Anyways, I think this is a good idea for normal streets.

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      Exactly, I would apply this in the few (inevitable) wide streets remaining in Communisbourg, rest of streets will get wider walkways, bike lanes, trolley/bus lanes, plus islands with vegetation or bollards or whatever

      • alcoholicorn [comrade/them, doe/deer]
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        2 years ago

        Any vision where cars change lanes or drive over 50 miles an hour or are allowed near cities is more pro car than General Motor's vision in 1940: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-e4xjAPEVd34/TVcZxksmqNI/AAAAAAAAAno/7Etxdra3fmY/s1600/Interchange+-+Futurama.jpg

    • RNAi [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      To make them stay in the center of the line, instead of wobbling left and right unnerving the people on the sides. Overall I'd try apply them on normal streets to make them feel more and more controlled, basically a tighter leash, so they say "fuck it, I'll take the train", idk.

        • RNAi [he/him]
          hexagon
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          2 years ago

          "Don't touch the black parts, stay in the center, the red path"

          You know like coloring books for small children the drawings have really thick black lines.

          • 7bicycles [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            I think this is running on the assumption that people generally give a shit about traffic lines further than "it might damage my car if I don't" and this has not been true in my observation. People treat the roadspace as a free for all where you can go and do whatever you want, largely. Unless, of course, you might scratch your car.

            I mean this is traffic at a near standstill and I count the the red car in the rightmost lane, the black car one row up in the center-right lane, the big-ass SUV in the center-left lane near the photo, the black sedan at the leftmost lane in the foreground, the brown-gold car in the center-left lane bit up ahead in the picture, one van looking thing in the center lane just beyond the bar, the white sedan in the center-right lane just below the bar, the car nearly entirely obstructed by the bar in the rightmost lane, the white car in the center lane about midway between bar and sign fucking it up already

  • HubberDad [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    it's hilarious how many lives this would save

    edit: no callousness intended, just saying that the odds of death on the road are so unbelievably high in this country that any ameliorative effort would probably have a very significant impact

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    You just know that in the good ol' U.S. of A they're just going to paint them Red, White and Blue and call every lane a freedom lane

    Drive whatever you want, however you want

    It's Freedom™

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      Well that's what we understand as redlining, I mean, reactionaries gonna try to hijack the term, like they tried to hijack the term "holocaust" when they weren't allowed to cough on people at Applebees

    • LeninWalksTheWorld [any]
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      2 years ago

      looks like Arabic, which doesn't really narrow it down that much lol :inshallah-script:

        • LeninWalksTheWorld [any]
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          2 years ago

          on a second look I notice that there is a falafel advertisment on a pole so it is somewhere in the middle east lol

          • Diogenes_Barrel [love/loves]
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            2 years ago

            its Dubai. theres a pair of fake chrysler buildings in the backround. which apparently are in dubai.

  • SerLava [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Lol couldnt you just make the dividing lines wide and red instead, and save like 50% of the paint?

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      No. You must treat them like really small children for them to behave.