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Mbourgon, to upliftingnews in Amazing Project Could Reduce Stops at Red Traffic Lights by 30%

Don’t count on it. For instance, one of the main drags in Plano,TX was set so that doing the speed limit would cause you to sit at the lights - because one of the city council owned those an ad business and the combo billboard/bench made him money. And the police liked it too, since impatient people would speed the whole way to avoid getting caught at the lights.

NotMyOldRedditName, to upliftingnews in Amazing Project Could Reduce Stops at Red Traffic Lights by 30%

Meanwhile our downtown intentionally makes it so you won’t make it more than a light or two for pedestrian safety as it keeps speeds down.

Luckily it’s not a big downtown.

huginn,

We need more downtowns like that.

Cars shouldn’t be able to break 25 mph in city limits.

LufyCZ,

Let’s increase the pollution of the city by making cars idle!

threelonmusketeers,

In the long term, this won’t be an issue, since EVs don’t idle.

dingus,

I’m still waiting for the day EV’s will be reasonable for people who don’t own a home that they can charge their vehicle at. It’s a humongous population and people don’t seem to have great ideas to incentivize people to tackle the problem.

threelonmusketeers,

Yeah, there definitely needs to be more incentives for apartment owners and condo managers to install Level-1 and Level-2 changers in tenant parking spots. The question is how to fund it, of course. Perhaps some sort of increased petrol tax could help accelerate the implementation of EV infrastructure?

huginn,

If it’s inconvenient enough people simply won’t drive.

Which is the goal.

Redscare867,

Roads that are safer for pedestrians and cyclists get more people out of their cars. Longer car commute times make people consider alternatives such as public transit, walking, or biking. Every additional person who isn’t in their car has an exponential decrease in automobile congestion. This is all relatively well understood within urban planning and traffic engineering.

ZzyzxRoad,

This is all relatively well understood within urban planning and traffic engineering.

I feel like someone neglected to tell this to every American urban planner then

spacecowboy,

Politics and money quite often make the decision, not sound urban planning.

IonAddis, to archaeology in Archaeologists Discover Remains of 5,000-Year-Old Wine in Ancient Egyptian Tomb
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“Tomb beverage” sounds like some sort of horrible euphemism involving embalming fluid…or worse.

DavidGarcia, to archaeology in Archaeologists Discover Remains of 5,000-Year-Old Wine in Ancient Egyptian Tomb

This together with all the thousands of years old cheeses, 2000 year old bog butter, and edible mammoth meat we found, we could make the sickest charcuterie board in history

prettybunnys,

Mmmm mammoth meat rose

DavidGarcia,

When you think about it, the concept of a “meat rose” is horrible. Sounds like somthing the Ayleid would come up with.

Fermion,

Bender is going to make some award winning sausage.

XTornado, to upliftingnews in Scientists Find A Whole New Ecosystem Hiding Beneath Earth's Seafloor

Wait, don’t tell me… It’s dying right?

GrimSheeper,

Why you gotta doom on the uplifting news community?

Ubermeisters, to upliftingnews in Scientists Find A Whole New Ecosystem Hiding Beneath Earth's Seafloor

Sucks for them, hope they aren’t near precious mineral nodules

unwillingsomnambulist, to upliftingnews in Scientists Find A Whole New Ecosystem Hiding Beneath Earth's Seafloor

Sounds similar to how we got the plot of The Meg…hope we don’t flip a rock and piss off a squid the size of MSC Irina.

doppelgangmember,

Squids back on the menu bois!

SuckMyWang, to upliftingnews in Scientists Find A Whole New Ecosystem Hiding Beneath Earth's Seafloor

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  • banazir,
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    Don’t worry, they will outlive us.

    SuckMyWang,

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  • handhookcardoor,

    BURN THE OCEAN!!!

    xuxebiko,

    everythng we touch, we turn to shit.

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