I hate the passive way headlines are written when it comes to crashes involving bikes. "Tossed" is such a light word for what happened. "Passing RV" as if it wasn't the cause of it all and just happened to be there

That driver should never be allowed on the road again. There's no excuse.

Glad the guy is alive.

Yes, it seems like a really recent term to me. I first heard it when the writers strike began and never before that.

When I think streamer I think of people on Twitch or YouTube who stream themselves. No idea where calling streaming services/sites "streamers" came from but it always confuses me.

I remember when Voat came out and the slight exedous that brought. I made an account and everything but it never properly took off. I checked on it two or three years later and it was just filled with alt-right/racist/transphobic garbage. Sad it never took off as a reddit alternative, reddit likely would have greatly benefited from a proper alternative, not sad it closed down after I saw what it ended up.

So far the fediverse feels really different tho, very explicitly anti that type of shit. I'm sure it will pop up, they always do, but maybe now people know how to deal with it. Block it, defederate, deplatform.

It's wild that this city (read: the suburbs and rural communities that shouldn't be a part of the city of Ottawa) decided the dude with ZERO political experience and ZERO urban planning interest was the right choice for mayor.

It might be me being very tuned in to urban planning, but it feels like across the world, and even Canada, there's a huge wave of urban planning progress being made. People are begining to realize that we cant continue to build car dependant suburbs, but our own mayor hasn't caught up to this fact. There's huge improvements in Montreal, Toronto, even places like Calgary and Edmonton are getting proper biking infrastructure. Granted, do see it slowly progressing in Ottawa, but my god it could be done so much faster and with less of this bullshit.

Like, maybe before this he didn't know anything about cities and shit like this, but you fucking hire someone who does and have them explain it to you. You're a mayor now, you MUST be into urban planning and all it entails.

Apologies for the long rant, this bugs me to no end. Can I protest somewhere? Can I give the mayor some book recommendations? (Walkable Cities by Jeff Speck, and Strong Towns by Charles Marhon.)

Relevant video: https://youtu.be/DlTq8DbRs4k?si=y-muiI81MKk3gin0

Privatized railways are mostly failures most of the time. Besides Brightline, and I think a bunch of the Japanese railway companies, no nation really has privatized passenger rail. But I think the Japanese system has a weird setup.

Actually, I think Italy and Germany have started allowing private companies to operate on their railways, but I think they need to fit it between the nationalized services. I could be wrong about that tho.

It's after 9pm somewhere

Not an answer to your question, but if the instruments are USB (I assume they are), you could also checkout Clone Hero. It's a free PC version of Rock Bank/Guitar Hero, people will make custom songs for it as well, I'm sure some have drum tracks too.

I kinda slowed down on his videos since that Tom Nicolas video, but I watched his video from a few days ago about blimps because blimps are cool. But it just seemed like a corporate ad. The amount of the video that's renders of products vs actual products is pretty bad.

It didn't feel like a science video about blimps, it felt like half blimp startup ad, half simple blimp explanation. I don't know, it just felt a little devoid of depth.

Wow, what an amazing use of land within walking distance to a transit station. My lord is city is incredible.

Side note, looking on satallite view at the intersection and holy shit that needs to be fixed, it's terrible. It is 68m to get from one side to the other, crossing 8 lanes of traffic, 10 if you want to include the "bike lanes".

I've included an image of the original Godzilla to give a sense of scale (he was about 50m tall.)

(Not complaining at you OP)

Edit: To be slightly positive, it's really neat to see "cannabis" listed very casually. I actually read over it without thinking about how weird that would have been like 10 years ago.

You're correct about the longer cars needing wider turns.

Really the biggest problem with the LRT is trying to make it an LRT after the tunnel was built. It's really a metro system with the wrong type of train. Every other North American city with an "LRT" has a system where the centre goes thru downtown at grade usually in mixed traffic (I think, feel free to correct me.) Our system doesn't, it's fully grade separated the entire time, so why continue to use tram trains? Our trains are low floor which is great when you can't build a tall platform downtown in the middle of the street. But when it's grade separated you're really limiting capacity as the wheels go into the cars taking up seating and standing space.

It annoys the crap out of me that our city is continuing to use these fucking trains. I wish they either sold the trains and adjusted all the stations to high platforms and used real metro trains, or kept them and used them on a real tram system (maybe along Baseline or Carling, or up and down Bank St?)

