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[Dead Lion]

t. gruz owner that blocks the left lane driving 100kmh

The polonez owner does not concern himself with your expensive car. To own a gruz is to be free.

 

[The Jewel of the Nile]

To own a gruz is to be free.

Yeah, sure, at least until the police asks for a proof of passed inspection and deems the car unsafe and unfit to be on the road

 

[Dead Lion]

Yeah, sure, at least until the police asks for a proof of passed inspection and deems the car unsafe and unfit to be on the road

I’ve got my ways.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

And that you're bound by the schedule of the train. It's less of a problem with a metro system that comes every few minutes, but commuter trains usually go by a timetable, not an interval, and they don't come as often.

This is probably the biggest issue of a train, when people look at crowded freeways they fail to realize that while taking a train is probably going to speed by everyone, it means that only the people on the train *might* have an advantage in time if it's done at that exact time. I've worked with people that have had to hoof it to make the train over half a mile away, so if your work keeps you overtime, it could ruin your entire evening. When it comes to commuter train-based networks like Chicagoland or greater New York I'm not sure of the time savings, if any, from riding the train to work.

Train advocates may say that it's a better experience and that may be true. Even in the absence of troublemakers on trains, their propaganda photos of people on trains usually have people doing work on laptops and other devices, not something like a Nintendo Switch.

This can be easily flipped around to being that you're just putting in extra unpaid work for Shekelstein, a workaholic in general, or just put very little value on your free time.

 

[08903248752]

Clicked on a random video based on the title and was "treated" to the first 40 seconds being a painfully unfunny teslaman bad "meme", apropos of the main topic of the video

 

[FPTMIU]

Clicked on a random video based on the title and was "treated" to the first 40 seconds being a painfully unfunny teslaman bad "meme", apropos of the main topic of the video

https://youtube.com/watch?v=mXRHFFfKZSI

Making urbanism partisan has been the worst choice in the history of politics

 

[quaawaa]

Clicked on a random video based on the title and was "treated" to the first 40 seconds being a painfully unfunny teslaman bad "meme", apropos of the main topic of the video

https://youtube.com/watch?v=mXRHFFfKZSI

Spoiler: Archive

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His fantasy "line" is incredibly dumb:

(Teal and Pink are fictional, rest are real)

It's a dumbass plan that just adds more commuter rail into the suburbs. Oh and for no reason at all, he made the new commuter rail line run directly into the ghetto in Maryland. Exactly what commuters want - a shuttle service directly from the ghetto to their neighborhoods.

Want to get to the airport from the university? You could drive for 20 minutes, but with this multi-billion dollar train, you could instead spend 2 hours on the train going into the city and back out while switching trains twice!

The ideal transit map is literally just a grid. Why are all urban planners allergic to drawing them?

 

[FPTMIU]

I've worked with people that have had to hoof it to make the train over half a mile away, so if your work keeps you overtime, it could ruin your entire evening.

That's a plot point in The Helpful Fox Senko-San, kek. It's at least enough of an issue that escapist anime showing the horrors of japanese wagie life treat it as a common issue (I'll take your "autistic" emotes)

 

[Mister Fister]

BMW owners aren’t people they’re subhuman filth.

You’re also a nigger for speeding.

Those grapes must be sour.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

Making urbanism partisan has been the worst choice in the history of politics

Always was. Granted, intersectionality with the rest of the liberal pet policies is the real killer, but admitting it's a partisan issue instead of using the "Chuck Marohn is conservative" excuse is at least less dishonest.

It's a dumbass plan that just adds more commuter rail into the suburbs. Oh, and for no reason at all, he made the new commuter rail line run directly into the ghetto in Maryland. Exactly what commuters want - a shuttle service directly from the ghetto to their neighborhoods.

Want to get to the airport from the university? You could drive for 20 minutes, but with this multi-billion dollar train, you could instead spend 2 hours on the train going into the city and back out, switching trains twice!

The ideal transit map is literally just a grid. Why are all urban planners allergic to drawing them?

