I remember that comment …
You’re right, I was probably too harsh on the seatbelt point. If you have to be in a car, you should wear a seatbelt. But, the first line of defense is to not be in a car, and the second line of defense is to be on well-designed roads.
American cities lack these two lines of defense. This is probably why crashes are such a big problem here.
Please use one of the test instances for tests:
https://ziggit.dev/ is an active forum where you can find some news among the many questions.
That’s probably why it’s so expensive. I guess it’s good to know that the loss of revenue is already baked into the cost of the project.
The concept of Chicago being super dangerous is a incorrect right wing meme.
It has half the violent crime rate of Memphis, for example. And that violence is highly concentrated in particular neighborhoods.
The article says they did:
Earlier in the pandemic, Chicago launched a program to give away 5,000 bikes to eligible Chicago residents by 2026.
Yes! But it’s less active than this one. You can subscribe by pasting this into your instances search bar:
I believe that upvotes in lemmy are not only saved but are also publicly availible with the API.
We probably need to change from a gas tax to a function of weight and milage.
That’s good, I’ll check out those magazines
One problem with kbin is that the whole federation of instances thing didn’t work so well there. It seems all the users and all the content is one one server: kbin.social.
This is concerning since it introduces a single point of failure.
It depends where the motorists are used to driving with bikes, and how fast they’re going.
Plastic also works, and is far more durable
Why not kbin?
Does this also apply to comments?
I can’t figure out where to find this setting. Is it in jeroba?
How do you define “largest cities?” I get around fine without a car in a city with a population under 200k.
That’s cool! I’ve never freight light rail
Wow, where’s that?