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Another one that blew my mind was seeing someone who works in the space talking about how they apparently can't do any kind of infrastructure project if it would add even like two minutes to car commutes, even if it would speed up or allow for other methods of travel

I heartily endorse the conclusion.

Just need a spike design that affects cars but not bicycles. Maybe have the spikes under holes in a plate that only depresses if sufficient weight is applied.

As someone who has grown to hate cars more and more I can relate Loud, expensive, dangerous, take a ton of space, polute the air...

You shouldn’t, though. In both places doing so is considered extremely rude.

Berlin can’t get tire spikes soon enough.

the US is hell, exhibit 263

This describes all of urban planning YouTube

Nailed it

I have considered deploying caltrops from the back of my bike, like Spy Hunter.

You join the Yimby movement and learn that super dense cities are also the most walkable, bike friendly and car hostile way to organize humans.

You can also zoom in a tiny bit, which means you don't have to hold your finger on the screen for sliding.

The best way to make US traffic safer, for everyone, is to close all but two lanes on every road in towns and cities... people will find other ways...

Consider me radicalised.

Just one more lane bro. For real though I’m on team spike trap

Someone should get on a plane and drop a tonne of these on American cities

Netherlands! Netherlands!

Um yes! There are places in my city where you have to walk 2 miles before you can walk across a street!

One more beanie guy blurb where he starts insisting "he's a urban refugee and North America cannot be saved and can never be smartly urban like the Netherlands" and you've got a whole character arc

it would be super illegal if someone bought this and scattered it in a gated community. SUPER illegal

Replace one lane on each side of urban roads with wide sidewalks and outdoor cafes on every corner.

Ah yes, famously flat Switzerland. 😉

If I lived and worked in Seattle I wouldn't own a car either. But I don't. Which is why I go into the city far less than I used to. Sure, parking's expensive, that's to be expected. But Seattle simply does not want you to drive there. So I don't go.

City which have bike architecture in North America is Montreal which have literal reference to mountain in it’s name and it’s definitely not flat.

What you're experiencing is the natural progression of car worship meeting a growing population in a limited physical space. The hostility comes in when it comes to funding and acting on plans to establish and maintain public transit.

Ah, the tunnel. Carries fewer cars, has a toll, and is below sea level. God help anyone trapped in an earthquake. No wonder everyone uses Alaskan Way.

Just my observation as a former resident (Fremont, between the troll and J.P. Patches) now living in south King County. Seattle really doesn't want cars. Metro/Sound Transit really don't want to take me there. I have to drive to Issaquah or Kent and the trip takes three times as long.

Holland loves bicycles because there is a lot of bike infrastructure set up here so it's safe and easy. Holland loves SINGLE-SPEED bicycles because it's flat.

If you had the same infrastructure in a hilly place, there would be fewer single-speeds and more geared bikes and ebikes, but "Dutch bike because flat" is silly. One could just as well argue that NL is TERRIBLY ill-suited to cycling because it rains all the time here, not like sunny California.

Yeah. The hills can be rough, especially for out-of-towners who are not used to walking much. My wife has to instruct her parents to practice walking daily before visiting us, and that still didn’t prepare them for some of the hills.

P.S. There's no bad weather, just bad clothing.

Seattle just buried its downtown waterfront highway, offering a once in a lifetime opportunity to create a pedestrianized, unified waterfront. Instead, it built a new highway-like stroad ON TOP of the one it just buried, maintaining the separation between water & downtown. But sure, car-hostile.

Caltrops FTW!

I look forward to seeing this another 500 times in NUMTOT. (which is of course not your fault)

Yeah, first thing that popped in my mind.

Tire spikes in Cleveland for 2024

Davis, California. I describe the place as "aggressively bike-friendly". Entire families going along like a gaggle of geese. Silver-haired bankers in suit and tie, riding to work. Our homeless folks don't push around shopping carts, they have bike carts. Is it perfect? Nah. But pretty dang good.

Switzerland also has a lot of Geography that makes widening streets to accomodate bike paths trickier.

Same in Ireland

As a Dutchie: Fuck Amsterdam, Utrecht is where it's at.

yeah you bet I support the trops

better than flex posts tbh

"More sharks!"

The tire spikes isn't far fetched. We already spike park benches.

Some cities in Brazil don’t have a side walk! In small cities there is a astonishing culture build around car dependency.

Curious thing, that.

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