Yeah, take the beautiful simplicity of the Washington DC Metro, where the red line is the Red Line will go in the same direction and turn into a bifurcated mess of sub-lines and express lines, where being on the Teal Line is going to fuck you over by dropping you off 13 miles away from where you actually wanted to go (National Harbor versus Woodmore Town Center).

Compounding this is that the stations aren't that far away from each other. Oakton and George Mason University are only four miles apart. Woodmore Towne Center (a large shopping mall) is less than two miles north of the Downtown Largo station directly (note that the map puts it as being south). Meanwhile, the line runs through "H Street and 8th Street" which is a cartoonishly ghetto-looking corner with a store that advertises pizza alongside crack pipes and Delta 8 THC, stores in a row being liquor store, check cashing store, crappy restaurant, fried chicken, and a nail salon, advertisement to carry Narcan, a dispensary not related to the smoke shop next door, and what the fuck, which I've shown below.


Capital city of the United States, everyone.

 

[Kalsarikännit]

So much for being "YIMBY"
What's so special about that specific plot of land that it should allowed to be used "inefficiently" when it could instead house tens of thousands of people? We should have a Land Value Tax to force it to be developed into Hong Kong.

The only answer is because urbanists just like some things and hate others, and we should create laws and act according to their feelings.

 

[Meriasek]

Clicked on a random video based on the title and was "treated" to the first 40 seconds being a painfully unfunny teslaman bad "meme", apropos of the main topic of the video

https://youtube.com/watch?v=mXRHFFfKZSI

Already the first point he makes annoys me. Yeah, the Washington Metro has larger spacing than, say, NYC or Chicago. Washington is also way less densely populated. Fun fact, Washington in the movies often has skyscrapers. But they don't exist in real life, they just pretend Washington does to make it more interesting on screen.
Couldn't watch more, his obviously autism-fueled mealmouth voice grates my ears.

 

[Kalsarikännit]

Clicked on a random video based on the title and was "treated" to the first 40 seconds being a painfully unfunny teslaman bad "meme", apropos of the main topic of the video

https://youtube.com/watch?v=mXRHFFfKZSI

“One new line”

Note how all the existing lines are mostly a parabola or, well, line shape. What he created was a multi branched root system, the scale of which has no precedent in DC. It’s just complete fantasy.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

t. gruz* owner that blocks the left lane driving 100kmh

*gruz means a shitbox, a beater

I'm glad that Americans aren't the only ones with that problem.

 

[The Jewel of the Nile]

I'm glad that Americans aren't the only ones with that problem.

I guess we aren't all that different from each other, are we?

 

[quaawaa]

Found on Twitter:

Source (Archive)
"Abundance" is a reference to the urbanist book of the same name by Ezra Klein.
"We want third places and affordable housing! No, not like that!"

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

"Abundance" is a reference to the urbanist book of the same name by Ezra Klein.
"We want third places and affordable housing! No, not like that!"

Well people like him think that church is evil, so he doesn't want that third space.
And as badass as malls used to be they're pretty much all nigger infested hellholes or closed because they became nigger infested hellholes.

 

[A Distant Northern Land]

Found on Twitter:
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Source (Archive)
"Abundance" is a reference to the urbanist book of the same name by Ezra Klein.
"We want third places and affordable housing! No, not like that!"

While that view of the middle class is sad because the Amerifat pinnacle of human achievement is: make enough money to weigh 300 pounds (by drinking drive through coffee milkshakes) and go to Disney multiple times a year, it is still preferable to the Reddit urbanist ideal (getting stabbed to death by Somalis on the bus)

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

While that view of the middle class is sad because the Amerifat pinnacle of human achievement is: make enough money to weigh 300 pounds (by drinking drive through coffee milkshakes) and go to Disney multiple times a year, it is still preferable to the Reddit urbanist ideal (getting stabbed to death by Somalis on the bus)

The actual American dream is to make enough money to be able to move somewhere that you never have to lay eyes on a single non-white in person ever again.

 

[Major]

Today I wanted to take the train to the city but the trains were cancelled with no warning.

So I drove instead. Another win for the motor car