Comments by "" (@steemlenn8797) on "Not Just Bikes" channel.

  1.  @arbjful  Yes, Japan is quite cramped. But nobody forces the US at gunpoint (not even in the US!!) to build stroads, seas of parikng lots and singel family home deserts.
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  2. In 99% of cases, people who say "keep the politics out" actually mean "keep any politic out that is not mine"
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  3. The best part was when the GM award was to be given. I thought "Who will it be? Surely not some small worker nobody knows about". And when the answer came I was "Holy Sh** no!" and I could hear Liams actionable threats across the whole Atlantic.
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  4.  @NotJustBikes  So don't say restrict cars. Tell people you increase the efficiency of a town's car infrastructure by harvesting strain reductions through synergystically build, holistic alternatives. You may safe a bit on the bullshit, but that is what it is about.
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  5. No. It's 50% correct. The other 50% are: If people can sit outside the area where they can only sit if they buy something, we make less profit! (The "Well there is your problem" podcast guys made an episode about this station, I recommend watching it. But only if you are not already feeling down.)
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  6. Yeah, those stroads tunneling you through the seas of parking with a dead looking reef of shopping here and there - just one look and I get depressed. No wonder road rage is such a thing there. I would want to rage too!
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  7. Do I get this right? Because the children need so much time crossing the street, they try to improve the situation by making them take more time to cross the street? Brilliant!
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  8. Tokyo is an fantastic example of the importance of public transport. And I am not talking about the 3 busiest train stations all in the middle of Tokyo, but about the price difference for apartments. 10min way to the train station can mean a 30% drop in rent.
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  9. Quiet und boring is a LOT better than interesting times. Just ask the Ukrainians.
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  10.  @taoliu3949  Putting aside that there is no such thing in Switzerland: No, it's not. If at all NOT scaling is a violation. Because the law is not protectecting equal if someone can endanger others and pay a fine of about 3 minutes income, since that is not a deterrent.
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  11.  @NotJustBikes  I couldn't imgaine driving a car on a six lane SUV filled stroad. Well, actually I could, but I don't even want to imagine.
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  12.  @taoliu3949  But it's the same punishment! You have to pay a fine of 1 (work) day. A fixed sum would NOT be the same. I don't know how much dividends Bill Gates gets from his Microsoft stocks, but I would have to work my whole life and not come close to it. That certainly is not the same punishment!
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  13.  @taoliu3949  Do you WANT not to get it? First of all don't take the (often very strange) peculiarities of your local legal system not as the world wide standard. Second, a day in jail is the same for rich and poor (well, theoretically), so there is no reason to change the amount.
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  14. Every time I see them I think "how can anybody want to live in such a liveless, cloned environment??"
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  15.  @taoliu3949  I think it's not that hard to realize that "peculiarities" refer to e.g. your "amendments". And I don't say they should be punished different based on wealth, I say they should be punished equally. That's the whole point that you are ignoring again. And practicality - I do think courts would be able to have a look into the last tax account.
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  16.  @F4682-v6s  This is not about prefernces, this is about not polluting other people or even make them sick. Or would you agree that I can run a chain saw under your windoe 24/7 just because it's my preference? )And if your answer is yes, you should go see a doctor!)
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  17. Well, the Dutch are partly German so it's impossible for them to not complain :D
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  18.  @lions2lambs  Well, if you are not driving a car, you must be poor, and if you are poor you must have a fatal moral failing, right? That's what it looks like to me if I look at the US car culture.
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  19. We don't need parking minimums, we need parking maximums. If your car is too big, you can't park.
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  20. I didn't judge the 80+ year old lady for overtaking me, so why should I judge people that I can overtake?
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  21.  @FirstName69  precisely. It took all I had for me to keep up (admitteldy I was running a "rental" bike which needed a lot fo power) I admired the old lady ;) I judge obese people more for driving in a car to McDonalds than for biking, that's for sure.
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  22. Everyone is driving at license-revoking speeds? Now, isn't that a possibility right there to insta-change the whole city into a bike street city?
