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

  1. 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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  2. You are free to use a loud engine in the appropriate environment for it.
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  3.  @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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  4.  @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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  5. No city should be build in a way that a first class school child cannot safely walk to school.
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  6. Also it's very cheap and a good example of a lean state!
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  7. 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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  8.  @Slithermotion  Yeah, but does that not mean it can be registred as a different train?
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  9.  @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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  10. You got cause and effect wrong in your second sentence.
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  11.  @karlrovey  in that case the biking movement is better because it's more round. At least for me.
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  12.  @bano363  The funny thing is how many people do something that is worse, without being a masochist, on the Highways.
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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15.  @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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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18.  @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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  19.  @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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  20. 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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  21.  @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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  22.  @esspeebee1  So that's the reason cars have gotten a lot wider in the last 2 decades!
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  23. 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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  24. Traveling widens the horizon and helps you learning things about your home ;)
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  25.  @NotJustBikes  Oh yeah, found it. Hope you get something from my money ;)
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  26.  @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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  27.  @NicholasIstre  What you say has nothing to do with privilegdge though. It all reeks of necessity.
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  28.  @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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  29.  @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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  30. 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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  31. 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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  32.  @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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  33. 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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  34.  @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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  35.  @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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  36. One train to rule them all
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  37. It certainly is compared to it going on the same height ;)
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  38. Not even God knows the way of the google algorythm ;)
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  39. Yeah, why did that one guy had to act up so much? sigh
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  40. 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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  41. 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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  42.  @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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  43. 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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  44. A subtime of the Anthropocene?
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  45.  @nlabonte  Running? He would of course also be on a bike.
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  46. What, wait. Calgary has NO... error brain shuts down
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  47. 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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  48.  @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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  49.  @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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  50. 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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