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Kids these days think they're going to get a date without building a medieval hampster wheel powered trebuchet first, our education system has failed.

That's alright, when the 100% chalk contraceptive pill and the polyethylene 'super sensitive' condom hit the market I think they'll do ok.

They turn into spaghetti at speed. Watch them on video to see the TRUTH!

Unreliable!

Abject failure of urban planning, or democracy?

Hey now, I'm not creating any visions for anyone to share in - I'm not that level of self righteous narcissist?

I just like the name of a forum called 'Fuck Cars' so i don't feel bad about bitching about stupid shitty unsustainable ways that they let their societies get "organised".

Good luck to all these people raising new generations of children in their "no choice but to commute" image though. Thankfully I'm blissfully unaware of all the externalities, so it doesn't bother me that they're all stuck without any . . ahem . . choice.

I'm mostly talking about people who think it's ok to live over 25km from where they work and then need to create "rush hour" twice a day.

I think 10km is about the right maximum for what should be regular travel, you can just about walk it both ways in a day, and still do something at either end. But ideally it'd be less than that. Even if you are going to use a car or whatever you'll be causing far less congestion if everyone did much shorter trips. But ideally they'd be able to comfortably walk. And not need to be in such a rush.

But since you mention it, I sincerely hope that not even 25% of the 10 billion become regular international tourists, i don't think that would be in any way sustainable for any other than a small elite. I'm not interested in elitism or elites however good their perspectives are.

I don't mind everyone having a once in a lifetime holiday. But there are a lot of rich european pricks who seem to have a 'once in a lifetime' holiday every few years, and I'm pretty sure I'd never accuse them of having a good sense of perspective.

As an often pedestrian, i often prefer lights. If it's a busy dual carriageway roundabout It can often be hard to route pedestrians across. You end up with elaborate and winding pedestrian subways.

Roundabouts are ok on rural junctions, but round here we often have to have traffic lights on roundabouts as you start to get closer in to urban areas - and they do seem to help flow.

I just don't believe road design alone can remove the need for coordination as population density gets above a certain level. Fuck in central London you need traffic lights just to coordinate all the buses never mind cars. Of course they need an overhead s-bahn type light rail system there though, but planning rules/landowners won't allow it. At this point they just need less people - but again the govt/electorate/landowners won't allow that because they're all a bunch of tw4ts.

Definitely put cameras in the bus lane and fine all the cars who are driving in it then.

There are solid black lines in the bottom diagram instead of dashed in the top two, this suggests something more than a lane line, it might be representing a kerb or could easily be a more physical barrier. but as far as a simplified diagram goes that looks pretty clearly separated as can be depicted in plan view.

I assume this is not the detailed plans. If it is those buildings are way too small for all of these people to fit inside.

I think red is just to show the effective capacity advantage of the bus lane once it appears in the final diagram.

When you have enough tarmac, you don't even need lanes or lights, there'll be space for everyone.

Lanes are a commie plot to steal freedom anyway.

It's obvious from the picture that it is the buildings in the city that cause the congestion. get rid of em.

I once got stuck behind someones house once, I politely honked three times and flashed my headlights , but it wouldn't budge, so in the end i had no choice but to ram right through it. Fucking cities stealing all our open roads.

Remember the 3-2-1 rule for backups of record breaking sessions.

I suspect it is a lot less than they think. But interested to see the traffic simulations. There'll be some places where it makes no difference, i'd think the more urban and the busier the less impact.

I think congestion really builds up when you can't clear the lights because there's too many cars at each side of junction. I don't see speed changing that much.