We’re all in on the culture war now
The most oppressed people on Earth: motorists 😂
I read that in Jeremy Clarkson's voice lol
It's like they just let Jeremy Clarkson write this pamphlet.
finding this clip of frankie boyle shitting on clarkson made my life qualitatively better
My friend, that's positively milquetoast in comparison to Stewart Lee.
That was brilliant. And I loved it.
clarkson is just a shithead kid who's somehow an adult. He has the views and humour of a particularly obnoxious teenager
growing up and getting older are two entirely separate processes tbh
Shout out to Frankie Boyle who decided that the important thing to pursue literally in the middle of Israel gunning down protesters with machine guns and the labour right openly sabotaging their own platform was Corbyn's antisemitism. Frankie Boyle is a fucking coward, and I would say that to his face.
Even clarkson is smart enough to realize trains and planes make more sense for mass travel, he just likes cool and high end cars because they’re cool. He’s not out here advocating for everyone to sit in traffic in festivas all day
Truly more oppressed than g*mers 😔
Carbrains certainly feel that way when they are menaced by the sight of someone on a bicycle. 
Same goes for carnists lol
Next step: “we are a nation of smokers and millions of us smoke daily. We are making the life of these people easier. Stop to the No Smoking areas. If a pregnant woman is present she can go eff herself. Stop to taxes on tobacco.
“We are a civilization of fossil fuel users, billions of us use electricity generated from fossil energy sources daily. We are…”
Unfortunately, this isn't far from the actual rhetoric they use.
Luckily, these are just the last desperate acts of an unelected Prime Minister, who only got the job because the last one crashed the economy inside a month (who only got the job because the last one was Boris Johnson). He knows that the party will be condemned to irrelevance next year and is anxious to find anything that could possibly resonate with enough voters
Ironically Rishi Sunak famously doesn't really drive, and once had to borrow someone else's car for a publicity stunt where he inadvertently demonstrated that he doesn't even know how to fill one up with petrol. Sadly he doesn't drive because hes a gazillionaire, not because he uses public transport
That is wishful thinking in the extreme
Have you seen the polls in the last two years? Or the that a majority of prominent Conservative MPs for the last ten years have already announced they won't run next year to avoid their own little portillo moments?
They know they're done and are holding on for either a miracle or something like this policy change to stick. Which isn't impossible, but that there's a good chance of him winning an election is what is wishful thinking. They're done.
I'm just taking a moment to remember the massive smear campaign against Corbyn, including the centrists in Labour working to undermine him during their election, and how ultimately it led to this dumbass taking the reins instead.
well this guy is the tory leader
but it's mad that corbyn was ousted for antisemitism he didn't do and now the SS are fine again
Now I'm just waiting 'til starmer does some blairite lowest common denominator research, by reading some red-tops and decides to support this.
It'll be like Tony Blair's housing policies.
@mondoman712
Best driving experience in the world? The Netherlands, because when you shift a significant number of people off the roads into alternative transport the remaining drivers have less traffic and higher average speeds than an over-reliance on cars.Risak is just committing the same mistake Robert Moses made 80 - 50 years ago, building more roads to "solve" traffic but it just induced more car traffic - - and then repeat again and again.
Just one more lane
Do you have a good source? Not denying, just on the lockout for stuff to shove in diehard motorists' faces that they will struggle to deny with anything coming anywhere close to resembling facts
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess's_paradox
Adding extra capacity to a network when the moving entities selfishly choose their route can in some cases reduce overall performance. That is because the Nash equilibrium of such a system is not necessarily optimal. The network change induces a new game structure which leads to a (multiplayer) prisoner's dilemma. In a Nash equilibrium, drivers have no incentive to change their routes. While the system is not in a Nash equilibrium, individual drivers are able to improve their respective travel times by changing the routes they take. In the case of Braess's paradox, drivers will continue to switch until they reach Nash equilibrium despite the reduction in overall performance.
Thanks this is more or less what I hoped for :D
I think Not Just Bikes made a video on this
also CityNerd on youtube
TIL where the name of the Unsleeping City character came from…
Letting people travel "how they want" he says while cancelling new train lines for those who wants to use that. The blokes a disengenuious wanker who we can't be rid of quick enough.
It's straight out of the American conservative talking points book. Somehow, driving has been equated with freedom and not fully embracing driving over all other firms of transportation taking away individual freedom.
How is it freedom to be forced to own a car, pay for gas and maintenance, and waste your life in car traffic every single day?
It's the dumbest talking point.
