DrunkEngineer 2d ago • 100%
Most likely one contraflow bike lane, plus one car lane with sharrow, like this.
Also, bike needs to be in the center of the lane to avoid the door-zone.
DrunkEngineer 6d ago • 72%
Why should taxpayers subsidize someone's dumb decision to buy a Florida beach house?
DrunkEngineer 7d ago • 100%
Sure, but the article is claiming EV's are now as cheap as ICE, which isn't the case. The price parity is a result of subsidies and mandates. In Calif. we reached price "parity" a long time ago.
DrunkEngineer 1w ago • 60%
The price parity only due to regulations requiring minimum percentage of new cars to be zero or low emission.
DrunkEngineer 1w ago • 100%
Same or higher price, but double the range.
DrunkEngineer 1w ago • 80%
I live in one of the blue-ist cities in California and my city council refuses to build any housing near transit or build any bike or dedicated bus lanes. There was also an attempt to use school funds to pay for a new downtown parking garage. At this point, a Trump administration is the least of my climate worries....
DrunkEngineer 1w ago • 50%
This is why, even when you look at the underreported stats from the Netherlands, cyclists have very high rates of head injuries. They don’t wear helmets, have the gold-standard cycling infrastructure, yet crack their head open.
This is just completely wrong. Netherlands overall has half the per-capita TBI deaths as compared to the US. Now, is a higher portion of their TBI deaths bike-realated -- I mean sure, because lots and lots of cycling is done there -- and not as much car-driving. But your chances of getting your head smashed is lower overall compared to the US, even with our stupid obsession with helmets.
DrunkEngineer 1w ago • 100%
California: "First time?"
https://theintercept.com/2021/05/07/california-fires-chico-housing-real-estate/
DrunkEngineer 2w ago • 42%
Republicans have a 2024 platform. You can Google it.
DrunkEngineer 2w ago • 100%
No it doesn’t say that at all.
DrunkEngineer 2w ago • 50%
In the SF Bay Area, it costs over $1 million just to build one "affordable" housing unit.
DrunkEngineer 2w ago • 100%
Idiocracy
DrunkEngineer 2w ago • 100%
Federal housing policy has always been about inflating housing asset values. The Harris "plan" is just more of the same. Anyone who thinks either party actually wants to lower housing prices is delusional.
DrunkEngineer 2w ago • 21%
This meme is extremely naive. For many American voters, the primary residence is their one major investment -- and will severely punish any elected official that reduces housing prices. The result is neither party will do much on this issue.
www.oklahoman.com
Bids opened Monday for a contract to supply the state Department of Education with 55,000 Bibles. According to the bid documents, vendors must meet certain specifications: Bibles must be the King James Version; must contain the Old and New Testaments; must include copies of the Pledge of Allegiance, Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights; and must be bound in leather or leather-like material. A salesperson at Mardel Christian & Education searched, and though they carry 2,900 Bibles, none fit the parameters. But one Bible fits perfectly: Lee Greenwood’s God Bless the U.S.A. Bible, endorsed by former President Donald Trump and commonly referred to as the Trump Bible. They cost $60 each online, with Trump receiving fees for his endorsement.
DrunkEngineer 2w ago • 100%
While I know things are generally more expensive in Switzerland, $685,000 is crazy expensive for just 18 kW (48 panels).
DrunkEngineer 3w ago • 100%
Ukraine has been going after these factories with drones and sabotage. Factory manager can't protect workers from that.
DrunkEngineer 3w ago • 100%
This type of collision involving a sober driver and drunk pedestrian is included in the tally of alcohol-related traffic crashes. As a result, it exaggerates the problem of DUI -- which the road lobby likes because they can blame traffic fatalities on the "epidemic" of drunk drivers rather than their dangerous stroad designs.
DrunkEngineer 4w ago • 100%
The low-emission zone only reduced total car traffic by around 5-10%. The reduction in driving to school is much higher than expected.
www.ashlandsource.com
ASHLAND — Twenty-six Amish who refused to pay their fines for violating a law that requires flashing lights on their buggies appeared in court on Friday. Once there, Ashland Municipal Court Judge John Good ruled out the possibility of jail time for them and instead said he would impose liens on their real estate.
www.edmunds.com
Vehicle owners who are upside down on their auto loans owe more than ever before. The average amount owed on upside-down loans climbed to a record high of $6,255 in Q2 2024, compared to $4,487 in Q2 2022. EV owners with negative equity owe more money on their car loans than owners of ICE vehicles. The average amount owed on all EVs traded in for a new vehicle purchase with negative equity climbed to $10,326 in Q2 2024
www.inquirer.com
Fetterman (D., Pa.) has received two speeding tickets in his home state — the more recent one of which was in March for exceeding the speed limit in Westmoreland County by 34 mph. Before this year, he was ticketed in April 2016 for going at least 24 mph above the speed limit in Warren County, according to state public records. The senator’s aides have said Fetterman has texted and FaceTimed while driving, ”prompting concerns among his staff and fears about riding with him,” the Post reported, citing three people with knowledge of staff discussions who spoke about internal conversations on the condition of anonymity.
darrellowens.substack.com
Though small in number, the elected interests of most local cities give disproportionate attention to business interests and their pro-driving beliefs. Even in progressive Berkeley, home of many climate scientists from the university, transportation decisions are dictated by science illiterates and business interests, not the city’s intellectuals. When Berkeley proposed building a bike lane in my neighborhood, which has no protected bike lanes near a prominent middle school, many wise locals went uncharacteristically nuts. Plastered on neighborhood businesses were conspiracy theories about a United Nations agenda to force people into plastic cities where they won't be allowed to own cars. Every other lawn has signs proclaiming economic ruin if drivers are forced to park a whopping 30 seconds away on side streets rather than directly in front of businesses. Despite the town being highly educated, many Berkeleyans simply closed their ears to modern climate science and empirical evidence on transportation. A writer for The New York Times, one of many residing in Berkeley, privately remarked to me how astonishing it was to witness such a sophisticated population reacting like simpletons to the most modest safety improvements that are commonplace throughout the world.
www.statista.com
More money is spent on automobile advertising than on public transit [projects](https://www.transit.dot.gov/about/news/us-transportation-secretary-buttigieg-recommends-nearly-45-billion-move-new-and-expanded).
Over $20 million was spent on this bike path, but now the MTC wants to convert into car access during weekdays.