Yeah I used to have a 40 minute subway commute time, but the stations were a few blocks from either end and I read or listened to music / podcasts on the way. Even when the train was crowded it was fairly pleasant.
Similar for a 12.5 mile bike commute I used to do.
What the hell is going on in Malta? It’s takes like an hour to drive across that whole place, how did they fuck up so bad that their average commute time is half a cross-country trip?
Watch now as a bunch of coastal Democrat governors collaborate with Sean fucking Duffy to clog their cities with even more cars…
When I was in high school I used to think that PA was really smart because of the lengthy monologuing. Today it just reads like lorem ipsum drivel to me and the punchlines are mostly contrarian edge lord shit.
No but they were in NYC, because I remember reading about this on StreetsBlog NYC like ten years ago. Sorry, would have linked them if I had them on hand.
This case has been going on for years. Back in 2023 there was this article about it, apparently the driver had been repeatedly firing his lawyers, possibly to delay court dates. I get the feeling that he was trying to find a legal team with connections to his judge and the will to use those connections, but no way to confirm that. Either way the behavior suggests to me deep pockets, despite his shitty car choice.
For those saying that if you were the father you’d take vigilante action, no you probably wouldn’t because you’d be dealing with life-altering injuries. The father is likely permanently immobile.
Western intelligence agencies alarmed that they can’t eavesdrop on Chinese-manufactured cars. I’m not a potential new car buyer, like ever, but this wave of pearl clutching articles has effectively been an advertisement for Chinese cars for anyone who remotely cares about abuse of their personal data.
New study is cool, but old studies in the US have found this to be true as well.
It’s absolutely not though. Most places have clear rules on how cops can pursue, grounded in concern for public safety. And even if they don’t there are standards for what level of force is reasonable for a given suspected crime. In this case it wasn’t even a suspected crime, it was a suspected civil violation.
NYPD used to be super strict about ticketing for “blocking the box”. Like it was their favorite thing to do. I know it’s usually worse in midtown but I guess they’ve fallen off.
That’s just a challenged-accepted for your average lifted truck driver, when it comes to dividing cars from bikes anything less that a cement jersey barrier is the equivalent of just asking politely.
epstein.gov (Sorry I don’t know how to make this not a link)
Yeah my bad, see the other reply to my comment by Drusas.
Yeah pedestrianizing fidi has been a discussion at least as far back as Bloomberg’s mayoralty in the early 00s, but the people opposing it because they get a private cab to the door of their workplace every day happen to be literally the most powerful people in the country.
Yeah same for my old cars, but there are only so many functional old cars out there. Really this is ultimately just one more signal that we need alternatives to car normativity.
Heh you’re right. I come across the far-apartness meme and I see red, and need to inform on the myth above all else.
Make them visit you instead 😈
North America went from having a sprawling ubiquitous continental rail system to saying that rail would never work here because we’re a sprawling continent.
That trains can’t do that every bit as well as cars (Much better, quite frankly) is a myth. You can look at both North American history and massive spread-out continental countries overseas for plentiful evidence otherwise. The car monoinfrastructure is simply an intentional policy choice. Reversing it involves confronting that fact.
Ah yea, makes sense. If I lived there I’d walk too.