That's why railways should be privatised.
Typical conservative strategy:
- Public thing exists
- Become a lead weight in government so public thing gets underfunded and cannot adapt to market changes.
- Public thing no longer meets expectations.
- "See? It should be privatized and you won't have this issue"
- Privatize thing. A few people make a crap load of money in the transition. Thing starts out acceptable for the first few years.
- "Oh no, capitalism uses an infinite growth ponzi model. How do we increase shareholder value this year?"
- Private thing gets underfunded and consumers get manipulated and abused.
Are we winning yet?
Privatized public transportation rarely works. At most you'll find some success stories of companies that partnered with a government to jointly service a transportation line.
No, it always works. Nationalised transport doesn't work though.
Thanks for providing these examples. They completely changed my mind about public transportation privatization
The example is across the channel - the whole of EU. And Japan as well. One must blind to think that nationalised transport can work.
In France, nationalized transport worked for decades before rail was opened to private compagnies circa 2014 (would have to check exactly). Since then, no one has been able to afford a train ticket. You have no idea what you're talking about
I disagree. Aside from privately owned Brightline who already owns the land around their stations, owns their tracks, and has a lot of incentive to expand their coverage, I have not heard of a single other piece of privatized infrastructure that actually benefits the users or actively engages in expansion
Didn't England already go through that, and wasn't it a complete failure ? someone knowledgeable quick please
Relevant video: https://youtu.be/DlTq8DbRs4k?si=y-muiI81MKk3gin0
Privatized railways are mostly failures most of the time. Besides Brightline, and I think a bunch of the Japanese railway companies, no nation really has privatized passenger rail. But I think the Japanese system has a weird setup.
Actually, I think Italy and Germany have started allowing private companies to operate on their railways, but I think they need to fit it between the nationalized services. I could be wrong about that tho.
Absolutely fucking not. Privatisation is literally the worst thing you could do. Do we really want some random assholes to own something we rely on and try to squeeze it for as much profit as possible? I don't, fuck capitalism
Freedom to travel except if you're taking the train, then you can get fucked with delays, overcrowded trains and expensive fairs. Glad to be living on this hell rock
Forcing everyone to own a car due to lack of public transport/safe cycling infrastructure fucks over motorists as well. Imagine the traffic in London if suddenly everyone that commutes by train was forced to drive in.
people wouldn't even be able to leave their driveways
Just look at strikes. From 12 minutes to reach the motorway to 40 minutes or more, and even that has issues near junctions
Ah yes, the freedom to be stuck in traffic jams. Now where have I heard that before…
No! They will add a lane! Can't be stuck on another lane!
/s
houses, shops, offices, city centres. parks, they've been waging war on cars for since 1666.
It's about time someone did something to put a stop to them.
This reads like satire
#motoristlivesmatter
What a fucking idiot. Has he been living under a rock? He's going out of his way to remake all of America's mistakes. Absolute buffoon.
What mistakes? The ultra rich have a great life in the US. He's just serving his own interests. But remember you're poor because of immigrants! /s
That's what brexit means - fuck 99% of the population so the 1% gets to enjoy the same inequality as in 'murica.
That's been Britain since the 2010s, they all caught Ameriboo fever and want to be a carbon copy of burgerland.
LTN is low traffic neighborhood.
Anyone else notice the pluses don't actually do anything?
Use bus lane when it's not rush hour? So it does nothing.
Parking? Doesn't solve traffic.
The beauty of all of this to the Tories is that it gives them something to crow about, without actually having to do any work.
Hey you can now use the bus lanes at midnight pm on a Sunday, and have extra parking spots in Peckham. It benefits everyone!
Ahh yes, the same PM who has a list of 5 directly contradictory statements as his so-called ‘plan’, that one right?
Poor motorists having only like 99% of infrastructure reserved for them.
So victimised right now.
Let's take away railway sleepers so they can drive on the tracks.
"I love cars. Therefore we should mandate that EVERYONE drives!"
As someone who is forced to drive because I was unlucky enough to be born in bumfuck nowhere: fuck you. I hate always-busy traffic. If waiting in line is your idea of fun, go watch paint dry or something. I'm too busy to lengthen my commute.
He's British. They always like to spontaneously form and stand in lines!
Have you seen the latest from Macron ? he said exactly that a few days ago. You can make out the car & oil lobby through his words https://youtu.be/Tpbci1kOMEM
Rough transcript :
"We (the french) care about our cars. Me ? I dig/love it."
Cursed island
