Have you ever broken a speed limit? Speeding contributes to accidents in far higher proportion than anything else. (Google is your friend). If you've ever exceeded the limit, you're a damned hypocrite if you complain about bikers breaking the rules.
Breaking the speed limit by 5 MPH results in a fairly small increase in the odds of an accident being fatal. Speeding across an intersection on a bicycle without stopping greatly increases the risk of a fatal accident, from zero to 100% if you get hit.
Actually; at 30 km/h almost no accident is fatal, and at 50 km/h almost all of them are. Doing 5 mph (8 km/h) over a 24 mph (30 km/h) speedlimit will lead to a lot more more deaths statistically. Also getting hit by a car while speeding across and intersection is not a common way to have an accident as a cyclists, fatal accidents being even less common.
Traffic calming can mean so much so it's hard talking about it, there are as many bad examples as good, but a good thing is to lower the speed of cars because people survive low speed crashes pedestrians as cyclists.
There are good reasons for pedestrians to obey most of the "rules of the road" too.)
There are no good reasons. Jaywalking was a highly controversial concept when it was promoted as the future. I'm glad we are starting think about it again. If the infrastructure is for cars, then a cyclist or pedestrian has a hard time being law abiding. If there is good infrastructure for cyclists and pedestrians then it's easy to follow the law.
I do not see you thinking anything about safety, but just how to make pedestrians and cyclists give space to cars. If that is the foundation of your arguments, and mine are built on the reverse then it's going to be hard to discuss.
So just because I'm in a car Im responsible for an idiot on a bike running a bike and hitting me maybe killing himself? No the cyclist is the idot for having so little care for their own welfare they dont follow the rules of the road.
In the last decade in Stockholm, there has been no accidents recorded were the cyclist ran a red light and was hit by a car.
The average life in the US of a mile of multiuse path is 35 years, where the average life of a mile of road is 10 years.
Bad maintanence/infrastructure is the main cause for bicycle road accidents, like an unexpected hole in the ground. It's also one of the cheapest things to fix, best ROI of any infrastructure project.
California, for example, requires that you pull off the road if there are five or more cars behind you; the same law also applies to slow-moving cars, trucks, etc. (California Vehicle Code section 21656)
That does not mean you are allowed to pass the slow vehicle just because there are five of you. I've had 10 cars behind me without any possiblity to let the pass, I can tell you it's a lot more stressfull on the cyclists than on the cars.
All people in traffic break the law, you just choose to see the bad behaviour of cyclists, it's very easy to succumb to confirmation bias, or just plain we vs. them thinking. Anyways there are lots of studies on this if you care to read them, some peer reviewed and some not so peer reviewed.
That said you do need to break the law when bicycling, and it's often the safest way to bicycle. This is why we have things like "idaho stop", pregreen for cyclists etc.
I'll take Gamer Gate people seriously when they can bear to hear the name Sarkeesian without going bat shit crazy. It would be nice to talk about genders in gaming, in a sane manner without making the extreme views the most important part of the discussion.
when it comes up against something like the mythical wage gap
That's not something mythical, it's a fact. Everything you mention has of course been accounted for in the countless of studies done on the subject. All those things like making it a bit cooler for men to take care of kids etc. does help women earn more money but not enough to close the gap. So the simple statistic on how much money you get per hour or year, is surprisingly effective even with all those factors in there.
I live in Perth, Western Australia and we have very mild winters (low daytime temperatures are in the mid teens). My commutes were faster in Winter when all the cyclists were in their nice, warm cars instead of on their bikes. They dont even want to ride when it's just a little bit cold so massive redesigns dont work here either.
Oh, and it's winter here right now. My drive to work is consistently 5-10 minutes faster.
I'm sorry but your views has nothing to do with facts, we have about 50 000 people going by bike on a bridge in Stockholm if all those people went by car you wouldn't be able to get across at all. This image says something about the space needed for cars vs bicycles: http://sustainablecitiescollec... But it's even worse in intersections, even small intersections can easily handle 10x to 20x the amount of persons by bike than in cars.
Osmand supports editing openstreetmap if you install a plugin, it's not the most convenient way since osmand is supposed to be for navigation. You can also use amenity editor which allows you to add stuff from the webbrowser.
But no, just adding a POI is not something openstreetmap excels at, I guess it's something that is prone to abuse (see Google maps).
Using taxis for everything because the lower classes take the train is a lifestyle choice.
That's still a lot more efficient than what most other Americans do, which is drive 30-60 minutes each way on their daily commute, using their own car.
Taxis are very good for the citylife compared to a car, and it's a nice way to share fixed costs. But CO2 wise taxis are a lot worse since they have lots of dead mileage when they aren't transportning anything. Bicycles though is a good alternative now in NYC, it's nice that they are doing streetdesigns to help people transport themselves by switching between bike/bus/walk/metro.
