Fietser Pete (Peter Som de Cerff)
@psomdecerff
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He/Him. Trying hard to drive less and to promote safer, cheaper, healthier options for our cities.
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@Bulkington__
Outdoor smoking is my biggest complaint about Europe. Nice out cafe? Great, I think! Then table next pull out smokes and ruins dinner.
Train station? Also forever dodging.
Going in a shop? Hold breath 30s. And still clothes smell.
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@QadarAhla
@el_tragon_de_LA
@shaunking
Warrant after the fact? Judge is complicit too?
This means destroying evidence AND covering up. Such has brought down presidents...
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Gee, it looks kinda bad when you depict it like that.
Just a red dot for every car death for 15 years.
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This was one of my most-viewed posts (nope, I don't know why, either).
Some of the comments were along the lines of "this is just a population density map", but it's not.
If you zoom in, it's endlessly interesting...for me, anyway Really, it's a map of ....
Gee, it looks kinda bad when you depict it like that.
Just a red dot for every car death for 15 years.
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Why do we let engines be loud? Personal vehicles - cars and motorcycles - have no reason to be loud, especially in cities.
Enabling one person to intrude on the peace of thousands is ridiculous. Why cater to rude behavior?
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@upzone_CA
@stan_okl
and we had 2008 as a warning for oil. We could have rebuilt our infra in 15 years, from cars and fossil fuels to transit, bikes, solar, wind, new grid, and fiber internet. And new, efficient multi family housing.
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I keep hearing people say “I want a house in the burbs where it’s quiet”.
Cities have street sweepers and garbage trucks.
Suburbs have leaf blowers and lawn mowers.
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Just a quick update on car-free life in Frankfurt, over two weeks in:
1) It's great
2) I wanted a 15-min life here. I failed. I got a 5-min life, with so much nearby I have many places yet to visit.
- 5 min to grocery (pleasant)
- 3-4 min to organic grocer (must cross arterial)
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...of driving density, but also of speed, and of drunk-driving, all combined. If you zoom in, you see that people die all the time where lots of people drive fast. This includes highways & arterials. But you also see very few die on neighborhood and city-center (slow) streets.
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@DissentFu
Why can't we have a country full of decent people behaving in a socially acceptable fashion?
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Why do we have street parking at all? For all other private property, we have private storage. Why can't everybody park down the block in a public garage, and simply walk to their car when needed?
Sure, have loading zones for when you haul something or load up for a trip.
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@VickieforNYC
"Normal people". That's quite some framing there!
3/4 in NYC don't own cars, yet it's crammed with traffic. Normal in NYC is using transit, walking, and biking.
Under 16? No car for you.
Old, infirm? Nope, no car.
Not wealthy? Nope, no car.
City councilor? By all means!
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@GreyGhostVolvo
@Soyouarethatguy
@martynschmoll
@_Murphy_Dan
@Boenau
This is no defense for running into anybody or causing hazard.
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Maybe the mistake wasn't letting all the workers flee to the suburbs, but in enabling them to drive back in. Why DID, and why DO, cities cater to people who do not actually live in the city? Why does DC let VA drivers clog their roads? Why does NYC let drivers in from NJ?
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Simple note from observation in Europe: If you put stop lights at street level before the crosswalk, and don't have right-on-red, drivers don't crowd the crosswalk. You can back them to whatever point you want, and it mostly works.
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While in Frankfurt for two weeks, I got a transit card. Paid about $50 for a two-week pass which covered U (subway), S (commuter train), & bus for the municipal area. I didn't even have to think about hassling with fare machines or the cost of a trip.
This is infrastructure.
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@MacFarlaneNews
So? There are Black kids in AL who've been in jail a lot longer than that!
I'm all for "speedy trial", but let's start from the back of the list and empty the queue.
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Since everybody is all worked up about 737 plane failures, it's worth pointing out a few reminder facts:
- Plane deaths per 10B passenger miles: 0.2
- Car deaths per 10B passenger miles: 150
That's a ratio of 750, folks.
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And, if you look at individual deaths that are NOT on fast highways/roads/stroads, many or even most reflect:
- Drunk driving
- Pedestrians
- Rain or dark
It doesn't take statistical analysis to see the patterns.