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  23. The Vegas Loop can actually carry less than a single lane street. It's a glorified taxi stand, so you can't have street level traffic because people are constantly crossing the "street". (It's a stroad really.) Also nobody explained to me what happens to the people in the cars in the tunnel if the taxi stands for 10 cars (3 of them and you need ~100 cars for the theoretical capacity) are full. Are they looping infinetely?
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  24. I have been told that the prime minister cycling to his meetings with the king/queen is also a big PR point. (Or the royal family biking)
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  25. Also we give health care to everyone, so our numbers will grow more than the class enemy!
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  26.  @F4682-v6s  One car. But there is never only one. The chainsaw is actually better because it is one level and not getting a bit more or less louder every 2 seconds.
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  27. SOMEONE has to pay for all those pensions invested in the money market! Never ever forget: Each dollar debt is one dollar wealth and vice versa. The question is only where.
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  28.  @aabb55777  You don't need a study lol. It only depends on how the car sharing works/costs and what you would pay for your own car. For me it would be cheaper as long as it has no insane prices (not to mention that it would be better cars than my 9 year old cheapo).
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  29.  @googiegress  Adventure Road Trip.
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  30.  @Snowshowslow  Is it illegal in he US to go into a pub etc. if you are not drinking age???
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  31.  @NotJustBikes  They probably saw you and said "we must fix this before Not Just Bikes makes jokes about our bad streets!"
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  32. Where I lived before they once installed a speed bump in front of a hospital. Not a bad thing in itself - but the first time I drove there, 2 days after it was finished, it was night, so I was not seeing it good. They had put up a 30 sign together with the speed bumb. I was driving 30 - in fact a bit slower when I saw the bump, let's say 27 - and when I reached it, the bump nearly broke my car. I heard the springs (or whatever) hitting themselves. The bump was something like 3:1 shaped. It was changed after a few month because the city was flooded with complains, it even was in the newspaper as a warning to not drive the allowed speed there. How did nobody realize it was a bad idea to place a bump fit for a "walking speed driving" zone to be in a 30 part of a 50 street?
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  33. What horrible conditions you have to live in! lol My current (Germany) 3000 people town once had a train line, closed a few years after reunification. We have 3 bus lines converging here going to the next big cities. Service once an hour. Travel time for 20/30km air distance about an hour too, because it goes through all the villages. Price is about what you would pay for fuel in a car if you go full distance. That actually one of the better connected places for "rural" one. A lot of more remote, small villages in Germany have 2-5 buses a day, generally at school/work time start and finish.
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  34. lol But isn't that a problem too if you have more than 256 axles?
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  35.  @LilOBX  You can have a working train system in less populated areas too. The swiss have a very good train system, in a country that is not exactly made for trains. They pay less than 400€ per head and year (+fares). How many thousands do US people pay for their street system (+gas and car cost)? At minimum way too much because they can't afford it today, and it will only get worse. Also even in the center of Tokyo you get more than a shoe box for 2K ;) The reason why those trains are so full morning and evening is because so many people use them to commute. "In the countryside" of Japan you can get a nice villa for 2K dollar.
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  36. Definitely. You have to remind yourself that even in best case you pay 100€ for car+insurance every month - without a single km driven.
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  37. Yeah, 20€ per year sounds about right for a bike you use 2 or 3 times a week only for shopping groceries or getting somewhere that is a bit farer.
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  38. You mean those 2 white lines are the bike lane? Yeah, better have none than that I guess.
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  39.  @brotlowskyrgseg1018  Or you could simply replace the taxi fleet with buses. Double capacity for 1/10th of the cost. Of course it would be less cool and probably downright Unamerican to say that!
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  40.  @sirBrouwer  Best thing is, if everything is a (st)road, you no longer need parking places and parking garages, you can simply park on the road.
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  41. That's not a problem. At least I don't want to call something a problem where the best solution is to nuke it.
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  42. So true! In God we trust! Thoughts and prayers!
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  43.  @GTAVictor9128  I live near the Harz. There is Sorge und Elend. (worry and misery; seems to be a bad time when those towns were founded). And of course, for international guests, Bavaria has Fucking, but I think they renamed the place since replacing the name signs every time they were stolen was getting too expensive.
