#fuckcars

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    12 years ago

    To get from 6 oclock to 10 oclock you only need to cross 14 lanes, including two slip murder lanes.

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    2 years ago

    “We even put some nice areas of brown, patchy grass! And look, there’s even a shrub!”

  • @[email protected]
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    402 years ago

    So you patiently wait for your little white man signal, and as soon as it finally comes on (after 2 full cycles of the traffic lights) you start crossing only to get honked at by some lady who wants to turn right on her red light…

    • @[email protected]
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      182 years ago

      Well then, that lady needs to wait while I continue to cross with a limp that magically return at the moment she honked her horn.

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      12 years ago

      And if you’re lucky, you get more than 5 seconds to cross that 4 lane intersection!

      I’ve had to walk a few elderly people across a few intersections because they’d be 1/4 the way through before the “walk” quickly turned into “get off the road before you die!”.

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    82 years ago

    This looks like in cities skyline when I forgot to put in a pedestrian walkway and I can’t really change the streetlayout anymore

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      62 years ago

      Yeah, that place looks like a perfect excuse to build an over-engineered, spagetti-shaped pedestrian walkway.

  • @[email protected]
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    32 years ago

    “Oh, just my mother and father and uncle sitting around, talking. It’s like being a pedestrian, only rarer.” - Clarisse McClellan

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    82 years ago

    My reaction to this was “but there’s obviously going to be a footbridge”, followed by “wait, really?”

    I guess that second thought just about sums up North American infrastructure

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    82 years ago

    “The shortest distance between two points is a straight line”

    “Yeah, but that’s too expensive, I like mine better. What’s wrong with it?”

    gestures wildly at photo THE WHOLE THING

  • iliketrains
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    82 years ago

    Those random white stripes would definitely encourage people to cross!

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    92 years ago

    What’s funny is a certain type of engineer will look at this and be like hnnnng oh baby look at that

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      42 years ago

      Simcity/Cities Skyline players too.

      Can appreciate the sex appeal of infrastructure while also recognizing its stupid and shouldnt exist outside of a video game :D

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        42 years ago

        Wasn’t SimCity the game series that basically cheated and massively scaled down streets and parking spots because they realize exactly no one would like this even remotely realistic?

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        2 years ago

        Personally, I even think it’s kinda stupid for Skylines to force me to build along a road. I grew up with SimCity; roads helped, but were not actually required because it did actually simulate people walking to a degree.