You can’t really have a firetruck train unless you build every single building within spitting distance of the train station and you can strap the firefighting equipment to a bike.
There are reasonable solutions to this question but this meme does not provide any of them.
This feels more like a parody of a fuckcars poster.
IMO the meme is mocking those who think vehicles are only car-shaped objects, in light of cities imposing restrictions on personal motor vehicle use in built up areas
I doubt it has anything to do with emergency services being restricted to the vehicles shown lol…
I agree, emergency vehicles could still service a lot of pedestrian and cycle access areas if they are designed for it. Many pedestrian areas even allow delivery vehicles in at slow speeds to some businesses and vehicles for garbage, trailers for renovations and other access could be permited as needed.
Things like renovating a roof or delivering an industrial fridge to a restaurant often still require truck access, we just aren’t gonna let everyone drive a truck to the front door just to buy a dozen cookies.
In that case the meme is just incoherent. Top part is entirely unrelated to the bottom and the title in unrelated to the meme. It’s just bright colors on a screen at that point.
Emergency vehicles are clearly mentioned in the top text, that person just misunderstood it and now can’t take the L and they’re throwing around the R-slur whilst accusing other people of resorting to base insults.
Just imagine the speed that firetrucks will be able to weave through cities when there are no stupid fucking cars. On top of the improved air quality, this will save countless lives.
The goal is generally that the road capacity and car speed will shrink as car use shrinks but things will also be closer together because there isn’t 10 lane roads and parking that spaces everything out. Ideally things will even out and stay roughly the same as now.
It’s a parody if you’re so defensive you misunderstand the difference between a personal vehicle and a firetruck, I suppose.
When the big street near me turns pedestrian there’s always bollard access for delivery vehicles to all the shops. They aren’t the huge, permanent kind but the sorta that a firetruck or ambulance could absolutely plow right through. Traffic going perpendicular is slow enough that they don’t need to be there for safety so it works super well.
Basically every argument against the idea that maybe cars don’t need to be on every single street requires an astounding level of ignorance and an equal amount of desire to not change that lack of knowledge. Just let it happen, it’s ok.
Seeing a firetruck or ambulance go down an nyc street at 5 miles an hour is disgusting. If it were a wide foot/bike path and an alert system installed, pedestrians and bike riders would be able to clear the way faster than the oversized svu carrying two people.
The bottom does not adress the top question.
You can’t really have a firetruck train unless you build every single building within spitting distance of the train station and you can strap the firefighting equipment to a bike.
There are reasonable solutions to this question but this meme does not provide any of them.
This feels more like a parody of a fuckcars poster.
IMO the meme is mocking those who think vehicles are only car-shaped objects, in light of cities imposing restrictions on personal motor vehicle use in built up areas
I doubt it has anything to do with emergency services being restricted to the vehicles shown lol…
I agree, emergency vehicles could still service a lot of pedestrian and cycle access areas if they are designed for it. Many pedestrian areas even allow delivery vehicles in at slow speeds to some businesses and vehicles for garbage, trailers for renovations and other access could be permited as needed.
Things like renovating a roof or delivering an industrial fridge to a restaurant often still require truck access, we just aren’t gonna let everyone drive a truck to the front door just to buy a dozen cookies.
Meme doesn’t even consider the horse!
“Only allow” implies that either way emergency vehicles are allowed. In no reading of the meme were emergency vehicles ever banned.
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In that case the meme is just incoherent. Top part is entirely unrelated to the bottom and the title in unrelated to the meme. It’s just bright colors on a screen at that point.
I’m sorry your education seems to have failed you so thoroughly.
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You coulda just re-read the meme a little slower, but you instead wrote three paragraphs calling me the parasocial one. Reflect on that.
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I meant emergency vehicles + trams and bikes dude
Emergency vehicles are clearly mentioned in the top text, that person just misunderstood it and now can’t take the L and they’re throwing around the R-slur whilst accusing other people of resorting to base insults.
Damn…
Just imagine the speed that firetrucks will be able to weave through cities when there are no stupid fucking cars. On top of the improved air quality, this will save countless lives.
The goal is generally that the road capacity and car speed will shrink as car use shrinks but things will also be closer together because there isn’t 10 lane roads and parking that spaces everything out. Ideally things will even out and stay roughly the same as now.
It’s a parody if you’re so defensive you misunderstand the difference between a personal vehicle and a firetruck, I suppose.
When the big street near me turns pedestrian there’s always bollard access for delivery vehicles to all the shops. They aren’t the huge, permanent kind but the sorta that a firetruck or ambulance could absolutely plow right through. Traffic going perpendicular is slow enough that they don’t need to be there for safety so it works super well.
Basically every argument against the idea that maybe cars don’t need to be on every single street requires an astounding level of ignorance and an equal amount of desire to not change that lack of knowledge. Just let it happen, it’s ok.
That’s a great point. Dense infrastructure development makes fire prevention service much cheaper and easier to deliver
Seeing a firetruck or ambulance go down an nyc street at 5 miles an hour is disgusting. If it were a wide foot/bike path and an alert system installed, pedestrians and bike riders would be able to clear the way faster than the oversized svu carrying two people.