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More Federal money freed up for Israel
Not Just Bikes / r/fuckcars / Urbanists / New Urbanism / Car-Free / Anti-Car - People and grifters who hate personal transport, freedom, cars, roads, suburbs, and are obsessed with city planning and urban design
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It's especially egregious since /r/fuckcars champions property damage for anyone they don't like or a perceived slight. If we truly lived in a world with less crime (and not the bullshit "less crime" propaganda now) they might have an argument. It's reasons why gun control arguments in the 1990s focused heavily on a pro-police angle to do the heavy lifting when it came to the "bad guys" (highly flawed in practice but at least was ideologically consistent), but even in the early 1990s Los Angeles had that riot over Rodney King (and even then, it was the acquittal of the officers, not the actual offense).
In any case, arguing that a bullet-proof car isn't a useful thing to have in post-2020 American cities is absurd.
They do badly at town hall meetings because they aren't equipped to actually debate. You can't dodge criticisms by telling people to watch a video or read a paper, you can't ban or downvote who disagree with you, sperging about dead children makes you look like a psychopath, and normies respond poorly to threats and insults.
"Muh trans kids" is grooming/abuse shit, in this case they do not fucking care about kids, they're only using kids to get what they want. They do not care about kids and can (and do) run them down with a bicycle.
I'm not watching his stuff but I had to try to look up both systems to see what the hell he was whining about. The 50 minutes is pretty meaningless, zoomers will sperg that long about how the camera and controls in Super Mario 64 don't work like modern games, but what exactly got him mad? The Toronto streetcar obviously has a higher percentage of non-whites, but that's not something Jason would talk about. The thing that seems the most obvious is that the Toronto streetcar has shared lanes with cars and other vehicles (notice the cyclist on the tram lane, and that the street is narrow enough to have just parking/loading/useless bullshit and two shared lanes).
Even if that is his thesis, there are going to be problems with that, such as...
- the streetcars of old that urbanists think we never should've gotten rid of shared the street with everyone else on the road
- "sharing the road with slower vehicles, grr grr" inadvertently advocates for banning cyclists from the streets altogether
- the streets of Amsterdam that have trams have a much wider right of way, wide streets and roads confuse and scare the urbanist
- streets that have trams means they have to go at a slower speed and have their own traffic signals (subways or dedicated ROW trains have traditional railroad crossing signals and rarely stop)
- sharing right of way with traditional lanes means has the advantage that the street can be used on off-hours and have more use ("efficiency")
- the "dedicated tram tracks in the median" IS how Houston's METRORail does it but he will NEVER give Houston credit for anything, even if it's something they want (or claim they want, like no zoning).
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Toronto streetcars have dedicated lanes on Spadina, at least. Traffic in downtown TO just sucks.
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I am shocked (not really) any fuck cars faggot is upset that the California high speed rail grift was cancelled. It was such a waste of money and blatant theft from the tax payer while making high speed rail projects look bad to normal US citizens.
Me getting to control your kid and life is a moral imperative. You controlling my life or your own life when I don't approve is rape. Isn't there someone you forgot to ask?
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I contend that the New York Subway poisoned the idea of rail-based transit in America for years and continues to do so.
Urbanists screech about "if you kill a cyclist while driving a vehicle, you should be charged with murder", but shower thought--what if the cyclist is a Nazi? What then? Are you still punished for harming a Nazi, or do the rules change?
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A part of me think he did this intentionally. Kamikaze into the police motorcycle and sue the department for pulling someone over in the bikelane and hopefully get a big fat settlement.
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This is the best video on the internet
Also, how much you wanna bet that r/fuckcars will defend this cyclist?
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HE WAS IN THE BIKE LANE!!!111
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It does bring on an interesting counter argument. Under that logic could it be said if a pedestrian is jaywalking the driver is allowed to ram into whatever is obstructing the road or if something is blocking the train tracks the engineer is within their right to obliterate whatever is blocking the tracks.
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I guess they could say that the cyclist was trying to stay close to the bike lane instead of veering into highway traffic.
If it were me though, the actual smart thing to have done would been to have stopped and then walked the bike on the right side of the tow truck.
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These types WILL defend trains smashing into things like cars on the track, though...
Trying to find where the incident happened wasn't difficult as this was relatively recent (in really recent news, a cyclist in DeLand, Florida blew a stop sign and got hit by a pickup truck, the pickup truck tried to swerve to avoid him but still got wasted).
