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  • Man complains about the government forcing him to buy a new car so he and his wife can continue to do their 1km school run.

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  • Longer. It takes about 12 minutes to walk 1km. A car in Delhi traffic will take about 20 minutes to cover that during the morning rush hour

  • Man complains about the government forcing him to buy a new car so he and his wife can continue to do their 1km school run.

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  • Government-mandated to reduce emissions?

    On the surface, yes. In reality they're just offloading environmental responsibility on to citizens (and making them buy "better" ICE cars so the auto industry gets the profits) instead of improving and expanding public transit to make it easier to get around without a car.

  • This excellent road design brought to you courtesy the brain trust in Uttar Pradesh, India /s

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  • That news was likely the mass cremations of people who died of COVID. Uttar Pradesh had one of the highest mortality rates in the country in the wake of the pandemic. A lot of them were low-income folk who died on the way to (or right outside) public hospitals that refused to accept them due to overcrowding, lack of equipment and supplemental oxygen, and gross mismanagement

  • This excellent road design brought to you courtesy the brain trust in Uttar Pradesh, India /s

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  • there is no danger at the speeds Indian traffic moves at

    I fight for my life in Indian traffic every day, don't even give me that guff.

  • This excellent road design brought to you courtesy the brain trust in Uttar Pradesh, India /s

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  • Like I mentioned, UP has no shortage of space. The HK comparison was to say that even if they were short on space that's no excuse to build piss poor infrastructure like this

  • This excellent road design brought to you courtesy the brain trust in Uttar Pradesh, India /s

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  • Uttar Pradesh is the Ohio of India

    Incorrect. Uttar Pradesh is the Florida of India. If you hear of some fucked-up shit happening in India there's a 50/50 chance it's in Uttar Pradesh.

  • This excellent road design brought to you courtesy the brain trust in Uttar Pradesh, India /s

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  • there is much less space to design anything neatly.

    That's absolute nonsense. We can design things perfectly well when it suits us.

    Even if it were true (it isn't; Uttar Pradesh is one of India's largest states, there's no dearth of space there -- this is borne of pure greed and stupidity), that's not an excuse. Quite a few other regions that are painfully short on space have been able to come up with brilliant, compact designs that serve their intended purpose without putting people in grave danger every day. Hong Kong comes to mind

  • Am I overreacting for wanting to quit driving altogether?

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  • It's a crosspost. I didn't write the post

  • On a slightly brighter note -- car-free vacation destinations!

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  • I gotchu. I changed the link to an archived one, it's all good now

  • Coventry in the UK is trialing a tiny battery-electric single-car tram it calls the Very Light Rail

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  • The prefictability is really a flaw. Busses can go anywhere with a road. Much more flexible.

    I beg to differ. A pedestrian or a cyclist is much more likely to be hit by a bus because buses can go and turn anywhere. Flexibility is an asset outside of cities and high-density areas, but in an urban area public transit on rails is far superior.

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  • Take your liberal propaganda and stuff it

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  • Your reaction is perfectly valid. Come, join us at fuckcars

  • Coventry in the UK is trialing a tiny battery-electric single-car tram it calls the Very Light Rail

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  • It won't get stuck in car traffic, for one, and it's reversible so its operational footprint is smaller than that of a bus network. Also predictable because it's on rails so people outside the tram know exactly where it's going. Also lower operational and maintenance costs because less wear and smoother ride

  • Peak American design: a vehicle that is 6 meters long, weighs over 4 tonnes, and can only carry six or seven people (but will usually carry one person most of the time.)

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  • F-150 SuperCrew with an 8-foot bed is 244 inches long, just over 20 feet. But that's a truck with an 8-foot bed, it might actually do something useful sometimes. This is a three-row pavement princess SUV.

  • Peak American design: a vehicle that is 6 meters long, weighs over 4 tonnes, and can only carry six or seven people (but will usually carry one person most of the time.)

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  • Expect a lot of dinged doors and door dinging.

    ...which will then lead to wider parking spaces and even more space stolen from pedestrians and cyclists.

  • Florida sheriff warns protesters ahead of nationwide rallies: ‘We will kill you dead’

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  • With how cops are, it's tantamount to the same thing -- it's tacit approval for them to straight up murder protesters regardless of provocation. They can always make that shit up later and get off without consequences.

  • Ron DeSantis says Floridians have right to hit protesters with cars

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  • And I'm sure no one is ever going to misuse that and claim the protester calmly standing in front of the car was "threatening them!!!1!!!1"

  • Peak American design: a vehicle that is 6 meters long, weighs over 4 tonnes, and can only carry six or seven people (but will usually carry one person most of the time.)

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  • As a car enthusiast I'm incredibly conflicted because muscle cars are cool -- but I can't for the life of me tell you why. They're loud, heavy, inefficient, and much clumsier and slower than other sports cars (which is why I prefer sports cars anyway). They have incredible amounts of power but they can't even use it properly except on a prepped drag surface, maybe.

    You're right, they really are dumb as fuck.

  • Florida sheriff warns protesters ahead of nationwide rallies: ‘We will kill you dead’

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  • None of those things automatically give you the right to murder someone. Due process exists for a reason.