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A car addict tweeted a question as a criticism to a safe-streets advocate, and so I'm going to adopt.
"Do you want to live in a world where children just step out into a street without looking?!"
Yes, indeed. Exactly what I want.
The powerful must protect the vulnerable.
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What does cycling Twitter think, compared to room inside a tram/train?
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@elonmusk
It's not that I don't love space....I was mesmerized by Apollo when a child, and wanted to be a rocket engineer (still am an engineer).
But space is something we should reach collectively as a healthy society, not as games played by billionaires sitting on the backs of commoners.
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Pay $500 per month in perpetuity to save a one-time <$100 delivery fee? How many such rationalizations don't stand up to scrutiny?
Surely most could go car-lite, even if their lives had routine needs for trips like this. Most trips don't require carrying large packages.
@AmericanFietser
Hmm, let’s buy a TV and carry that 86” on a bicycle. I mean you can’t just park and randomly buy something at a market, I guess. Easy to see the city dwellers in all this.
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@USDOT
Uh, do it the other way around, and learn something from all the countries who have streets instead of highways and stroads.
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@ANewsTweeter
@Osinttechnical
BP and Shell surprised me a little. Exxon surprised me quite a bit. Lukoil is shocking!
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Every once in a while I post a somewhat typical safety pyramid, of a format a bit different from
@bellachu10
's excellent posts.
This one looks at the relative rates of incidents, and it's pertinent from another perspective.
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@JHWeissmann
Sorry, I'm the "Cars ruin everything" bridgade, but it's a well supported position....health, safety, climate, economics....
I'm sure we'll be friends, as long as you stay out of the bike lanes and stay below 20mph on mixed streets.
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@acnewsitics
@Hwysixty1
I am ashamed at how dismissive I was of Carter in my youth, as I was full of hubris and believed the Reagan story of self-sufficient individualism.
If only we'd gone the Carter direction instead. Still should!
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@TristanSnell
You mean socialism with paid housing, healthcare, retirement, education, job security, and safe neighborhoods for families with convenient discount stores and activities, and halfway decent schools?
Reminds me of a US military base.
See also: police, firefighter, corrections.
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@gregoryBertran2
@Bulkington__
Ah, the depths of your subconscious see the appeal of the chemicals!
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@michaelharriot
You missed the important point of whether they were inclusive or exclusive in their discussion.
It wasn't much of discussion until I brought a Black girl over...
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@letsholdhandsok
@Bob_Wachter
Being vaxxed, wearing masks when out and about, and avoiding crowds (concerts/bars) puts you in the "really careful" group here. Many do none of these.
Meeting with similarly behaved people, rarely, in a home is a modest risk. For young people, it's probably reasonable?
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We need a Netherlands 2.0 that isn't flat, and perhaps e-bike enabled. Every post on NL infrastructure gets inevitable comments about flat being the reason for cycling success.
I believe infra is the main determinant for short trips. Where are hilly but great cycling examples?
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@HuddartStuart
@JamieHolker
Really? You’ve not had stuff thrown at you just for walking or biking?
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@MagicMaineHerb
@shaygabriel
Sure, let's have separated infrastructure.
Until then, we need to share the space.
Yes, cyclists should go slowly around peds. No, this is not usually a serious safety issue. Cars are the hazards, not bikes.
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@GreyGhostVolvo
@Soyouarethatguy
@martynschmoll
@_Murphy_Dan
@Boenau
We can expect cars not to speed and we can lower speed limits until kids stop dying.
No driver believes speed limits are reasonable or high.
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@DorfGinger
@LiorSteinberg
@gavnugent
@UrbisAustralia
@considerthefish
Cars don't purchase anything - humans do. Any solution that readily gets people to their destinations will suffice. Cars are not terribly efficient at this as they take up too much space for too long.
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One of the arguments I hear repeatedly for suburban living is “cities are noisy”.
The obnoxiously loud aspects are mostly vehicles, with drunk men the second place.
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@SueAnnLevy
@KevinABWhite
I’m just going to park here on the runway. I’ll only be five minutes.
I’m just going to park here on the rail tracks. I’ll only be five minutes.
