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Now i can’t park right next to where i need to go and might have to… Walk.
The same guy probably want a huge mansion where all they do is…walk.
Well if you can’t drive from your living room’s couch to your bathroom, is it really a mansion?
THE HORROR!!!
Actually my dad. The older and fatter he gets, the more detached frim reality he gets. When we were kids, we used to go on 8 hour hikes sometimes. Now he gets angry when there is a parking spot closer to the store and i didn’t pick that one. It’s literally a car lengh more to walk. My sister talked about her vacation, she was in a ski resort that has no cars. My dad already did s audible scoff when he heard that. Then my sister said how nice it was, and they had a 15-20min walk from the gondola to the hotel and my dad was outraged. He said shit like: WHAT? that’s crazy and it was insane that anyone would even do that to themselves and they should be happy that anyone is going there in the first place.
LOL I’ve been to ski resorts where the gondola is a 15-minute walk from where the shuttle bus from the remote parking lot drops you off. Or another one where you ride a little cable car from the paid parking lot, and then still have to walk 10-minutes through a faux Alpine village. Or another one where the parking garage is frankly pretty convenient but it costs $50 a day. A 15-minute walk from the hotel sounds like luxury.
I guess I don’t have to ask who he votes for (provided you’re American).
Oh no!!!
Preaching to the choir here, but I’ll keep repeating: any journalist that gives the cost of a transit project but doesn’t do the same for how much money is spent on roads is performing propaganda. Particularly in this case, when I’d be willing to bet that 90% of the project cost is actually rebuilding the roads for cars, not putting in the bike lanes.
that bike lane placement does look fucking stupid
Pretty sure that’s by design, so they can point and say, “See? We told you, bike lanes don’t work!”
Idk about that. I can only speak to my experience, but when you combine all modes of transportation it can be difficult to arrange the intersection. There are often trade offs to be made and safety is always a priority.
This is UK? So I’m not sure, but it looks like the side streets have a combination of one way and parking. TBH it looks similar to what we do, but they curved the bike channelization instead of making it straight and dashed like we’re starting to do in the US. Not wrong, just different I guess.
“…where is everybody going to park?”
What if you had transport options that didn’t require to you have to park?
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No car payment.
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No expensive insurance requirements.
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No downtime due to inconvenient auto repairs.
To be fair, also bikes need to park somewhere, they just take up significantly less space.
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Don’t worry everyone. I know the area and that bike lane is 100% happening. Maybe not precisely the proposed route but it’ll be going somewhere. The council has already closed an extremely busy road for six months so they could demolish and rebuild a bridge to get the bike lane in, there ain’t no way they’re letting a few whinging locals block it now.
Good.
Carbrains need to grow the fuck up and share the road.
Honestly, they need to get off the road. For all of us.
If I buy a horse, I don’t get to go to the city and complain I don’t have anywhere to graze my horse. You’re not entitled to free government land to store your car
She said: “I really don’t think it’s been thought through enough with the size of the roads and the parking, where is everybody going to park?”
Further away.
And then walk. :)
Or not at all as they can now take a bike!
Yes! 🎉🎉🎉
I think that woman doesn’t know who everybody is. It’s awkward when people don’t think about the words they’re saying.
The words aren’t the issue. Not thinking further than their own small world is the issue. These people absoluty don’t comprehend that other people might live differently than they do or they might even think their way of living is the only one to strive for and the top of the ladder.
Why are there random words missing in the article?
Fears new cycle lane will cause huge disruption
Who fears that? Or is “fear” the subject of that sentence?
The proposed route will Sean Neely’s front door, he added.
What?
Fears new cycle lane will cause huge disruption
This is headlinese, a remnant from when headlines took up physical space on a newspaper.
The other line is probably just an error tho
Guessing because it’s the BBC and British people have a slightly different version of English.
and we’re just not happy about it
Very nice attempt of manipulation public opinion, it sounds her statement represents a vast amount of people 🤦♂️
Original title:
Fears new cycle lane will cause huge disruption
I hate those car-brained parking-space-heads.
The cycle spine is a £48m project which will connect Bishops Cleeve in north Gloucestershire to Stroud in the south, also linking Gloucester and Cheltenham.
Gloucestershire County Council said the scheme was designed to “help reduce carbon emissions and encourage active travel” and has proposed extending the route into south Gloucester from St Ann Way to Cole Avenue, through Linden, Podsmead and Tuffley.
Those names are aggressively British.
where is everybody going to park?
No problem. They can put in a few bike racks so everyone can securely park their bikes.
