• conditional_soup@lemm.ee
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    12 hours ago

    I just want to get my city’s bike infrastructure to the point where my SO doesn’t tell me I can’t ride to the grocery store because some MF will almost certainly run me over.

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    15 hours ago

    Cars are the ultimate mode of transportation. When I go to the store I drive my car. Then when I have to go from the parking lot to the store itself I drive another car. Then when I have to move around the store I drive another smaller car.

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      13 hours ago

      it’s genuinely so dystopian to me that some Americans are forced to use a car from their houses to the store… they have to spend money on petrol every time they just wanna get a little something from a corner store. talk about a restrictive society… I get why delivery apps are popular there.

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          8 hours ago

          And there it is.

          Mind you, different pressures make different designs. Part of the reason the Netherlands has great mass transit is they got bombed to hell in WWII. The cities were also initially grown out of medieval designs.

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    18 hours ago

    that is why fancy people wear fancy bicycle clothes when they go for a “training” ride … they want you to know that they can afford a car; they aren’t some random poor going to work on a bicycle. they have cars for that.

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    Suburban types literally flex on how deadly their car is… If they get in the accident the other car has no chance and passengers will die but that’s ok because that’s a small price to lay for the driver to “feel” safer.