangerous shows that the power of the state may be needed to fix the problem.