Definitely has his grip on reality, this one
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Hope someone show him the gif of cars being congested in a circular road with no obstruction.
There are so many images of gridlocked roads full of cars I hope all the replies are no repeated ones
The problem is that the highway is only 4-lane wide in each direction. If it were 400-lane wide there wouldn’t be any congestion.
/s shouldn’t be necessary but it is the Internet
And if we scrapped all existing aircraft nobody would have a late flight ever again!
I am always reminded of this picture when people are “just one more lane”. Cause that has always fixed the congestion issues
That looks like a nightmare. Like that photo from America with all the gas stations, McDonald’s and stuff.
Horrible American Urban Hell.
Like that photo from America with all the gas stations, McDonald’s and stuff.
That’s half the towns I drive through, usually right off a highway.
It’s gross.
Needs one more lane bro. Just one more lane, please
Look at all those mostly/stopped cars I can breeze by on my bike…
I can smell this picture.
“Communist”
I’m 14 and this is deep.
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His profile also:
- Says he’s anti-statist, but thinks America should always come first
- Says he’s against communism and socialism except he just calls anyone a communist or socialist if they don’t agree with him
- Uses the R slur
- Is anti-muslim
- Is anti-gay
- Showed a photo of a bike lane as proof it was preventing car traffic (it was a raised, isolated bike lane not on a road)
- Showed a photo of a no-car, walking only street with 50+ people actively filling it up as an example of why they need to close down those areas and open them up for cars instead
- Thinks that there are tons of “woke” people on the right
- Responded to someone talking about the very common sense argument that one bike = one less car on the road by claiming their 27 followers were botted 💀
- Compared Manhattan to Panem from the Hunger Games
- Thinks bicyclists wearing helmets “protects drivers”
- Thinks communism is run by the state
- Spelled “I” as “EYE”
- Complains about “15 minute cities” being controlled by the government as a way to advocate for government-funded interstates
- Compared the integration of black culture to being as obnoxious as a man loudly playing bagpipes on the subway
He’s made a few hundred tweets & quote tweets in the past 2 days.
This man is unhinged 😭
Most intelligent conservative
It’s crazy how our 18-lane highway, with none of the stuff mentioned, is gridlocked all the time. 🤔
Maybe one more lane, bro!
It’s the stoplight’s fault! Ban stop signs, traffic lights and remove speed limits and we’ll never have gridlock again!!!
I’m unironically all for removing stop signs, traffic lights, and speed limits. If you build streets and roads properly, you don’t need those, frequently ignored, control devices.
It would remove gridlock, but not necessarily congestion.
This person urban designs.
Round about gang for life
As an often pedestrian, i often prefer lights. If it’s a busy dual carriageway roundabout It can often be hard to route pedestrians across. You end up with elaborate and winding pedestrian subways.
Roundabouts are ok on rural junctions, but round here we often have to have traffic lights on roundabouts as you start to get closer in to urban areas - and they do seem to help flow.
I just don’t believe road design alone can remove the need for coordination as population density gets above a certain level. Fuck in central London you need traffic lights just to coordinate all the buses never mind cars. Of course they need an overhead s-bahn type light rail system there though, but planning rules/landowners won’t allow it. At this point they just need less people - but again the govt/electorate/landowners won’t allow that because they’re all a bunch of tw4ts.
As Jason Slaughter (Not Just Bikes) says—and I agree—any city street with more than one car lane in each direction is an abject failure of urban planning. Multi-lane roundabouts should never exist in places where people are expected to walk.
If enough people are going the same direction at the same time that they need more than one lane for cars, then that’s the perfect route for transit.
Oh there are many other intersections
Round abouts, peanuts, uncontrolled, yielded, modal filtered, raised, edged, sunken, and more.
There are a lot of ways to give clear cues to all road users on what to do, and how to do it, without relying on signage. Traffic lights in particular are extremely low throughput; their primary advantage is allowing vehicles to drive really fast between intersections, so they are great for roads/highways but not for streets.
Ok with that, but you also need to remove other cars from the road. Every time I’ve been stuck in traffic, it was because there were so many other cars. This has got out of control! Who are all these people and where are they all going?!?
There was a guy who took his guitar before the Portland City Council and sang a song about induced demand. If you build more lanes, more drivers will come and fill them.
OMG, I love this man! That video is 7 years old… Did they add more lanes? 🫣
The project actually still hasn’t started due to ongoing litigation and budget constraints. It did get redesigned with more bike infrastructure and pedestrian bridges to cross the freeway, but local bike and pro-transit groups still oppose the project.
One of the main arguments is that the state’s proposal is not consistent with the city’s regional plan, which says that the interstate can only be expanded if congestion pricing is also implemented to discourage additional traffic.
