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    How can you stand the lopsided car infrastructure?

    Don't wanna get into it, probably should have skipped to the last part, but it's one of those things where two people complain and then they remove it for everyone.
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    How can you stand the lopsided car infrastructure?

    Watched some political pundits talk about some school districts cancelling Halloween celebrations because some kids can't afford costumes. Towards the end, one of the pundits mentions the unfounded fear of poisoned candy every year and concludes by saying that the one way in which Halloween is...
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    How can you stand the lopsided car infrastructure?

    Okay, not sweat as much. Yeah, having to catch the one bus or train for that wide segment of time (or the service not operating on the weekends/Sundays or late is night) is one of the reasons few people here take public transit. It should be more frequent, even if that costs the city more. It's...
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    How can you stand the lopsided car infrastructure?

    Also, pavement traps more heat, which warms the towns and cities. It takes gargantuan amounts of pavement to accommodate so many private cars. Lower temperatures slow chemical reactions that create smog and drive down energy usage from people using air conditioners. You also need to run energy...
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    How can you stand the lopsided car infrastructure?

    If you don't wanna sweat, get an electric, but that wasn't my point. I never told anyone to ride a bicycle. The point is that when give people the infrastructure to ride bicycles, including mixing of zones and building denser (though that separated path you posted is good too), and when you...
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    How can you stand the lopsided car infrastructure?

    Most roads need to be redone approximately every twenty years. That's typically the time to build more balanced. You do it area by area instead of all at once. Zones can be mixed sooner, inexpensively. The new houses that we badly need in the spread out suburbia that Satinavian rightfully...
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    How can you stand the lopsided car infrastructure?

    He's right, though, about (most) people not NEEDING to use a car. Most commutes aren't that far. It's a choice, as hard as it might be for you to see as a resident of fricking Texas, yet you act like it should be the default for everyone, just like the automakers who bought up public rail lines...
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    How can you stand the lopsided car infrastructure?

    Or for all people. Which reminds me, we haven't even talked about how this lopsided car infrastructure takes mobility from the elderly and physically disabled (unless I missed somebody's post).
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    How can you stand the lopsided car infrastructure?

    Lawyer informed me they have to drop my case because their private investigator could not find an insurance policy for the nonresponsive driver. Since they could not deliver, they did not charge me for their services. I feel misled about the American way of life. The land where everyone is...
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    How can you stand the lopsided car infrastructure?

    No, you don't stand it just fine, you put up with traffic, spend more time commuting and pay more for gasoline because of how zoning is split and because of the lack of density in properties owed to cars. Induced demand.^ If you make driving the only viable form of transportation, everybody...
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    How can you stand the lopsided car infrastructure?

    Also, after reading the post again now that I'm home I realize that you did not even grasp what I was talking about. Bicycle infrastructure is only one part in balancing the mess. Enjoy waiting in traffic. Phoenixmgs, no shit people aren't using the gravel-covered bicycle lanes if everything is...
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    How can you stand the lopsided car infrastructure?

    Or, "You say you don't like pollution, yet you breathe air." How am I supposed to take you seriously now.
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    How can you stand the lopsided car infrastructure?

    Oh my god... That argument is like the old, "You say you don't like the health car system, yet you use it." *Turns head with chin high.* Really low effort. I cycle because it keeps me in shape and doesn't swallow up a third of my income. But the situation absolutely is shit for everyone.
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    How can you stand the lopsided car infrastructure?

    Unless the windows of your car reduce noise by less than 27 decibels, you're not one to talk. The inside of a car is far quieter. Noise like that damages your hearing, stresses you and shortens your life. I sometimes wonder if I wouldn't be better off wearing the hearing protection instead of...
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    How can you stand the lopsided car infrastructure?

    https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/biking/cyclists-comply-traffic-laws-more-drivers/ A study by the University of South Florida’s Center for Urban Transportation Research claims drivers break traffic laws more often than cyclists. The way they conducted it seems really sketchy. Of...