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This build costs at least $4,000 but will perform like a $500 hybrid. Why is this allowed?
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You _need_ more?
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>>2023721
how much did you pay for that thing, hipster
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>>2023721
Yes. I need my than one hand position
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>>2023474
>>2023592
>>2023632
5k for rim brakes, you are all old fags stuck in the past.
Not only that but you also match colors like some feminine bitch would sort and match her bookcase books, talk about immature and "bling" behavior you absolute moron, at least 90ies normies into adventure sports where the first at something, you place second at being gay projector.
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>>2023858
kys lmao

when did MTBing get 'split' up into distinct rider groups?
When it started, you had the 'clunker' era which was just rich hippies riding beach cruisers with bigger tires down gravel roads.
Then you had the MTB era which was basically road geo with knobby tires. During this era there really weren't any specific types of riders, people just went out and road what they could, they'd pedal up, they'd ride down. Everyone was basically a XC rider. This lasted through the 90s.

When did the 'MTB bro' phase start of riders hating climbing and being completely focused on downhill, hating spandex, gotta have a Tacoma with a DAKINE tailgate pad, flat brim hat, etc?
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>>2023231
Does it? I could take this trail on my gravel bike
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>>2023270
My bad I was looking at the womens (juvenile?) courses
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>>2023250
I meant to say a vintage MTB sucks dick at being a MTB, even for XC. They are lovely bikes in their own right for gravel and all-road use.
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>>2022445
I used to 'mtb' on a steel 10 speed
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To sell more bikes. The result is dentists with full sus carbon rutting up blue lines.

Today, Bay Area Rapid Transit formally retired the last of its original rolling stock that had been in service since the system opened in 1972. The occasion was marked by speeches from BART officials and a farewell excursion between McArthur and Fremont (where the very first train had run on September 11, 1972). I was there and rode the last train.
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>>2023809
I don’t know what you’re referring to. Before Covid ridership was like half a million a day. Now it’s half that. How are criminals and politicians causing that?
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>>2023811
>I don’t know what you’re referring to.
I think you do
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>>2023817
No I really don’t. Covid exposed that BART at its core was always just a work commute subway system. Once work commuting substantially disappeared due to working from home, ridership completely tanked. It’s recovering somewhat, but it will never come close to what it was before Covid. The Bay Area could go full republican and institute draconian policies for Bart with fare enforcement, policing, substantial jail time and fines for any homeless drug addicts found in the system. Bart could become the safest and cleanest subway in the world. And it will still never recover ridership because the Bay Area is a car culture who works from home at their worthless tech jobs.
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>>2023817
>le black people
Yea undeniable that crime and junkies caused a lot of issues and drove people away from bart, but in the past year riders have been feeling safer and there's been far less crime/squalor both in my experience and as measured by surveys and crime reports
>>2023833
Agree that in the bay specifically work from home is a serious issue for transit systems; caltrain and bart both suffered nasty ridership drops while more local systems like MUNI recovered strongly. I do think we're heading in a good direction though with more transit oriented development near stations that will feed people into the network organically (although 40% of the population are convinced that building a condo in a 10 mile radius from their home is equivalent to a nuclear holocaust). Also, at least with caltrain, leadership has seen the writing on the wall and is going hard on outreach to youth, elderly, and leisure riders to try and diversify their ridership base
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>>2023843
MUNI recovered strongly because it’s in the only extremely densely populated city in the region and is at almost every single street corner in San Francisco so you can get pretty much anywhere in the city you want to go. It’s not fair to compare it to Bart which stretches from Richmond to San Jose, Dublin to San Francisco. It hits almost every big city in the east bay but people still don’t really use it as leisure transport because these cities are too big and you would have to add a bicycle, or Uber, or carpool to the end of the Bart trip to get where you’re trying to go.