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  44. Not to metnion that a lot of the crime is probably because of the incredible bad infrastructure. Noise and stress from walking on "sidewalks", having nowhere to go to, job problems... people who are treated like shit tend to behave like shit. Compared to that, being in a high security prison in Norway is way better. At least they have a library close by and fresh air.
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  45.  @SamOliver4  Crime is not a density problem. Just count the number of US suburbanites who are incredibly dumbfounded that, if you lose your wallet in Tokyo, chances are you not only get it back, but the money is still in!!!
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  46. I think there is a video about how he will make more videos for all those "but that's" ;)
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  47. I admit I giggled at the "on purpose". And now to to watch the purposeful ride.
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  48.  @andrewouss  We have 2 keys for our car. Use the second (in the lock, when the battery was low) and there is a 30% chance the alarm goes off. Does not happen with the first key.
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  49. Having a system where the election actually can change something is a huge factor.
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  50. My grandma used to do a hm... 5 mile walk every other day until that age. Then she had a Pulmonary embolism. Doctor said most people her age would have died. She could not do that walk after that but still lived another decade until everything broke down. Really died of old age, was nearly blind at the end, but the lungs still worked fine for her age. Yes, at that age it is more dangerous so you probably should not go the full 25kph your ebike can do, but biking (or walking or...) makes you so strong that you are less frail than others.
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  51. A street does not generate any revenue. What might generate revenue is what is build besides them. A 1 family home with lots of green just can't give as much revenue as a 6 family rental on the smae space. Not least because the rental density leads to shops etc. in walking distance while the suburb means more suburb to house that, with huge parking lots thrown into too. Americans like to go on about Free Market Efficiency, but the typical 4-6 story prefab building squares of Socialism were darn pretty efficient for the people living there - and at least for my feeling were greener than the suburb house. I always liked to walk along the backsides (inside the squares).
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  52. You are free to use a loud engine in the appropriate environment for it.
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  53.  @GTAVictor9128  There are also many funny names around Mannheim - Linsengericht, Erbsengesäß - but they probably lose a lot when trying to translate. And once as a small child I drove through "Big something" which consisted of 1 house and 2 barns. Since that day I wonder how "Small something" looks, but that was a time before the internet and I have long forgotten what the something was. It will keep me restless in my grave not knowing that, I can tell you.
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  54.  @speedstyle.  I am pretty sure the confusing part is that fake London also has a fake Blackfriars bridge. I am pretty sure that was never a blackfriars cathedral or monastery or anythign fo that sort there.
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  55. No city should be build in a way that a first class school child cannot safely walk to school.
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  56. Also it's very cheap and a good example of a lean state!
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  57. See, it proves that the state cannot manage anything effectivly, if you just push it a bit in the "right" direction! (Yes, sarcasm.)
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  58.  @Slithermotion  Yeah, but does that not mean it can be registred as a different train?
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  59.  @Blackadder75  They are, but the main point is that the wealth is less concentrated in the top. Especially at the very low end, having 5K more a year is a huge difference.
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  60. You got cause and effect wrong in your second sentence.
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  61.  @karlrovey  in that case the biking movement is better because it's more round. At least for me.
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  62.  @bano363  The funny thing is how many people do something that is worse, without being a masochist, on the Highways.
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  63. When did they finish the airport? In the case of BER the train station was running 7 or so years before the airport opened.
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  64. There is an easy way to save taxes. Just turn every road into a bike path. It's a lot cheaper. You need less space and less digging and less material.
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  65.  @udishomer5852  That depends on what you do with the wood. Putting aside that a lot of the "wood" in the US (at least for modern multi-family buildings like five over ones) is not mainly wood but oil... if you use wood right, you have a very good house on all those topics. They once tested the Great Hall of the Chinese forbidden city. Biggest pillarless (in the center) wood structure in the world. The model didn't had any troubles until the earthquake was somewhere in the 7 (Richter) and survived I think until 9.1 (the worst their shaking plate could do) still standing (most of it). Bricks in contrast are bad with earthquakes because they are so rigid.
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  66. That seems to be a common topic. I have heard similar descriptions from several US airports. Favirote one is about the hotel literally just on the other side of a highway, but since the next on/off ramps are a bit away it is nearly a 20 minute drive.