I'm often offended by people (and this is likely an army mentality thing) who complain about problems instead of actually dealing with them and I do admit, I think I have used that argument before in such situations as I felt that if it's a real problem worth pursuing, one would do something instead of talking about it.
No. If you only do and never talk you will never understand what other people think.
There is that factoid (true or not) that it's a lot more likely for women to leave the STEM sector within 10 years after graduation. (got no link to call this a fact I'm so sorry)
You are basically saying that to die of old age is more common that terrorism, war/terror kills people of all ages that's why it's so scary. There are 1000x more 70+ who die common types of heart failure like ischemia than 30 year olds
I'm for it would be wonderful data to have, going to be pretty dull to have video all of the staff though, and as is stated above the first thing people wil learn is how to block the cameraview.
as Scotland Yard pointed out [we need] CCTVs in our homes that we aren't able to turn off.
Like a service that let you publish personal video streams on the net. That would be awesome! Let's call it "Anti-Twitch", you from the twitchy triggering fingers of SWAT forces.
Anyways, what you need to do is look at all these costs and decide if it makes sense. It might be cheaper and have more impact to simply subsidize the heck out of plug-in hybrids, or develop a Zipcar style system.
Cars costs a lot, especially in space, that is the biggest subsidize you get. Sure it's a sunk cost for all apartments and houses, but it's still something that we pay a lot of money to maintain and extend. Individual cars will never ever be cheap, it might seem like it's cheap if you think that everyone should have one.
And the issue here is pollution, not traffic. These shared cars are electric, so not a problem.
In the spring lots of particles are released from the road, those particles have slowly accumulated during a long period of wet weather. Decreasing traffic reduces the amount of those particles that are launched up into the air, not by much, but hopefully enough to not be fined for it. I guess electric cars help a bit but not enough by a long shot.
There are three ways to solve mobility in cities
1. walk 2. public transport 3. bikes
Trying to use cars for personal transport has failed for all cities that has tried it.
"Chrome gathers statistics on how it's used so it's evil and we don't care if it breaks". WTF?
That's not even remotely what the Debian devs said. The Google Devs choose to disable support for anyone who want to have a stable Linux experience, so Ubuntu LTS users won't have Chrome extensions until 2017.
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One of the downsides to Slashdot's mod system is that it can be abused to create an echo-chamber by
Just because no one agrees with you doesn't mean it's an echo chamber.
When you turn you eyes to minorities and blame all ills on them you are often blinded from the wrongs done by the vast majority.
Breaking the speed limit by 5 MPH results in a fairly small increase in the odds of an accident being fatal. Speeding across an intersection on a bicycle without stopping greatly increases the risk of a fatal accident, from zero to 100% if you get hit.
Actually; at 30 km/h almost no accident is fatal, and at 50 km/h almost all of them are. Doing 5 mph (8 km/h) over a 24 mph (30 km/h) speedlimit will lead to a lot more more deaths statistically. Also getting hit by a car while speeding across and intersection is not a common way to have an accident as a cyclists, fatal accidents being even less common.
Traffic calming can mean so much so it's hard talking about it, there are as many bad examples as good, but a good thing is to lower the speed of cars because people survive low speed crashes pedestrians as cyclists.
There are good reasons for pedestrians to obey most of the "rules of the road" too.)
There are no good reasons. Jaywalking was a highly controversial concept when it was promoted as the future. I'm glad we are starting think about it again. If the infrastructure is for cars, then a cyclist or pedestrian has a hard time being law abiding. If there is good infrastructure for cyclists and pedestrians then it's easy to follow the law.
I do not see you thinking anything about safety, but just how to make pedestrians and cyclists give space to cars. If that is the foundation of your arguments, and mine are built on the reverse then it's going to be hard to discuss.
So just because I'm in a car Im responsible for an idiot on a bike running a bike and hitting me maybe killing himself? No the cyclist is the idot for having so little care for their own welfare they dont follow the rules of the road.
In the last decade in Stockholm, there has been no accidents recorded were the cyclist ran a red light and was hit by a car.
The average life in the US of a mile of multiuse path is 35 years, where the average life of a mile of road is 10 years.
Bad maintanence/infrastructure is the main cause for bicycle road accidents, like an unexpected hole in the ground. It's also one of the cheapest things to fix, best ROI of any infrastructure project.
California, for example, requires that you pull off the road if there are five or more cars behind you; the same law also applies to slow-moving cars, trucks, etc. (California Vehicle Code section 21656)
That does not mean you are allowed to pass the slow vehicle just because there are five of you. I've had 10 cars behind me without any possiblity to let the pass, I can tell you it's a lot more stressfull on the cyclists than on the cars.
All people in traffic break the law, you just choose to see the bad behaviour of cyclists, it's very easy to succumb to confirmation bias, or just plain we vs. them thinking. Anyways there are lots of studies on this if you care to read them, some peer reviewed and some not so peer reviewed.
