Amsterdam Switches to 30 Km/h on 80% of its Roads

Re:Amsterdam Switches to 30 Km/h on 80% of its Roads by fnordpiglet on Thursday December 07, 2023 @09:40PM (#38564762)

The loud motorcycle crowd deserve death. I am a pacifist and believe strongly that love and kindness is the natural state of man, but people unwinding their modified bikes down residential streets are just malicious monsters who torture entire neighborhoods for their perverse pleasure. I don’t buy their “to be noticed by cars on the highway” malarkey, since they wind up their motors to earth shattering levels on city roads at every opportunity, rattling windows and setting off car alarms, clearly to gain the notice of everyone sleeping rather than for their own safety.

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Re:Amsterdam Switches to 30 Km/h on 80% of its Roads by hughdbrown on Thursday December 07, 2023 @11:30PM (#38565475)

I see your transient crowd of loud motorcycles and raise you a stationary team of suburban gas-powered leaf blowers.

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Re:Amsterdam Switches to 30 Km/h on 80% of its Roads by kredd on Thursday December 07, 2023 @11:52PM (#38565589)

At least the leaf blowers happen during the day. I live in a very dense neighbourhood, and it's a running joke among neighbours in the local FB groups. That being said, the (on purpose) loud motorcycle and car crowd honestly deserves the worst.

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Re:Amsterdam Switches to 30 Km/h on 80% of its Roads by ptman on Friday December 08, 2023 @04:07AM (#38566882)

Small ICEs should just be banned. Leaf-blowers, chainsaws, mopeds, motorcycles. All of them can be replaced by electric motors.

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Re:Amsterdam Switches to 30 Km/h on 80% of its Roads by r00fus on Friday December 08, 2023 @11:15AM (#38570673)

Gas powered Lawn/leaf equipment - Banned in California starting 2024. Good riddance.

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Re:Amsterdam Switches to 30 Km/h on 80% of its Roads by ElijahLynn on Friday December 08, 2023 @01:43PM (#38572599)

Oh really!? This would be a wonderful thing to spread across the nation (and the world)!

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Re:Amsterdam Switches to 30 Km/h on 80% of its Roads by Teever on Thursday December 07, 2023 @09:51PM (#38564856)

I foresee a future where people who have become deranged by motorcycle noise build small quadcopters that have a steel piece in their frame and a sound detector that when triggered make the quadcopter fly insanely fast towards a motorcycle wheel, lodging that piece of steel right inside the wheel causing the motorcycle driver to lose control and die.

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Re:Amsterdam Switches to 30 Km/h on 80% of its Roads by jacquesm on Thursday December 07, 2023 @10:03PM (#38564960)

I sympathize with your sentiment if not with your method. I've lived on an intersection of two large roads in Riga, LV and in the summer you couldn't sleep with the windows open (and with the windows closed you couldn't sleep either). Ditto on Overtoom in Amsterdam. Loud bikes in cities are extremely aggravating.

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Re:Amsterdam Switches to 30 Km/h on 80% of its Roads by Yizahi on Friday December 08, 2023 @06:48AM (#38567866)

After the Ruzzia-Ukraine war all the kamikaze drone production will need to go somewhere :)

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Re:Amsterdam Switches to 30 Km/h on 80% of its Roads by jochem9 on Friday December 08, 2023 @02:43AM (#38566395)

Wtf, wishing dead upon people while proclaiming to be a pacifist and believing in love and kindness?!

You could also just wish that their bike gets crushed and that they loose their licence. Or maybe that they get an itch they just can't quite reach.

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Re:Amsterdam Switches to 30 Km/h on 80% of its Roads by CogitoCogito on Friday December 08, 2023 @03:21AM (#38566589)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetorical_device#Hyperbole

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Re:Amsterdam Switches to 30 Km/h on 80% of its Roads by ballenf on Friday December 08, 2023 @08:12AM (#38568587)

Most EU countries have very strict emissions testing. Why can't that be expanded to limit engine noise?

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Re:Amsterdam Switches to 30 Km/h on 80% of its Roads by taylodl on Friday December 08, 2023 @09:58AM (#38569796)

As a motorcyclist I hear you and wholeheartedly agree with you!

The motorcycling community has this stupid mantra "loud pipes save lives." There's only one problem: it isn't true. There is no compelling evidence backing up that claim. They then use it as an excuse to get the most obnoxiously loud pipes they can - often illegally modifying them to remove baffles so they can be even louder! I have no idea why this isn't being policed as it's easy to do.

Their bikes are so damned loud I can't even ride alongside of them. The one thing that gives me a smile is I know in 20-30 years they are going to have one helluva case of tinnitus. Yeah, payback really is a bitch!

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