To be fair, buses don’t solve last-mile situations like this one, unless you expect the route to become walkable by reduction in car numbers. Even then, I wouldn’t begrudge the busy housewife avoiding a long walk with a kid in tow.

Whoa! Cool it.

The mandate isn’t from “government”. Apparently, the government failed to do much about pollution, so a regulatory body was set up by the courts, which body did some good things (ban diesels) but also some hamhanded things like judge only based on technology age rather than the odometer. Throwing away a ton of steel and manufacturing that has had minimal utilization isn’t going to help any.

You should’ve dissed the people who made scrapping the dedicated bus lane an election issue some years ago. I guess that never made it to the newspapers, and hence wasn’t discussed online either.

There are intrepids everywhere! But I agree, this seems like too busy a place to be intrepid at.

Yes, some places are much better than others. Tamilnadu in South India probably has the best public and private bus system as well as the best road quality. Others even in South India are only somewhat good.

Do you even read full messages? They limited car registrations, and have good public transport, because they have to when they are that small.

That junction is unsafe only to car brains. That cyclist was riding the wrong way, which somehow doesn’t count?

That elevated road was made to appease outsider car brains, and ate up the space that could have satisfied whatever people here say should have been put up for the benefit of laypersons (who seem to have the fortitude to bear the elevated road hogging space there).

Yet, that elevated road is all right for people here. Right? Otherwise, how could a car-brain third-worldliness pornographer have parked his personal ride on the road above and recorded this!

I think your ire is misdirected, but I agree with the ire. The problem is the elevated road there! It serves car-brain, and that space could have been put to good use for the “low income” people as somebody put it, instead of catering to the “high income” people zooming above in cars.

He he. Have you lived there? They started limiting permits for new cars to the number of old cars taken off the road, for example. And they are small enough to have very good public transport. And centtalized enough to control all aspects and plan cohesively.

Do you know of any large region that has done it nearly as well? What is that region’s per-capita income and its population density?

This is classic third-worldliness porn.

lot were low-income folk

The economic strata that is the majority of the population, is also the majority in hospitalization? Is there a useful point there?

refused to accept them due to over-crowding

Oxymoron right there.

And, if this was the scene in a Western nation, you would have used the correct word: “full”, instead of the motivated “overcrowding”.

How much more crass can you be at this? People close to me watched people die in queues outside hospitals, as they too waited with their F&F. Hospitals weren’t “overcrowded”, hospitals and staff were overwhelmed.

I’d like to know how you’d have done better. You can’t conjure up oxygen or great management in the disaster that it was.

I remember glancing at NodeBB (in my ignorance, I am averse to node.js). Activitypub seems to be an integration in it rather than its basis.

HK population-dense And yet, they prioritized roads? Car brain right there?

… given market rate for the land diverted Why should anybody agree to give up their land for roads? These might not be empty lands possessed decades ago, it might be ancestral family land for centuries. I don’t like that those lands are uncultivated, but putting down asphalt liberally everywhere is car-brain.

Urban or rural? This video is from rural land off the highway, from the looks of it.

I wouldn’t play down the rashness in urban traffic, I too am a sufferer!

I don’t see it. A roundabout would eat into space vehicles need. And roads were laid in and around land already owned by people, so it wouldn’t have been a clean slate.

Traffic only flows 3 ways: bus goes on straight, bus turns left, and traffic from that road on its left goes straight. The cyclist should have come on the other side below the elevated road, and turned under it to reach this intersection.

he he, the Taj Mahal? That structure built by a king from an invading dynasty, after which he had the artisans’ hands cut off? Much like what the British later threatened to do to weavers and healers and fighters who didn’t toe their line?

Irrelevant, don’t you think?

Everything else remaining the same, you may be wrong. Here, there is no danger at the speeds Indian traffic moves at, that was a sped-up time-lapse. The cyclist was on the wrong side of the road.

I don’t know about Hong Kong - more than absolute space, what is the population density - but I imagine control over all the aspects makes for parts that fit better together. Over here, there may be a case for smaller roads planned better, mini buses instead of buses, etc. But the buses already exist. The land is already owned by somebody before they laid down roads. Designed around all that, it isn’t that bad.

We have so much infrastructure at the per-capita income levels as they are of a billion people. This isn’t something to fret over.

India isn’t a continent-sized country emptied of its native inhabitants, so there is much less space to design anything neatly.

I get that it is an evolution, but building on top of SBCL seems like it would have made more sense.

If they didn’t use sub-standard materials, there wouldn’t be big repair contracts, would there? Guess who will land them.

This is par for the course in India. They siphon off taxes this way, and on environmentally-inadvisable things no less. But that is how it is structured, weak-to-non-existent urban local bodies, and tax collection and disbursement centralized like it was in the times of the colonizer. That big pot of money is intensively fought over.

That is great. But isn’t this more than the scientific method? It is rigor, and the capacity to look at all the factors in reality instead of cherry-picking one for a laboratory experiment.

I do agree we all could do with more rigor and also avoid cherry-picking factors to study, in any discipline.

there’s already mountains of evidence of static typing making code significantly less buggy on average

What is this mountain of evidence? The only evidence I remember about bugginess of code across languages is that bug count correlates closely to lines of code no matter the language.

That sounds like a laundry list of tech thrown together for effect. It is not even relevant. You are talking empirically-proven tech as a counterpoint to laboratory-only experiments, aren’t you?

I don’t know about the Wright brothers, but the human-powered flight bounty was apparently won using the strategy of fast iteration to empirically identify the solution. GPS too would have been built on real-world feedback iterations.

Computing hardware is a special case, where they replicate the laboratory into a billion-dollar structure and call it … ‘fab’ ;-)

The scientific method shorn of contact with reality, like with most research nowadays and especially in medicine, is just for show.