SolNine

I more than welcome you to come to my county, the most densely populated and poorly designed for any kind of walk ability and communicate to our various cities how to improve! Some spots such as St. Pete, Dunedin and a few other downtowns are walkable, but most of the area the residential zones are far from many other businesses and services, as least much to far to walk.

That isn't a joke when I say cities, as literally, you drive 10-15 minutes and you are in a different municipality controlled by a completely different governing body. We have a county wide public transit body, but each city has its own objectives and desires.

I am not oblivious to anything you are stating, but it is much more complex than stating obvious solutions we would all love to have. My work is a 25-30 minute drive, and the only public transit option is a bus, which takes 2 hours, not kidding!

Attempting to simply redesign a disaster that went from orange groves to wild urban sprawl necessitates funding on a variety of levels, state, county and local, and land that isn't readily available here.

Let me further explain to you what is occurring here:

People on bicycles, without stopping, will ride from a sidewalk, across an intersection, 2 or 3 lanes per side here, fairly big roads. When you pull up to a light, you are watching for oncoming traffic in addition to any changes to the area you may turn into. A bicycle, who wasn't there and rides into an intersection with complete disregard for traffic or crosswalk signals can be in front of your car in a literal split second. If I wasn't looking before accelerating (I am in a manual car and have to put it into gear and all), I would simply run them over. Clearly, that isn't the case, but I imagine with the age of people here and the size of the vehicles they drive it is not an infrequent occurrence.

I'm really surprised how many people missed the sarcasm of my first sentence and literally the rest of the post...

Right on red is standard driving practice in my entire state unless otherwise posted. No one has a 180 FOV, your head has to swivel, and generally you look in multiple directions multiple times before turning.

Just like people in cars pedestrians and cyclists alike can also be negligent of the law and break right of way.

If we didn't have right on red here, the traffic nightmare would be significantly exacerbated.

It was more a commentary of my county and how poorly it is laid out for bicycles, did you read the rest of it or stop after the first line?

I wouldn't be caught dead on a bike here, I drive what many could consider an economy car (to me it's a 4 door smaller sedan) and I am often asked why I drive something so small.

Even our smaller main roads here are 3 lanes each way, and nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing, barring trails is designed with bicycles in mind.

They do not have the right of way in this case, part of the issue, at least in my county, is that we have really backwards walk signals.

They show walk, then a few seconds later change to a flashing hand (don't walk) with a count down, which makes very little sense. I don't think the people are paying attention to them anyways.

Only a few more years now till the retro sound of CDs comes back into style. I realize vinyl is a great and unique user experience with a specific timber, and more enjoyable to collect.

It's kind of funny when you hear about the "analog warmth" when albums were being digitally mastered as early as the late 70s... And pretty much all re-releases are digitally remastered.

I never liked Twitter to begin with, once it became an unabashed environment for hate it was a piece of cake to close my account.

And this is why I'm still on Monterey... Being in audio production, it's rare that updating your OS (barring security updates) improves your stability.

What is wrong with these people?

We need to start an organization that helps to rehome any woman in one of these states to a state with sane laws.

I feel truly sorry for the women who have been brainwashed since birth to agree with these laws that subjugate them, and continue to vote for the people passing them.

It's Nissans in general! I swear they must be one of the highest hp/dollar cars on the road or something for economy cars, and everyone drives them like they stole them!

I'm on it and do have a sub, but it's for someone unrelated to YT content. If I find a channel I can't live without I'll consider it but I have super ADD taste on subject matter.