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An attempt to recreate the /r/NotJustBikes community on Lemmy. I'm just reserving the Community Name, other folks (for instance the /r/NotJustBikes mods?) are welcome to take over.

NOTE: This sublemmy (?) is in no way related to or affiliated with NotJustBikes, Jason Slaughter, etc.

#RULES

1. Be nice. Please.

I know it's the internet, but be nice. And report trolls & spammers.

2. No memes

No memes, image macros, or low-effort posts. These are easily upvoted, but they pollute the subreddit very quickly.

POSTING MEMES WILL RESULT IN A TEMPORARY BAN.

3. Stay on topic

Try to stick to posts and comments related to the themes of NJB videos, or content creation. Things like urban planning, mobility & transportation, social equity, Dutch culture, etc..

4. No Trolling

Go troll somewhere else. We don't need that shit here.

5. No comment screenshots

Please don't post screenshots of stupid comments as a post. We all know there are ignorant morons online, we don't need to bring even more attention to their stupid comments.

6. No vehicular cycling

I have no patience for advocates of vehicular cycling. You can talk about vehicular cycling, but if you promote it as an alternative to safe bike infrastructure, I will ban you. You can post that crap somewhere else.

7. No people being hit by cars/road violence

Do not show videos or pictures of people being hit by cars, or other road violence. We don't need to see that shit. We know cars are dangerous, and many people have bad memories of car crashes. Keep it out of this subreddit.

8. No tone policing

We don't need any more tone police. If you don't like the tone that Not Just Bike takes in his videos, there's a very easy solution: stop watching them.

9. No internet drama

Don't spread or promote drama over what has happened on the Internet. You're spending too much time online: go touch grass.

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How many people will not push the button at traffic lights because of Peter Pannekoek? (www.youtube.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In his old year cabaret show, Peter Pannekoek stated the buttons near crossings don't actually do anything, they're just there to just pacify people. I'm fairly certain they in fact do work, though for cyclists they're mostly redundant: the magnetic loops in the road surface detect cyclists. Only for lightweight carbon bikes a manual button is still useful.

Am I correct in my assumption?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nnnnope I'm still just as confused. What do you mean about a 4th light on the traffic light?

Do your lights give drivers a warning, like "hey there's a bike coming soon"? As far as my experience goes, pedestrian lighting always consists of stop and go, no inbetweens.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Picture from the internet, but like this. Above the regular red, orange, green there is a 4th one with the text "wait" that will turn on after pressing. It also has a circle of white leds around it counting down to the green light. With these things it's just lean on the pole and wait while comfy leaning.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh damn, that's so neat! We do not do those little cyclist lights, except on big roads where we for some reason thought there may be cyclists... There never are because it's quite terrifying with 5 lanes of traffic and a huge car/tram intersection in front of you.

Consider me envious!

Also our buttons look very much like those in the picture, may be worth to touch underneath and check for hidden accessibility secrets!