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  67. I am all for that. For taxing everyone the same I mean. Since cars get subventions of about 2000-7000€ PER YEAR (depending on car size and what the study assumes) it would mean every biker would get a huge tax refund.
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  68.  @SandyCandy273  Because if you don't, society might change so much that you, the gas guzzler, are looked upon like bikers are today by you!!! Let me guess: The person proposing it was a Republican? That is such a "conservative" line of thought
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  69.  @starless5668  Oh, sorry, I didn't want to bring that town back into the Reich ;) Fucking sounds so bavarian to me... LOL I just put it into google maps and it steers me to "The national centre for fugging", no wonder they renamed it :D
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  70. Zoning does not mean that that cities get car cities though. It depends on the laws. Japan has zoning laws too. And delightfully small, sometimes downright beautiful backstreets where nearly nobody drives (or owns) a car in the middle of the moloch named Tokyo.
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  71.  @NotJustBikes  That sounds like they still use the old "Tatra" trams O.o (US name would be PCC) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatra_T3 US equvalent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCC_streetcar
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  72.  @esspeebee1  So that's the reason cars have gotten a lot wider in the last 2 decades!
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  73. When I was young I always wondered why in the US series the youngsters always went to the mall. It only makes sense if you understand suburbia und the lack of third spaces.
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  74. Traveling widens the horizon and helps you learning things about your home ;)
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  75.  @NotJustBikes  Oh yeah, found it. Hope you get something from my money ;)
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  76.  @jonistan9268  Train lines? Yes, many of the small branch lines. (But the West was just a bit faster.) For example the line to the 3000 people town I live in now.
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  77.  @NicholasIstre  What you say has nothing to do with privilegdge though. It all reeks of necessity.
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  78.  @ci-cy3ww  Yes (but still run like a state company) and no. 20km for less than 5 dollar is not what I would call expensive. Thats just a bit more than half the price of a normal german train ticket.
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  79.  @haphazard1342  Not to mention those are better than drums in making noise. I live where nearly every street is cobblestone of some sort. Some people on the backside of my house live where the garbage truck cannot move to, so they roll their bins 50m across the small stones. It sounds like a gnome army is attacking. I don't need to remember the garbage calender. I only need to react to the sound ;)
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  80. In some o those places (especially India) I always wonder why they bother with honking. You couldn't make out who it was that honked to you in all the other honks.
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  81. Talk about that with a multimillionaire who gets to work in an old car and brings his packed lunch and get's pitied because he has no money.
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  82.  @NotJustBikes  Of course. You can't carry anything away without a car. In the Netherlands the friendly bus driver would help you with that safe!
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  83. I moved to a place where I could easily walk to my office and the next ALDI. I don't care about congestion or strikes of whatever.
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  84.  @AndrewTheRadarMan  It's not close to everything. Just close to everything you need daily, as every town above 2000 people should be. And I am not lucky. I moved here. It's a choice.
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  85.  @KyrieFortune  Oh, not in a workhouse where people have to tread to pump the constant flowing water away so they don't drown?
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  86. One train to rule them all
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  87. It certainly is compared to it going on the same height ;)
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  88. Not even God knows the way of the google algorythm ;)
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  89. Yeah, why did that one guy had to act up so much? sigh
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  90. The guys from the "Well there is your problem" podcast did an episode about NY Penn Station. Their opinion was a little bit less good ;) And I hope nobody working for a Japanese railway watches this video, because they would probably die because of "fremdschämen". (the feeling of shame for someone else who has done sth. embarrassing)
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  91. Younger people speak english. Older seem to prefer German (from my limited experience near the border). There are some great museums, but if they hire, don't ask me :D You do need to be happy with rain and wind though.
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  92.  @TheFeldhamster  Haha - I consider myself lucky to still have a minute based fee. But that is because I don't talk much on the phone, can't remember when I recharged the 15€ the last time. Probably in 2018.
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  93. I have nver been to Japan and still recognized several of the places in this video. I guess I watched too many walking videos!
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  94. A subtime of the Anthropocene?
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  95.  @nlabonte  Running? He would of course also be on a bike.
