Paris is changing fast for the better; it's a great video but I feel it's already out-of-date.

The good news is soon they'll be able to pedal themselves.

Krakow is a great city. Did you try an electric bike? They make 8 km seem like nothing.

EVs are only quieter at very low speeds. If they're going 20 mph or less, they're great, but any faster and air and rolling resistance is most of what you hear.

It's also just as easy for a sociopath in an EV to roll down the windows and blast the neighborhood with noise from the stereo.

EVs are better in the sense that the mufflers of ICE vehicles can be deliberately defeated by twits.

Well it's very possible to blast music from a bike too https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLANhJNOIis5SrYZkIbN4MDJia...

Now that looks like a good time.

The noise pollution is also comparable. Over 30 kph it's mostly wind and rolling resistance.

I've noticed in my city that a lot of the complaining about impinging upon the car-centric status quo comes from people who live outside the city.

> > Motorists are incredibly fragile

> Until you throw yourself in front of my car

Fragile with regard to their egos, as illustrated here.

> it can't do much about things like bus stop placement

Why not? Fewer cars means more room for bus stops.

Because there has to be a place where the bus stop could sensibly be. A history of car-centric design often eliminates those opportunities.

I see. I think you're talking about stop placement on a higher level? Removing street parking can free up room for lots of extra stops, which can help with bus bunching: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_bunching

I'm talking about what you physically see, or even step over, at the actual physical location where you're contemplating putting the bus stop; which is there because people were only thinking about cars when doing the zoning and construction.

car centric areas put their front door far from anyplace a but can easilly get. Either the but slows everyone else down because it is going in and out of all these parking lots and cul-de-sacs, or the walk from the but stop to where you are going is already your entire travel budget.

I think it gets confusing because we start out talking about cities but we'd also like to include other areas that are overrun with cars in the conversation. Buses in Ghent and Paris aren't going to be navigating parking lots and cul-de-sacs, no matter how much car infrastructure is removed. We can free up a lot of room for bus stops, though, which helps keep buses moving smoothly.

Suburbs are either cities in their own right, or part of the whole city. It deoesn't make sense in this discussion to think of them as not part af the city: they cover too much of the population.

Not necessarily. I have a pair of Gore-tex Nikes that are amazing.

I think you're selling cars short. For one thing, sofas don't have a plethora of cupholders that can accommodate any size sugary beverage within arm's reach.

Plus if I hit someone with my sofa, I'm going to jail. If I hit them with my car, it was just an accident.

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