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đđ˛: "car supremacy is when you put a speed bump on the bikeway but not the streetâŚ" - Urbanists.Social
urbanists.social đđ˛ (@[email protected])Attached: 1 image car supremacy is when you put a speed bump on the bikeway but not the street.
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Everett True showing how to handle the carbrained in the early 1900s
Hope this won't break Rule 4 >.>
- ecf.com EU Commission acknowledges regulatory flaws with large pick-up truck imports, following ECF co-signed letter
Politico reported this week that the European Commission has acknowledged the concerns raised by the influx of US-style pick-up trucks entering the EU [1], in response to a letter [2] co-signed by ECF and seven other organisations. Together, the organisations called on the EU Commission to close loo...
- www.birminghammail.co.uk Cyclists are dying on our roads at an alarming rate - why don't we care?
One cyclist was killed and another left with serious injuries in two collisions in Birmingham this week
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Stonehenge tunnel 'costs ÂŁ250k per metre'
www.bbc.com Stonehenge tunnel 'costs ÂŁ250k per metre' - ÂŁ160m in total - so farAn FOI request found the scheme has cost ÂŁ166,230,578 despite work on the ground starting.
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The Hidden Potential of Cycling in the Suburbs
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tl;dw people in suburbs actually live close to things, and many do want to cycle, but it's too dangerous.
- theguardian.com A beloved palm and pine tree mark Californiaâs center. Now theyâre being cut down
Local residents are mourning the planned removal of the trees, symbols of the stateâs northern-southern divide
- www.pcgamer.com In this satirical city builder, your goal is to convert walkable cities into parking lots and use propaganda to convince everyone it's what they want
In city builder Car Park Capital, why walk when you can drive⌠and park.
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"Tankboy driving this CyberTruck approached me and threatened to beat me up if I didn't remove this tweet"
Not me but just a relevant post
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G.M. Sold Millions of Cars That Were More Polluting Than Allowed, E.P.A. Says| The agency reached a settlement with the automaker over the sales of S.U.V.s and pickups that emitted excess COâ
www.nytimes.com G.M. Sold Millions of Cars That Were More Polluting Than Allowed, E.P.A. SaysThe agency reached a settlement with the automaker over the sales of S.U.V.s and pickups that emitted excess planet-warming carbon dioxide.
- www.forbes.com Stonehenge In âDangerâ From U.K.âs Road Plan, Warns UNESCO
Don't build Stonehenge tunnel in current form, UNESCO warns U.K. government
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Austria to âSuper-Speedersâ: Weâre Taking Your Car
Nice to see more countries adopting this practice
- la.streetsblog.org Friday Metro Transit Updates: Ridership Growing, Service Changes, and Electric Bus Charger Issues - Streetsblog Los Angeles
Metro daily ridership is back up to nearly a million riders per weekday. Some Metro electric bus chargers aren't working. Metro's twice yearly bus service changes take effect Sunday, including service increases on three San Fernando Valley lines.
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Elon Musk haters vandalized dozens of Tesla Cybertrucks by spray painting "F**K ELON" on dozens of them
electrek.co Elon Musk haters vandalized dozens of Tesla CybertrucksElon Musk haters have vandalized dozens of Tesla Cybertrucks being held ahead of delivery at a parking lot in Florida....
- www.abc15.com Newly obtained video shows driver after deadly Goodyear cycling crash
For several seconds in the video, he turns the camera around to show the scene on the bridge where you can see multiple people and bicycles lying on the roadway. âBabe, I killed somebody, babe.â
⌠and he calls some random people after he mows down the cyclists, but not 911? How is he only facing misdemeanor charges?!?
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Carbrained problems in narrow (wide) streets at the edge of suburban sprawl
www.abc.net.au NSW government and councils blame one another over 'absurd' half-width streetsDevelopers are building half-width streets in Western Sydney due to current planning laws, as local councils and the state government blame each other over the issues the narrow roads are creating for residents.
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Build the greatest car parks ever in the Car Park Capital!
www.gamingonlinux.com Build the greatest car parks ever in the retro-tycoon styled Car Park CapitalI feel like I just need to play Car Park Capital after discovering it today. Styled much like a late 90s retro tycoon game, it looks like it's from a different time and I love it.
I think the developers of this satirical game could be subscribed to this community:
> The car industry has identified a few places on earth that do not know THE FREEDOM OF CAR DEPENDENCY.
> So they hired you to increase car sales and oil consumption.
> How? By building the greatest car parks ever!
