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by jseban 5y ago
Yes but like the comment says, it's the norm so you'd be lucky if you don't have to do it and most likely it will not be possible. It's like you have to retire every year and go through that difficult transition to a job
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by jseban 5y ago
Sounds great to me, as a Swede I hate being forced to take 4 weeks consecutive vacation. Would love to instead have 2-4 weeks spread out through the year. It's a stressful burden for me as a single person who's life naturally revo
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by jseban 5y ago
More vacation is of course better, but you also have the opposite "problem" in Sweden, if you don't want to take 4 consecutive weeks, but prefer to spread it out, it also usually has to be negotiated and will be treated as an
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by jseban 5y ago
Just in case it's not clear: when Swedes talk about 4 weeks of vacation, they also count the weekend that they have off anyway, so 15 days = 3 weeks and 20 days = 4 weeks
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by jseban 5y ago
Yeah that's my point! You could calculate the amount of needed cars and have them in circulation, and they could park themselves in some underground garage somewhere when usage is low. It could be just one big fleet of self driving tax
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by jseban 5y ago
My opinion: replace all cars with self driving only, then you completely avoid the hard problem of interpreting other human drivers. And you can also let the cars communicate with each other, be centrally controlled and/or have assista
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by jseban 5y ago
I highly doubt that, it speaks completely against my lifelong experience as a cyclists. The vast majority of all people are fair weathered cyclists and bike lanes are mostly empty half of the year. You get cold, wet and uncomfortable, and h
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by jseban 5y ago
Yeah it's the least safe mode of transportation, driving, public transport and walking are all safer than cycling. "But it's the fault of the cars", no cyclists have tons of accidents by themselves and amongst each other
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by jseban 5y ago
I simply just want to do other sports and want to have the choice of what I do for exercise, and have maximum freedom to how I spend my (free) time and energy, and not use most of it on commuting.
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by jseban 5y ago
I'm simply talking about cycling in a big city from a practical point of view, based on facts and my own experience, and pointing out the limitations. As opposed to using cycling as some kind of protest, and people get triggered when I
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by jseban 5y ago
Infrastructure rightly prioritises the most useful and most efficient modes of transportation, and gives less priority to that which is less useful and efficient. That's rational and correct, no need to change that.
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by jseban 5y ago
Make society less efficient and less convenient? Why? We already have electric cars, and electric 2 wheel mopeds/motorcycles too if you want to complain about "space"
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by jseban 5y ago
Electric mopeds are amazing, best way of transporting yourself in a city when the weather allows. It has all the benefits, the only downside is that you can't really use it in rain or snow.
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by jseban 5y ago
I also had to cycle my whole childhood to school, and I don't see the point at all, it just felt like some kind of unnecessary punishment and some creepy amish like way of being against technology
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by jseban 5y ago
Why, it's much better for the kids to just take the bus, it's more practical and easier, and they don't have the risk of sitting cold and wet in school, what's the point of stubbornly cycling in shitty weather
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by jseban 5y ago
On days when the weather is nice, when the weather is bad in Toronto, the bike lanes are empty like everywhere else.
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by jseban 5y ago
You like to do something uncomfortable and impractical, so what, most people don't and it obviously has huge downsides. If you want to use scarce public space you can't really argue that a small minority think it's fun
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by jseban 5y ago
Yep, that's what I mean. They like the idea of being a good person, but when push comes to shove, in reality it's only used/usable when the weather is nice, and people don't use it when the weather is bad.
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by jseban 5y ago
It feels like having a gym membership, you really like the idea of yourself, and you can be smug and get virtue signalling points, but in practice people rarely use it and it's mostly empty except for a short season.
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by jseban 5y ago
Same where I live, and now we have 1 empty bike lane and traffic jam in the remaining with sirens all the time because emergency vehicles can't pass anymore. It seems completely useless, convert a fully functional lane of a road, to an
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by jseban 5y ago
Oh and I should add: outside of my house they have blocked one whole lane of the road from cars and designated it for cyclists. There was already a smaller bike lane. This new lane is now mostly empty and the remaining two lanes have traffi
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by jseban 5y ago
My background is that I've cycled my whole life, all of childhood in rain and snow and later I've cycled for a few years in a big city. But I started to use it less and less, and now it's just parked and unused. And the reaso
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by jseban 5y ago
I would love to see the difference in bike use in the Netherlands relative to the weather, I bet only a small fraction will use the bike in bad weather conditions and they will need capacity in public transport to cover for these days.
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by jseban 5y ago
I disagree, it's a very real annoying problem to dress your whole body in both warm and waterproof clothes, and even if you like it, most people don't. And it is objectively, relatively, much less convenient and much less comfor
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by jseban 5y ago
Yes there are cases when a bike will be faster, because your destination happens to be poorly covered by public transport, but on average it's not, and that's what's really important.
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by jseban 5y ago
Yeah well, in this example and many similar big cities in europe, you have subway and buses that will take you to any street corner. Sure, in a small town in australia or the US, not the case, but I highly doubt bike lanes will be any viabl
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by jseban 5y ago
> Cycling is the primary mode of transportation in their city centers. It's not when there's cold rain in the winter, guarantee it.
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by jseban 5y ago
A bike lane that's only used when the weather is nice, when you already have a subway? No _that_ is unnecessary luxury. Take the subway if you hate cars.
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by jseban 5y ago
So, just use the subway then and your problems are solved. In a much better way than cycling.
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by jseban 5y ago
It doesn't matter if you and "plenty of people" don't mind, the important part is that the majority of people do mind, and will not cycle in cold winter rain.

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