At this point, the state is planning to fix up some bridges while the rest of the legal fight plays out. Expansion probably won’t start until 2028 in any case… at which point this song will be an “oldie.”
You’re right. The don’t create congestion.
They ARE congestion.
This, exactly.
You’re not sitting in traffic … You are traffic .
The guy in the OP also gives off small dick energy. Just saying.
Water falling from clouds doesn’t mean it’s raining.
Cars don’t create congestion, roads do.
maybe ihis person is a car in disguise
The first three letters of this first and last name spell Isa Car. Is a car.
I’m confused, does he also get mad at fractions because they don’t reduce the way he wants them to?
Higher speeds do the opposite for congestion than what you’d think. If everyone and their mum wants to drive on the same stretch of highway at 5pm sharp, there’s not enough space - at speed.
Obviously, everyone fits when standing still. The amount of asphalt is immense.
Reducing the speed limit from 120kph to 80 will allow 50% more cars to fit on the same stretch of road, thereby reducing stop and go, and not really impacting your average speed; you’d be stopping and going during rush hour, anyway. But now traffic flows, which is safer and easier to follow.
Why? Because - let’s assume safe driving - every car has two seconds of safety distance to the car in front. Those two seconds remain two seconds, but that means the distances you need are twice as large with 120kph than with 60kph. Your car length doesn’t even really matter, two seconds at 120kph are ~67m. So the road will always transport 1 car every two seconds per lane, no matter the speed.
You can either rage in a congestion, not knowing if farther up someone has caused a crash and completely blocked everything, or drive slower but steadily. The throughput of the road is the same.
Some Houston traffic napkin math confirms this
let’s assume safe driving
That’s your problem, caring about safety of others smh
My car doesn’t create congestion. It’s everyone else’s that’s the problem.
Like people driving during the pandemic and talking how amazing it felt to drive
Poorly implemented bike lanes do create a lot of congestion though.
My city just half assed bike lanes so one street has them and others do not, with bikes having to constantly enter and leave vehicle lanes as bike lanes appear and then disappear.
This just leads to less people using bikes and then the bike lanes that are installed go unused while taking up space from the road.
Either go all in on bike lanes or don’t, stop half assing it city planners.
Just because you made a bike lane doesn’t mean you are a green city, the lanes actually have to be used!
That’s wrong. A bad bike lane is better than nothing. Because the first step is appropriation of the space, once people get use to have a smaller space for cars, the painting can be more easily transformed into proper infrastructure.
The problem there is enforcing said smaller space. Painted bike lanes do absolutely nothing to ensure people get used to having the smaller space because drivers still have all that space. A painted line doesn’t stop them from swerving into the bike lane whenever they please.
At the very least you put flexi-posts on there to enforce it if you can’t build a full curb to protect the bike lane. That tends to discourage drivers if not stop them entirely
There’s a ten mile stretch of road that I live in a community off of. It’s a really busy road. Grocery store, gas stations, fast food restaurants, one of the elementary schools, one of the middle schools, and the high school. So while it’s normally busy it’s insane during school start and release times. There is a five mile section in the middle of that ten mile stretch where the sidewalk is on the opposite side of the main road for some reason. They decided to make bike lanes by painting lines and bike symbols on the road on the sidewalk side for the entire stretch of road. While they have crosswalks with lights at all the regular intersections, at each end of that five mile ‘bike lane’ they painted a dashed yellow line path across traffic to transfer the bike path to the other side and put blinky amber lights on each side of the road.
I’m fairly certain you would need to be suicidal to knowingly traverse that bike path from start to finish. It’s bad enough you’re kissing mirrors the entire ride but then you would need to cross a busy street, twice, with no actual assurance anyone will actually stop for you. The cherry on top is there’s also an increased number of student drivers on the road regularly from the high school.
Cars are only thing that creates congestion.
The Soviet Union is long gone. Communist should no longer be a derisive and shpuld sound like a 20th century cliché.
I wonder (can’t confirm) if the evergreen state of communist or socialist as derision is due to the far right propaganda industrial complex still pushing (hard) that anything that isn’t capitalism is a moral wrong.
Also there’s plenty of completely car-brained infrastructure in Eastern Europe, built by communist regimes. Budapest is absolutely atrocious.
you expect people that are emotionally stuck in the 1950s to recognize the USSR is gone?
Any time I see or hear someone using “communist” as an insult, I immediately assume they’re a right-winger using the word to mean “something I’m afraid of.”
My fundie-Christian family members use it as a synonym for “atheist” because that’s what they’re afraid of.
It’s true, before we started creating cycling facilities there was no such thing as congestion or pollution /s
Who cars what science says, I love my penis-size-compensating huge truck, so I want more and faster lanes!
Well, mr dumbfuck, why don’t you go to North Korea, they have 5 lane highways and only 3 cars a day driving them. Oh wait, true communists have no traffic jams? What?