> Turn neighborhoods into car parks, create the need for car commuting and parking. Use propaganda to inform people on why they need it.
> Learn to become a real tycoon.. Asphalt means freedom, right?
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Homeowners Block My Local Passenger Rail
Iâm not sure if an opinion piece is appropriate here, so please let me know if this doesnât fit the theme of the community, and Iâll avoid sharing such thoughts in the future.
Iâm extremely frustrated with the car centric culture in my area. I live about 25 miles west of a quarry. Every day I watch trains go up and down the railroad mostly carrying gravel. This railroad stretches for several hours by car in each direction, connecting several large cities and even passing a few tourist attractions, and despite our traffic congestion problems there is little interest in trying to use this rail for actual people.
One company moved in and started running a new passenger rail service. Within a few weeks, we had protesters at the railroads complaining that drivers donât understand railroad crossings. I saw posters about how trains were killing residents when drivers park on the tracks and get hit. I donât understand! Where do you think the train is going to go? They donât exactly come out of nowhere. They follow the tracks! And weâve always had trains passing through our town before. At a later local election a candidate ran on the premise that theyâre going to protect home values and our children by reducing or eliminating the number of trains passing through our town. This candidate did win our local election and sadly they succeeded in cutting down on rail investment.
Fast-forward a couple years later. Passenger rail stations were built at the endpoints of this rail to ferry tourists. I drive parallel to this rail on the way to work several times per week for almost 45 minutes each way, 20 minutes of which is heavy traffic. I get to enjoy watching people ride the train while thereâs no stop anywhere near my house because our local government has sided with homeowners that a passenger rail station is âsimply too dangerous.â I would have to drive over an hour to the nearest passenger rail station to ride the train, and I can literally see the tracks from my apartment.
Every time I see that train I feel bitter. I could save so much money if these boneheads would have let them build a train station in our town. Absolutely ridiculous! The train is there. The rail is there. I donât understand why a train is such a personal, existential threat to your way of life.
- nysfocus.com New York Spends Biden Cash on Highways Over Public Transit
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law directed billions toward public transit in New York, but the state is choosing to spend billions more on highways.
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Strong Towns: We Built Isolating Places. Can We Get Out?
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cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/12940955 >People are lonely. Is it because we are addicted to our phones, or is that a symptom of larger design choices we made when building our places? We cover some of the general concepts related to social infrastructure an try to evaluate what to do next.
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Quinn Evans completes restoration of historic Detroit train station for Ford Offices
www.dezeen.com Quinn Evans completes restoration of historic Detroit station for FordUS architecture studio Quinn Evans has completed the restoration of Detroit's Michigan Central Station as part of a wider local development by car brand Ford
- www.theguardian.com Leading UK cyclist out of Tour of Britain after being struck at âhigh speedâ by 4x4
One of the UKâs leading young cyclists has been forced to pull out of this weekâs Tour of Britain after being hit at âhigh speedâ by a 4x4 driver
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Never wait in the school car line again. Hereâs how. For the first time in decades, a small but critical mass of children are riding their bikes safely to school again in the US.
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/10212084
> Never wait in the school car line again. Hereâs how. For the first time in decades, a small but critical mass of children are riding their bikes safely to school again in the US.
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Third Place vs. Right to the City
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With so much of left-adjacent urbanist youtube borrowing terms from conservatives like "third places", I think this video does a good job of questioning the notion of "third places" in favor of a more radical critique about the way we use our cities.
- www.nytimes.com Coloradoâs Bold New Approach to Highways â Not Building Them
The state has made it harder to widen highways, and transportation officials are turning their eyes to transit.
Alternative link: https://archive.ph/BxMKZ
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This could be humorous⌠but itâs actually tragic
https://climatejustice.social/@breadandcircuses/112535649882421445
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Coloradoâs Bold New Approach to Highways â Not Building Them | The state has made it harder to widen highways, and transportation officials are turning their eyes to transit.
www.nytimes.com Coloradoâs Bold New Approach to Highways â Not Building ThemThe state has made it harder to widen highways, and transportation officials are turning their eyes to transit.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16028585
> cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/10092805 > > > > In Colorado, that new vision was catalyzed by climate change. In 2019, Gov. Jared Polis signed a law that required the state to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 90 percent within 30 years. As the state tried to figure out how it would get there, it zeroed in on drivers. Transportation is the largest single contributor to greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, accounting for about 30 percent of the total; 60 percent of that comes from cars and trucks. To reduce emissions, Coloradans would have to drive less.
