Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Completely reasonable.
Entirely unashamed anti car propaganda, and the more the better.
- Thread starter teuchter
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Completely reasonable.
platinumsage
HaveMyPassword123
That's what we have now. Roads are a nice balance between walking over muddy fields and everyone flying everywhere by helicopter.
Of course this argument also applies to bicycles and trains. Let's all ensure we do the statistically least dangerous thing at all times, for example sit in an armchair.
ElizabethofYork
Old Crone
How shall we word it? Make It Illegal To Go Round Crashing Loads of Cars Into Loads of Old Peoples' Houses? That ought to do it.
platinumsage
HaveMyPassword123
My home was once crashed into by a drunk old lady in a Toyota. It didn't make me anti-car.
liquidindian
Hello
I was thinking cars should have the same speed limiters they've introduced in hire escooters, and maybe streets should be designed in ways that keep speeds low.
Let me know when it's my turn to post a silly animal photo.
Let me know when it's my turn to post a silly animal photo.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
T & P
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Best stick to cycling then.
platinumsage
HaveMyPassword123
Why would you want to redesign streets to keep speeds low if cars have the same speed limiters as e-scooters? Presumably to slow down the dangerous cyclists? Might be easier to ban all vehicles that don't have speed limiters e.g. bicycles.
liquidindian
Hello
My bike does have a speed limiter.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
So does every car that's ever been produced.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Mine has two, I call them “left leg” and “right leg”
liquidindian
Hello
I'm going to say there's a difference between a motor only assisting up to 25kmph by law, and the laws of physics making cars going infinity mph impossible.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Exactly the kind of thing Stalin would say in communist Russia, as an excuse to take away people's freedoms.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
tomorrow 1645. but be quick because it's someone else's turn at 1650.
liquidindian
Hello
That's years ago.
liquidindian
Hello
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
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Close the thread, it has been won by this post. I for one herewith renounce all future use of powered vehicles in view of such devastating anti-car argument.
liquidindian
Hello
If you like but I did actually miss the time slot.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Think I prefer looking at traffic jams than naked, flabby men thanks.
platinumsage
HaveMyPassword123
You know they put the road in a tunnel, right? This was possible due to the gentrification associated with the massive decline in industry and the relocation of the federal parliament.
If you're in favour of gentrification and expensive road tunneling schemes, just say so.
Yossarian
⏭️
Are there naked, flabby men in that photo? How far did you have to zoom in?
Yossarian
⏭️
Is there something about the change that makes you feel uncomfortable?
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Drivers stuck in Arndale car park for up to THREE HOURS
'We’ve been in here for two hours. Still on 12th floor... not moved an inch'
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Basically a bunch of turkeys voting for Christmas. I bet they were all tweeting that there needs to be more parking and more roads.Drivers stuck in Arndale car park for up to THREE HOURS
'We’ve been in here for two hours. Still on 12th floor... not moved an inch'www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk
platinumsage
HaveMyPassword123
Road tunnels are a fantastic way allowing people in cars to move across cities while avoiding pedestrians and cyclists.
However I do indeed feel very uncomfortable about the scheme pictured, because if such a scheme presented itself today, the car-abolitionists would try to prevent it on the grounds that no money should be spent on new roads.
They’d probably have to rely on hyper-gentrification eliminating factories, manual workers, and wholesale trade in goods from the area in order to get such a road-to-park conversion achieved without an accompanying tunnel.
platinumsage
HaveMyPassword123
I liked this rant in the comments posted at 4am:
by Northernpower
This isn’t the only nightmare for drivers in Manchester. The city has, over 15+ years, slowly been destroyed by the lunatics, who are planning the layouts and directions with an anti-car bias, bordering on hatred.. they’ve done the exact opposite of what they should have done. People work long and hard to afford a car, which gives them security, convenience and flexibility. Imagine using public transport yesterday to visit Manchester.. walk to bus/tram stop, with kids, all cold and wet… wait for transport, colder and wetter.. get on with the great unwashed and unmasked, cold and wet… eventually get to Manchester, walk from stop to first destination.. howling winds, rain, very cold and very wet… after a couple hours shopping, wait with multiple bags in the torrential rain and 25mph winds at the stop for bus/tram.. and reverse the inward journey.. an absolute living nightmare.. resolve it by…. make all main arterial routes three lanes each way fir at least the last two miles i to the city if not five miles.. remove mad one way systems in centre and replan with a commercially minded planner in place… stop all buses from entering the centre, getting them to stop at strategic points around the ring road..Max 5 minute walk to absolute centre of town.. stop all on street parking except for disabled, stop all deliveries between 0800 and 1800, funnel traffic into the many cars parks… and you’ll get … roads free flowing, delays and increased pollution gone, families safe, warm, dry and happy.. retailers increased trade, better job security and cleaner air..
No doubt people will claim this person is silly, and that their proposed measures will lead to more congestion. But those people will be unable to explain how Manchester's supposedly pro-bus transport policy has been a success.
