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submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

That's like saying "I'm pro-life and anti-gun control".

Oh. Wait.

Edit: Guy confirmed that he is, indeed, pro-life and anti-gun control.

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 12 hours ago

I'm pro bike and anti bike lane.

The entire street should be for bikes only

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

That's what happens in my city, people hella mad about it

[-] [email protected] 10 points 13 hours ago

You lie. That's how. They aren't pro bike they are just saying it to make their point

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Some of them are against bike lanes because they say it gives drivers a false sense of entitlement and cyclists a false sense of security when they're supposed to be sharing the road.

That doesn't sound like this guy, though.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Pro-life + anti-gun control = pro-birth.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Or in other words: He's pro after-birth abortions.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Birth them all; let school shooters sort them out

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

"Solve school shootings by birthing backup-children."

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

This is funny to me because the one time I was in NYC, the streets were empty but the sidewalks were congested as fuck.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago
[-] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago

That's obvious. He pays to use Twitter.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

Got a friend this way. He hates bikes on the road. And yells to get on the greenways etc. Cause slow his lifted f150, that he needs to commute and get groceries, down for 30 seconds. The bike then get on the greenway and then he bitches they go too fast there.

Also he weighs about 300 lbs and doesn’t work out in any way.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago

You all need to visit the Netherlands.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago
[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The cycling infrastructure in Switzerland is good, but the Netherlands are on a whole different level.

The video is ok, but contains incorrect information. Fines aren't scaled by income, they're fixed. Only for major infractions that go before a court of law is the penalty scaled.

Also, there is a shot from Bern saying "look people don't cycle when it's unsafe" but what is being shown is the roundabout of the motorway exit Ostring. No one cycles around that as there is no point. Cyclists would bypass that ugly sin from the 1970s.

It's also funny to hear Basel being called a small city, in Switzerland it's considered one of the biggest, like Genève, Zürich, Bern, Lausanne.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It’s also funny to hear Basel being called a small city

That’s kind of amusing to me as I was recently in an online debate about whether the state of New Hampshire could support passenger rail. It’s a rural state but the population centers you’d connect aren’t all the much smaller.

For posterity: yes it’s worthwhile. Normally (especially in the US) you’d think the population is too small, but

  • the track exists and is still in use
  • three biggest population centers in a straight line and fairly close
  • it’s the same track served by a Boston commuter line
  • the southern part of New Hampshire has a large population of people who work in Boston.

So MBTA could extend one of their lines, on existing track to capture thousands of additional car commuters literally ten miles to the border. And New Hampshire could get useful rail service by paying them to go an extra 70 miles. Zero infrastructure cost and NH doesn’t even have to figure out how to run a railroad

[-] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

The town I grew up in has approx. 4000 inhabitants. It is served by a railway station with 4 trains per hour (one per direction every 30min), all day, from 05:00 to 24:00. On top of that it has four bus lines with frequencies between 30 and 10 minutes. It lies next to a medium sized (for Switzerland) city of 55k inhabitants, which has much much more public transport, like 20+ trains an hour in 6 directions and dozens of bus lines.

Just for comparison.

A 55k community in the USA would probably be considered a very small town, I guess. Not worthy of even a single railway line.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

We do have our share of actual small towns, but in the sense of rail investments yes that’s way too small. All too many major cities still don’t have rail here.

My town is 60k but we have two (soon to be three) stations and regular service by virtue of being a suburb of Boston. That’s a lot tougher of an argument for a rural state like New Hampshire, but they’ve been facilitating freight rail and preserving track so they’re in a good place. Most importantly this is an opportunity to take advantage of the “network effect” of just extending an exiting line rather than starting from scratch. All too much of the US can’t do that

Bostons commuter rail network has really been expanding for the last couple decades and this would be a natural extension

A related initiative has been to organize the region’s airports to take some of the air traffic off Boston. We already have commuter rail and Amtrak service south to Providence to help with that: not just to go there but to make it easier for more people to use that airport when they have to fly. Including Manchester New Hampshire Airport in Boston’s transit network would be a nice win.

[-] [email protected] 43 points 2 days ago

Bike lanes suck. Separated bike paths are much better. Or just streets without cars at all, no need for a bike lane if there are no cars.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

In this paradise, where are the Rollerbladers?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Rollerblade lane.

Separate but equal. /s

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

4 wheels bad.

2 wheels good.

8 wheels, mmmm OK, over there please.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Nah nah nah, rollerblade path. No need for a rollerblade lane of there are no bikes.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

In this paradise, where are the pogo sticks?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Next to the unicycle path.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago

"it's simple math" - read about that expression on Facebook, never actually had math themselves as they were home schooled in creationism and flat earth.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Wtf even is simple-math? Arithmetic? Logic? The 2006 Kansas middle-school curricilum?

