North American in a nutshell

What if I told you the gum that you chew was also made from plastic.

Why are these two standing right in the centre of what looks to be a road?! Get off the road stupid pedestrians, you’re asking to get run over. /s

What are your thoughts on bike lanes?

This is the answer, bbc is the solution.

To get less “tech inclined” people to use the bbc feature is another story.

Sending a email to the whole office from HR, bbc all recipients. Then recipients can only reply to HR, and not 600 plus staff members, into a email chain that last all day asking people to stop replying all, while replying all at the same time.

I have no clue how you are getting down voted in a fuckcars community for pointing out this infrastructure is still car centric and does nothing to solve traffic, only induce demand.

If this area was designed for people only it would not look like this.

This is still city planners creating a dangerous strode and intersecting it with a interstate highway and calling it good enough.

Its been many years since my driving school courses and being taught by the instructors in car, but seem you may be correct in the laws ambiguous wording on this after I did some reading myself.

Personally the instructors and the driving test individuals that I talked with (years ago) all stated that its prudent to treat intersection as if there were always the possibility of a pedestrians, cyclists, or other car being there. This meant that you would always slow down, stop, and yeild the right of way.

Reading this handbook in my local area, diagram 2-20 states this.

“At any intersection where you want to turn left or right, you must yield the right-of-way. If you are turning left, you must wait for approaching traffic to pass or turn and for pedestrians in or approaching your path to cross. If you are turning right, you must wait for pedestrians to cross if they are in or approaching your path (Diagram 2-20). You should also check your blind spot for cyclists approaching from behind, particularly in a bike lane to your right, on a sidewalk or a trail.”

I admits it does not say stop explicitly. Though my driving style after all these years is to always treat intersection (especially those with sidewalks and bikelanes along them) with extra care and always slow down, stop, and prepare to yeild the right of way to more vulnerable road users.

https://www.ontario.ca/document/official-mto-drivers-handbook/driving-through-intersections

Theres a rule that no one follows on the roads, when turning right (or left for that matter) you come to a complete stop and then proceed. This applies even if there is no stop sign or the light is solid green.

The only exception to this is if your signal light shows a green arrow pointing right, or left.

The location in the image pointed out above tells motorists they can proceeded at full speed, run over the pedestrian at the crossing, run over the cyclists (that has the right of way), and drive head first into traffic in a effort to murge as quickly as possible.

There should (at the minimum) be painted yeild the right of way marking on the road. Both before the pedestrians crossing at the off ramp and right before the bike lane crossing, which should be painted continuously.

Kind of like this.

Though paint is no substitute for proper roadway design.

North American has this concept in roadway design where traffic engineers feel the need to make every roadway large. Think of interstate interchanges.

There is also this need to try and design roadways as both roads and streets, while maintaining the flow of high speed traffic at the same. This leaves us with neither good roads or enjoyable streets.

Roads get you from point A to point B without regard for what’s in between or along the route. They are meant to move large amounts of traffic with minimal to no lights/stops/driveways.

Streets on the other hand are “destinations” and are meant for the people that live along them. Streets are traffic calmed, streets give the right of way to pedestrians. Streets have driveways, and multiple interaction zones between people on foot, on bikes, and on cars.

A street cannot act as a road nor can a road act as a street.

This image trys to turn the underpass into a street (which it can be), but it’s main function is still designed as a high-speed roadway. So this leaves us with a combination of the two (a strode) which neight is a good road or a enjoyable street for the local community.

Some examples of simplified highway off ramps that connect directly into traffic calmed streets.

City planing also plays a role here, and its usually has to do how our we build city centres right next to highway off ramps. This leaves no room for proper roadway design where you “stepdown” your roadway classification.

Good planing would have a interstate (130-100kph) connect to a highway (100-80kph), which then empties into a high-speed road (80-60kph), which steps down to a road 50-40kph, and then transitions into a street (30-10kph).

Instead we have interstate highways empty right into a city street.

The poster seem to normalise people being hit or run over by cars. (Note the tire marks)

A pedestrian hit by a car, and no blame in the poster is associated to a car, the car is not visible in the scene.

It seems to associate the intelligence of a person with that of a animal that made the same mistake, ie. wanting to cross the road safely.

My comment was satire in reaponse to the user by the name of lnxtx.

Seems they may have been insinuating that the operators of the motor vehicles in the video clip would be within their right to draw weapons against the pedestrians that were blocking their path. (If this were the USA at least).

Obviously the motorists put themselves in the situation of driving on a sidewalk without regard for anyone’s safety.

Vehicle traffic should always be predictable, and in this case the individuals inside the cars were both showing disregard for pedestrians and their fellow road users.

Are you using musicbrainz picard to tag your collection, or something more manual?

Just ran this on my entire music library of 73000+ songs. Worked like a charm.

I assume you are insinuating that the operator of a motor vehicle has complete authority to roam free wherever they please without regard for others? ie. on sidewalks, on trails, on bike paths, and in some cases drive against the flow of traffic? And are you saying in all cases they can choose and have the right to freely run over pedestrians as they see fit?

I too agree that pedestrians should have the right to keep and bear arms against motorists. Especially those that intentionally use their vehicles as weapons with the intention to kill.

Though I do think stickers used to bring shame and self reflection are very well deserving in this content.

I love it! Can someone translate the stickers?

I got to say though watching some of these interactions with total strangers makes me tense. Especially when the drivers act all tough behind the wheel. Some basically wanting to end your life so they themselves can gain a few extra seconds in their lives.

Mad Men the picnic scene.

Littering wasn’t a concern back then. When Don casually tossed the can aside, I was astonished and confused. Then to make matters worse, Betty shakes off the rubbish from the picnic blanket onto the ground before heading to the car. Not a care in the world at all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roREnVhd_og

Try to do the same today and a park would be filled with plastic wrappers in a few days.

Any chance Jellyfin and Finamp have a music playlist and mix building feature?

Plex has this with Plexamp but I have not had a chance to look into jellyfin to see if a plugin offers something similar.

I hate building playlists, Plex offers a few different options like sonic sage, sonic adventure, artist mix builder, and automatic mixes based on past listening history.

The more alternative transportation options we provide in our cities and towns frees up that space for the remaining vehicular traffic.

I have no idea why a large part of motorists does not see this concept. Instead they seem to fight against it in their own best interests.

If you commute to work in a car and there are another 100+ road users with you all headed in the exact same direction, would you prefer them all to be in individual cars? Or would you prefer a few of those people take the tram, a few take a bus, a few hop on the subway, a few cycle, and the remaining few who can walk?

I think your statment here is actual in reverse of what you may want to point out.

An increase in rent shows a induced demand for the property. More people are wanting to live in this location, thus the rents have gone up because of this demand. The rent did not go up because of the cost of installing those trees, but because the trees are there.

Similarly homes located near public parks, schools, hospitals, or transit may have a higher price tag because more people want said properties.