You can have historic neighborhoods without cars. We’ve had them for millennia in the rest of the world.

Even in North America people used to know how to do that.

I guess, these things weigh more than 3.5 tons. In Germany that means that you would need a truck driver’s license to drive them. That license alone costs 3000-5000€ and you have to pass a medical test every few years to keep it. You also need a digital driver’s card which, combined with a digital tachograph permanently stores your speed and your driving times. You’ll be treated like a professional truck driver, so you can’t drive for more than 9 hours per day, have to have an 11 hour break every night and at least a 45 hour break once a week. In practice that means that you can’t use your vehicle after 8pm if you drive to work at 7 in the morning and you can’t really use it on the weekend etc.

That’s enough of a hassle to deter most of the people from getting such a car so much that I rarely ever see them here.

For delivery vans that’s no problem because they have to adhere to these limits anyway, because of workers protection rights.

Just to be the man who walks a 1000m to take the bus.

Of cause you can decide not to live in a nice place. It’s always your choice if you want to move somewhere else where you have to drive 2 hours to get to any useful place. Just don’t expect that we want you driving through our neighborhood. I don’t see how a 15 minute city would limit your freedom of movement when it is literally built around a mobility hub.

Busses work perfectly well for suburban neighbourhoods with back yards. With 1000m² each, you can place more than 250 lots around a bus stop, so that no one will have to walk more than 500m. With average families of four, that’s a thousand potential passengers. Not enough for a metro station, but more than enough for a bus service every 10-20 minutes to get to the next train station.

What also works well: Build a few 3 story apartment buildings, a supermarket, a few small stores, a school, a kindergarten and a pub around a train station. Build the single family homes around that infrastructure and you have the perfect place for almost everyone. Families can live in the outer area, when the kids get older they can move out into the apartments and still be around. When they start their own family they move back into the garden homes and the grandparents who get too old to work their gardens can move to the apartments. And all that within 15 minutes walking distance of a train station.

Usually as in “Usually in India”? Because where I’m from, I’ve never heard of Metro being more expensive than bus or suburban rail. On the contrary, as ticket prices are often determined per distance travelled, suburban rail will usually be more expensive.

The class system on the other hand does exist here.

There’s a simple solution for this: Make public transport more expensive, until owning a monthly ticket and taking the bus is considered a status symbol again.

“between 16:42 and 18:30” seems oddly specific. Did, by any chance, the guy responsible for these fares have to take the train at 16:41?

Yeah, I don’t get that point either. Just as cul-de-sacs, one-way streets are a great way to prevent through-traffic in a neighborhood. But then again, I’m not from the US, so maybe it’s just because our streets are designed differently.

Where I’m from, most one-way streets are single lane, 20 or 30km/h and allow cyclists in both directions. Emergency vehicles usually don’t have a problem with them, as they can drive through them in the wrong direction anyway.

Many cul-de-sacs also allow cyclists and pedestrians through, acting as a modal filter. If I understand the video correctly, they also don’t have a problem with the cul-de-sac itself but with the stroad it is connected to. So just fix the stroad, then.

ASL?

That’s the rightful punishment for clinking with food. Barbarian!

I was really confused by the title. For me, a school pickup line would be something a 9th grader is saying to their classmate in order to seduce them. And while these pickup lines might be getting worse over time, most of them were already pretty bad at my time.

Yeah, I’m still angry that I’m not allowed to microwave my cat, just because some idiot back in the days used the Popcorn program for that instead of the Feline & Furry program.

I know that. But I’m not sure the commenter we’re responding to is British.

I guess, that in a country where public healthcare and maternity leave are considered communism or socialism, being antisocial might be seen as something positive.

I don’t know what the laws are in the US, but over here in Germany this would be a really stupid idea. Speeding might cost you 800€ and a suspended license for a few months. (“Normal” speeding, that is. Street races or actually endangering/hurting someone is a crime)

But meddling with your licence plate is considered falsification of official documents and would put you in prison for up to five years. I wonder if such a law doesn’t exist in the US.

Also, as I read in the other comments about cops ignoring that. But that would be another criminal offence on behalf of the cop (prevention of punishment by an official) which is also punishable with up to 5 years behind bars (and obviously would cause them to lose their jobs and pensions).

Just because I burn less calories on an e-bike doesn’t mean I consume less calories, just that I get fatter faster 🤣. All that fat will still turn into CO₂ once I start to decompose.

OTOH, if I get fatter, I’ll probably start decomposing earlier, so you might be right that in the long run I’ll save on CO₂.

It highly depends on who you’ve elected to govern the respective entities. In general it’s better to have the same standards across the whole province or even between provinces. They just have to be good standards, so you have to elect progressive politicians at the province level too.

For example, you wouldn’t want to have different road markings from one city to the next, or bicycle paths that just end at the city border. And if you want a bicycle highway from idk, lets say Ottawa to Montreal, you need the provinces and even the federal government on board.

Over here in Europe we’ve recently developed some crazy new technology: It’s a flashing blue light that’s mounted on top of police cars, and we call it “flashing blue light”. It allows police and other emergency vehicles to (for example) drive the wrong way into one-way streets or drive on bicycle lanes. Maybe, some day you’ll develop something alike too, in the US.

Can’t be done in Canada, because of the cold weather. /s