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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