Old thread from 2023 finally hit bump limit >>1955863New thread. "Cycling infrastructure" is harm reduction. But not in the way you probably think. The anti-bike crowd considers riding a bicycle on public roads as an offense against the interests of motorists. An so, they wish to create infrastructure to reduce cycling (harm). Yes! Those who advocate for "separate but equal" are (whether they admit it or not) working against the interests of bicycle users:-The American Automobile Association strongly supports bike lanes-Countries that place responsibility on car drivers have 70-90% fewer fatalities per billion km traveled by bike. This is of course beyond the pale, drivers must always have total immunity. But hey, look, green paint! We solved safety!-The true purpose of bike lanes is to neutralize the opposition by corrupting the discourse. Don't support bike lanes? Then you must not care about safety!-Bike lanes have a curious pattern of appearing where they are superfluous, and vanishing as you approach potential traffic conflict zones. This way, when you get run over by a dump truck making a turn, it's your fault! You shoulda been in the bike lane that wasn't there!In conclusion: bike lane activists hate cyclists and want to eradicate cycling as a form of transportation.
>>2084503actually it doesn't, you only need those things to drive on public roads.
>>2084602>underage cyclist leech cannot write one sentence withouut mindlessly screeching about some imaginary murder: the post
>>2084605If anything, driving is undertaxed and society is overburdened by it, you entitled leech
I am a longtime cyclist in a small progressive city in the northern USA. My city has built lots of bike lanes since Covid, which is cool, but every time I ride them I find myself wondering 'who exactly are these bike lanes for?' I am a pretty strong/experienced cyclist and can keep up just fine in downtown traffic without bike lanes, but in the bike lanes there are all these opportunities to get right-hooked by a car, traffic shifts, nothing but paint between rider and traffic, etc. So if a strong rider doesn't really need the bike lane, it follows that the bike lane should serve newer/inexperienced riders, and it doesn't really seem to be doing that. But these bike lanes could serve newer/slower riders better if they were more isolated from traffic, followed secondary and less busy streets, etc. Has anyone else noticed this disconnect about what audience the typical bike lane is actually built for?
>>2084741since you treat taxes as just another way to wage war on cars for your imaginary grievances no amount of them short of completely destroying it would be considered excessive. alas, other people simply wish and would cheer when a semi truck plows through you and makes the society cleaner and more sane for a time.
Can someone tell me what Japanese residential streets are called? I’ve never been to Japan but in videos and anime I keep seeing these narrowish neighborhood streets that lead right up to people’s houses. They’re super walkable even though they almost never have sidewalks, people just walk down the middle of the road. Doors basically open onto the street and there’s almost no on-street parking so the whole thing feels open and free. What’s the actual name for this style of street/layout? Is there a specific term or is it just "normal Japanese residential street"?
>>2084108Also most residential streets in Japan don't even have sidewalks so you have cars and mopeds you're also trying to dodge constantly. It sucks
>>2079194In Chapan, the streets are prefixed with P- , then the city and then a number. So, P-Edo-69 etc.
>>2084108>>2084109I feel zero threat from bikes. Completely different class of danger from a car, objectively speaking. Must suck to have a delusional understanding of the world like you.
>>2079196I like how this was done with very Japanese style emojis to really hammer home that it was just light hearted fun-making, but lots of people got very upset anyway.Smile more, you miserable bastards.
>>2084770It's not about danger Takeshi, it's about claustrophobia and feeling like you have enough space to walk without constantly looking over your shoulder. But go ahead and jerk off to your hentai and seethe about Japan being replaced by foreigners while you can't even reach first base.
What is it about steam engine chugging sound that makes it so soothing? I really like hearing it, but I can't explain why.
>>2077357it's the sound of reliable engineering done by White men.
>>2077363i was gonna go with " because you're autistic"
>>2077357>chuga>chuga>choo>chooAhh yes the sounds of the good ol days of the wild west and slavery
>>2084699Dude Vladimir Putin owns LiveJournal now and tumblr is bankrupt, it's not 2014 anymore, nobody cares, shut the fuck up
>>2084699shut up, nigger
Rode this one through most of primary school.
