Not Just Bikes
An attempt to recreate the /r/NotJustBikes community on Lemmy. I'm just reserving the Community Name, other folks (for instance the /r/NotJustBikes mods?) are welcome to take over.
NOTE: This sublemmy (?) is in no way related to or affiliated with NotJustBikes, Jason Slaughter, etc.
#RULES
1. Be nice. Please.
I know it's the internet, but be nice. And report trolls & spammers.
2. No memes
No memes, image macros, or low-effort posts. These are easily upvoted, but they pollute the subreddit very quickly.
POSTING MEMES WILL RESULT IN A TEMPORARY BAN.
3. Stay on topic
Try to stick to posts and comments related to the themes of NJB videos, or content creation. Things like urban planning, mobility & transportation, social equity, Dutch culture, etc..
4. No Trolling
Go troll somewhere else. We don't need that shit here.
5. No comment screenshots
Please don't post screenshots of stupid comments as a post. We all know there are ignorant morons online, we don't need to bring even more attention to their stupid comments.
6. No vehicular cycling
I have no patience for advocates of vehicular cycling. You can talk about vehicular cycling, but if you promote it as an alternative to safe bike infrastructure, I will ban you. You can post that crap somewhere else.
7. No people being hit by cars/road violence
Do not show videos or pictures of people being hit by cars, or other road violence. We don't need to see that shit. We know cars are dangerous, and many people have bad memories of car crashes. Keep it out of this subreddit.
8. No tone policing
We don't need any more tone police. If you don't like the tone that Not Just Bike takes in his videos, there's a very easy solution: stop watching them.
9. No internet drama
Don't spread or promote drama over what has happened on the Internet. You're spending too much time online: go touch grass.
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They made those in many places where there is lot's of traffic. Afaik they come from the repeatedly pressing wearing down the buttons, so they made a version without a button mechanism to wear down. Generally they'll have a light to show they registered your "press".
I like them. When you come near cycling, just rest your palm on the "button" while leaning on the pole while wainting for green light and you automatically "press". Zero effort or extra movement required.
I have the exact opposite experience, I usually despise the touchy kind. My experience is that the lights in them are always broken. This leads me to repeatedly press it, not knowing if the system registered that I would like to cross. In the end, I never know on most crossings.
I like the newer blind-accessible version tho! They have a sneaky button on the bottom which also has a directional arrow sticking out of it, when pressed they make a sound, and the button vibrates when it's safe to go!
The ones here have a red light on the button, a 4rth light on the traffic light itself, and a circle of lights around the 4rth light as a timer. The chance that they're all broken is so small, it's fine with me.
Didn't know about the blind people one. It sounds cool!
@cambionn Oh how I wish we had timers!
Also I think I may be confused about the type of touch button we're talking about here, because of your 4th light statement.. Browsing Lemmy through Mastodon apps adds some difficulties, I will need to backtrack some it seems '^^
Nnnnope I'm still just as confused. What do you mean about a 4th light on the traffic light?
Do your lights give drivers a warning, like "hey there's a bike coming soon"? As far as my experience goes, pedestrian lighting always consists of stop and go, no inbetweens.
Picture from the internet, but like this. Above the regular red, orange, green there is a 4th one with the text "wait" that will turn on after pressing. It also has a circle of white leds around it counting down to the green light. With these things it's just lean on the pole and wait while comfy leaning.
Oh damn, that's so neat! We do not do those little cyclist lights, except on big roads where we for some reason thought there may be cyclists... There never are because it's quite terrifying with 5 lanes of traffic and a huge car/tram intersection in front of you.
Consider me envious!
Also our buttons look very much like those in the picture, may be worth to touch underneath and check for hidden accessibility secrets!
Huh I can't remember ever seeing those lights. Maybe I'm just blind, or the ones on my route don't have them.
Guess it depends. The ones here have a red light on the button, a 4rth light on the traffic light itself, and a circle of lights around the 4rth light as a timer.