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title text: If they're going to make people ride bikes and scooters in traffic, then it should at LEAST be legal to do the Snow Crash thing where you use a hook-shot-style harpoon to catch free rides from cars.

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If they're going to make people ride bikes and scooters in traffic, then it should at LEAST be legal to do the Snow Crash thing where you use a hook-shot-style harpoon to catch free rides from cars.

Like 23 Sep 2023 at 0:00 | Open on botsin.space

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1 panel comic. Title: Typical Urban Planning Opinion Progression
There is a long snaking line of arrows starting at the top of the panel and going to the bottom. Some of the arrows have lines to boxes with people talking in them. There are four people in total.

Arrow 4 Person 1 says "I wish there wasn't so much traffic to get into the city. They should put in more lanes." Person 2 responds "And more parking. Parking is so bad here."

Arrow 5 Person 3 says "I have to go to Amsterdam for work next week. I hear they all ride bikes there." Person 4 responds "Bikes are fine but people shouldn't ride them in the street! I worry I'm going to hit someone!"

Arrow 18 Person 1 says "It would be nice if we had better transit options! I tried a scooter. It was fun but I with there were more bike paths."

Arrow 22 Person 2 says "It's funny how widening roads to speed up traffic makes them more dangerous to walk near, making driving more necessary and creating more traffic. Really makes you think."

Arrow 27 Person 4 says "Visiting the Netherlands was cool! Amsterdam is really neat."

23 Sep 2023 at 0:55 | Open on urbanists.social

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Arrow 36 Person 1 says "We've ceded so much of our land to storing and moving cars, with the rest of us tiptoeing around the edges and making drivers mad for trespassing on 'their' space. Even though *we're* the ones in danger from *them*!"

Arrow 39 Person 2 says "Those giant trucks with front blind spots that keep hitting kids should be illegal."

Arrow 43 Person 4 says "We should be more the Netherlands. They design their streets to prioritize…"

Arrow 52 Person 1 says "The problem is car culture. It's systemic. I don't know if we can fix it."

Arrow 55 Person 2, whose hair is now rumpled says "People approach road planning decision from the point of view of drivers because that's how we're used to interacting with the city, so we make choices that make it more car friendly. It's a vicious cycle."

Arrow 65 Person 4 waving two flags "Netherlands! Netherlands! Netherlands!"

Arrow 70 Person 1 says to Person 2 "Anything that makes a city a worse place to drive in makes it a better place to live, short of scattering random tire spikes on the road."

Arrow 76 Person 2 says "Honestly, I think the city council should consider the tire spikes thing."

23 Sep 2023 at 0:56 | Open on urbanists.social

2832. Urban Planning Opinion Progression

@xkcdbot Ask me my opinion on caltrops. And how to make them.

23 Sep 2023 at 0:59 | Open on urbanists.social

Nazo

2832. Urban Planning Opinion Progression

@xkcdbot 🤣 the Snow Crash reference, omg.

23 Sep 2023 at 1:35 | Open on mastodon.social

@xkcdbot @FeralRobots I can’t find tire spikes on Amazon.

23 Sep 2023 at 2:11 | Open on hachyderm.io

Nickoli

@colin_rafferty @xkcdbot @FeralRobots

These don't get made, but were designed specifically as tire spikes that are safe for pedestrians:

https://www.eta.co.uk/2023/06/07/the-perennial-problem-of-pavement-parking/

23 Sep 2023 at 6:34 | Open on ieji.de

2832. Urban Planning Opinion Progression

@xkcdbot @asymco

23 Sep 2023 at 5:11 | Open on theblower.au

2832. Urban Planning Opinion Progression

@xkcdbot sharing again the Jaywalking Manifesto

https://www.thecommoner.org.uk/a-jaywalking-manifesto/

23 Sep 2023 at 5:36 | Open on ni.hil.ist

dasnessie

2832. Urban Planning Opinion Progression

@xkcdbot Has Randall been watching an appropriate amount of @notjustbikes?

23 Sep 2023 at 6:02 | Open on chaos.social

SCSchmidt

@xkcdbot
@SheDrivesMobility 😃

23 Sep 2023 at 6:27 | Open on archaeo.social