Sorry for the long post, the trains just bug me a lot, altho I'm greatful we have something and at least have the tunnel. The hard part is done, rails and stations and trains can be fixed. (Maybe not with this mayor however.)

I know on Windows there's settings to enable moving torrents automatically when the category changes. Also make sure to enable automatic torrent management otherwise I don't think it will work properly.

I'd also check the default download paths too, there's also a setting to keep inprogress torrents in a different spot. Hope that helps

So, when road closers happen, it can actually take a while for traffic to change and people to adapt to any change. Happens the other way too, if you add lanes to a highway for a few months traffic flows better, but after I think 6 or so months, I can remember actual number, it just returns to normal or worse.

I'd love to see the driveway shutdown for a while year straight (winter maintained of course) and see what happens to traffic. Winter maintenance might be easier because both lanes wouldn't need to be complete cleared for people to use it. I know less people bike in the winter, but is that because it's harder, or because the roads and paths aren't maintained?

Wish we didn't elect Sutcliffe tho, he's obviously being hostile to anyone outside a car. God forbid some one in a car needs to take a little longer than anyone else.

I enjoy when the driveway is closed to cars and I can use it commute to the market by bike. Sure I can go along the canal, but it's much fast and I'm out of people walking away on the road.

Thank you for spreading the gospel of Bullshit Jobs! Its not mentioned enough.

Anarchist library link: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/...

The only reasonable tax I could see being applied to an electric car is a weight tax, but that should be for all cars, not just electric. If your cars weighs more, you should pay more, especially at the city level.

More weight means it produces more wear and tear on roads. Not to mention they are more deadly, even at low speeds.

But I doubt this would happen in Mississippi lol

The design is very human.

On Connect for Lemmy, hold down on a comment to collapse it. Works the same was as rif did altho I'm still getting used to it.

I wonder if at any point someone will just give up admit it was fucked from the moment they decided to keep the wrong type of train for the service they should be running, and just buy the correct type of train. A proper metro train like every other other city trying to run a mass transit line with high frequency. Ideally something with radial seating, digital signage and wayfinding. Some stations in Japan even have info above where the doors will be in the station showing how full each car is.

We'd need to rebuild all the current stations to be high platforms, and finish the under construction stations to also be high floor. It's a lot of money sure, but no one will care in 50 years, they will just be thankful to have an amazing metro connecting the entire city. The Shinkansen went 2 times over it's inital budget, but no one gives a crap now a days, they're just happy to have it.

We're the capital of Canada, we need and deserve better than this shitty system.

Oh, and add platform screen doors to all the above ground stations, partly for safely, partly for weather, make a huge different to quality of the service.

OP is correct, this is from Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber. Here's a link on the anarchist library: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/...

Highly recommend the book, really changed how I view work.

The problem with rubber tires is they wear the ground out a lot more, this increases with weight, these teams are going to be heavy. And if they run along the exact same spot each time it's going to damage the ground a shit ton. This why why steel wheels on steel rails are better, they can handle a lot more weight with less maintenance.

If you really can't put in a real tram with rails in, use trolley busses. Trolley busses can be fairly long and high capacity, while having rubber tires for hills. The benefit is they don't drive over the same spot each time. There's a ton more benefits to trolley busses and they are greatly underrated.

This sounds like a solution to a problem that doesn't really exist. Ok well, maybe cities too cheap to pay for rails is a problem.

Edit:

Even worse, it runs in batteries. This is terrible for weight and efficiency. Just throw up some centenary wires, reduces weight and it's more energy efficient.

Many newer trolley busses come with very small batteries so they they can drive to and from their depot's. The smaller battery means limited range, but that's not the point, it also saves on weight vs a battery electric bus.

Here's a few videos on trolley busses:

https://youtu.be/SB9EARKvCTc https://youtu.be/Z22UUbpgJSc

Here's a video on a similar systems that's been removed cuz it's a dumb idea: https://youtu.be/Kr4EZwZbxwQ

It would probably help a lot, even if the trains had the same top speed AND acceleration being able to go around tighter corners would help a ton. There's a lot of weird turns in the system, especially Lees - Hurdman - Tremblay. Hurdman - Tremblay is actually where it derailed for a month or so.

Here's what it looks like currently:

and I understand why they wanted it to go to Hurdman, it's a large bus station.

But I wish instead it looked like this:

Then maybe they could have made some a busway where the tracks are now and maybe make Tremblay's LRT station underground and then on the ground it's a bus loop.

Source for maps: https://otrain.railfans.ca/system-map