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Re: Regent – Electric coastal travel

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Post by rootusrootus »

jasonwatkinspdx wrote: post #306
rootusrootus wrote: post #281

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> Read about Robert Moses and why he made bridges too low for buses. On that suggestion, I just went and read the wikipedia article on Robert Moses. It mentions that buses and commercial vehicles do in fact go under those bridges today, and that the accusations of racism are disputed.

"I only learned about this today and just read a wiki article and that convinces me you're lying" is pretty much the problem with this place in one shot.

You complain this place is tiresome, and then invite us to go read about Robert Moses and his racist bridge policy. So we go read a bit about it, and note that a somewhat more authoritative source than rando-on-HN suggests that the accusations are in dispute and lack good supporting evidence. And now -this- is in fact the problem with HN?

Look in the mirror, dude.

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Post by prottog »

jasonwatkinspdx wrote: post #134
qingcharles wrote: post #79

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Crazy. Suspended due to "the potential to bring drugs and homeless people to Kauaʻi".

This is a perennial favorite of transportation NIMBYs. Where I live extending the light rail the last little bit over the river to Washington state is a no brainer, but it's been paralyzed by decades of opposition from suburbanites in Vancouver Wa. My friend's dad is/was one of the key activists. He'd stand in planning meetings and no joke scream about how "criminals" were gonna ride the train up, break into someone'…

> We have solid data that building transit lines actually decreases crime.

Do we? A cursory Google search revealed a couple of papers, one of which showed a slight increase in crime after the addition of a bus line[0] in Cleveland, and another which showed a decrease in homicides but an increase in property crime[1] in São Paolo. I'm not cherry-picking; these were the first two PDFs in the search results. I would love to see the evidence that you presented to your friend's dad.

> If you talk to them for just a few seconds it becomes readily apparent the root is just straight up racism, but they don't wanna own it overtly.

This may very well be the case as you exhort downthread, but I just want to point out that besides the obvious (that we are all internet randos who don't know your friend's dad), racism means different things to different people. I know people who think that if a white author writes nonwhite characters, it's racism. I also know people who were disowned for marrying "outside the race". My personal definition of racism is a lot closer to the latter.

Sometimes a concern for crime is just that; other times it can be a code for a race-related pretext. Here's a thought: if you're concerned about female genital mutilation, which is virtually only practiced in sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and the Muslim countries of South Asia, are you concerned about the women being mutilated, or are you just a racist?

[0]: https://collected.jcu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1003&c...

[1]: https://sistemas.colmex.mx/Reportes/LACEALAMES/LACEA-LAMES20...

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Post by prottog »

amadeuspagel wrote: post #270
tauntz wrote: post #256

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> This has side effects of petty larceny and shootings. All of the mall shootings are groups of these kids that have beef with each other. It's mostly harmless to shoppers but there's always a chance you could get caught in crossfire or become the target of a malicious youth prank. As an outsider (from an European country): I don't think train access is the cause here :O It's like saying "We should seed rain clouds b…

There's a bridge in stockholm that isn't getting opened because people in the rich neighboorhood on one side don't want people from the poor neighboorhood on the other side to come there. https://www.euronews.com/2023/01/26/stockholm-bridge-row-exp...

They don't want the poor people to come over, or are they merely against "criminality and delinquency" coming over? Surely it's possible to to separate the people and the behavior (of the few, mind you).

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Post by piloto_ciego »

happyjack wrote: post #304
piloto_ciego wrote: post #159

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I was a professional pilot for years until I got sick and also did all sorts of work with getting FAA stuff approved, and I even have a float rating as well. The FAA certification is going to be a bastard here, for sure. I think it can be done, but I am pretty sure the feds still classify WIG aircraft as aircraft, which means it will be a major challenge to get all the new technologies certified. All it takes is mone…

Good to see a pilot here! I personally never see this aircraft ever getting certified. The SR22 was over $100 million total when getting their type certificate, and nothing was "ground breaking." It has a continental motor, Garmin avionics, NACA defined wing, etc. Sure, it's a composite and has a parachute, but I wouldn't call the design anything "revolutionary." It's going to take hundreds of millions and an act of…

Like I said, all it takes is money! Lol.

Good though that it’s a “boat” for legal purposes that will make things much easier.

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Post by ralphhughes »

wthalheimer wrote: post #52

Hey guys - Billy Thalheimer, Co-founder and CEO of REGENT here. A friend reached out to say this is blowing up - so cool! (Thank you beefman lol) Here to answer any questions

I've often thought a smaller, faster form of transport like this would be lovely for summer day trips across to the Isle of Man. There's a currently a car ferry and scheduled flights from Liverpool airport but the faff involved in driving to Liverpool only to queue up for hours just for a 70 mile flight puts me off!