Anyway, the particular incident per this news article (not archived) was in Carlsbad, California, and it's a really nice part of town (to the east, big houses, to the west, shopping centers with gourmet grocery, expensive gym, upscale furniture, nice restaurants, etc.) on La Costa Avenue; looks like only recently (last 3-4 months) that the green paint was added.
Street View indicates that it was previously four lanes (but no shoulder) prior to around 2019-2020, the speed limit is 40 mph but has a recommended 35 mph for the curve. (European friends--that's 64 kph and 56 kph, respectively).
There is a sidewalk on the other side of the road.
I would say that in this case, the cyclist is probably some rich fuck who lives in the area and larps as some competitive cyclist even though he has a (good) car that he uses for actually going places.
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I want to see their reaction when a train slams into a cyclist who was trying to beat the train.
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I'll believe it. They kamikaze into the road without warning or any sign of their intent before, and get mad when someone does nearly hit them.
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Another bike rider that doesn't think the rules of the road apply to them as well as listening to police orders:
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He doesn't get rekd like that "wave a gun at cops" guy elsewhere in Florida, but while that guy was a screw-up from a lower-middle class background, this guy looks like he comes from a well-off family and reeks of all the trademarks of the worst of those people--rich enough to think the rules don't apply to them, but boorish enough to have no job, no talent, no charisma, no connections, and no class. (Look at that haircut, look at how chunky that lad is).
Coincidentally, while the screw-up guy was in a scruffy but ordinary neighborhood, he's in a tony part of town.
"Tragic accident" despite the "no such a thing as an accident" rhetoric tossed around.
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I will too, insofar as it's impossible to stop a train when a car decides to run the crossing gates. Unless it derails? There's no excuse for getting hit by a train, their paths are completely predictable and their presences imminently known.... so most of those accidents are indefensible for whoever got hit.
Except these people see having to dismount for a bike for any reason to be a human rights violation, or having to look up and scan for hazards....... as if drivers or even people on foot never have to have a heads-up moment for any reason ever as they move around, it's not just common sense, it's basic survival. Even grazing animals stop and look around from time to time, only the True Biker (tm) thinks they are entitled to complete safety with completely no action on their part. It's amazing.
He also could've just waited 8-10 minutes. As you know I'm former Tow Truck man? A rollback load of a disabled on flat ground with no apparent damage wouldn't take much longer than that. If I were the cyclist, I'd just take a breather while they loaded and then got on with life..... but then again? I'm not an insane Tour de France LARPer.
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kiwirevolving
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Wonder what the reaction of r/fuckcars would be to this blind woman showing off her car. She needs a second speedometer since it's more visible and she has to listen to Google Maps' directions every time she drives
At least she doesn't drive when it's raining, if it's dark outside or on highways, but reddit would still probably call a truck more dangerous.
At least she doesn't drive when it's raining, if it's dark outside or on highways, but reddit would still probably call a truck more dangerous.
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Animated Disney shorts are known to be propaganda pieces (most noticeably in the World War II-centric ones) but I'd be curious to see the /r/fuckcars take on this one (The Story of Anyburg, USA, 1957). (I cannot archive at this time)
I'm pretty sure that this is vaguely based after criticism of automobile accidents (and speed limits) at the time, though I can't find much corroborating evidence. The whole short has some social ills of cars (traffic accidents, burning rubber/noise, dangerous shitmobiles) and so forth. The prosecutor is basically Reddit, the defense attorney explains that drivers, not the cars, are to blame, and the cars are acquitted.
It's relevant because Reddit still has this idea that cars themselves are a problem, the whole "we need to orient our city for people, not cars" rhetoric and "more highways are just more cars". They'd probably think the prosecutor was 100% right in this case.
I'm pretty sure that this is vaguely based after criticism of automobile accidents (and speed limits) at the time, though I can't find much corroborating evidence. The whole short has some social ills of cars (traffic accidents, burning rubber/noise, dangerous shitmobiles) and so forth. The prosecutor is basically Reddit, the defense attorney explains that drivers, not the cars, are to blame, and the cars are acquitted.
It's relevant because Reddit still has this idea that cars themselves are a problem, the whole "we need to orient our city for people, not cars" rhetoric and "more highways are just more cars". They'd probably think the prosecutor was 100% right in this case.
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BubbaDaLoveSponge
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Yeah that has to be insurance fraud, it has been a while since I rode a bike, but I'm pretty sure there is a thing called brakes, and you can turn to dodge it