[-] [email protected] 76 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'm anti bike lane. Roads should be for bikes and pedestrians. Cars should get their own single separated lane on the occasional road.

Bike lanes are car infrastructure. They are not needed unless you consider the entire street to be for cars by default.

Also dave is an idiot. Maximum capacity would be a cycle and transit only street because those have the highest throughput per lane. Cars are incredibly space inefficient.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Relevant not just bikes about the streets in Tokyo that prioritise pedestrians: https://youtu.be/jlwQ2Y4By0U

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[-] [email protected] 90 points 2 days ago

They're still on xitter, and they paid for blue checks. Who cares what opinion they hold on literally anything?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

please call it Twitter. just to piss elon off. Xitter sounds even worse than X honestly

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I read it as "shitter" and it makes me chuckle. Is that not how you're supposed to say it?

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[-] [email protected] 95 points 2 days ago

Always check twice whenever someone claims "it's simple math"!

[-] [email protected] 56 points 2 days ago

the simple math supports the idea. the normal math does not.

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[-] [email protected] 40 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Vehicular cyclists are the fucking worst. I find that they fall into two groups:

  • "The John Forrester", generally oldhat nerds festooned with side mirrors and blinking lights and fluoro vests who are basically at the point of cosplaying as a car.
  • "The Dentist", young and middle-aged guys with money for whom cycling is purely a sport and nothing else, who annually dump $20K into prebuilt bikes and clothing like it's nothing.

Either way they're almost 100% athletic white men who for some reason never picked up on the fact that cycling in a car culture is a near-perfect analogy / example of what it's like to be a marginalized minority and a first-hand demonstration of privilege. Instead they're defenders of the status quo - By way of their own athletic, gender, or monetary privilege - All the way to their bloody meat crayon deaths. They're that one asshole who shows up to the community board meeting about a new bike lane that will make cycling accessible for children, the elderly, and any person in between who is more risk-averse or less athletic than they are in order to speak against it "As a cyclist". Because to them battling for your life in traffic, being on the bleeding edge of death, breathing in truck exhaust from the shoulder of a stroad is a gatekeeping measure. They're masochistic elites, they rake pride in the danger that they put themselves in so much that they'd deny accessibility to anyone else unwilling to accept that danger.

Gordon Ramsey is an example of someone in the dentist group. A few years ago he very nearly got meat crayoned by a car while cycling in the US. He didn't provide the details of the crash but it was obvious from his injuries that he'd been hit from the side by a car or truck and likely went over the hood. His public plea in revealing this wasn't that the US needs to make roads safer for cyclists, or more accessible to people who don't have a group of equally wealthy friends to peloton around a foreign country with, maybe separating cars from cyclists so that the two may never conflict. His one and only adamant request was that we all wear a helmet. Cycling is wasted on these myopic asshats.

Oh bother, I've gone and ranted again.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Have you been outside of the first world recently? Here in Mexico, cyclists are mostly old people with backpacks filled with tools on their way to fix a sink.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

No, but I'm speaking specifically about US culture. Sorry, I know this community is international and so I should have stated that.

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Cause and effect. When you make cycling a challenge, the only cyclists will be the most radical/motivated. If we had the infrastructure to make cycling safe and easy, many more casual cyclists would exist. Europe proves that

“If you build it they will come”

As it is, building it doesn’t even work so well because we are so starved for opportunity that so many “bike paths” are overwhelmed by pedestrians that also never had options

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Yup, it definitely has snowball potential in either direction. Build more infrastructure, incentivize more advocates. Build less infrastructure, incentivize more privileged subcultures.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Either way they're almost 100% athletic white men

Someone has never been to Europe.

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Hey, i fall into the dentist group! But i totally advocate for bike lanes, and i'm not white...

There are dozens of us at the local critical mass ride!!! I make it a point to show up in my ridiculous spandex gear to show people the dentists aren't all assholes. Also, good spandex is really comfy.

Why the hate?? Yeah i sunk a lot of money into my hobby, but thats what people do. People spend tens of thousands on camera gear, gaming rigs, etc. Why hate on others' expensive hobbies?

I'm actually not that rich, but living car free and biking every day has allowed me to allocate a lot of money towards my hobbies. Cars are a total money sink... 10yrs ago it was around $6k/year TCO. I'm sure it's more now...

You should put an additional qualifier on your dentist description.... Carries their $20k bike on top of their $80k SUV. Drives 2 hours out of the city just to ride around for an hour...

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