I’m just going to park here on the highway in the passing lane. I’ll only be five minutes.
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@sam_d_1995
And yet there is a shortage of loading zones and no space for garbage dumpster and very little for cycle and scooter parking. How could this be?
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Lots of interesting location-based data there.
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@the_transit_guy
The power of suburbs over cities needs to end. Who creates this structure? Why do cities not get to secede?
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@jlocantore
If you chose to partake of the advantages of society, you must meet the expectations of society. For a selfish person, desiring otherwise is natural but unacceptable, and the individual does not make the rules for a town.
Libertarianism seems to promote assholification.
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@gregoryBertran2
@Bulkington__
Now I'm curious -- what do you prefer about cigarettes over vape?
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@RedLady0722
@cnni
If your city wasn't car-centric, you wouldn't have big-box markets 6 miles away. We need to make better choices, like NL did.
"Motorized vehicles create remoteness which they alone can shrink. They create distances for all, and shrink them for only some."
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@AudreyStJames1
How do you expect them to embrace minimum wage work as adults if they do not learn hunger, desperation, and embarrassment as children?
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Unfortunate truth: We can never build enough roads to satisfy low-congestion demands in a car-only design -- it simply doesn't scale -- so if we put off making streets better & safer in favor of building more lanes to address urgent traffic needs, we will never have either.
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Remember the rancor and vitriol about seat belt laws, air bags, ABS brakes; cig ad bans, steep taxes plus not smoking at work and in restaurants; HFC bans, and even unleaded gas?
Maybe automated speed limiters, auto-braking with ped detect, and attention detection will soak in?
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@lisa_iannattone
Remember that in 2020 only one kid died of flu? Turns out flu is actually optional.
We're opting in to death. Simple as that.
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@TiffanyAlaniz
@RevJJackson
@TheRevAl
@NationalAction
Impressive that the "quietly behind closed doors" part gets spoken in public so often these days.
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@thesarahyork
@blippityblipbop
It’s not the job but the sort of people they despise. Dems, minorities, and young progressives are all lazy slackers, so those must be slacker jobs.
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@Halas_Bear
@charlie__mke
Why do we make excuses for an obviously broken system?
Why make kids have to be responsible for the failings of adults?
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Everybody is so caught up in 737Max faults, yet statistically almost nobody dies in plane crashes. It's not a top-10 killer, or top-20, or even visible in the data.
What everybody SHOULD find unacceptable is THIS graph (and any graph of US life expectancy):
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@vanillaopinions
Try to say crashes, not accidents. It’s a poorly designed system with predictable failures. We deliberately choose to not fix it. It’s no accident.
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People who smoke on subways. Those who intimidate vulnerable street users with their vehicles. Gun advocates who open-carry. Diners who don’t tip. Right-wing zealots threatening civil war. Fundie religious wackos ruling women.
Why so many selfish bullies?
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@ScottMGreer
Actually, you meant "cars". This is noteworthy because it happened ONCE as a non-violent protest, whereas cars assert dominance through physical threat thousands of times per day. Bikes are NOT the "problem", but a solution.
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I get that guys are wired to scream “Look at me! See my peacock feathers!”, but if this is the best game you’ve got, I’m curious as to how well it’s working for you.
Race tracks? Great!
Weekend drives? Sure!
Sat night cruise? Maybe
Daily driver running errands? Quiet!!
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@Trish_NI
@iosonoumano
"They"...always a faceless "they".
Like in Europe, where nobody can travel anywhere? Where nobody goes to a beach? Where nobody visits relatives?
Why worship cars and driving?
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@BrentToderian
Undo "white flight" thinking:
- Focus on local city residents, not commuters
- Every neighborhood deserves solid services
- More transit, fewer highways
- Multi-modal streets, most local-owner-cars-only
- High land taxes, low building taxes
- No parking minimums
- No SFU codes.
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@ChittiMarco
Why build a safe path for peds and deadly one for bikes? That path is going to be unpleasant too, running along a fast, noisy, noxious highway. It's all crap, from what I can see here.
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@VickieforNYC
Last I checked a good e-bike was much cheaper than a used BMW.
I assume you support transit over private cars?
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