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alc4pwned t1_j64htpk wrote
Reply to comment by RedditOR74 in Amsterdam’s underwater parking garage fits 7,000 bicycles and zero cars by Ok_Champion6840
Not to mention the fact that, unlike most of the US, the Netherlands is extremely flat and has a pretty mild climate.
skedeebs t1_j64h31i wrote
There are so many exciting possibilities for AI, but we are going to overshoot our ability to control it or pass laws to limit it at some point. It's going to be a scary world.
grumble11 t1_j64gxf7 wrote
Reply to comment by komt20 in Amsterdam’s underwater parking garage fits 7,000 bicycles and zero cars by Ok_Champion6840
both cities are known for biking but only one is known for bad biking weather!
komt20 t1_j64gspp wrote
Reply to comment by grumble11 in Amsterdam’s underwater parking garage fits 7,000 bicycles and zero cars by Ok_Champion6840
I love the seamless transition from Amsterdam to Copenhagen (the capital of Denmark)
azimir t1_j64gr8p wrote
Reply to comment by AccordingLifeguard49 in Amsterdam’s underwater parking garage fits 7,000 bicycles and zero cars by Ok_Champion6840
And yet, Finland has managed to do just that: bike in the snow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhx-26GfCBU
It requires cities to build and maintain bike infrastructure and not just hope that people manage to bike over snowplow drifts.
Blockadiddy t1_j64g733 wrote
Don't drop the anchor too fast now.
[deleted] t1_j64fz9p wrote
Reply to comment by Randouser555 in Amsterdam’s underwater parking garage fits 7,000 bicycles and zero cars by Ok_Champion6840
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XKSS_ t1_j64fron wrote
Reply to comment by AccordingLifeguard49 in Amsterdam’s underwater parking garage fits 7,000 bicycles and zero cars by Ok_Champion6840
It surely never snows in Finland huh.
XKSS_ t1_j64fk67 wrote
Reply to comment by Randouser555 in Amsterdam’s underwater parking garage fits 7,000 bicycles and zero cars by Ok_Champion6840
Probably less than 1 more lane on a US highway lol
ramriot t1_j64fhh7 wrote
That is so interesting, it make a change from how they usually use the canals for this.
sjitz t1_j64fh2v wrote
Reply to comment by Randouser555 in Amsterdam’s underwater parking garage fits 7,000 bicycles and zero cars by Ok_Champion6840
You've never been there with the car, huh?
XKSS_ t1_j64fftf wrote
Reply to comment by alisdairmills in Amsterdam’s underwater parking garage fits 7,000 bicycles and zero cars by Ok_Champion6840
Nope, under a trainstation though😎
yonghybonghybo1 t1_j64egvh wrote
Reply to ‘Rarest of the rare’: B.C’s newest conservancy protects globally imperilled rainforest by ruckusss
I used to hike in this area. It is so beautiful and precious. Hurray for the people who have protected it.
Gloomy_Possession-69 t1_j64e973 wrote
Reply to comment by Resident_Rich6457 in "Elusive and Rare Leopard--Considered Extinct for 45 Years--Caught on Film in Turkey." by laceandhoney
The leopard in question is a subspecies, not a species.
The range of the leopard extends well beyond Turkey.
There are many more than 15-20 individuals in the wild, somewhere in the range of several hundreds.
[deleted] t1_j64e7tf wrote
alisdairmills t1_j64du18 wrote
Reply to comment by XKSS_ in Amsterdam’s underwater parking garage fits 7,000 bicycles and zero cars by Ok_Champion6840
But is it underwater?
th30be t1_j64d9c6 wrote
Reply to U.S. GDP rose 2.9% in the fourth quarter, more than expected even as recession fears loom by Intrepid-Astronaut41
This is not uplifting in anyway. Just means the greedy execs got more money.
goddamnaged t1_j64d7xm wrote
Cool. Let's stop now whilst ahead.
AccordingLifeguard49 t1_j64cqh8 wrote
Reply to comment by Graega in Amsterdam’s underwater parking garage fits 7,000 bicycles and zero cars by Ok_Champion6840
Hard to ride a bike in 4 feet of snow at -31. In addition some cities & towns are just too darn big for this to work. There are a few chuckle heads with lifted trucks and stickers of course. However, bike travel only works like 3 months out of the year in MT. And I've seen I snow in July. I dont know of many towns where bike travel is so feasible they could restructure for it.
PortalTester t1_j64ccom wrote
Reply to Engineering Class Builds Awesome Robotic Hand for Physically Challenged Young Man - Man Catches First Baseball In His Life by another_gen_weaker
Hell yeah! Those students rock.
kalaminu t1_j64cbsx wrote
Reply to comment by Randouser555 in Amsterdam’s underwater parking garage fits 7,000 bicycles and zero cars by Ok_Champion6840
It doesn't matter what they spent on it. When will you people understand that doing nothing about climate change will be both more expensive and probably result in a serious case of death.
RedditOR74 t1_j64bpq3 wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Amsterdam’s underwater parking garage fits 7,000 bicycles and zero cars by Ok_Champion6840
>This is such a cool thing. I can only hope the US can create infrastructure like this in my lifetime
There is not much of a chance. DFW is 75 miles across east to west and that is just the heavily developed portion. US cities incorporate much more private housing and as such have a much larger footprint. As much as efficiency is a goal, not many of us want to give up a home and private residence in lieu of an apartment. There are some, but definitely not the majority.
Resident_Rich6457 t1_j64b4le wrote
Reply to comment by Gloomy_Possession-69 in "Elusive and Rare Leopard--Considered Extinct for 45 Years--Caught on Film in Turkey." by laceandhoney
Which info?
tossme68 t1_j64b1mv wrote
Reply to comment by CryptoYaar in U.S. GDP rose 2.9% in the fourth quarter, more than expected even as recession fears loom by Intrepid-Astronaut41
They've been beating the drum of a massive recession since 2015 and the beat goes on.
azimir t1_j64i222 wrote
Reply to comment by grumble11 in Amsterdam’s underwater parking garage fits 7,000 bicycles and zero cars by Ok_Champion6840
> Amsterdam (and the bulk of the Netherlands) is almost perfectly flat, so biking is easy
Definitely a win for biking there.
> cities and towns are older, so densely built which makes biking convenient
So why don't we build our cities more densely? Often because we've put laws in the US to block it, but those should be changed:
https://youtu.be/bnKIVX968PQ
> and the weather is milder, without extended periods of heavy snowfall.
True, but Finland still manages to ride bikes all year in many places:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhx-26GfCBU
> Does rain and does get cold, but people in Copenhagen are crazy like that and will bike through it
More often because the bike infrastructure is cleared and is built for bikes (not cars where there's a snowplow'd pile of snow in a bike gutter).
>For this to happen elsewhere like in NA you need an urban redesign to cram a lot of people into much smaller spaces.
Yes. Our cities have a much too large footprint to be sustainable. They're essentially all insolvent and they shall all eventually have to shrink their square miles by abandoning the sprawl. The economics of our post WWII city designs just don't work once you start having to do maintenance on the car infrastructure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_SXXTBypIg&list=PLJp5q-R0lZ0_FCUbeVWK6OGLN69ehUTVa
The Strong Towns book lays it out reasonably clearly. We're going to have to shrink our car infrastructure, build denser cities, and construct serious public transportation to serve the core, not stroad-based big box stores and low density suburbs.