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Post by devilbunny »

cj wrote: post #233
rwmj wrote: post #224

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Why don't all the bad actors just apply for the same programme?

Clear doesn't let you skip security. It basically just allows you to cut to the front of the line for a fee. You still have to go through the x-ray machines, etc. TSA Pre actually does reduce security requirements (e.g. you can keep your shoes on...) in exchange for, I've always assumed, a mini-background check when you apply for the program.

> mini-background check when you apply for the program.

You'll get fingerprinted, etc., and while it's nothing like a serious security clearance, they do look you up rather thoroughly.

Note: my only direct knowledge comes from applying to Global Entry, which is a pickier program, but Precheck does collect biometrics (at least facial and fingerprints). Global Entry was around 15 minutes for the interview process (both formal and informal; I knew the two guys outside the interview and fingerprint room didn't really just want to talk to me to pass the time), but that was a decade ago.

One interesting anecdote from my interview is that I was told that the #1 reason Global Entry applications failed at the time was that one of the questions was whether or not you had ever been arrested - not convicted - and people would say no. Not an auto-disqualifier to have been arrested, but lying about it was.

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Post by yafbum »

beefield wrote: post #302
yafbum wrote: post #274

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I'm quite sure that if you carried the same in luggage or on your body (as opposed to _in_ your body), it would get confiscated.

If it was found, that is. If the metal detector does not see it, how do you think it was supposed to be found?

TSA gates at most large airports that I've been at use backscatter and can detect objects that you carry. A rod anywhere on you would be seen.

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Post by lelanthran »

notahacker wrote: post #257
lelanthran wrote: post #217

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> Is it really extraordinary or unbelievable? Easier access to infrastructure which is quiet and environmentally friendly should reasonably not decrease property values? Well, yes, when you're talking about residential areas. Home owners don't want a wall of strangers around their home all the time - it makes it difficult to spot the ones with ill-intent. I mean, if that wasn't true, homes in gated communities wouldn…

I'm not sure how we've got from the claim the poster actually made about designated bike lanes improving property values [over regular street/sidewalk access to the property, and possibly highway-only access to town] to the almost entirely unrelated claim you've invented about the relative value of residential areas closed to non residents. The majority of people do not live in gated communities and even gated commun…

> I'm not sure how we've got from the claim the poster actually made about designated bike lanes improving property values [over regular street/sidewalk access to the property, and possibly highway-only access to town]

That wasn't the claim the poster made. The specific claim was that bike traffic through residential areas by non-residents increase the value of properties in that residential area.

>> Read on - what they were really afraid of was the dirty/smelly poors coming onto their precious island.

>> You see the same BS with bike paths through residential neighborhoods.

GP could not have been clearer in his implication that having public traffic pass through the residential area increases the value of that property in that area.

Which is complete nonsense when you look at residential property prices in area which has a through-flow for non-residents/the public and compare to areas which are effectively gated off for residents only.

Buying a house in an area that is limited to residents traffic only is damned expensive.

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Post by beefield »

tchaffee wrote: post #310
beefield wrote: post #300

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I don't think a typical metal detector can distinguish between metal in my arm and metal taped to my arm.

That's why they use the full body scanner at most airport security now. One of those detected a small piece of scrap paper in my back pocket that I had to pull out and show to security. They showed me the image and even the shape of the paper was clear. For sure those scanners can distinguish between metal in your arm and taped to your arm.

Okay, haven't been flying that much in tje last few years, I thought they were still not universal - at least in europe.

Re: Regent – Electric coastal travel

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Post by notahacker »

lelanthran wrote: post #318
notahacker wrote: post #257

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure how we've got from the claim the poster actually made about designated bike lanes improving property values [over regular street/sidewalk access to the property, and possibly highway-only access to town] to the almost entirely unrelated claim you've invented about the relative value of residential areas closed to non residents. The majority of people do not live in gated communities and even gated commun…

> I'm not sure how we've got from the claim the poster actually made about designated bike lanes improving property values [over regular street/sidewalk access to the property, and possibly highway-only access to town] That wasn't the claim the poster made. The specific claim was that bike traffic through residential areas by non-residents increase the value of properties in that residential area. >> Read on - what t…

GP could not have been clearer that residents in somewhere that Maui, which is an island with a population of about 200k, were daft to object to the idea that easy connectivity to other islands because they were more worried about visitors from the neighbouring island than interested of the greater employment and commercial opportunities that connectivity brings. I'm not sure how you got "gated community" from that.

I'm not sure that your own implication that property prices are inversely proportional to the ease of commute to where all the people and jobs are is well evidenced by representative studies either. Even if the GP was talking about gated communities, which he wasn't, they're still usually nowhere near as expensive as being cycling distance from central San Francisco or London.

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