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Bickering about bicycles, now with occasional tips about motorised vehicles
jwhouk:
The county in which I live has a total population of about roughly 20,000.
Just about 10,000 live in the city (and I use that term begrudgingly) where I reside. There is a smaller city to the north of me that has about 6,500 . The rest of the population is scattered around the county.
My "city" is located on the south edge of the county. The county is 907 square miles - and it's practically square, too.
To go from one end of the city to the other is just over four miles - and it's not all flat.
To go from one end of the county to the other... is about 31 miles, and ALL of it is rural, and practically NONE of it is straight-line.
ev4n:
--- Quote from: Dalillama on 11 Oct 2014, 03:13 ---...No offence meant, but anyone who can't figure out a simple roundabout in under thirty seconds has no business piloting anything motorised in any public place whatsoever.
--- End quote ---
I don't know if it's true, but I've heard the rules of right-of-way on roundabouts are totally different between Europe and North America.
The roundabout I saw in Halifax had traffic lights, and I'm not sure I fully understood them.
In other news, saw people riding their bikes today, and man was I jealous. Maybe I need to go out tomorrow, regardless of the weather? (oh man, 23C on Tuesday.)
jwhouk:
Three basic rules of roundabouts:
1. Vehicles in the roundabout have the right of way.
2. You should ALWAYS stop or slow down before entering a roundabout.
3. DO NOT STOP if you are in a roundabout!
Dalillama:
--- Quote from: GarandMarine on 12 Oct 2014, 15:19 ---The better and more humanist solution is to do away with cities, they drain resources and generate nothing.
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Are you volunteering to be part of the ~90% of the human race that has to die for that to happen? Remember the bit about arable land being in limited supply? There's nowhere to put the human race except cities. Also, as noted above, basically all technology more advanced than a wooden plow is the product of cities, and it would be quite impossible to have things like, say, webcomics and internet fora without a vastly urbanized society[ies] to support such a thing.
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 12 Oct 2014, 16:37 ---The county in which I live has a total population of about roughly 20,000.
Just about 10,000 live in the city (and I use that term begrudgingly) where I reside. There is a smaller city to the north of me that has about 6,500 . The rest of the population is scattered around the county.
My "city" is located on the south edge of the county. The county is 907 square miles - and it's practically square, too.
To go from one end of the city to the other is just over four miles - and it's not all flat.
To go from one end of the county to the other... is about 31 miles, and ALL of it is rural, and practically NONE of it is straight-line.
--- End quote ---
Then your gripe about fuel capacity frankly sounds even sillier; I could bike one end of the county to the other in a few hours, let alone drive. I used to ride further for recreation, when I didn't live in the city. (It's a lot harder to find 30 miles of pleasant ride around here, and the traffic and signals and the like slows me up considerable as well).
jwhouk:
Oh, by the way, did I happen to mention the ROUTINELY SUB-ZERO TEMPERATURES from November through March?
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