though understandable as bike lanes are quite a bit cheaper than building public transit from scratch.

Why, confusing me for a chap from our colony, how quaint.

wt:lorry#Noun

1. (British, Ireland, South Asia, Africa) A large and heavy motor vehicle designed to carry goods or soldiers; a truck

also this:

https://youtu.be/3CPu9c1Qp6c?t=560 (cued, for several seconds)

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Oh, Not Just Bikes has a video on Finns vs. Canadians.

Thanks for the link. 🙂

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How do cities decide on which busses to buy?

The selection probably isn’t as good as cars.

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Who will build a bridge?

idk. Maybe some mafia front that under-bids, but raises the price when they’re halfway done?

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I understand that it’s harder to fix what’s fucked up than to improve what was still functional but “oh it’s hard” is not an argument with which you can counter “it’s better”. I never said it would be easy.

I was agreeing with your statement “though understandable as bike lanes are quite a bit cheaper than building public transit from scratch.”

Maybe such children in such camps should be adopted by Kurds, Copts, and/or lesbian feminists.

Cars don’t belong in cities

I didn’t. You need streets for at least the fire brigade, ambulances, tradespeople, (parcel) delivery, and the occasional taxi. Moving vans. Even lorries supplying shops, can’t have a cargo tram everywhere.

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You’re back-tracking: now you are allowing, however intelligently, for cars in some instances

You also sound British, which no offense, but it’s a country that doesn’t have cities that get as hot (or hot and humid) as say, Las Vegas, Phoenix, San Antonio, New Orleans, Atlanta, or Orlando.

or as cold as, say, St. Paul, maybe Anchorage, Chicago, or Buffalo;

and that’s just the US. No cars within Toronto city limits wouldn’t work well. Ditto Moscow, probably Kyiv, Warsaw, Mumbai, Brisbane, Jakarta, Ho Chi Minh City, Dubai, et al, either.

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What we definitely don’t need is parents driving 12yolds to school.

I mostly agree. As a person older than 70% of North Americans, I think the nerfing of society can cause problems.

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How about we make it a municipal utility.

Okay. Now let’s say it’s a city with over 1 million people, and the experts say minimally one car per 400, or 2500 cars needed for rent. Which company will get the contract to sell the city those ≥2500 cars—Ford, GM, Chrysler, Toyota, BMW, Tesla, or a Chinese variant? The one that lobbies best?

How about allow licensing of rent-a-cars? Existing ones are grandfathered in for 20 years without plates, but others pay, say, £10 000 + £2000 every year for a license to rent. Obviously they’d also have to have good insurance.

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It’s actually habit, formed at an early age. Bike is how I got to primary school, which was possible because some committee designed the city in a way that it was possible (distance) as well as safe. I do have a driving license, lessons etc. cost a good 2k Euro back them, never owned a car. Haven’t driven in ages.

Perhaps, and good for you. My point was more of individual effort. Chances are, where you’re from, there were people who’d cycle in pretty well any condition, and insisted on the right to cycle. They were the reason some authorities made accommodations, which in turn made cycling seem more viable to more people, thus increasing the number of cyclists. Such were incremental—a bike lane here, a bike lane there—nothing that required >£1 billion (or >€1 billion)—and eventually cyclists got a bit of an infrastructure and proposals for more expensive projects got more considered—but one way or another, people will be cycling—the only question is how to increase it.

FWIW,

wc:Category:Overgrown structures

Weather is a cop-out, not an issue, plenty of hot, cold, snowy, rainy places with plenty of bikes.

I live in Toronto, and yes, I see a few people cycling in winter, but many more do so in the summer.

Goodness knows what it’s like in, say, parts of the American during mid-summer.

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For the infirm and disabled there’s e-bikes and other light vehicles, and for people with stuff to carry there’s cargo bikes, delivery, or, hear me out, rental cars.

You posted:

Cars don’t belong in cities

but now you are allowing for cars, provided they’re rentals—perhaps from Mega Car Rental Inc. Yes, I’m sure Bezos, Musk, Cook, and other corporate riffraff have thought of this.

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though understandable as bike lanes are quite a bit cheaper than building public transit from scratch.

This is true in Toronto.

Your choosing to cycle was your decision, not some committee’s.

good idea.

The idea of much of the criminal justice system is to deter. If the law fails, vigilantes appear. Folks like Luigi Mangione can get quite popular and have supporters.

What if it’s snowing, raining, or very hot; there are infirmed and/or disabled people; and those who have stuff to carry?

wp:Wirth’s law

Wirth’s law is an adage on computer performance which states that software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware is becoming faster.

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IIUC, robbers have forced people to withdraw from cash machines.

I wonder if Musk will be saying anything about it.

You better survive if the defendant knows what’s good for wt:thon.

Thon might be facing a number of charges.

I kinda like it too. 😁

Thanks for posting it!

Let the motorists know your disapproval. There might be many ways to express such. 😁

I don’t think many judges watch owned compilations.

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“But your honour, I can’t pay the awards, I can’t even begin to pay it!”

“You can start with the revenue you make from those ‘owned’ videos you posted on YouTube.”

“But YouTube pays me shit!”

“That’s not the court’s problem. You injured the cyclist and destroyed his bike: you pay for it.”

Good point, but it might be used against cyclists by the car lobby, and perhaps even a future bicycle manufacturing lobby.

also e.g. “From now on, police can seize any bike with a tire pressure over 5% the recommended maximum.” or “But your honor, I didn’t realized I had to register my bike, and I think the confiscation and fine are racially motivated.”

I suppose carrying a few cameras would help to insure safety.

corrected and thank you for the correction. 😁🙂