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The culture problem around big vehicles we've created with bad regulation and aggressive marketing is depressing.
this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2023
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It isn't just a culture problem, it's a tragedy of the commons.
When you're surrounded by giant vehicles, the only way to ~~be~~ feel safe and see the road is to have a giant vehicle.
The only way to feel safe. The really big ego-support vehicles are no safer than a subcompact to be inside of, but they are far more likely to kill your own family.
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That's not the tragedy of the commons, and that's not why everyone drives turboencabulators.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax
It is, I shit you not, a cold war tariff on fucking chickens. There's some other shit that's glommed on over the centuries, but the mad-science breeding program to create a pickup truck big enough to swallow the sun started with a stupid trade dispute over chickens between the krauts, the frogs, and the yanks.
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So glad they put that thick protective white line there so I know I won’t be hit 🥰
It’ll be super protective when it snows!
Ironically enough, this is how the pavements are in the ski resort I live in. It's a "shared zone", pedestrians have the same rights as vehicles. It slows everyone down because nobody knows when the next braying snowboarder trust-fund baby is going to stagger out in front of you.
Oh and as for the snow, we have adorable little mini snowploughs for the pedestrian bit
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Of course it uploaded upside down
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What in the stupid is this?
Cheaper than a sidewalk, apparently.
The cost being the life of pedestrians? This is insane.
That doesn't show up on the balance sheet 😬
If you are walking you're either poor or up to no good, in both cases we don't want you around these parts. Oh, your kids need to walk? Don't be lazy and DRIVE them where they need to go!
Don’t be lazy and DRIVE
For the briefest of moments I felt a spark of blinding hot rage in my heart. Now I am left with the lingering feeling of wanting to smash my head against a rock.
Thank you for that experience.
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Why even allow people in this neighborhood? Just have cars and no people
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This what I hate about North America. Non walkable neighbourhoods.
Can you believe it that some see walkable neighbourhoods as a conspiracy? I just can’t wrap my head around why…
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Weirdly enough it is a walkable neighborhood legit this is the entire street in the picture, for some reason they decided to paint these people lanes instead of just leaving it.
There is no pavement/sidewalk...
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Next they'll eliminate the stripe and put up share-the-road signs with the stick figure
And the carbrains get mad about it because they don't want to share the road because that's communism
Is that a pedestrian symbol or the chalk outline of a pedestrian who got hit?
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The presence of the paint makes this nightmare area more walkable than plenty of places in the Failed States of America. I once had the misfortune of living in a place where the presence (or much more often, absence) of sidewalk was completely up to the owner of the property the stretch of road in question abutted. The rare property owner who chose to add sidewalk created a completely useless, disconnected decoration.
There's a storage unit near my neighborhood built on a stroad without a sidewalk, they built a sidewalk that stretches only within the bounds of the storage property.
On that regard: Storage units and hotels are so weird because if they get built in the suburbs no one will bat an eye (despite their density). But if its an apartment complex people lose their minds.
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Wow it’s like you guys are trying as hard as possible to not put in sidewalks.
Soooo...a sidewalk without the extra pavement?
I'm just wondering why that corpse was wearing such an unhealthy corset.
Unrealistic beauty standards. The corset is the reason they died.
Who would use this? Wouldn't you either walk on the grass or clearly in the middle of the street?
This is an American suburban. The petite burgerosie living in those houses would shoot your or call the cops to shoot you for walking on their lawns, or run you over with a Ford F 69,000 turbo jumbulator hepta-cab ultra-pickup if you walked in the street.
(this might not be an American suburb. It's hard to tell. All suburbs exist in a discrete liminal hell dimension)
I thought of this too, and then I realized that wheelchair users are completely fucked by this decision.
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Where I live people will park their ~~tanks~~ trucks in the driveway and block the sidewalk. At least they won't be able to do that here, but I wouldn't be surprised if people just start parallel parking on the people gutter
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Imagine seeing this when house hunting and still buying the house. You'd have to have worms in your brain to want one of these ugly McMansions with no sidewalk
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Who the hell designed this? I want to see the person who made this burn in hell
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More like it was a guy who got flattened by a car and got painted over, because that's exactly what's going to happen if you try and walk there
I keep seeing joggers in my area choosing the bike lane over the sidewalk, presumably because asphalt is softer than concrete sidewalks. If paving a ped lane next to the bike lane is what it takes to isolate these wrong-way bike-lane-jogging scufflaws, then let's just do it and be done with it. We can cannibalize a car lane to make it happen. >:-)
Sidewalks in car-brained areas are super dangerous to jog on. People backing out of their driveway or turning across the road at 10-20km/h without looking. Trip hazards. Ankle destroying driveway cutouts or curved surfsces. Uneven grading.
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And of course every car there is a suburban assault vehicle too.
Sidewalks would interrupt my precious lawn!
Time for a car gulag. Garage gulag? Garlag? Gulage?
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