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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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[–] fpslem 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I dropped four random pins on streets in Köln or surrounding areas. In the fourth I landed on a street with separate houses, so I moved one street over to the apartments there.

Screenshot_20240101-172319 Looks alright. Walkable, bike parking is good. Buildings look okay, not fancy, but pleasant enough. I don't love that cars are allowed to park on the sidewalks, though, that's foolish.

Screenshot_20240101-172501 More separated, basically sets of row houses. Nice enough. The trash bins should be in the street and not on the sidewalk, but this is okay.

Screenshot_20240101-172739 Obviously still pretty car-focused, but a pleasant enough street with the tree canopy. The apartments are not flashy or new, but seem to be solid.

Screenshot_20240101-174127 Again, not a flashy set of buildings, but the materials seem solid, the courtyards in between the neighboring buildings are nice. The patios on the top floor are nice features.

In general, these units appear better than the thrown-together rental units they spew out in my city to be flipped and sold in 2-3 years before the worst of the leaks or deferred maintenance are revealed.

[–] PolyLlamaRous 2 points 1 year ago

Hey, thanks for the pictures! Cologne is certainly a more bike and walking friendly city than America. Although nearly everywhere is better than America (as a whole) for that. This issue is still there though. It's a classic "the grass is greener on the other side of the fence" problem. That and using absolutes (and only a sith deals in absolutes). For example go to the load screen of the video. The picture on the left (America) - this apartment complex is what is shown in the majority of your photos in cologne. Boring building, economically built. The picture on the right "the rest of the world" is beautiful historical buildings and not representing "the rest of the world" but simply an older style of building.