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  96. What, wait. Calgary has NO... error brain shuts down
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  97. Where I live in Germany we had 30cm or maybe even more in that single week. (Hard to judge because the wind in the first 3 days was so strong you would have places totally bared and snow piled up nearly a meter just around the corner). After 2 days they just gave up on clearing the sidewalks with machines. No more space to move the white stuff to. The people dug trenches in front of their houses and snow was carried out of town by building/agricultural equipment/cars so that cars could drive. I don't know how many years it have been since I last saw a car getting stuck on top of snow! And thanks to the wind, some parked cars looked like the result of some SF design competition :D
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  98.  @sylvainmichaud2262  And if you nail a cross on the backside of the cabin, you can have thoughts and prayers too! American efficiency XXL! American squared!
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  99.  @florianbabel5558  In parallel parking you at least should be able to see the biker. In this backing-out setup it's impossible.
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  100. Guess what - even many houses in the US are build out of mainly oil! They just look like wood. (So-called five over ones).
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  101. I think you would like Cory May channel https://www.youtube.com/c/CoryMay81/videos He loves to walk through backalleys - and the Japanese ones are often very beautiful indeed!
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  102.  @موسى_7  streets wide enough for one car lane or the pedestrian only smaller ones - those types of backalleys.
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  103. Yeah, the US cities always feel so empty despite (or because?) of all the cars.
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  104.  @Blackadder75  Not 10kg but yes. Home office means all the chcolade etc. close... Sugar is your biggest enemy. Walking or not is only second place enemy for weight.
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  105. One of the most funny things coming out of Corona was gyms going total bananas about a proposed law that they cannot collect monthly fees as long as they are closed for Corona (they would still get help to cover a part of costs like anyone else). Yeah, they depend on people paying but not coming.
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  106. Insta Classic. Oh God Damn WTF? Says the Atheist at the bridge.
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  107. Induced demand. If you build a street, you get street traffic. If you build a road, you get road traffic. It's the planners decision how much traffic of which type is on a given street.
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  108. No, the Amarican mainstream thinks it is against "communism", if they actually experience it, most like it, but don't call it that way. My favorite example is still the state run supermarket in the deep red town that everyone loves (the privately run one closed down, so the state stepped in)
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  109. Even in the literal middle of Tokyo a lot of the backstreets are eerily quiet, because they are so small there are practically no cars. If it weren't for the lack of wind and animal noises you would think you were in some tiny village in the godforgotten mountains.
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  110. I wish there was car charing in my little town. But it is not, so I have to keep one for my monthly parent visit (and the occosial other trip), since a 1-day visit would mean nearly 3 times cost and time if I use the public transit compared to my cheap small car. It's no fun if you spend 5h+ just traveling for a simple visit :(
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  111. Seeing that comparison made me literally sick.
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  112. LOL that inside joke was good, I laughed like a rumbling avalanche!
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  113.  @rjfaber1991  Every time you think American traffic engineering can't get worse, they will proof it can be. It's a race between the universe making bigger idiots and traffic engineers trying to be the biggest idiot in town.
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  114.  @kyriacosstavrinides893  I am not sure if Americans would applaud that as a superb Free Market approach or condemn it as Communism.
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  115.  @k0zzu21  The Speed bumps in te Netherlands work good - but they are made better and the ramp is more a ramp than a hill. I don't like them, but they work well.
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  116. It should not be that hard to be precise, in Tokyo they always stop within a few cm. They have automated gates at the places where train doors are to prevent accidents. They open after the train has stopped and of course the train needs to be very precise. (Also there is painting on the ground indicating where to line up)
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  117. Finally the video to throw at people who say "What's so bad about SUVs?"
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  118. That a town with 65K people dosn't have a train station (and is not some mining town in a place where the daily top temp in winter is -20), tells you all you need to know about a place.
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  119. Wait, there are bikes not used for sport-climbing mountains that are without chain guard??? And I would certainly get a brake for the front wheel, just in case. It gives you more options for reacting to traffic flows too. Using the backbrakes when turning around a sharp corner could mean your feet touching the ground, something you really don't want while driving. But I am happy to know now where all those stolen bikes go to. Canada!
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  120. @Zaydan Naufal In regards to transporting people, yes.
