cars as structural violence
okay if most people were driving arcimotos I'd probably be a lot more comfortable sharing the road with cars
like getting hit by one of those at 50 mph would still fuck me up, but it probably wouldn't kill me like a SUV
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If you thought that was oddly precise, I watched a near miss version of that scenario play out on Tuesday (the SUV swerved and almost hit the bus I was in) only to have to get off two minutes later & backtrack two intersections that were only marginally more safe before I could get to my doctors appointment
I can’t drive for medical reasons. There’s never going to be 3000 pounds of steel protecting me from other cars. I just have to live with this, and hope that maybe someday enough people will give a fuck that we can actually change things
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idk I hate that I had to move to the most aggressively aggressively anti-pedestrian place I ever lived and I hate that everyone thinks this place is fine and normal, actually. And I hate that they’re right about it being normal even if its absolutely not fine because literally anywhere planned after the fifties is either exactly like this or worse
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@Satsuma so many intersections and roads are so actively hostile to pedestrians, I can't help thinking of it as a cull :/
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@ljwrites it really feels that way, walking through them!
I sat thru three full light cycles the other day at an intersection before I realized the walk signal was a dummy — the one if the turn lanes would always have a green arrow into the crosswalk when opposing traffic was stopped
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@Satsuma what the ffff why would they fuck up such an important signal!
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The frequency with which otherwise seemingly reasonable people complain about bikelanes or streeteries (park-lanes temporarily converted into outside dining as part of Philly’s COVID response, many restaurants put theirs in loading docks, aka not even legal parking spaces in the first place) because, bikes are *so* annoying & they’ve lost a few parking slots is unreal