Something about a non tradesperson owning a pickup truck and just letting the bed fill with random debris makes me angry. I’m a tradesman and I have a truck because I need one and I use it to do work but the other day I saw a graphic of how the cab and bed relationship of pickup trucks has changed over the last 60 years and it’s upsetting. Most trucks now only have like a 3 or 4 foot long bed and the rest is cab for passengers.

Lmao

Car facing east/west, in a left hand turn lane, with a red, wanting to make an illegal left on red.

Me crossing the perpendicular road, going north/south, with a pedestrian cross sign on. There is no left arrow light at this intersection.

Nah man, this ain't on me jaywalkin

She was at a JCPD Cycling Team fundraiser

Not kidding

The weight and size are truly ridiculous. A push back to smaller trucks would be a great start. The vast majority of pickup owners are compensating, rather than actually using it as a means of hauling stuff.

Does DeGise have an alibi?

Only these cuties are acceptable to me:

little japanese trucks - Google Search

Not a bad idea. Most of these trucks aren't even used for hauling large or heavy items.

I meant the former. Enthusiasts I hope are better behaved. Though in JC you see the not so well behaved enthusiasts as well.

When you say car culture, do you mean societies that revolve around the use of the automobile as a central focus for everything, or like, the guys that hang out in parking lots and look at each others engines on summer nights?

We should talk about the not being able to get through to 911 for 20 minutes part too. Why does it take longer than most crimes/incidents would last just to get through.

Registration fees are barely $200 when used (should really be more). I'm pretty sure a business can easily pay for that.

The average family-size in the US is 3.15 and 3.17 in NJ. A regular 4 car Honda Civic holds 5 people. How large do you want to make this "large family" in your hypothetical. How much more catering should we do to people's individual choices?

On top of being more dangerous for pedestrians, including large families, they also wear down our roads much quicker.

Shit, just look at the electric Hummer. 9K pounds, 0-60 in 3 seconds. How that thing is even legal while I cannot drive an electric golf cart is beyond me.

Taqueria or an adjacent home must have captured this on camera as well.

I agree. Fuck trucks.

On average, they’re all skinnier than we are also.

I wish we could put an air pollution toll-tax on every car in and out of the holland tunnel.

This is what I did for a decade in Manhattan before some combination of coming to my senses and generally having a small child with me here in Jerz. Definitely was lucky one of the many people who slammed on their brakes and got out of their cars didn't clock me.

Other developed countries seem to do just fine with smaller vehicles

What if they need it for work or have a large family? Sounds like something that's progressive that will be regressive in practice.

I find car culture so toxic. Maybe it was always this way.

LUXURY DRIVE THRU TACOS

With how big American cars and trucks are becoming and in addition to their electrification (batteries are heavy as fuck), maybe its time we start considering this here. The increasing weight means that getting hit by a vehicle means there is a lot greater chance of serious injury.

That budget is a little low for a luxury building, you are going to need a broker and a brownstone.

The traffic violence in JC is getting out of hand. Any suggestions on what residents can do to influence electeds? Any coordinated efforts by safe streets and bike groups that we can mobilize around?

What's good for DeGise is good for the gander