I actually probably ride Bart the most of anyone you’ll ever find in the Bay Area. I don’t have a car so I use it to get all over and use my bike with it as well. I ride on weekday commute hours, I’ve ridden regularly on weeknights after 9pm, I’ve ridden regularly on weekends. It will really piss me off if/when Bart shuts down, and it’s going to be single handedly because of the tech faggots. Although I think it is pretty fitting. The tech industry is what ruined this entire region anyway and sucked all the soul and character and community of of the region, now they have also ruined the only great public service it has.

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This is my imaginary island country of Regalia.

What kind of transportation would be feasible on this island? I imagined the country as a British colony settled in the early 18th century and gaining its independence after WWII. The population is around 1.8 million, though the overwhelming majority live in the twin cities of Kingsport and Arkham. The interior of the main island is sparsely populated and mountainous, with a few dormant volcanoes.

I'm trying to imagine the rail lines connecting all the cities on the south coast, and the ferry system between Kingsport and Arkham.
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>>2022623

no
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>>2022636

Standard gauge rail would be perfect for the bay area and the south shore of the main island.
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>>2020443
Your city names are steampunk tier cringe. Maybe everyone should ride around in blimps which they will call "airships" and wear monocles
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>>2023661

How are they steampunk? I took most of the city names from H.P Lovecraft, Attack on Titan and Berserk.
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Dunwich is the boring Midwest landlocked city, but it could have the most epic transit hub in the country. Like Bologna in Italy basically.

When you see it

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why are most of the filed here dead wtf
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"polls.io/jebwd"
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polls.io/en/jebwd
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>>2020801
The board derailed.

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Ebikes should require registration and an active insurance policy. $15 million in liability insurance per bike, minimum, to cover the average damage they do every time they explode. That doesn't even cover the loss of life but it's a start. Possession of an unregistered ebike or unregistered parts such as batteries should be a mandatory minimum sentence of 5 years in prison and being banned from touching another ebike ever again. Second offense is life in prison, you can't prove me wrong.

>but muh cost of deliveries
Muh cost of rebuilding the entire block after it was leveled and rebuilding the lives destroyed, cash me outside howbou dah?
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>>2017059
thats not reality. for Li ion batteries, the reaction stops when the battery is cooled down sufficiently. afaik tesla specifies 50.000 liter for their model s.
But since the battery is still shot, as soon as cooling stops the reaction will ramp up again. There are two ways we were trained of disposing these. flood in water until the reaction temporarily halts or just let it burn down.
Since disposing is not the fire fighters job in the first place, we will douse it in water or let it burn down depending on the location and let a specialized recycler handle the crap. Basically
>not my problem
The real fun will be BEV Fires in multi story parking lots. steel loose its strength in high temperature fires, concrete spalls and collapses. In the west we priorities lives over buildings and cars
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Low quality bait
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Maybe if the flyover states experience enough fatalities there might be a national call to ban these things
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>>1948308
Knowing how to lose weight is common knowledge; just eat less.
How to inspect and discern which battery configuration will spontaneously combust/explode is not something the average person will know, so it makes sense for there to be a standard for manufacturers/sellers to follow.
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>>2019574
If you weigh 400 pounds you don't get a free seat on the airplane and you don't get to blame the coca cola company. Or at least you shouldn't (in practice with fat acceptance, you do and it's my fault you bought a seat next to me).

If you burn down a building killing a bunch of innocent people, by the same token you need to take the punishment, not blame some faceless, nameless company in china that went through 15 middlemen before you bought it for your electric motorcycle.

