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[-] FunderPants@lemmy.ca 121 points 1 year ago

SUV, Truck, SUV, SUV, SUV, SUV, sedan, SUV, SUV, SUV, SUV.

The culture problem around big vehicles we've created with bad regulation and aggressive marketing is depressing.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] schroedingershat@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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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[-] Frank@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

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 🥰

[-] Conowelle@lemmy.ca 36 points 1 year ago

It’ll be super protective when it snows!

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[-] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 60 points 1 year ago

What in the stupid is this?

[-] Sharpiemarker@feddit.de 36 points 1 year ago

Cheaper than a sidewalk, apparently.

[-] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 21 points 1 year ago

The cost being the life of pedestrians? This is insane.

[-] sbv@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

That doesn't show up on the balance sheet 😬

[-] brillekake@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

What do you mean? The white line keeps the cars out..

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[-] FleetingTit@feddit.de 46 points 1 year ago

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!

[-] frostbiker@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago

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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[-] rem26_art@kbin.social 39 points 1 year ago

Why even allow people in this neighborhood? Just have cars and no people

[-] library_napper 9 points 1 year ago

Don't worry, self driving cars will get us there eventually

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[-] Mereo@lemmy.ca 35 points 1 year ago

This what I hate about North America. Non walkable neighbourhoods.

[-] Conowelle@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] drekly@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

There is no pavement/sidewalk...

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[-] max@feddit.nl 9 points 1 year ago

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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[-] LynneOfFlowers@midwest.social 34 points 1 year ago

Next they'll eliminate the stripe and put up share-the-road signs with the stick figure

[-] mustardman@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

And the carbrains get mad about it because they don't want to share the road because that's communism

[-] Sarcasmo220@lemmy.ml 33 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Coreidan@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

Wow it’s like you guys are trying as hard as possible to not put in sidewalks.

[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 year ago

Soooo...a sidewalk without the extra pavement?

[-] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago

And not an inch of lawn was sacrificed sicko-wholesome

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[-] Hagels_Bagels@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 1 year ago

Wow, I sure am glad that the kerb is there to protect those blades of grass!

[-] biddy@feddit.nl 19 points 1 year ago

Who would use this? Wouldn't you either walk on the grass or clearly in the middle of the street?

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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)

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[-] Piecemakers3Dprints@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

I'm just wondering why that corpse was wearing such an unhealthy corset.

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[-] masterairmagic@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago

What dystopian fuckery is this?

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[-] Melonius@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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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[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 year ago

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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[-] herrwoland@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] DestroyMegacorps@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago

Who the hell designed this? I want to see the person who made this burn in hell

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[-] njordomir@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

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. >:-)

[-] schroedingershat@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

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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[-] KobaCumTribute@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

And of course every car there is a suburban assault vehicle too.

[-] TheRedSpade@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

You've heard of bike gutters

No I haven't.

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[-] polskilumalo@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 year ago

Poor Polish village style infrastrucutre, now in your nearest city! (Authentic hole ridden roads not included)

What hell would this be to walk in, jesus christ...

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[-] gargantuanprism@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 year ago

Yo that's unreal

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