• Life is Tetris@leminal.space
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    2 days ago

    Everything else remaining the same, you may be wrong. Here, there is no danger at the speeds Indian traffic moves at, that was a sped-up time-lapse. The cyclist was on the wrong side of the road.

    I don’t know about Hong Kong - more than absolute space, what is the population density - but I imagine control over all the aspects makes for parts that fit better together. Over here, there may be a case for smaller roads planned better, mini buses instead of buses, etc. But the buses already exist. The land is already owned by somebody before they laid down roads. Designed around all that, it isn’t that bad.

    We have so much infrastructure at the per-capita income levels as they are of a billion people. This isn’t something to fret over.

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      2 days ago

      there is no danger at the speeds Indian traffic moves at

      I fight for my life in Indian traffic every day, don’t even give me that guff.

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        1 day ago

        Urban or rural? This video is from rural land off the highway, from the looks of it.

        I wouldn’t play down the rashness in urban traffic, I too am a sufferer!

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      2 days ago

      more than absolute space, what is the population density

      Come on. Google is a click away. You knew the answer already.

      Uttar has a population density of 829 / Km^2. Hong Kong is 6800 /Km^2. That makes Hong Kong 8.5x more dense. And land is owned in Hong Kong, Japan and even the US. When roads are built, the owner is given market rate money for the land.

      There is no excuse.

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        1 day ago

        HK population-dense And yet, they prioritized roads? Car brain right there?

        … given market rate for the land diverted Why should anybody agree to give up their land for roads? These might not be empty lands possessed decades ago, it might be ancestral family land for centuries. I don’t like that those lands are uncultivated, but putting down asphalt liberally everywhere is car-brain.

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          Why should anybody agree to give up their land for roads?

          Transportation of some sort is needed. It doesn’t matter if it is for bikes, trains, or cars. Land must be used for the good of the people. Absolute ownership, no matter the cost to society is capitalist-brain.

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            1 day ago

            I think your ire is misdirected, but I agree with the ire. The problem is the elevated road there! It serves car-brain, and that space could have been put to good use for the “low income” people as somebody put it, instead of catering to the “high income” people zooming above in cars.

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              20 hours ago

              Transportation is necessary. Roads existed long before cars. You didn’t even watch the video. The problem was the road couldn’t handle a bus turning.