>>2083321Solid, simple, storied janky but also nice ship o' Theseus w/ cracked fenders- liked getting on itAnd then it got fucking stolenRIP my original first real non-BSO bike of Theseushttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsoA_5Es-GQ
>>2083322meanwhile this dude is just letting it hang out and it didnt get stolengotta say, nice to have a trigger shifter for thatpeehaps I will do sth like that for the alu BSO that I built up to replace my dear peugeot
>tfw the board is dead and you speak to the withered ruins that you yourself shall inevitably become part of in due time - mercilessly, thankfully, inevitably
>>2084606When was this board alive?
>>2084614I'm just kind of surprised anons dont have childhood bikes to talk about
>be me>be femanon>riding my rigid 90s steel mountain bike>dressed casually, no cycling specific clothes (unless a helmet counts)>on a paved bike path>enjoying the nice spring weather>begin to come up on someone from behind>a fat guy>wearing full cycling kit>including Air Attack helmet>on an S-Works road bike>he hears me approaching and looks back>he quickly looks forward and starts pedaling as hard as he can>I'm keeping pace with him without even trying>he keeps looking back at meComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2084625based oldfag
>>2083362>>be me>>be femanonStopped reading right there.
>>2084619>mfw>
>>2083362heh but im the fat fuck that keeps up even with the e gays with my cheap basic bike. fatties have strong legs as they need to carry more weight than skellies
>>2084692?
How in the fuck are they pulling this shit off? These commies are making us look like clowns! What is the reason for this?!
>>2034380>But the restrictions are loosening. With prosperity, they are needed less and less.https://www.google.com/search?q=China+offshore+trust+tax+crackdown
>>2084122Here. If you're going to link to a freaking google search to get the freaking AI slop response at least post a screencap because the AI slop changes depending on who's looking at it when and where.
>>2084628>google search to get the freaking AI slopSounds like a (You) problem because I don't see any AIsloppa on my machine. Maybe try scrolling down a little bit and you can see reputable sources like Reuters and Bloomberg.
>>2084628>>2084697
>>2046916it's almost as if China spends, like, money or something to promote its image, and they use inexpensive automated software to do that because Chinese people hate spending moneyyou might even refer to them as "chinabots" or similar
Should a city the size of Toronto have more, less, or about the same amount of rapid transit?
>>2084684It's a zero-sum game, the only winning move is not to import the jeet>>2076185This transit map is misleading at first glance because many of these lines are seasonal or only run a handful of times per day during rush hour or weekends, etc.The Lakeshore West train is never going to run every 15 minutes as that map seems to indicate, it's almost never full as it is, unless of course the real purpose of this map is to communicate that they're going to import another million "students" per year until 2030
>>2084685That was when they had GO RER planned. They were going to electrify it and run it like a German regional train system.It fell apart because some faggot boomer at Metrolinx told Deuschebahn they didn't know what they were talking about.
Tear down the Gardiner Expressway.
>>2084687Brainlet opinion
>>2084688
What parts of the world still need bush pilots to travel and supply? Alaska in USA, western and northern Canada, Papua New Guinea (PNG) and West Papua (Indonesia), Amazon rainforest in South America (Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Ecuador, Peru)?How do you become a Bush pilot or work at a Bush flying airstrip station?What kind of emergency supplies to they carry?How else can you transport people and supplies fast in these regions?
>>2084533I don't know anything about being a Bush Pilot but I can potentially see drones taking their jobs in a lot of contexts
>>2084533northern canada still does it a lot>>2084534theres some startups trying but they all fail after making a few 3d renders because it turns out none of these companies actually understand the markets they're trying to "disrupt" and end up omitting basic features that John Listerine-Sauvignon has in his clapped out Dash 8
You will never slot a floppy.
>>2084533The DC-4 is still flying in northern Canada afaik
How the fuck is this even possible?
