bryndos

They literally are motorbikes. Just not obnoxiously loud. So they’re a clear improvement. I reckon E-bikes probably wont be as successful as petrol bikes because they don’t meet the goal of pissing off everyone in a 2km radius.

Agree, this is the problem. e-bikes aren’t worth enough to the people in power.

if we limited them to 30kph

:) - yimby please; but i cant see how this will happen in my country (other than through congestion).

afool

Previously i’ve only accepted AI into my life as a thing to use when I get asked ‘stupid business jargon management /HR question’ at work.

but I’m tentatively prepeared to allow this, it might be raisin the bar.

Such a portable toilet might be great for shit posting whilst waiting for the train.

Unfortunately someone needs to photoshop a bit of the background platform colour in there

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNfBF2xvhaE&list=PLD19BCF9D57320E03&index=4&pp=iAQB

I sure hope no one gave them positive feedback.

Is this existential angst what caused his winter of discontent?

If you figure out the right protocol you could probably catapult a series of twisted pears from house to house.

The way the internet is going, bashed and bruised fruit salad sounds preferable to the actual data anyway.

Annoying Invasion

Interestingly from a ‘Pigouvian’ tax viewpoint - i.e. polluter pays for externalities they impose; drivers should also be paying the price for any contribution to congestion that causes extra delay to others.

From this perspective, reinvestment in high capacity public transport in congested areas becomes pretty obvious. Or course that logic won’t stop many from wanting to widen low capacity roads instead.

Of course fuel taxes are not very localised in time and space, so they don’t really reflect congestion - not as as closely as they do pollution and noise.

If they cut fuel tax a bit and raised road prices targetting congestion, then reinvested in public transport that’d be good i think - because its closer to delivering the viable alternatives that might actually lead to some mode switching - that’s what you actually want to improve pollution, tax revenue can just be wasted, so rather have the actual switching and less tax revenue.

The problem with fuel taxes is they’re fairly invisible and many people just treat them as an overhead or sunk cost. Fuel tax is just a lot easier to implement than road pricing. But road prices can (should) simply be set a bit higher than the bus /train fare - giving a clear marginal price signal to use public transport as often as possible.

“You’re lion”

“no i’m not”

“ja u ar”

“no i’m not”

“cheetah”

I’m not so sure about that. A lot of people seem to get very angry about things that I don’t think matters, or they can’t do anything about . . . oh hang on, I get it. You’re talking about me aren’t you?

Is marriage just mutual public rickrolling?

“worth”

Browse “all”? You crazy fool.

Over my dead body!

And a pack of condoms ?

Must be dutch.

Bike is sofa and they have ride-thru fridges.

Interested to know how much less for lower resolutions. I’m not sure I’ve ever cared for high resolutions - and I’d always pick more battery life given the choice.

I first thought it’d be like those electric scooter hire, or maybe bike hire schemes.

But looking on line it looks like it might be just a city run version of uber.