That said you do need to break the law when bicycling, and it's often the safest way to bicycle. This is why we have things like "idaho stop", pregreen for cyclists etc.
I'll take Gamer Gate people seriously when they can bear to hear the name Sarkeesian without going bat shit crazy. It would be nice to talk about genders in gaming, in a sane manner without making the extreme views the most important part of the discussion.
when it comes up against something like the mythical wage gap
That's not something mythical, it's a fact. Everything you mention has of course been accounted for in the countless of studies done on the subject. All those things like making it a bit cooler for men to take care of kids etc. does help women earn more money but not enough to close the gap. So the simple statistic on how much money you get per hour or year, is surprisingly effective even with all those factors in there.
I live in Perth, Western Australia and we have very mild winters (low daytime temperatures are in the mid teens). My commutes were faster in Winter when all the cyclists were in their nice, warm cars instead of on their bikes. They dont even want to ride when it's just a little bit cold so massive redesigns dont work here either.
Oh, and it's winter here right now. My drive to work is consistently 5-10 minutes faster.
I'm sorry but your views has nothing to do with facts, we have about 50 000 people going by bike on a bridge in Stockholm if all those people went by car you wouldn't be able to get across at all. This image says something about the space needed for cars vs bicycles: http://sustainablecitiescollec... But it's even worse in intersections, even small intersections can easily handle 10x to 20x the amount of persons by bike than in cars.
Osmand supports editing openstreetmap if you install a plugin, it's not the most convenient way since osmand is supposed to be for navigation. You can also use amenity editor which allows you to add stuff from the webbrowser.
But no, just adding a POI is not something openstreetmap excels at, I guess it's something that is prone to abuse (see Google maps).
Using taxis for everything because the lower classes take the train is a lifestyle choice.
That's still a lot more efficient than what most other Americans do, which is drive 30-60 minutes each way on their daily commute, using their own car.
Taxis are very good for the citylife compared to a car, and it's a nice way to share fixed costs. But CO2 wise taxis are a lot worse since they have lots of dead mileage when they aren't transportning anything. Bicycles though is a good alternative now in NYC, it's nice that they are doing streetdesigns to help people transport themselves by switching between bike/bus/walk/metro.
I'm often offended by people (and this is likely an army mentality thing) who complain about problems instead of actually dealing with them and I do admit, I think I have used that argument before in such situations as I felt that if it's a real problem worth pursuing, one would do something instead of talking about it.
No. If you only do and never talk you will never understand what other people think.
There is that factoid (true or not) that it's a lot more likely for women to leave the STEM sector within 10 years after graduation. (got no link to call this a fact I'm so sorry)
Ischemia deaths in Sweden by age you can compare that to the graph for traffic accidents with stationary objects
You are basically saying that to die of old age is more common that terrorism, war/terror kills people of all ages that's why it's so scary. There are 1000x more 70+ who die common types of heart failure like ischemia than 30 year olds
I'm for it would be wonderful data to have, going to be pretty dull to have video all of the staff though, and as is stated above the first thing people wil learn is how to block the cameraview.
as Scotland Yard pointed out [we need] CCTVs in our homes that we aren't able to turn off.
Like a service that let you publish personal video streams on the net. That would be awesome! Let's call it "Anti-Twitch", you from the twitchy triggering fingers of SWAT forces.
Anyways, what you need to do is look at all these costs and decide if it makes sense. It might be cheaper and have more impact to simply subsidize the heck out of plug-in hybrids, or develop a Zipcar style system.
Cars costs a lot, especially in space, that is the biggest subsidize you get. Sure it's a sunk cost for all apartments and houses, but it's still something that we pay a lot of money to maintain and extend. Individual cars will never ever be cheap, it might seem like it's cheap if you think that everyone should have one.
CITILINK BUSES DO NOT OPERATE on Sundays, New
Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day,
Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.
I guess now we know why traffic is such a big problem for LA.
And the issue here is pollution, not traffic. These shared cars are electric, so not a problem.
In the spring lots of particles are released from the road, those particles have slowly accumulated during a long period of wet weather. Decreasing traffic reduces the amount of those particles that are launched up into the air, not by much, but hopefully enough to not be fined for it. I guess electric cars help a bit but not enough by a long shot.
There are three ways to solve mobility in cities
1. walk
2. public transport
3. bikes
Trying to use cars for personal transport has failed for all cities that has tried it.
There was recently a good talk about smog in China. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Ah looks like Ubuntu fixed it, things change I guess :-)
"Chrome gathers statistics on how it's used so it's evil and we don't care if it breaks". WTF?
That's not even remotely what the Debian devs said. The Google Devs choose to disable support for anyone who want to have a stable Linux experience, so Ubuntu LTS users won't have Chrome extensions until 2017.
From what I read the dongle is merely the interface from the camera (USB) to the smartphone (USB)..
When did SMOP become the "small matter of electrical engineering and product design"?