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Part of an event called Sternfahrt where cyclists protest for policy changes by taking over the city on 20 routes covering 2000 km of public roads.

some infos in german: https://berlin.adfc.de/pressemitteilung/adfc-sternfahrt-medienkit

translation to english: https://berlin-adfc-de.translate.goog/pressemitteilung/adfc-sternfahrt-medienkit?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Some very normal person is gonna comment on this somewhere openly fantasizing about running all of them over for "taking up the roadway" and a bunch of other very normal people are gonna concur without any pushback.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

And when you report it to the platform the moderators won't see anything that goes against said platform's code of conduct.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 months ago

Autobahn? More like Auto Ban!

[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Can we please get a comparison pic of 32,000 cars on the autobahn?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago

You need a satellite to do that, I think

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Wouldn’t it be better to compare 32,000 people in vehicles? Doing really rough math, someone else who doesn’t suck at math should run through it lol. But hand jamming some numbers gives me a bit over 20 miles (32.5 Km) of flowing, 3 lane, 4 person cars to get to 32,000 people. It’s like 9 miles (14.5 Km) with bumper to bumper LA stopped traffic. 50 person buses, bumper to bumper is 1.8 miles (2.9 Km).

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago

Wouldn’t it be better to compare 32,000 people in vehicles? Doing really rough math, someone else who doesn’t suck at math should run through it lol.

32000 people in cars ≈ 32000 cars

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spoilerOkay, okay, so it's not literally 1 person per car and is actually more like 1.2 in Germany (see fig. 3) -- but it rounds down!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, probably. But way too many cars are single occupant at any given time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

1 person cars, flowing, would be 80.8 miles (130 Km).

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

That's Gerry. He's cool.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't want to annoy you, but imgur blocks VPN-access, so please try to use other services.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

yeah i know, sorry about that :P i was using boost to post this and didn't know it would automatically host it using imgur

any recommendations for alternatives these days? i would've gone for something like catbox.moe or 0x0.st but I think those delete uploads after a certain amount of time

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

ahh nice! didn't know that

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

fahr'n, fahr'n, fahr'n, auf der Autobahn.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Does "fahren" apply here? The German word for bicycle is based on the same word, if I am not mistaken, so probably yes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

beautiful 🌟

and fuck cars btw...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Yeah it was nice. I didn't do the highway route because the kid wanted the child-friendly part, but still it was really nice to see so many people in the streets.

There were people coming from other cities as well, riding the whole night to get to Berlin on Sunday. Love it.

By the way, 32k sounds a lot, but in its heyday there were 200k people riding around. Even last year with 50k crowd it was completely different feeling, the inner city almost without cars.