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Confess your sins, /n/.
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>>2009258
Good. Keep on it.
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>>2014997
Slow, forgotten boards are the best part of 4chins. I wish /mu/ and /ck/ (my other interests) were more like /n/.
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>>2018528
I don't think you should feel bad about that.
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I clean night trains for a living; my duties mostly involve taking out the dirty sheets and trash and putting in clean sheets for the bed-maker shift, but I also end up making the beds a fair bit myself. I've been doing this for three years and really gotten jaded to it all to the point of slipping on quality standards that, somewhere in the back of my head, I know I should be holding to for the sake of the passengers
>sometimes the blankets end up slightly bunched up on one end when I make the beds; even when I have time to fix it, I don't always fix it because I can't really give a shit
>sometimes I forget to wash my hands or change out my gloves between handling dirty sheets / trash and putting out the clean sheets; instead of throwing out those clean sheets, washing my hands, and starting over, I just keep going for a little while because we don't really have the time to start over every time that happens
>when I make the beds, sometimes the sweat from my head drips onto the clean sheets a bit. I try to avoid this, but I also just keep going when that happens, thinking "lol it's just a few drops of sweat, it'll absorb into the sheets and the passengers won't even notice"; I know this is wrong, rationally, but again, I can't always give a shit
>we're not supposed to let people cross the rails to head to the supermarket on the other side, but I don't care enough to stop them
>this one time when I was in charge, a co-worker said she had to leave early to pick up her kid from daycare, but I missed that because I wasn't listening carefully enough; shit happened and she ended up being late to that, which I should've planned for

am I a piece of shit? yes. do I deserve to have this job if I can't even do it right? no. but it's all I've got at the moment, so I'm too selfish to quit!
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I've never used the 52 t
I wait till 1000 km to replace my chains

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why aren't new neighborhoods built with separate right of way for different transit modes by default? take picrel for example, blue is for cars/local streets, red is BRT and green is bike paths. it's really not that hard from a planning point of view and makes transportation more convenient for everyone.
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Let me guess you need more?
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>>2023558
There's probably hundreds of miles of trails to ride here
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>>2023564
If you’re the same guy trying to pretend Los Angeles doesn’t have wide roads please do everyone a favor and stop posting. My eyes are bleeding from the desperation in your spam.
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>>2023588
>everyone who replies to me is the same person
Log off bro
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>>2023597
t. the same person

QOTT:
1) If you could travel on any ocean liner in history, which would you choose?
2) Aesthetically, what do you think is the best looking liner?
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S.S France.This ship looked gorgeous to me as a boy. People who did voyage aboard
said it was top notch inside as well. It's heyday was during the 70s -80s.
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>>2023178
You mean the 60s-70s? By 1980 it was already Norway
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>>2022885
I've often thought of this. For me the answer to both would be the Normandie.
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Depends on if I get the power to speak the language of the ships operator or not.

If so, I'd choose S.S. Rex with Imperator as second choice.

If not, I'd choose S.S. Great Eastern, with HMHS (RMS) Britannic as second choice

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Ocean liner fans rejoice! The Queen Mary reopened for hotel guests in May and in June, I had the privilege of spending two nights on board. I'll be uploading my album of the ship over the next few days and discussing the history of the ship that I learned while onboard.
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Did they sink it yet?
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>>2021176

Wrong ship dummy
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Staircase that's seen better days
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>>2019408

There weren't any Chinese people around so I think I was safe
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>>2023501

Good

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For as much revenue the MTA generates it dumbfounds me that they don't have cameras on all their subways. Being a Chicagoian I know there are cameras on all the subways and the trains that connect it to the suburbs. Are they really just not not putting in the cameras to protect the image of NYC's diversity?
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>>2023451
They learned their lesson after 2020 when they demanded more police bodycams and all it resulted in were hundreds of videos of police being forced to put down feral animals
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>>2023451
No I just think there are a fuckload of cars and they can only put so many cars o.o.s. at any time.

It looks like they have 1000 mta camera trains and the rest are done January 2025.

