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Bickering about bicycles, now with occasional tips about motorised vehicles
The Seldom Killer:
That reminds me of my commute in Toronto.
The Seldom Killer:
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 12 Oct 2014, 19:32 ---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!
--- End quote ---
In the UK 1 kind of applies, 2 is largely subject to approach speed, layout, traffic and visibility*, 3 is also subject to variations. If there's congestion it's OK to stop on a roundabout as long as you don't impede other vehicle's entry or exit.
*in some places they actually put up baffles to force deceleration as you can't see if the roundabout is clear, in others they actively maintain clear liines of sight to promote continuation of speed.
Akima:
--- Quote from: Dalillama on 12 Oct 2014, 19:58 ---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.
--- End quote ---
This basically. My hometown of Shanghai has a population roughly equal to the whole of Australia (about 23 million), and has an land area roughly half that of Sydney. Imagine it... The entire human population (except for a few miners, farmers, oil-rig workers etc.) in one city, and the rest of the continent for food production, resource extraction, and national parks. We might even finally get some decent public transport. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
I should read "The Caves Of Steel" again. It's so quaint that Isaac Asimov imagined his far future, tremendously over-populated, on the verge of starvation, imaginary world as having a population of eight billion. We're at about 7.25 billion already.
downtowneddie:
There is a great infographic in the Chakrabarti book I mentioned earlier -- A Country of Cities: A Manifesto for an Urban America -- that says the entire world population of ca. 7.2 billion could fit into the land area of the state of Texas at a density of 25 dwelling units per acre, which is, essentially, reasonably sized townhouses.
GarandMarine:
The question remains why you would want to do such a terrible thing. And having listened to Chakrabarti's lecture at Harvard good answers don't seem to be forthcoming.
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