2832: "Urban Planning Opinion Progression"

[The Snide Sniper]

Title text: If they're going to make people ride bikes and scooters in traffic, then it should at LEAST be legal to do the Snow Crash thing where you use a hook-shot-style harpoon to catch free rides from cars.

Adam Something would be proud.

[Old Bruce]

Snow Crash has the best name* for the lead character. Ever.
The whole harpoon thing was cool too.

* Hiro Protagonist.

[LingEarth]

As someone who is often a pedestrian... yes.

And that's without getting into how cars (yes, even electric ones) are absolutely terrible for the environment.

[somitomi]

Snow Crash has the best name* for the lead character. Ever.
The whole harpoon thing was cool too.

* Hiro Protagonist.

Might as well mention it here too that I started reading that recently and now I can't tell if this is a weird coincidence or Baader-Meinhof in action.

[madge]

oh my god guys i'm a traffic engineer with a specialisation in road safety so this is combo my special interest / area of expertise / Real Job and this is SO TRUE I love it so much

[moody7277]

oh my god guys i'm a traffic engineer with a specialisation in road safety so this is combo my special interest / area of expertise / Real Job and this is SO TRUE I love it so much

I believe the appropriate phrase is "Get out of my head, Randall."

[madge]

it's never happened before i think his other traffic engineering comic is a) outside my area of expertise and b) written before i graduated

https://xkcd.com/277/ i was thinking of this one

i forgot about this one https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index. ... eer_Pranks

[madge]

he clearly is returning to his 2007 highway engineering comix period

[somitomi]

it's never happened before i think his other traffic engineering comic is a) outside my area of expertise and b) written before i graduated

https://xkcd.com/277/ i was thinking of this one

i forgot about this one https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index. ... eer_Pranks

What about lane change highway?

[madge]

i clearly blocked that out because just no, no, no, not even considering it