>>2079256should've just kicked off the parents
>>2084642i know what cocomelon is but for some reason for like a full 12 seconds i understood your post as "how much alcohol this toddler has been permitted"clearly i and thiss toddler both need some Midori
one measly airplane vs the device
>>2079256If the child isn't old enough to be reasoned with, it should be required to be sedated to fly on an airplane. We do the same for animals, why not children? So, it's not that you can't take your toddler on the flight, you must visit the doctor and get the appropriate sedative, that's all.
>>2084652i mean cocomelon is basically a jaegerbomb for babies, so it checks out
This coming summer (2027) I will be going on a 3 and a half month hitchhiking trip from Lisbon, Portugal to Istanbul, Turkey. I am considering doing some trainhopping in Eastern Europe, but for the most part I am unsure. Any advice in regards to train hopping in general? Should I even consider it at all?For some background:> 19y/o male> Some experience doing small trips in Europe, never trainhopped before> EU Citizen (Austrian)
Just use flixbusLisbon to Madrid is like €10It would probably cost you around €150 for the whole trip using buses and regional trains
>>2083684I'm going to sound like an idiot when I say this, but I'm not poor, quite the opposite.I'm really just wanting to do the trainhopping for thrill. Which makes my argument even less justified.
>>2083675I forgot to mention, if they catch you, psychotic yard bulls will gladly beat you to a pulp or rape you unironically. Seriously you need to know what you're doing. I'm only trying to encourage you to do more research and actually gain the trust of some local oogles who can give you tips for the areas you'll be in. It's a pretty gatekept way of life for a reason
>>2083652If you survive let me know how it went
>>2084544I'll be doing the trip from June through August. I'll post on here again with the same image when I'm back in August/September.
Seishun 18 Kippu EditionOld Thread: >>2035672
tell me about DE11-2000 seriesI'm having trouble locating information in English about the noise-reduction sideskirtswas it a successful experiment? how did the sideskirts work?do you know other locomotives in which this construction was employed?thank you kindly
JR Central has announced the new S0 Series Shinkansen to succeed the N700 family for its next generation trainset, it will enter service in 2029 with 25 sets to be built by 2032. The press release also indicates that N700S and some N700A sets will also receive certain upgrades to match the functionality of S0 Series, and stated that some of their older N700A sets will begin to be scrapped starting at 2031.https://jr-central.co.jp/news/release/_pdf/000046070.pdfJust for curiosity here's what JR Central and West JR has in their fleet of N700 family so far excluding the 8-car sets JR West has for Sakura / MizuhoN700S: 56 (78 by 2028) / 6 (14~16? by 2028)N700A: 51 / 24N700(a): 22 sets (Currently being withdrawn from service) / 16 (14 sets will be shortened to 8 cars)>>2083417OOF
Kururi line from Kururi to Kazusa-Kameyama will not be restored as repairs will not be finished before the closure date:https://www.jreast.co.jp/press/2026/chiba_j/20261023_c01.pdf
>>2083034Yes, that's the last stop of the tram 崇福寺停留場 in Nagasaki. Those shanty buildings are nomore.
Automatic Train Operation to be implemented on the Keihin-Tohoku line starting 12/19. A driver will be on board but all he/she will be doing is pushing a button:https://www.jreast.co.jp/press/2026/ueno_j/20261105_u01.pdfhttps://tabiris.com/archives/keihintohoku-ato/
Why is this allowed?
>>2083951You do realize every cyclist has a car and pays such road tax, gas tax, registration anyway, right? Meanwhile you never say shit when it comes to people with expired tags.Your argument is invalid.
