But... if you’re tied to absurd zoning laws then, well, you’re tied to absurd zoning laws.

I can be mad at both... though there is a major caveat. Getting mad at the city planners won’t fix much, since there is no undo function. But getting mad at private corps who are raking in record profits? I can accept that.

I’d say that most dickish drivers were already dicks from the start, but the lack of congestion due increased WFH allows them to just drive faster and be bigger dicks.

Our city engineers got crapped on a couple of years ago for failing to produce good bike lane designs. Their comeback was “For 40 years you’ve told us to design for cars. We designed for cars. Now you want bikes and cars to coexist.”

Needing a car to transport large amounts of groceries is a anachronistic to owning a car. Instead of a few minute trip to load up on consumable goods such as produce or meat for the night at a local corner store. We choose to instead buy large amount of groceries all at once in a couple hour endeavor a couple times a…

The trailer on my bike would argue against all of this, except the moving multiple family members, we use extra bikes for that.

Robert Moses has caused more deaths than most genocides, and it was largely aimed at marginalized communities.

I stayed in Tokyo for a short time period, in the Irifune area of Chou inside Tokyo.

That’s exactly it. I like cars. I pour whole paychecks in old jalopies, which makes no logical sense. I do it because I like it.

I love cars as much as the next person here but I want to treat a car as a hobby or interest rather than an appliance.

My thoughts exactly. Thankfully I have a pharmacy and supermarket within a 5 minute walk from my house and a library about 15 minutes walk. But outside of those 3 places everything else has to be driven to.

You seem to be a pretty firm believer that the only people who get DUIs are the people who can’t put the bottle down.

Sorry, but no. Maybe a certain percentage are in the addicts category, but I can guarantee that the vast majority of people who have DUIs (or even multiple DUIs) on their record are not addicted alcoholics, but more likely to be social drinkers who basically believed that they could make it home without incident.

It’s wild that you managed to write so many words on the subject without ever understanding the issue. It’s addiction. An alcoholic’s life is fully formed around getting the drink they want ASAP. Not crashing the car is a far, far second priority, and everything else is tertiary at best. It’s biology and it’s well…

Caltrans has been running a campaign against wrong-way drivers in San Diego for a couple of years now. They’ve made real infrastructure improvements that increase visibility of Do Not Enter signs, but they’re also running inexplicable billboard campaigns that say “Don’t Drive Wrong Way” that are only visible when…

“installed more automatic speed cameras” In theory this is a good idea if placed in potential hazardous areas (schools, downtown...etc) but I grew up in France and I experienced going from no policing (really you could drive 200kmh with little trouble on highways) to speed cameras absolutely everywhere for no other…

It was probably changed because “drive sober or get pulled over” is clearer on what they are messaging. “Over the limit, under arrest” is much more ambiguous- it can be interpreted as driving over the speed limit means you are under arrest for example. Which I’m sure some cops probably wouldn’t mind but speeding isn’t…

The sign that cried wolf. If it’s always blinking some stupid message it won’t get as much attention when it has one that is important.

Man, talk about a non-issue.

However much they paid someone to come up with “Drive sober or get pulled over” was too much. The previous “Over the limit, under arrest” was way more clever, didn’t have the forced rhyme, and stated a stronger penalty (arrest>pulled over)