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3·2 months ago- Heavier vehicles have worse emergency maneuver and braking performance
- Majority of EV’s sold in the US are SUV/crossovers which have the same visibility issues
- EV’s have ridiculously high rates of acceleration, leading to dangerous driving
Yimby is about removing the red-tape that prevents development. There is no bigger red-tape than rent-control. Even if all other restrictions, such as SFH zoning, were removed it wouldn’t matter because nobody will build in areas with rent control.
What a bunch of BS. Kamala Harris is pushing rent control – the complete opposite of Yimby.
Nothing unusual? On the same day he got the noise ticket, he received tickets for running a red light and speeding in a school zone.
There is no contradiction. Just because the vehicle is licensed for street use doesn’t give the owner permission to operate it in ways that violates the law.
Actually, the law does just say “above 85db” is not allowed. Doesn’t matter if the car is stock or not.
Sorry, but it is mainly Biden’s policies. The administration has largely ignored white collar crime, especially when it comes to things like price collusion, antitrust, etc.
Case in point: the DOJ lawsuit against RealPage software (which landlords were using to collude on apartment prices). The company was engaged in extremely serious criminal activity, but the DOJ did not file any criminal charges.
NYC has never been interested in making parking efficient. The parking meter rates are ridiculously cheap, with many streets not charging anything for parking (or even having time limits). And yes, giving away valuable parking makes driving much more complicated – but apparently the Governor was in a diner and overheard some voters from NJ complaining about increased costs…
This particular street is wider because it once had trolley tracks running down the middle, before the Key System was ripped out in 1958 by General Motors.
For those interested in this topic, there are better sources of info than a NJB youtube video. In my experience, NJB is more interested in clicks than accuracy, and this video is no exception.
In particular, the complaints about oversized firetrucks is a bit overblown because any halfway competent bike planner can work around that when designing bike facilities. When cities say they can’t do a bike project because of FD concerns, it usually means they just don’t want to do an otherwise popular project, and are using flimsy FD excuses as a convenient way to kill a project.
Vote blue no matter who!
We added 30,511 new freeway lane-miles of road in the largest 100 urbanized areas between 1993 and 2017, an increase of 42 percent. That rate of freeway expansion significantly outstripped the 32 percent growth in population in those regions over the same time period. Yet this strategy has utterly failed to “solve” the problem at hand—delay is up in those urbanized areas by a staggering 144 percent.
No, it’s gotten worse over the past 30 years.
0·3 months agoFull statement from Carter Center:
https://www.cartercenter.org/news/pr/2024/venezuela-073024.html
Michigan requires only $50k minimum liability insurance. This is nothing compared to death/injury that might result from a crash. So despite the racial disparities, drivers are still paying way to little.
Most ped/bike improvements are ridiculously cheap. Daylighting intersections just requires some red paint. Lower speed limits can be done with a sticker. Lack of money isn’t the problem here.
Don’t know why you say it is not replicable. If a city is ‘n’ sq-miles, then take what Hoboken did over its 1 sq-mi and repeat ‘n’ times.
6·5 months ago“My God. The Dukes are going to corner the entire frozen orange juice market!”
Tesla has notoriously bad rear visibility. And just being a larger vehicle means more blind spots no matter how many cameras/sensors are used to compensate. I’ve unfortunately been a passenger enough times to know Tesla’s collision avoidance stuff doesn’t work at all.
The statista link isn’t publicly readable, but other sources say Mustang-ev is #3. Ford calls it an SUV. Long-term, the Administration is subsidizing 1-for-1 replacement of the fleet with EV equivalent – so expect much more SUV/truck in the EV sector if they get their way.