>>2083510stfu boomer. Only faggots complain about these because they’re too chicken shit scared to ride one. Let people have fun you miserable dickhead
>>2083519what ever happened to ruffles. i never see them anymore except in really hood places where they're stale asf deflated bag NOS
>>2084502Lays, like most other companies, do what they do best.>Make quality turn into slop>Give less quantity per bag>Make slop still expensive
>>2083784people will go on about oil company propaganda but it's not just them. cars genuinely take a lot of economic input to make, and yet more to distribute and sell. if people stop buying as many cars it's not just the car company that seethes about sales and the oil companies seething about wasted gasoline*, it's also banks/financiers who now can't get people to take loans on them, electronics companies making all the dashboard slop don't get their cut, governments don't get as much tax money or voter support if a manufacturer cuts production, logistics companies aren't shipping as much raw material or half-finished goods, everyone gets bigly mad about their pocketbook every time a car doesn't sellby contrast, ebikes also take a fair bit to make, but are simpler and cheaper. they don't need financing, the factories churning them out arent as big, and many are just assembly shops so the chain of money is more distributed. which of course because it's an actually free market of individual smaller companies adding value and selling products at competitive prices, makes the protestants running the show in the west fucking seethe>>2083834supposedly surron and the other big chink e-dirtbike makers have started adding more serializing information so you can actually get them plated. i have heard that in the uk, it is theoretically possible to make one road legal. but really only because it has something close enough to a VIN now and not because of any safety or control features
What are the advantages of these things as opposed to, idk, a bus?
>>2057512Where I live the rails were put there in simpler more communist times, so technically they were free.
>>2057440easy. they're simply cooler
>>2057440When I worked at Telstra in Melbourne, my boomer coworkers always hated trams with a passion.>you could fit 3 more cars in there!!How many people does a tram carry?
>>2057440>What are the advantages of these thingsBig bux for the construction outfits. Really not much else. BRT (dedicated lanes and overpasses for the busses) are also a money maker.
>>2057440it builds landowner valuethey're amusement park rides for armchair urbanists and "revitalize the downtown" for a few months after utterly destroying it and having all the organic business get btfo by construction crews ruining both foot and road access to their businesses, prompting them to be bought up by VC slop conglomerates that do classic "enshittification" and end up being sysco slop outlets and temu junk resellers
"Wofür ist das?"-EditionAnything public transport in German-speaking Europe is fair game.
>>2083419>they found a nice train station in one of the richest states in germanythat's not newsworthy. call me when they find a nice one in brandenburg or the saarland.the only bad train station i've ever seen in bavaria is munich main because it's 3 end train stations glued together in the least convenient way for anyone changing trains there, and they have neither a bridge nor an underpass to alleviate that.how does a city made of gold and marble have a train station that smells like piss and doesn't work?
>>2083361>mindestens 6000 Euro in einem Jahr fürs Fahren mit der Deutschen Bahn ausgegeben (günstigstenfalls der BahnCard 100-Überlappungstrick)>der Zugchef veranlasst die DB-Sicherheit, die nicht mit sich diskutieren lässt, einen aus dem Zug zu entfernen, weil er das Ticket für ungültig hältWäre wirklich interessant zu erfahren, was genau da vorgefallen ist.
https://www.vrr.de/aktuelles/newsroom/db-regio-und-westfalenbahn-sollen-den-zuschlag-fuer-ausgeschriebene-nahverkehrsleistungen-erhalten/Tender for Rhein-Ruhr-Express (RRX) B Netz has been closed. Winner of lot 1 for lines RE 2, 3 and 45 is DB Regio who will order 34 new 4-car Hitachi Eurocaravaggio EMUs. Lot 2 of this same tender goes to Westfalenbahn who will order 16 new 6-car Stadler KISS MIX units for lines RE 7 and RE 42.Although it is just the tender for the additional secondary lines supporting the RRX main network, I am still quite surprised all involved parties agreed on the winning companies handling ordering rolling stock on their own and taking care of maintenance. And no less is the decision made by DB Regio to go (again) for a model with no real reference yet a mindbaffling one. The Italian production plant may belong to Hitachi Rail now, the history under their old firm AnsaldoBreda however certainly isn't one that helps building trust. And additionally, if they are anything to go by, the Hitachi Caravaggio (without Euro) units already operating in Italy are not exactly known as mindfully designed quality products. Fewer windows than equivalent products of other manufacturers, only one stair leading to the upper deck of each end car and sliding single doors. Westfalenbahn certainly did a safer call here relying on Stadler, although the chosen sets are first of their kind in Germany as well, similar ones though are already running in Spain.The contracts will only start in the early 2030s leaving about 5-6 years for production, testing and certification. However with Hitachi having no reference products in Germany yet or any experience in certification processes in Germany, this could bring back some bad memories made with PESA and their Link DMUs or SKODA with their MüNüEx double deck push-pull sets.Certainly an interesting development made here.Pic may or may not be related, a Caravaggio EMU operating in Northern Italy.
