"I hate these damn bike lanes. Screw your studies. I'm not reading that"

"Cut gas taxes. I see no reason why I should pay to support public transit"

"Fuck speed limits. I'm proud to break the law"

This sense of entitlement is insane.

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[–] 8 points 1 year ago (10 children)

we all have places to be

I'd rather be alive instead of being hit by some shit driver like you trying to win a few seconds

People grossly overestimate the time they think they win by going a bit faster.

You probably would've saved more time not posting here

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (8 children)

    Simple. It's not a few seconds. I can save 20 minutes by doing 15 over, during the day, going the speed limit get caught at every red light. During late night, with no traffic going 15-20 over, I get all the greens. Literally saving me 20min. It's no estimate. There's a fucking clock on the dash.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    The time saved is due to the green lights and less congestion. The time saved due to the speeding is miniscule in comparison.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Does that mean you want to time lights to be green if you go the proper speed, then? As in, none of this "traffic calming" bullshit.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    No i was pointing out that speeding isn't the main factor speeding them up. Providing alternatives to driving is a better solution to congestion and traffic. Each lane of a road has a shockingly low capacity when compared to other ways of getting around.

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  • The day train travel, or any form of transit, becomes genuinely pleasant in Ontario, I will gladly use it quite often. I'd like to know why it is that in several European countries, seats are rotatable so you don't have to awkwardly face strangers, but we don't have that. Or why our trains are painfully slow by comparison.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    20 minutes vs a human life. Fucking pathetic to even consider...

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    There is, sadly, a tradeoff between safety and efficiency. If we truly valued safety above everything, we'd ban cars altogether and return to the 1800s. But we have accepted as a society that a small number of accidents is worth the benefit of rapid transportation.

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