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  121. Go train is the biggest car parking provider in the state. Gods, I laughed so hard. Not out of fun though, more out of desperation.
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  122. At the minimum we should do the market-driven approach: In safety resarch 10 million € per life is roughly where you start doing something. So for every person killed by a self-driving car, the company pays at least 10 M€. Injuries accordingly downscaled. And for every traffic rule violation the company pays 100K per point (German system). WE can let that run a year and see if we need to up the numbers.
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  123. They don't count as traffic.
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  124. Yes, I know of one incident from city, 30K people, 33 years I lived there. Old woman had reverse on, thought it was first, panicked and stomped on the gas not the brakes.
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  125.  @Zoe_A_MacDonald  Unlikely, since it's justhours old.
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  126. It's no longer curiosity stream and nebula together? Shit, I just wanted to sign on :( But only one... nah. I don't even have the time.
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  127. There are a lot of... strange things in out times, but 10 minute grocery delivery is quite high on the list. I could maybe get my head around 30 minutes, for when your friends suddely visit and you need snacks, but 10 minutes? If your friends can't wait 30 minutes for chips, you should get better ones anyway ;) About Gorilles: I read an article just a few days ago. At the start they were making more loss per trip than the average worth of trips. So someone ordered for 12€ and they had a loss of 13€ or so. It's now down to "only" 5€ or so, but still... can't see that working once the VC is out. It's like Uber. Their plan was to use self-driving cars and to be "the" market, that is why they used so much capital. Build a monopoly. But as self-driving cars are not out... I think they even managed to break even with being a food delivery on top on the original business model. I think that is the only way for those grocery deliveries, too. Consolidate until it's only one left, incorporate additional services and then up the prices. (Amazon did the same btw.) Not worth imho, but that is true for a lot of services and things that exist, like 1000€ smartphones or golf.
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  128. 9am is one thing. Working hours start at 7am generally, and of course they never do all the greens around you at once, but during a whole week.
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  129.  @Maussiegamer  Actually you could argue that those patrons are living the communist spirit. Of course that would mean you know what communsm actually is.
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  130. Projections are hard, especially if they are about the future.
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  131. No Japan visit is complete without missing the last train at least once 😂 And I am sure the teleport gates they have in those gates for the paper tickets have had more than one person wondering if it was their ticket coming out at the other end. When I first saw that I was certainly going WTF you are tricking me, right?
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  132. And every time you think America can't do something even more stupid, they manage to do it. FLAGS??? On a moving red light crossing?
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  133. Ever seen Soviet Republic: Workers and Resources? If you are sick of US style cities and want to start with real planning ;)
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  134.  @nothereandthereanywhere  People who stand on the Northpole will think "From here on everything is going South".
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  135.  @TheBandit7613  So what happens if nobody pays fuel taxes, either because of not driving a car or driving electro?
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  136. building a library in a big box store sounds so stupid, I would have never thought about it. For me the best place for a library is above the train station (in the center of town). You have all the public transport infrastructure, some shops for food in case you got hungry while browsing the shelves and you can look at trains while reading! Awesome!!!
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  137. Oh yes! Death sentences to those people! In America, I there there are some "you can shoot if you feel threatened" places. Surprisingly that sounds appealing suddenly.
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  138. I love the powerwasher fanboying!
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  139.  @mdhazeldine  I do worry getting around Switzerland. It's so much easier to just take the train through...
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  140.    Might be true. Especially if it is the marked crosswalk on a road crossing where no sidewalk or other pedestrian infraastructure lead to.
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  141. If I had a million I would live somewhere cheap (as I do) which has all the basics and never work (for money) again. With 1 million in index fund you can live forever in small luxury.
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  142.  @daelbows5783  In a cheap area like here you can very easily get a nice place for a 4 person family for ~1000€ living costs (rent, water, energy). That is 12K a year. With 1 mill, according to the 4% rule that is 40K before taxes. Or at least 20K after taxes and living costs. "luxury" may not hit it with 4 people, but you can easily live on that. For the rest you are allowed to earn money on the side ;)
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  143.  @daelbows5783  That's why I said "I would live somewhere cheap". However nice a city is, it's not worth working 20 years more. You only have one life after all.
