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I'm german you have to be direct

I feel like that's so open in what it is about being idol worship it's not a conspiracy it's just stupid

Kinda feels like they're just really nailing the 2000s "Hey...we have an idea....how about....world peace? Just something to think about" vibe

Genital Reveal Party

Children welcome!

Hey don't shoot the messenger that's a neologism from the german bicycle advocate bubble, I just thought it fitting here and also in general

I'm guessing they'll never actually be for it, you just keep expanding (narrowing?) the definition of the undesired minorities

Look'it this city, it's full of swarthy southern germans, disgusting

Another guy idea: War on cars cyclist who got into it by way of adoration of 80s china

Wants to reinstate the Kingdom of Bicycles, abhors everything that isn't a PA-02 flying pigeon, thinks aluminium frames are a western plot to make people effeminate

One thing I've learned from browsing forums like MTBR and Pinkbike is that there is a surprising amount of reactionary/right-wing cyclists in the USA.

Should've specified like transportation cyclist or whatever probably. Yeah MTB people have fucking terrible traffic politics because they only interact through it through big cars used to ferry their mtbs to the fun park. I don't hate the sport by any means but they're not coming at this from like an urbanist perspective, pretty much the opposite actually

There's gotta be like one wild wild card among all the states. Like I dunno Virgina burns down Langley out of sheer anger over things generally and having made itself an enemy to so many things just turns into a Soviet

Despite all the other things that are obviously wrong here, if you can say one of those words, but not the other, maybe that's giving you some kind of hint

This is the weird fantasy part I was referring to. It's like, just nonsense. It comes off like an american attitude being ported to the UK with absolutely no adaptation whatsoever to British conditions. Our conditions are nothing like america. Getting rid of cameras and getting traffic calming measures installed instead is not particularly difficult, it's about the same. This idea of complete and widespread reinterpretation of public space? It doesn't make sense here.

I'm german tho.

By American standards it would be considered idyllic.

As such, I do not believe american standards as per roads are anything to go by

Parts of the road already have traffic calming measures.

That's not really gonna stop anybody from speeding down the remaining lane(s) because they're still very wide. It's good for pedestrians, probably, don't get me wrong, doesn't really fight the speeding problem at all.

This is very easily expanded upon with the addition of chicanes, which are in wide use (hundreds of thousands) across the country.

These do

There's no "reimagining" needed here. People don't need to develop a new consciousness of public space.

Those are very much spotwork as per slowing down cars. They work for that spot, yes. It is however absolutely not hard to accelerate a car again. This is a good idea to slow people down before a busy or a school crossing or something, the third picture especially is just going to lead to slow down / wait -> mash gas pedal

We do not live in a country that is utterly obsessed with cars like america.

True, but also nigh about the lowest bar to clear right after like Saudi Arabia.

There are zero political barriers to this, the only barrier is the profit/revenue barrier of the traffic camera obsessed crowd.

And you accuse me of living in some fantasy reality?

In every town, in every village, in every city. Outisde every school. In every residential area. All over the country.

Same, could find similar features here by looking out my old apartments window. Hell, do you one better than that, we have shit like this

Sorry for the grainy pictures, didn't wanna spend that much time on google. Now that's a road you can't speed on, on account of many chicanes and other built up enviroments, not just the single one and then it's open road before and after.

Doesn't mean the rest of it isn't incredibly car brained and hostile, and as such, transportation by foot or cycling sucks major ass.

If your vision of not being carbrained is "do better than the USA", yeah, you're there, but that shouldn't be the end goal