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An LA "Bus Stop"
www.instagram.com memes | sai on Instagram: "Want to earn a million in 2024? Here are the top 5 promising remote business ideas: 1. Freelancing and Consulting: - Content writing - Copywriting - Graphic design - Branding services 2. E-commerce and Dropshipping: - Start an online store - Sell products without holding inventory 3. Online Coaching and Courses: - Share your expertise - Create and sell courses 4. Digital Marketing and Social Media Management: - SEO - Content marketing - Paid advertising - Social media management 5. Virtual Assistance and Remote Administrative Services: - Support businesses remotely - Manage emails, appointments, customer inquiries, and bookkeeping"33K likes, 491 comments - repostlocker on May 28, 2024: "Want to earn a million in 2024? Here are the top 5 promising remote business ideas: 1. Freelancing and Consulting: - Content writing - C...".
- www.theguardian.com Global sales of polluting SUVs hit record high in 2023, data shows
Half of all new cars are now SUVs, making them a major cause of the intensifying climate crisis, say experts
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Innovation makes useful things smaller - overconsumption makes them bigger and more meaningless
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/9992203
> Source: https://norden.social/@hart/112513927064083221
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The NYTimes is once again trashing the most promising mobility innovation of the 21st century
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/16133154
> Link to original Tweet: https://x.com/DavidZipper/status/1795048724021862898
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Milan, Italy, is littered with illegally parked cars. Fed-up people counted them: 64000 were found, 30 cars/km of road.
Milan has 51 cars for 100 inhabitants, which is the double of other big cities in Europe, like Madrid (291,3) o Paris (225,2). One of the consequences is that traffic is terrible, and Milan is, for example, one of the worst cities on TomTom traffic index
Another big consequence is that motorists will park cars everywhere, because the number of legal on-street parking spots much lower than needed (the number of on-street parking spots is already much higher than other similar European cities) . If you have ever been in Milan, you would know that you can find cars parked on the sidewalks, on the bike lanes, between the trees at the side of the road, on zebra crossings, at the corners of intersections, at the bus stops, double parked (take a look at the pictures in this article to get an idea). This is a big issue, because people with reduced mobility, parents with strollers, people with sight issues are strongly impaired by this situation. Moreover an average of 5 times every day, public transit (trams and buses) gets stuck because of some really badly parked car, causing delays for tens or hundreds of people.
The administration is not willing to help and tolerates the status without doing much except the worst situations. They fear that this will impact their popularity, and may lose next elections. It is a well known fact that getting a ticket for illegal parking is so rare, that it costs less than a legal payed parking spot!
People was so fed up with the situation that and association called "Sai che puoi?" was able to organize an event to count and map illegally parked cars during the night of May 16th. It took a long time and effort, with some tests on a few blocks performed in the past. They also did a great social campaign with posts and videos like this one , and developed a web app on purpose.
The results were astonishing: 2000 people took part, and were able to walk all the 1700 km of the 3780 streets in the city and count illegally parked cars, divided by parking location (on the street, on the sidewalks, between the trees)
!the streets of Milan turned green because all of them were part of the count at the end
Results:
- 64000 illegally parked cars (during the day the situation gets even worse, with people coming from outside the city!)
- 37000 on the street
- 15000 on the sidewalks
- 11000 on the grass or between the trees
This means that the city administration could get 5.3 million euros of tickets in one night, which means the equivalent of 134000 public transit month tickets.
The final aim is to force the administration to act and do something. The idea is that neglecting the issue with such numbers should be more difficult.
I think this is a great story, and I never heard of something like this from anywhere else. I want to say thank you to the organizers and I would love to get this event known outside Italy
- 64000 illegally parked cars (during the day the situation gets even worse, with people coming from outside the city!)
- www.forbes.com Car Journeys Up In 2023 With Bus And Bicycle Journeys Down, Reports U.K. Department For Transport
Car journeys up while bus and bicycle journeys down shows UK travelling in wrong direction, says IPPR Todayâs statistics from the Department for Transport reveal that:...
- www.eenews.net US canât meet EV copper demand, study finds
"Just to meet business-as-usual trends, 115% more copper must be mined in the next 30 years than has been mined historically until now," the study said.
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Crappy local infrastructure thread
Thread to vent about the dangerous and inefficient infrastructure you have to deal with.
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Cycling isn't legitimate transportation...apparently
The person on the left is carrying bags, the one in orange is a delivery driver and a couple of people are wearing backpacks. Aside from car brained, Damaris is also blind.