More news regarding future commuter trains.Alstom recently announced all open orders for their Coradia Max units which are mixed single deck and double deck EMUs similar to Siemens' Desiro HC will be delayed again by several years. The manufacturer now estimates the first units cannot be handed over to the operators before 2028, 4 years after planned start of service. The entire situation has gotten out of control and forced Alstom to make massive corrections in their expected business results which caused their stock to tank by more than 25%. An extended report released by DT5online.de suggests massive errors in pretty much every step of the manufacturing chain. Construction, manufacturing process, internal communication, delays from subsuppliers, the whole lot. The errors are apparently so severe that production has pretty much come to a halt.I read it the other day and the revealed details are legitimately grim and present Alstom as a severely incompetent company, but to an extent that was way beyond most people's immagination. At this point it is no exaggeration anymore to say this Coradia Max situation is now rivaling the disastrous Bombardier Talent 2 introduction in 2009.https://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/industrie/zuege-gewinnwarnung-laesst-alstom-aktie-um-28-prozent-einbrechen/100266566.htmlhttps://dt5online.de/2026/11/02/coradia-max-alstom-reduziert-produktion-auf-nahezu-null/As a reaction to this Alstom is now considering options to save costs and raise capital again through different measures like closure of subsidiaries and further consolidation. Currently about 573 unit are on Alstom's backorder waiting for delivery with a total order value of about 5 billion EUR. It is almost certain that production of other open orders like the additional class 490 S-Bahn EMUs for Hamburg or the new S-Bahn EMUs for Cologne will suffer as well due to capacity issues.
>>2084616One more thing I forgot to add which is also not to be ignored: Alstom now expects every Coradia Max to be sold with a negative gross margin, means each unit built will likely lose them money. Along with costs for further development and construction planning, testing and adjustments of already finished units, the company will also have to face severe contractual penalties due to the massive delays. It's currently not quite certain how the company expects to face all of these challenges within the next 5 years.
How the fuck does this still happen in this day and age?
Computers won. When there is no computer, you have clueless boomer retards. Same with planes too. At this point all big transport needs to be completely clankerized since meatbags cannot be trusted.
>>2083922They were raped for centuries by Moors.Also Iranic Alans and Persians during Al-Andalus.>During the rule of Almanzor's Amirí regime, the already-rich Al-Andalus slave market reached unprecedented proportions. For example, the Moorish chronicles mention that after destroying Barcelona in July 985, Almanzor brought seventy thousand chained Christians to the great market of Córdoba[317] and, after destroying Simancas in July 983, he captured seventeen thousand women[374] and imprisoned ten thousand nobles.[483] Obviously, these figures must be carefully evaluated, but likewise given the enormity this type of trade reached during his tenure, Almanzor is described as "the slave importer".[317] The commoners of Córdoba even asked his successor to stop the trade since, to get a good husband for their daughters they had to raise the dowries to exorbitant levels because the young Christian slaves were so numerous and cheap that many men preferred to buy them instead of marrying Muslims.[484]Iranian and North African Y-DNA in Iberianshttps://desuarchive.org/his/thread/18414604/#q18415256https://desuarchive.org/his/thread/18414604/#q18415272
>The schizo from /his/ is here now
>>2083957at least you usually have people working adjacent sectors that can pull up your traffic and can let you know if you're fucking up (staffing permitting)
>>2084099NTA but>governed by strict guidelinesIs railway operator lingo for "under the responsibility of the human operator".Clueless fuckwit.
