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German shows how New York is still a car brained shithole (cdn.imgchest.com)
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[–] 29 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

I'm in Montreal and I hate this so much. We have no emergency corridors, cars are taking all the space. I'm sitting in my apartment and those loud as fuck emergency vehicles are honking and blasting their sirens while stuck behind a row of cars, that everyone just expects to magically disappear if they just honk a bit louder.

And worse, the fucking fire department is stopping bike lanes, pedestrianized streets and fighting against modal filters because "it slows them down and could be dangerous for the lives of the citizens".

I can tell who is driving the ambulance by the style of siren chosen. Because somehow some ambulance drivers think that turning the siren on and off rapidly will make them move faster through gridlock.

Emergency vehicles here are seriously annoying, and apparently the solution is to make them even noisier and annoying rather than make some rules and infrastructure. It's high on my list of things that makes me want to move back to the countryside.

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

    Having the fire dept fight against bike lanes and all that is also a problem in Ontario. And they say the exact same things too. It's insane that they can say such cognitively dissonant things; the damn traffic jam is gonna cost people's lives too if they're stuck in traffic, and what the fuck is their argument for that?

    If they argue that their fat ass vehicles can't get into small spaces, tell them to fucking stop buying these shit from the US and look at how other countries run their show; get smaller vehicles and drive more vehicles out when needed, and not haul every tool under the sun for every emergency. And heck! Protection for bike lanes is generally nothing to their giant ass vehicles anyways!

    And they need to also stop with the baseless mindset of "hurdurr we're different from other countries" and start understanding what that difference is and why they're there, and see that we're really not that different aside from how we've decided to fucking infest everyone's lives with cars.

    Let the cities do things to get as many cars off the streets, and emergency services would then have less cars to deal with. If that doesn't sound reasonable to them, tell them they are part of their problems aside from being everyone else's.

    FFS

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