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[–] 122 points 3 years ago (5 children)

SUV, Truck, SUV, SUV, SUV, SUV, sedan, SUV, SUV, SUV, SUV.

The culture problem around big vehicles we've created with bad regulation and aggressive marketing is depressing.

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  • [–] 31 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (5 children)

    It isn't just a culture problem, it's a tragedy of the commons.

    When you're surrounded by giant vehicles, the only way to be feel safe and see the road is to have a giant vehicle.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago

    That's not the tragedy of the commons, and that's not why everyone drives turboencabulators.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax

    It is, I shit you not, a cold war tariff on fucking chickens. There's some other shit that's glommed on over the centuries, but the mad-science breeding program to create a pickup truck big enough to swallow the sun started with a stupid trade dispute over chickens between the krauts, the frogs, and the yanks.

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    [–] 98 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    So glad they put that thick protective white line there so I know I won’t be hit 🥰

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  • [+] 78 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 60 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    What in the stupid is this?

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  • [–] 36 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Cheaper than a sidewalk, apparently.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    The cost being the life of pedestrians? This is insane.

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  • [–] 46 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    If you are walking you're either poor or up to no good, in both cases we don't want you around these parts. Oh, your kids need to walk? Don't be lazy and DRIVE them where they need to go!

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago

    Don’t be lazy and DRIVE

    For the briefest of moments I felt a spark of blinding hot rage in my heart. Now I am left with the lingering feeling of wanting to smash my head against a rock.

    Thank you for that experience.

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    [–] 41 points 3 years ago

    Sometimes I’m driving in the night and I just see old women in work uniforms and a lunch bag walking by themselves on a tiny dirt path on the side of the road to a bus stop, with no lights except my headlights. Shits terrifying and depressing. Conservatives are constantly virtue signaling with child trafficking, but they don’t even want to fix the basic infrastructure that allows people to be preyed on

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  • [–] 39 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Why even allow people in this neighborhood? Just have cars and no people

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    [–] 35 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    This what I hate about North America. Non walkable neighbourhoods.

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  • [–] 33 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Next they'll eliminate the stripe and put up share-the-road signs with the stick figure

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  • [–] 33 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Is that a pedestrian symbol or the chalk outline of a pedestrian who got hit?

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    [–] 30 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    The presence of the paint makes this nightmare area more walkable than plenty of places in the Failed States of America. I once had the misfortune of living in a place where the presence (or much more often, absence) of sidewalk was completely up to the owner of the property the stretch of road in question abutted. The rare property owner who chose to add sidewalk created a completely useless, disconnected decoration.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    There's a storage unit near my neighborhood built on a stroad without a sidewalk, they built a sidewalk that stretches only within the bounds of the storage property.

    On that regard: Storage units and hotels are so weird because if they get built in the suburbs no one will bat an eye (despite their density). But if its an apartment complex people lose their minds.

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  • [–] 24 points 3 years ago

    Wow it’s like you guys are trying as hard as possible to not put in sidewalks.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Soooo...a sidewalk without the extra pavement?

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago

    Wow, I sure am glad that the kerb is there to protect those blades of grass!

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  • [–] 19 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I'm just wondering why that corpse was wearing such an unhealthy corset.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Who would use this? Wouldn't you either walk on the grass or clearly in the middle of the street?

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  • [–] 24 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    This is an American suburban. The petite burgerosie living in those houses would shoot your or call the cops to shoot you for walking on their lawns, or run you over with a Ford F 69,000 turbo jumbulator hepta-cab ultra-pickup if you walked in the street.

    (this might not be an American suburb. It's hard to tell. All suburbs exist in a discrete liminal hell dimension)

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    [–] 18 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    What dystopian fuckery is this?

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    [–] 17 points 3 years ago* (3 children)

    Where I live people will park their tanks trucks in the driveway and block the sidewalk. At least they won't be able to do that here, but I wouldn't be surprised if people just start parallel parking on the people gutter

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    [–] 16 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Imagine seeing this when house hunting and still buying the house. You'd have to have worms in your brain to want one of these ugly McMansions with no sidewalk

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    [–] 14 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Who the hell designed this? I want to see the person who made this burn in hell

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    [–] 14 points 3 years ago*

    More like it was a guy who got flattened by a car and got painted over, because that's exactly what's going to happen if you try and walk there

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I keep seeing joggers in my area choosing the bike lane over the sidewalk, presumably because asphalt is softer than concrete sidewalks. If paving a ped lane next to the bike lane is what it takes to isolate these wrong-way bike-lane-jogging scufflaws, then let's just do it and be done with it. We can cannibalize a car lane to make it happen. >:-)

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago

    And of course every car there is a suburban assault vehicle too.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    You've heard of bike gutters

    No I haven't.

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    [–] 9 points 3 years ago

    Yo that's unreal

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Poor Polish village style infrastrucutre, now in your nearest city! (Authentic hole ridden roads not included)

    What hell would this be to walk in, jesus christ...

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