FireRetardant

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[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

The cameras aren't a video feed. They take a snapshot if it detects you are speeding. Don't speed and your photo will never be taken. The municipality also public releases the location of the cameras and put signage up. You could alter your route accordingly if you wanted to avoid the cameras.

[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 28 points 20 hours ago (8 children)

Drivers in the US would start treating that middle light as go and we'd be right back to square one

[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 9 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

It is the drivers responsibility to ensure the intersection is clear of cars and pedestrians before proceeding. The green light doesn't immediately mean go, they may be waiting for a pedestrian to finish crossing or a car to clear after running a red.

[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago

Ah but you see, cars are the only viable modern transit so we made our model not count bike trips as valid trips and also made our models assume no one will be biking for the next 20 years cause as we keep adding car lanes and increasing lane number and car speeds, cyclists have been decreasing. We also made sure to not even include existing bike routes in our transportation model.

[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago

Minister of car dependancy

[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

It may get to a point where tax dollars are wasted having undercover cop cars, maybe even plain clothes officers, watching the cameras for vandals

[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ticketing people for going under the limit is not wise. The biggest issue is due to inclement weather. We don't want people driving faster than is safe for conditions due to fear of a ticket.

[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Some speed bumps are designed to specifically accommodate emergency vehicles as most emergency vehicles will have a wider axle width than regular cars and trucks.

[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

At no point did the article claim a desire to ban cars, we are just asking cars to go the posted limit. The idea that hating car dependancy is classist and racist is absurd. Providing free public transit can be one of the most effective ways to lift people up in society. Plenty of people would use their electric scooter in the winter. Tons of people have fun all winter in cold conditions riding snow mobiles, the same gear that works for them could keep a scooter rider warm. The bigger issue for scooter riders is our cities refuse to maintain safe infrastructure for them.

[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Its too expensive is more than just an excuse. Good luck convincing a city council to go way into debt upgrading every single road all at once. The people building the road want to be paid, council needs the dollars to pay them and they only have so much. Short of redesigning the entire economy and function of the country, we can't redesign or fix the roads without money.

What we can do is slowly improve one road at a time with more reasonable spending, for example making significant redesigns when the road is due for rehabilitation instead of just hiring a company to copy and paste new asphalt and paint. It will inflate rehab costs but the improvements will be worth it and save more money over time.

[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Both is good, because the way our streets are designed are both dangerous and expensive. Narrowing that 40 zone by the school can remove excess road space that now doesn't need to be maintained, cleaned, plowed, or salted. The excess space could be used by school, have trees planted, or be used for alternative transport like transit or bikes.

The roads are currently designed to prioritize driver throughput and provide "wiggle room" for driver error, often at the expense of people outside of the vehicle. Many of the concepts that engineers use to make highways safe were applied to city streets, which in hindsight maybe we don't want our city streets to be designed like highways.

[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (23 children)

Toronto is in Canada which doesn't have much of a prison industrial complex. Drivers will have their lisences taken away before they are facing prison time for simple speeding offenses. Extreme speeding or dangerous driving could see people serving time but nobody is going to jail over a ASE ticket. Unpaid ASE tickets will cause your cars registration to fail to renew, making it illegal to drive which often will not result in prison time unless you repeatedly drive without registration/lisencing.

 

I've been having some minor issues with comments. Once a comment thread gets longer than 3 or 4 comments, accesing those deeper comment chains becomes very inconsistent/impossible. The "view more" button to see the rest of the comments will sometimes just disappear or do nothing when pressed. When accessing deep threads from my inbox or profile it will start at the top of the comment thread and fail to load/access the deeper comments, including the comment I used to navigate to that thread. Has anyone else had similar issues or found solutions?

 

The past couple updates whenever I'm browing "all" with sort set to "hot" the first few pages of scrolling is accurate but then it turns to posts that are 6months-2years old. This is only after 1-2 minutes of scrolling. Has anyone else had this issue?

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