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  144.  @MrToradragon  Blaming Commnism is wrong though. First, at their time those flats were highly sought after. It's where everyone wanted to live. Second it was the time of that - the Soviets build their monumental places and boringly uniform housing, the Capitalists build their monumental, uniform highways through cities, slashing them apart like an insane axe murderer. The slightly different ones, 4-6 storey high one with trees and basic necessities close by are quite good. Microblocks. That actually comes back now with new urban movements for walkability, less car traffic etc.
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  145.  @angelikaskoroszyn8495  I would argue that the transform is not different in "capitalism" - it's normal after 50 years. More important, the model of business activity has changed, and that something no house or city planner can do. Just imagine telling a suburb planner he now has to use an existing sprawl to include a supermarket.
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  146. Or in more precise words, they say "f*** you" to bikes.
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  147.  @train_blabber  They don't build a second storey because two storey houses are forbidden by zoning laws or HOAs. It would reek too much of socialism I guess.
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  148.  @ardentenquirer8573  Putting aside that Wealth of Nations is neither what you seem to think nor as correct as you seem to think; this is not a problem of governments - governments all over the world get better results. Means there must be a different reason.
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  149.  @ardentenquirer8573  You think I'm gonna discuss a 1000 page book in a youtube comment? ;) Just google "where Adam Smith was wrong" as a start I would say. He got a lot wrong, including his basic assumptions. That doesn't mean he was bad, it is unavoidable for such a work. (There are a few things that he should have known better, but nobody is totally objective.)
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  150.  @ardentenquirer8573  Not at all because poeple don't act out of rational self interest 95%+ of the time. (Which is why economics has plastered on so many additional (often contradicting) theories that it is basically back to "we don't know") I have never met a single homo economicus in my whole life. And even his famous wool example for devision of labor was a) "stolen" from someone else (not important but funny) und b) wrong, in the sense that this observation was not based on a Free Market, and as such not applicable as an example (of proof) of it. But Smith is also misinterpreted a lot by the Free Market fans. He was decidedly not one after all (if you take modern (neo)liberals).
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  151. But it's still right for slow moving EVs - under 20km/h you can't really hear them (not in wind or if you have any hearing problems). And 20 as a speed limit is really too low. Even for cars, not only bikes ;)
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  152. DB, when car-capitalism and NIMBYism come together!
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  153. @Zaydan Naufal I was more thinking of Mustachians.
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  154. I just found the perfect Street View place for this video. This is from Salt Lake City, a city with 2 airports. And still it has those emergency landing airstrip crosses like this one https://www.google.de/maps/@40.7780674,-111.9225703,140m/data=!3m1!1e3 (street view direct link is too long, so click once more) Look around! At one corner 2 small houses, Take them together and the street is still wider than those houses combined! Does anyone think the people living there could finance the street? Also funny how each house has 1 regulation tree.
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  155. Well, they are called train CARS for a reason.
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  156. The almighty algo placed something on the side called "Tokyp 3D". Didn't know such a thing existed, google it!
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  157.  @unifaeggi  They are rich because they have good transit. And lots of hidden money from outside (tax) criminals.
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  158. Now that I have seen the inside perspective of one of those monsters, I get the very terryfing feeling that I should be happy traffic death are "only" up 25% in the US.
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  159. Defiunitely good quality pictures. Reminds me of https://www.youtube.com/c/NIPPONWANDERINGTV which I sometimes watch. Maybe you could do a few similar videos?
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  160. Doesn't sound like a helmet would help here. A bazooka might, but only temporarily.
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  161.  @jasonarthurs3885  Shinjuku Station has 10 times the number of people using it than the Katy Highway. With probably the same space usage for rails.
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  162. Put some big cardboard+aluminium foil spikes around your back wheel. It will make cars do a bigger round around you, just from psycology, even if they know it's fake. Except those that see it as an attack on their manliness and intentionally give you hard love, I guess.
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  163. And now imagine how many hours of work you ahve to put into them to keep it looking like that.
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  164. My browser crashed when you said "these benefits arent available to you if your city is built wrong". I tell you, programs today are all snooping on what you do!
