It’s Idaho, so I can only assume someone with MAGA brainworms will attempt to roll coal through the middle of it in a giant lifted truck.

Based comes from Lil B…

It originally meant grounded.

I’ve worked for tech companies in SV and I’ve never seen a developer without a MacBook.

Yeah I don’t expect there are many tech employees working with Windows Thinkpads.

Tearing down the properties has reduced their local property tax base and also no doubt reduced the values of the properties across the streets as well. It’s creating a downward spiral of local tax revenue while no doubt increasing state maintenance obligations.

Decisions like this are why small towns like this are going broke. They make themselves easier to drive through and tear down the properties that constitute their tax base.

City or state would have had to pay to buy the properties anyway, though. Then the money spent on the widening could easily have been spent to modernize and update (or otherwise improve) the buildings.

Except if the side of the truck says “U-Haul” or “Home Depot” people understand you’re not the kind of asshole who buys and drives a fuckoff huge truck every day of the week.

They had really extensive plans in 1984 that accomplished amazing things. And then immediately got rid of them after the Olympics.

https://la.curbed.com/2018/6/7/17419270/olympics-2028-los-angeles-1984-traffic

Shot better from 3 than from 2.

That’s my 🐐

the impetus to improve the infrastructure will be stronger if conditions are worse

don’t chicken-and-egg yourself out of densification

The people who post this meme often do not want for-profit housing development of any kind.

If traffic gets bad enough people will make different decisions.

Yeah these 5 over 1s really ruin the neighborhood character of my suburban strip mall state highway hell.

Leave them as derelict auto body warehouses tyvm.

“more and more people are saying it”

Here’s why this story is fake:

They could lose their liquor license for not verifying that the person under the cat head was the person on the ID.

Yeah. Your bars (handlebars) are attached to your head set and head tube by your stem. The stem should have some bolts on it you can undo. Once they’re gone you can remove the bar. Then it’s just a matter of getting a new one that’s the right diameter and sticking it back in.

Bikes are great. Anybody can fix a bike and there are tons of replacement parts all over. If this repair is too daunting you could always take it to your local bike shop to ask for advice, or, if you live in a cool town, there might be a “bike kitchen” around, which is usually a volunteer-run org that helps folks fix their own bikes and often has used parts bins for cheap replacements as well.

Best of luck!

Good news is that bars can be cheap and easily replaced.

that sign is obviously photoshopped in…

As someone who views prison as rehabilitative and not punitive, I could not disagree more.

Whether the road space is dedicated to cars or bikes, it’s still dedicated to people.