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  • There are like 4 days a year everyone just puts their old sofas, broken TVs and other junk outside to be collected by a garbage truck the next day. As this furniture is mostly usable, people in white vans go around to collect the most valuable stuff, which makes up most of the traffic in villages on those days and causes old people to complain about Polish immigrants.

    The village children also have a look around if the weather is nice. Village adults don’t, not because they are above it, but since there is a genuine risk a neighbour you’ve known for decades will sue you for stealing; the garbage does belong to them still as the courts have determined.

    Edit: Sorry for forgetting the most important part.




  • Tudsamfa@lemmy.worldtoFuck Cars@lemmy.worldInsanity
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    5 days ago

    Really? I’m also not sure why exactly he’s being downvoted, but only bc there’s many possible reasons.

    • There’s no way transit-stabbings are a real problem, anywhere. Even in the grungiest places, it has to be a fake problem like elevator cables snapping or plane crashes and it’s all fear-mongering.
    • You can make these comments everywhere and they’re always unhelpful. Oh, a “bus is high capacity” post? Yeah, but they’re unsafe here, I’ll pass. Oh, a “bus is super safe” post? Yeah, but they’re very infrequent here, I’ll pass. Oh, a “bus is super frequent post”? Yeah, but we only have small ones, I’ll pass.
    • The comment implies smug dismissal, yet that problem and the post’s problem have the same solution: more investments in public transport.

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    6 days ago

    I’m starting to develop a vigor for public transit to match the one forced on us for car infrastructure in the 60s. Bigger, taller, more, I want 3 bus lanes and a tram line to any town in the country. We can do no wrong taking back all the space we gave to the car, as long as the garbage truck fits on the street, car users can share 1 lane both directions. Take their parking, take their license for rolling stops and using their phone, gift them e-bikes.

    Make transit free, let the highways rot, expand the railways. Sorry for that pothole, all the money was used up by rail.

    Just anything better than we have now. If we have to act fast and break things, so be it.











  • First the unhelpful answer:

    I transport groceries with my e-bike and a bike bag on either side of the rack. They may not be quite as fancy as the ones you can unhook and carry into the store and the design is probably from the early 2000s, but they’re BIG, so they’re great (apart from the fact that they create so much drag that cycling without the motor is an ordeal).

    Other than that, I did use a shopping trolley for a while. It was fine enough. Wouldn’t recommend to transport cats in those though, you probably need something with tires, not just wheels.