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  165. My first thought was "They should have tram lines everywhere, maybe a dozen, running every 5 minutes and only 20% of families own a car. Yeah... One problem is definitely the sprawl, but you could make that negative into a positive, by giving 1/3 of the trams to bike riders. Take your bike for those last 600m! Add a few good bike paths, and you could get around on the whole island and never pay for those expensive metal boxes.
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  166. Cancel Culture sigh
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  167.  @NotJustBikes  How can a train be late more than 24 hours??? That would never happen in Germany. Here the DB would just cancel the train and it would not appear in the "late" category, and also not driving up the average late time!
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  168. Do you have nets? I have seen nets used in Japan to prevent animals from getting in, but it looked like quite a hassle to use them.
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  169.  @NotJustBikes  Like in "We can't any longer build schools for blacks or whites, so let's create gated communities"?
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  170.  @sirBrouwer  You have never seen a Highway at Rush Hour I guess? ;)
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  171. Sounds like a capitalist is leading the garbage.
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  172. I guess it's still the result of leaded gas.
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  173. And it's extremely effective traffic separation, too. But it still blocks the movement.
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  174. The logical decision would of course be, as a town, you are removing car lanes whereever you can. And after that you look what use the space could be e.g. a bike lane. That way no car lane would be impacted by a bike lane.
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  175. The most amazing thing is that Switzerland does that train service for... I think 126€ it was per head. Or about what a family pays for car insurance. (Germany was at 42€ per head at the time of the documentary) Now imagine hallf of the US people could get rid of their car and put all that money into trains. You could have Switzerland level public transport without any fares!
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  176.  @lws7394  Doy ou have the source on that? My numbers are from a (several years old) TV documentation. And to not make misunderstandings: It was probably the subsidies, not the total costs, though they didn't say that (I deducted that by the low numbers).
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  177. One of the most impressive facts about the Japan public transit I ever heard is that Shinjuku has roughly (nobody seems to really know O.o) as many people using it as the whole German train system.
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  178. I just "watched" this for the 5th time for a bit of background action to better concentrate, and even this time I had to lol at the " prefer my road to have rails"
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  179. Der Höhepunkt der Jugendsprache ist für mich "Hausfrauenpanzer". Hab ich alter Knacker sofort übernommen.
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  180. No, it's illegal but it will not get you fined. The same goes for "letting the engine run without reason" btw. (And I am not even counting those who let their climate run for 5 minutes with the car standing and engine running to cool down the car when it was in the summer sun, instead of just driving with windows down for the first five minutes.)
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  181. You are the first person that described Venice as "peaceful" in the last decades. The city is (before Covid) totally overcrowded, especially if an abomination called criuse ship is there, towering over every single house.
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  182.  @mdhazeldine  I was there just a few years later. Maybe you were outside the touristy times? I guess in winter it's not that bad. But in summer holiday time you barely have time to look at any building because you have to watch out for the people to not bump into them - at least on the main "roads." It certainly was the most crowded city place I ever was in besides a Christmas market.
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  183. The only effective way is to nuke the place and wait until the radiation is gone. Or, alteratevly, wait for a really BIG Tornado or similar.
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  184. Because they lived in car infeted town too long and got half-deaf, yes. But the main problem here is having a mix of foot and wheel traffic.
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  185. Maybe use some passive aggressive move here? Print some cards and put them on the cars and bins. "Good news! Nobody was hurt by you blocking the bike lane, so there is no big court invoice coming to you this time!"
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  186. 420.000 is too small for a Tram? The closest town to me (Halberstadt) with tram lines is under 40.000 people. Yes 40K, not 400K! (I just looked it up, horse tram since 1887). 2 lines (feels more) of tram and uhm... 13 bus lines? (including to villages around) So you can still say 40 and I am quite sure more. My birth town is 30K and had a line once but that ended with WWII I think.
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  187. "a progressive conservative government" Warning: Critical error: Sentence could not be parsed.
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  188. One of the most interesting articles I ever read (actually two) is a comparison between US adn Japanese zoning, here: https://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/japanese-zoning.html
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  189.  @Yelonek1986  Nah, a few nailbands work quite well in protecting you. Roll them out, cross, roll in.
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