Just one more lane bro. I promise bro just one more lane and it’ll fix everything bro. Bro, just one more lane. Please just one more, one more lane and we can fix this whole problem bro, bro c’mon just give me one more lane i promise bro, bro bro please! Just need one more lane
Average lane-brainer argument
Are you a bot posting this on every thread? Or are you just here to feel outraged? Because this is a post about doing the opposite.
funny how he keeps posting something that people inherently KEEP FUCKING DOING with zero fucking positive results… almost as if they’re lampooning the entire shit state…
say, maybe it’s not literal? huh
I’m genuinely curious how you could have read that and thought they was serious
I get you, some comments are more natural when the story is a disappointing one
“It turns out not burning a bunch of fossil fuels leads to less pollution”… news at 11.
The really dumb part of all of this is that people have just accepted cars as the default mode of transportation for so long that it’s hard to even envision a world without them. They’re normal, despite being expensive, dangerous, horribly inefficient, killing people actively (crashes) and passively (air pollution, plastic in our lungs, parkinsons/dementia, obesity, and more), and directly contributing to isolation in our communities. Every car we can get off the road, especially in our cities, makes the world a better place.
people have just accepted cars as the default mode of transportation
That wasn’t an accident and it didn’t just ‘happen;’ it was the very deliberate result of a combination of automobile and oil industry propaganda and US government policy back in the 1930s-1950s, motivated by several factors ranging from utopian modernist city planning to good ol’fashioned racism.
Some random sources to get folks started:
there’s also the argument that pushing to distribute population centers away from cities forced the soviet union to manufacture larger and more numerous atomic weapons to maintain parity with US capabilities.
not in the “hey we want to save as many people” way it’s portrayed, more like, let’s make it harder for the sov’s to equal the potential megadeaths we intended to dish out
…And we’re totally not moving to suburbs because we’re racist.
exclusively bulldozes entire black neighborhoods while at the same creating redline laws that prohibit black people from owning houses in the suburbs. peak racism policy
We needed that freeway there too make our commutes from the
racistsuburbs shorter.
I’ll definitely have to check out the underpinnings and use of that term. Thank you for bringing it to my attention.
Hey hey hey, don’t you know the real solution to vehicle deaths is to get a bigger car?
Its an interesting angle because that is what we did exactly with smartphones and social media too. We adopted them so voluntarily as if they were the best things happened in this century.
But looks like in todays world we could have been a much better society without them ever existing
For all the doomscrolling we do on smartphones, I’m still of the mindset that there are many ways their existence has made people’s lives better. For instance, I likely never would have become so transit-brained if not for smartphones. I practically have nightmares of trying to navigate train maps/schedules through nothing but paper and a loose idea of where my destination was.
Ahah never heard transit-brained before. That always fascinated me. I could never relate to my friends having a hard time with directions. I could always look at a map and compass and find my way.
I remember reading somewhere that due to increased reliance to automated navigation systems, people are losing physical navigation skills.
I think for me, it’s just difficulty with training steps, the same way many students struggle with the common ways of teaching math, but are great at it once practiced.
I used to religiously follow directions around my area. Now, I bring my smartphone for safety, but I often find myself navigating without it.
I’d still struggle with paper alone, since there would be so many turns I’d want to verify - and quite often, street signs are obscured in some way.
The crazy thing as well is that especially after COVID people will use the isolation of cars as a positive. You have people who don’t like transit cause they would have to be near other people. Which just shows how crazy isolated and disconnected from our communities we are in the US atleast.
Although it is good that they added riding bicycle lanes I doubt that is the only reason for the lowering of pollution.
Not only do we have electric and hybrid cars, due to euro standard combustion engines have become a lot cleaner during the same span of time. Plus public transport has also become a lot better during that time.
Yeah, car restriction is the key. Then you must plan for people who needs to move. Cars don’t belong to the city, only for leisure trips outside.
Thank you
France isn’t perfect or without its own problems (or fucking right-wingers), but damn overall they’re really crushing it lately.
(I wonder how hard it is to emigrate to France…)
It depends : are you white ?
Does that actually make it easy, or just less hard?
(Je l’envisage sérieusement, d’ailleurs.)
Makes it harder
That’s happening in Paris. Some other cities are moving in right direction too, some installing new trams from zero etc. Most bigger cities have subways. But you should try visiting rural France without a car… Not a butcher or a bakery left for many kilometers/villages around, only big roadside Malls with an enormous supermarket and some fake little “shops” at the entrance. Many rural villages are dead and without a car you’re screwed big time. This is where the Gilet Jaunes came from.
Our president just said democracy? Never heard of her and named prime minister a member of the party with the least elected parliementaries but OK.
Keep seeing this picture but no control group. Give me the same data for a French city other than Paris to understand whether this is about local policy change or about emissions standards and the move to electric cars.
Googling tells me DEF (diesel exhaust fluid) was required in 2015 in Europe. Other posters have said this graphic is NO2, which is what DEF reduces.
It’s good that you included the source because without a scale this meant fuck all.
Thank you. I was about to ask for the same thing.
This graph is HIGHLY misleading as it doesn’t include the time in 2019 when Notre Dame’s pollution was much higher for a brief period of time.
Thanks for posting source, OP!
They installed efficiency modules to reduce biter expansion?
How much of this was dieselgate and DEF fluid?
DEF: Googling say DEF was implemented in 2015 in Europe. Other posters have clarified the map shows NO2, which DEF reduces by “up to 90%”
Dieselgate: Also 2015. “On 29 September 2015, Volkswagen announced plans to refit up to 11 million affected vehicles, fitted with Volkswagen’s EA 189 diesel engines”. Affected cars emitted 40x the legal NOx levels. It also accelerated EV offerings. Also increased testing and scrutiny.
Yeah I’m leaning more towards this being dieselgate and DEF.
This is the same thing as a graph where the y-axis doesn’t start at zero.
Op cut it out for some reason, but it is in the linked article. Here is a screenshot of the ‘y-axis’:
Cars also got more environmental. I’m/!not saying bike lanes are bad. But this might be a bit biased.
If someone draws a conclusion from the facts it could be biased, but this is just merely data. You could say that it is framing a certain set of results, (since it doesn’t say anything about how pleasant a trip by car is compared to a trip by bicycle for example), but the collection data seems to done perfectly neutral.
If someone draws a conclusion from the facts
The title is framing the statistics with the implication that bike lanes and car restrictions are the cause.
(Fuck electric cars)
No I totally agree but it would be framing which is not the same as being biased, and the title implies a causation but doesn’t actually say there is one. Also could have kept quiet because i don’t really disagree with op.
The red areas doesn’t indicate temperature … it indicates thrown away cigarette butts
