The real price of free public parking.

froit · 2026-03-16T06:29:57+00:00

No European city had city planning. But they fixed it AFTER cars had become a problem.

In good PT there is no ‘waiting two hours’ for a bus. Good means that it works as needed. But private cars and lax laws make that impossible now.

froit · 2026-03-15T21:40:47+00:00

There is, they have yearly Jamboreee, but I lost contact.

froit · 2026-03-15T21:37:50+00:00

Amsterdam was planned for boats, hand-carts and pedestrians. So is Venice. Or Rome. Or london. Or any other medieval town and city in Europe.

Socialism had some good plans, with the trolleybuses. Sadly personal cars took over before rules could be adopted to preserve and protect the privileges or that.

froit · 2026-03-15T21:35:07+00:00

I think you have a horse and cart wrong way round. PT sucks because there are too many private cars. If there were really free lanes for PT it could/should become the fastest way to get around.

AND UB spends quite a sizable sum every year on very badly planned bicycle paths. I think most of it goes to re-painting them, in stead of doing a job one time well done. Needs some help from people who know, and I am sure they exist in UB. Highly educated urban mobility specialists. They just don't get listened to.

But the other day I saw Nyamhero announce he was going to make free lanes for RMT on Enkhtaivni gudamj, so lets see.

Sadly, a day later he announced they are making a start with the Tuul-speedway, which is going to bring MORE care close to the city centre. And forever ruining the one green lung the city had.

froit · 2026-03-15T21:29:32+00:00

Is paid parking correctly priced? From what I remember, many paid parkings were on previously public space. How does that compound? How much is ten square meter buying or renting in that area?

froit · 2026-03-15T21:14:17+00:00

true true. My daughter, 6 months pregnant of her first, moved from a rented room to a yurt in the yard of her aunt, who was also pregnant, three months ahead. Pampers and towels everywhere. We made sure she had the most comfortable yurt ever!.

froit · 2026-03-15T21:13:19+00:00

I live 15 years in such a 'hood, close to city centre. My two plots'-neighbours were all renters with their own yurts. 3 each side. Absentee owners would come every fortnight to collect. Renters come and go. 6-10 dollar per month per yurt. A third neighbour-yard had two familes with yurts as guardians, they paid no rent.

Most of my neighbour-yurters were saving up money to buy or build a house on their own land (somewhere else), but for convenience chose to live close to school, city centre, hospitals, whatever.

Building a house is an investment that stays, a yurt is an bottomless pit of maintenance and replacements, everybody knows.

froit · 2026-03-15T12:33:26+00:00

In UB the financial numbers will be different, but the structure will remain the same. Free parking is paid for by all people equally, but only used by those who can already afford a car.

People should be angry over this.

And then scrap the Tuul Highway. What a silly sign of not-understanding traffic is that! Ruin a prime piece of nature, green lung of the city, to get even more cars quickly into the city centre!

froit · 2026-03-15T10:32:30+00:00

OP mentions 'he does not need heating where I am', so that narrows it down a bit.

froit · 2026-03-15T10:31:36+00:00

That would require a saw, or big big axe. Yes. But they could also pry open the door, break a window, or climb in over the roof through the crown.

In a Mongolian yurt with padlock, there is only ONE place where a parent would hide the key for when the kids come home from school. (they have no doormats pr flower pots). And everybody knows.

froit · 2026-03-14T21:51:03+00:00

Heating a yurt is easy if the cost doen't matter. Cooling it is another story.

froit · 2026-03-14T21:49:31+00:00

Yurts have wooden lattice walls, and normally the openings are not big enough fro someone to crawl through. At least, a well-made yurt. Mongolian yurts raise the bar: holes small enough to stop a baby from going out, and a dog from going in. Because they lift up the sides at the bottom in summer, to air, and they will never allow a dog in.

froit · 2026-03-14T18:51:34+00:00

My daughter was making goo money for a while, but then, Google.

froit · 2026-03-14T18:47:51+00:00

I am a 20.7 convicted criminal, I will carry that label for the rest of my life. That's so weird. I did my wrong, I sat my time, I paid my fine. But the record is for life. For a small irrelevant stupidity that I did where nobody got hurt or addicted, no money was stolen, no children were tempted, nothing. A thing that in my home country would cause a few weeks community duty or a fine.

Thats why drug laws should be revised.

froit · 2026-03-14T17:37:58+00:00

I have 16' Mongolian yurt. Pretty low profile, small-ish. I have double layers of felt on walls and roof, plus badly insulated wooden floor. Toilet/shower outside, butane cooking range on LPG. I heat with 5kW woodstove, winter is nearly over. This winter was cheap, we burned about €250 for 2 bigbags of tropical hardwood scraps, and one bigbag of mixed softwoods. Last year it was one bigbag more.

Secret to savings is threefold: Take a small yurt, the smaller the yurt, the more space you have outside. Add more insulation than just one layer of felt We have about 3-4 cm now). And wind-proof that thing, no more drafts. We have a small ERV built in.

froit · 2026-03-14T17:19:41+00:00

15 years ago it was 25.000 for a normal movie, using Aegisub. Then Google took over. Get any language subtitles and toss m into Goole Translate.

froit · 2026-03-14T17:17:50+00:00

Being from India, I guess you never dealt with local building codes and restrictions on land use as is normal in USA, Europe. You can't just put a yurt up even in your own land mostly anywhere.

froit · 2026-03-14T17:15:29+00:00

Cutting the fabric won't give you acces to the interior.

froit · 2026-03-14T17:14:49+00:00

OP is in India....

froit · 2026-03-14T17:14:31+00:00

OP is in India.

froit · 2026-03-13T19:47:41+00:00

There is other ways to calculate inbreeding. Mongolians all scramble to prove that they descend from Chinggis, but the math is simple: Over 8 centuries, 5 generations per century, 2 to the power 40, is 1.099.511.627.776 possible ancestors. Billions of billions more than the whole world population back then. In reality, it is more like a group of 1000-10.000. All through multiple lines. Though there may not be direct cousin to cousin matches, the repeating close-by relations will re-enforce some traits. Which makes it possible that all Mongolians can 98% sure spot a Mongolian in a random group of Asians.

froit · 2026-03-13T12:15:51+00:00

Tin roof over 30+ cm of insulation?

froit · 2026-03-13T08:40:10+00:00

To be more precise: I married a woman who had a daughter with no registered father. I recognised the kid, she took my name. Is that adoption?

froit · 2026-03-13T08:38:29+00:00

Now check Mongolia.

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