My town has been increasingly prioritizing road redesign for safety - my favorite example is a major road lined with strip malls was restriped down to one lane and is now noticeably slower, calmer and safer yet we get through it noticeably faster. The magic of doing it right
To get to a common destination through there used to take me 12-16 minutes. Now I drive slower and it’s consistently 9 minutes or less!
The article even helps with priorities, with special outrage for speeding in school zones. Fine, let’s start there. It ought to be an easy argument that every school zone should prioritize pedestrian safety, and be difficult to speed in. Even if it’s as simple as directing through drivers elsewhere, it’s a win
We already have such Nannies for repeat drunk drivers so how is this different? It even fits with the narrative that we don’t know who is driving- we know the car is being driven dangerously so should prevent that regardless of driver
Every state is different - while I’m not sure how mine handles multiple speeding tickets, ask me how I know that 30 mph over counts as a major accident on your insurance. At that point, the cost of the ticket is almost irrelevant (approaching a toll both on a highway, when I passed the new speed sign I hadn’t yet slowed enough, the assholes. If they looked at my speed like 50’ later…).
Anyhow I have to expect it’s more “good old boy” corruption, where at each step he gets dismissed or charge reduced
Edit: oh, speed camera infractions. I believe those can’t be criminal since you have the right to face your accuser.
This is a big deal that we should pay more attention to. It’s holding back adoption of transit, bike lanes, and EVs
Too many people believe their gas taxes pay for road maintenance. That it’s targeted toward roads and that it covers roads. Too often they react in outrage at concepts like
The reality is that gas taxes are not usually targeted, it’s already not fair with the variety of weight and efficiency of vehicles, and in the US it typically covers more like half of road maintenance so it’s still highly dependent on other funding sources
Maybe it’s time to rethink this tax, to something without the emotional baggage, that’s fair for everyone, and that adequately funds all transportation needs
The only thing is I’m getting awfully cynical on that. Sure, I’m all in to approve any tax increase for education, but is it really for that? The cynic in me wonders if politicians tend to shuffle the budget around so education appears to be in need. People are more likely to pay for education but are less likely to approve tax increases for other uses
Some taxes are fairly generic, like income tax or property tax. However some are specifically targeted, intentionally or not.
Too many people believe their gas taxes pay for road maintenance (on average in US less than half) so react in outrage when someone proposes other transportation needs, such as rail or bike lanes, or react in outrage at the idea of EVs not paying their fair share.
We should
My pellet smoker never has exposed flame , although I might turn it up at times to sear the outside.
The trick is that when you don’t have cider or apple juice to add moisture while forming a crust, apricot preserves work really well …… somehow I always have that.
But if you want that fall off the bone tenderness from a tough cut of meat, you need to cook low and slow.
Amateurs! 3 hours for ribs? Try 5 hours on my pellet grill/smoker
Politics. Some of us are stuck with the chaos and destruction of US politics, and the rest of lemmy is probably tired of hearing about it.
Every day brings a new disaster for us science, technology, environment, education, quality of life, freedom, new abuses of human rights and constitutional authority, new violations of leadership holding themselves above the law. Outrage of racism and classism, stoked divisiveness. It’s certainly exhausting and horrifying but it’s also my future, my kids future.
We try to rein it in but it affects our everyday lives, so it leaks online. I understand wanting to avoid it. I wish I could
or that they pay for high quality components
This would be a valid choice for both the manufacturer and consumer, if it were true and transparent. Most of us have things we spend more on with the expectation of quality and that we spend less on with the expectation there is no quality
For example I don’t buy the concept that my printer manufacturer has magical ink in their resale cartridges. Even if they did, the 3-4 cartridges I can otherwise buy would make up for a lot of magic
Tell me again how traffic cameras make us safer and we can totally trust them to be applied objectively for public safety and no other purpose?
I think “metros” are a combination of “heavy rail” and “commuter rail” over a larger metro area. Fast and longer distance like commuter rail, but regular service like “heavy rail”
Maybe, but I’m not familiar with chicagos system
Here in Boston
Speed is the problem for boats
Maybe it’s the same for commuter rail. It’s weird seeing average 33 passengers, when they were always standing room only while I was riding
The proper etiquette is “not there”. Just because you feel the need doesn’t mean it needs to be here and now. When you’re disrupting other people you’re also causing a hazard to you and them. You can turn on a side street or go around the block or turn into a parking lot so you don’t obstruct traffic don’t cause a hazard, and it may only add a few seconds
Note that your gps would guide you around the block or other place you can do it safely
Gotta have those small logs, or split logs to get a good fire going
It’s preferable to remove unused wiring.
But as long as they’re in a junction box and it’s accessible, then it’s ok. But once it’s at least safe and you forget about it, eventually someone else will have to spend the time to figure it out. You saving a little time now could be someone’s much larger expense in the future
Confession time: I have a circuit halfway removed when the project got interrupted and now it’s been a couple years. People panic at the sight of bare wires, understandably, but only I know that most of it is removed so it could never be hot. That would fail an inspection and block a home sale. Do NOT do this
And yet they’re talking about a nanny as a local device temporarily attached to a car and that does not necessarily “phone home”. Not everything is a “slippery slope”
And yes, speed governors were all too common after the 1970s fuel crisis. As far as I know they still are on trucks, like rental moving trucks. This is not a new thing, except to allow a court to mandate it for repeat egregious offenders