A subway cam would have freed Bernie Goetz as well as that Marine that choked out the MJ bum robbing people currently on public trial.
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I fucking hate how they say you are more likely to get struck by lightning than bit by a shark. It's because something like 99.9% of billion people on this planet never swims in the ocean. Think of it you spend 99.999% of your life away from where sharks are. No wonder you are more likey to win the lottery than get bit by a shark.
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>>2023585
Well the soft sell for blue line types was "it removes ambiguity for officers defending themselves" so I guess it worked out?
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They have them now

https://www.reddit.com/r/nycrail/comments/1gghgs5/train_camera/

Road signs. What do you think of them? Which country does them the best? Would you change anything in the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals?
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>>2023041
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>>2023570
Yes but they're vastly dwarfed by the number of mainline steam trains which is what the signs were pertinent to. I'm sure heritage railways exist in other countries.
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>>2023575
Pic is a real thing here.
People know what a steam train looks like. Modern trains at the pictogram level may as well be a representation of an Amazon delivery van.
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>>2023577
Mainline referring to its use on the mainline by TOCs rather than the tiny proportion of services on the mainline operated by railtour companies.
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>>2022965
>having a sign not written in English in a non english-speaking country equals being a cuck
Maybe you need to check the definition of "cuck"

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Honestly, I'm just happy this adds frequency in Florida and on the Chicago <-> Pittsburgh routes

It's called the Floridian
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>>2019708
>>2019733
Ngl I love this but my main critique is the lighting. It's WAAAAY too bright. Need some moody, darker lighting, especially at night. I'd definitely use this a time or two though.
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>>2019859
Km/h or MPH? If the former, that's hilariously slow
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>>2021417
A couple times I took the train from my hometown to college. There were several sections where the train never got above 30 MPH and with the rocking side to side, it felt like I was on a ship in stormy seas.
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>>2020313
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>>2019634
>any politician I don't like is a regime
Kill yourself

Do you guys ever have conversations with other people on public transportation, or try picking up girls there?

>yet another day riding the subway sharing a car with plenty of cute girls, normal looking guys, and never make conversation with anyone to try to make friends or get a date
>it's been like this nearly daily for 10 years
>even see the same people getting on and off at my same stop, they live near me, and still never speak to anyone
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I travel with brompton so usually sit inbetween cars on the little fold out seats to stay with my bike. The other week I was there for 2hrs with a young mother and her cute baby. We chatted the whole time as she was pretty much in the exact place with her husband that my wife and I were in 10 years ago. Told her things would get better financially. Also gave some of the pitfall advice I wish I had been given. She got sexually assaulted in a city in broad daylight when she was pregnant. UK is in trouble bros.
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>>2012325
No.
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ill sometimes compliment people
on their bikes and like half the guys will take the compliment and chitchat, most girls will just think im
hitting on them
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>>2012325
Yes I talk to people everyday in public transport, but sometimes I come off as a crazy person. I am very hyperactive and it has its ups and downs in socializing. I've needed trial and error to get intuition to read people who are positive to start rando conversation. I suggest to start with old people, because its hard to get ashamed even if you sperg.
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>>2018965
>>2020438
God bless you, based conducteranon. The world needs more people like you.

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Could LA actually be walkable if we just upzoned a few neighborhoods?
I think the DTLA2040 plan actually does that but I’m wondering what the net effect will be. DTLA is 1% of the city’s acreage but will account for 20% of the city’s housing growth in the next 20 years.
That means a much denser downtown.
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A decent amount of LA is walkable already
I was on holiday there a month ago and did the La Brea Tar Pits, Santa Monica Pier, and Griffith Observatory solely with public transport
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Until we density some of those single-family-only areas (which comprise a huge portion of LA), we’ll always have a housing shortage and never be walkable. Slowly the NIMBYs are starting to wake up tot he housing crunch.
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>>2023525
desu you could probably fix the housing shortage by doing eminent domain on all the empty lots and building housing there. There's a lot across from Chinatown station that's been empty for years and you could add hundreds of housing units plus retail on the bottom floor there
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>>2023538
True but ADUs and fourplexes are perfectly reasonable anywhere within LA city limits. It’s the city limits of a massive major city, it shouldn’t be zoned like a suburb.
Also I see a lot of empty lots getting filled in with 5-story stuff. Not bad, but not enough to make a huge difference to the average homebuyer.
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ive noticed the main blvds are lined with towers and condos and apartment buildings, but the middle
of these giant city blocks is always just sparse suburban housing


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