It’s quite a theoretical approach. Antwerp has a lot of 30 kmh streets, but you shouldn’t expect cars to actually follow the rules in many of them. Same with many bicycle streets: it’s not allowed, but you’ll be overtaken A LOT by cars in those streets…

I only once encountered it in Czechia near Plzen with 2 lanes. Think it took me 5 minutes before I could/dared. Can’t imagine it with 3. Crazy dangerous situation. Stay safe!

Tho not preferable, there’s cases where it can work. The roundabout layout still provides a better (easier) entry to the crossroads, the traffic lights can create a “cadence”. Technically not a roundabout anymore, it does use some of it’s qualities.

Anyhow, pedestrian crossings on 2 lanes right before any kind of intersection without any lights is way more dangerous than a roundabout with lights.

Pedestrian crossing without traffic lights at a 2 lane roundabout entry? That’s just murderous design.

That’s happening in Paris. Some other cities are moving in right direction too, some installing new trams from zero etc. Most bigger cities have subways. But you should try visiting rural France without a car… Not a butcher or a bakery left for many kilometers/villages around, only big roadside Malls with an enormous supermarket and some fake little “shops” at the entrance. Many rural villages are dead and without a car you’re screwed big time. This is where the Gilet Jaunes came from.

They pick it up, but it takes a while, days or weeks depending on where you dump it. Meanwhile the trash in the streets attracts rodents and vermin. Old electronics end up in the environment, batteries can leak etc.

I get the smell part. I’ve “dumped” an opened empty can of fish sometimes, because SO can’t stand the smell of it so it can’t wait until trash pick-up day. I dumped it IN A TRASHBIN at a busstop, not randomly on the ground between houses, soccer clubs and parks… that’s just disgusting. The trashbin at a busstop is emptied very regularly and a lot less accessible to most rodents and vermin, yet a lot more accessible to trash collection service from the city. My inconvenience (bad smell) is so not enough to justify just dumping trash anywhere without any care at all.

As for the part “they get paid”: it costs a city a lot more to keep streets clean when everyone dumps everything everywhere, than to pay for arranged pick-ups. Everyone including you ends up paying the bill anyhow through taxes and/or less service from city in general because budget’s too tight.

Housing is definitely very very expensive in Basel too. But a bit less problematic because of border spillover into Lörrach, Saint-Louis, …

These kinds of people are why we can’t have nice things like public barbecues and toilets in city parks and it makes me sad.

But WHY don’t they care? They were clearly people who themselves like to have clean new clothes, the car was neatly washed et cetera. They like cleanliness for themselves. Why burden others with your trash when the effort to legally and correctly throw it out seems to me barely any more effort than the effort they put in! For the thrill of it?

when you’re in this situation, i can try to understand, tho i luckily have never experienced this. It sucks and I hope you’re better now. But these people i’m ranting about were clearly by far not poor or homeless or socially or economically on the fringes of society, that’s the part I find very hard to understand.

when i finally thought about taking out the phone camera, it was too late, driving away, license plate is unreadable in the picture. Will try to remember to make pictures sooner if I see someone doing stuff like this again

you make a ring with your thumb + index finger and move up and down

yes i thought about that too late… should have done that indeed

It’s free for broken electronics too! Trash it… where it belongs.

It is FREE to give old electronic devices at recycling plant. They drove into a little dead-end corner they thought was a “good dumping spot”. They had not from this city license plates. Chances are they researched a good spot on maps before driving there. It would have cost them not more effort to drive to the recycling plant and give the vacuum cleaner for free. The recycling plant is literally just a 4 minute drive away from where they dumped it.

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I would only switch to another app if that could remove the ads from downloaded podcasts :')

If there’s not very much car traffic and almost no trucks, and if that traffic obeys the rules and speed limits well enough, there is not always the need for separate bike lane. This way the bicycles, if there are many cyclists, become an indication to car drivers that what they are driving on is a local street, woonerf, school area, etc. While the design with separated bike lane would be a 1 person wide situation, while this way cyclists can cycle 2 next to eachother together in the street which is a lot more fun. I don’t know this particular street or city, if it works depends on local factors such as general driver culture, habits, local policing efforts, amount of cyclists, etc, but it’s not per definition the worse design.

What I dislike is that they did put in the bike lane for the silly short piece. In this case, it could’ve been better to just raise the entire intersection in a speedbump-plateau and no separate bike lane at all.

There is a vast difference between communism the theory and communism the real world application as it occured in 20th century.

Fujitsu Esprimo here… 50 €, before the extra RAM, SSDs, … Relatively low power usage, lots of SATA, PCI slots, lots of USB ports… Works very well for all except transcoding. Could put a GPU but it would really make power consumption go up

Why not a second hand small “business” or office pc? There are so many on the market now because businesses are replacing because of windows 11, while the hardware runs perfectly fine with Linux for probably many years to come. Buying one of those is cheap and reduces e-waste.