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The culture problem around big vehicles we've created with bad regulation and aggressive marketing is depressing.
this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2023
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It isn't just a culture problem, it's a tragedy of the commons.
When you're surrounded by giant vehicles, the only way to ~~be~~ feel safe and see the road is to have a giant vehicle.
it’s a tragedy of the commons.
A gentle heads up that the guy who coined that term was a huge piece of shit, and was almost certainly wrong.
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The basic notion regarding the exploitation of limited, unregulated public resources leading to depletion is significantly older than that term or the essay with that title..
The notion is echoed by a lot of thinkers, including that of Karl Marx in his deconstruction of capitalism. We need to make a society aware of this tendency much the way we have to be mindful, as a society, of prejudice divisionism.
Otherwise, overexploitation of common resources is going to kill us if we can't find a way to circumvent the problem, such as by reaching out into space as local resources become dire.
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So glad they put that thick protective white line there so I know I won’t be hit 🥰
It’ll be super protective when it snows!
If you are walking you're either poor or up to no good, in both cases we don't want you around these parts. Oh, your kids need to walk? Don't be lazy and DRIVE them where they need to go!
Don’t be lazy and DRIVE
For the briefest of moments I felt a spark of blinding hot rage in my heart. Now I am left with the lingering feeling of wanting to smash my head against a rock.
Thank you for that experience.
use a bike with a baby seat or passenger seat instead of driving
What in the stupid is this?
Cheaper than a sidewalk, apparently.
The cost being the life of pedestrians? This is insane.
Why even allow people in this neighborhood? Just have cars and no people
Don't worry, self driving cars will get us there eventually
Next they'll eliminate the stripe and put up share-the-road signs with the stick figure
Is that a pedestrian symbol or the chalk outline of a pedestrian who got hit?
This what I hate about North America. Non walkable neighbourhoods.
Weirdly enough it is a walkable neighborhood legit this is the entire street in the picture, for some reason they decided to paint these people lanes instead of just leaving it.
Can you believe it that some see walkable neighbourhoods as a conspiracy? I just can’t wrap my head around why…
Who would use this? Wouldn't you either walk on the grass or clearly in the middle of the street?
They saw people walking in the road because there are no sidewalks and decided to paint a line, brilliant, job well done.
Imagine seeing this when house hunting and still buying the house. You'd have to have worms in your brain to want one of these ugly McMansions with no sidewalk
Oh these ain’t McMansions, they’re the “missing middle” it’s basically row houses but with car centric infrastructure
That doesn't look like middle-density housing, it's just slightly more dense low-density housing
Soooo...a sidewalk without the extra pavement?
Who the hell designed this? I want to see the person who made this burn in hell
You can be lying inside this line just like that guy!
if anyone in this community uses a car you are part of the problem
On the other hand, there isn't another option you have in that community.
This community is super walkable and is a good 5 min walk to a big grocery store too
indeed. it's a systemic problem, not an individual problem. we need a network of protected bike lanes, a fuck ton more transit, and zoning reform
Fake or not in the US? It definitely looks like standard USA fare, but this is not a pedestrian symbol I've ever seen
Fake, but not terribly far from reality in some areas.
Anywhere upper middle class enough to have lawns like that will have proper sidewalks. But in poor neighborhoods, sometimes local government just doesn't bother spending money to make sidewalks at all. But they also don't bother to paint any lines in the road. It's just road - no sidewalks, no bike lanes, no whatever these are. Just roads.
It’s not fake, and weirdly enough it’s in a rich neighbourhood (or at least u need to be rich to be able to buy a house here)
It is exactly reality on some roads in my area. My town is growing and decently high income for the area, but some of the very first neighborhoods have drainage ditches along the roads rather than proper storm drains. So they are smaller, less expensive houses, but they are in the center of town with good access to everything.
So that leads to lots of sidewalks being built, trying to make things more connected and walkable, but certain roads have this exact “we painted a line and a walk symbol” sidewalk. The walk symbol looks correct though, not the weird one in the op.
Not in the US, but Canada!
Ask for a bike lane and hopefully you can get multi-use gutters
Only in America
if lines can keep out sea bears, obviously they can keep out these pesky pedestrians from getting in front of my SUV!
It's the Sea Rhinos you should be more concerned about.
This is blasphemy. What should we call walking on the side of the road in some sort of designated zone?
"Asking to get hit by a car"
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