This is what happens when you elect a leader with a brain. America should try that.
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Motorists admitting that solid, controlling design causes them to slow down, pay attention, and operate their cars in a safe manner or they'll suffer the consequences. See, they're pointing out that it works.
Gravel Influencer@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 2mo agoFull car brain on display in the town Facebook group when someone asked about bump outs. If they "destroy your car" because you hit them maybe you shouldn't be driving at all?
"Esquerda" pro Putin e fascistas unidos. Quem diria? 🙃
❗️Zelensky: Today, many were shocked by another video of the Russian drone safari against people in Kherson. The man was injured by the explosion. The world must see this. It must see every fact that Russia has gone mad, and every fact that the Russian military enjoys killing and mocking people.
Took me a bit and some googling to get this one
Douglas Cheape@douglascheape.bsky.social · 3mo agoThey tell me I’m uncultured, but I’ll always recognise a bit of Beethoven.
“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”
Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.
politico.eu
Biked all around Paris today. Legitimately envious of the way street infrastructure privileges bikers over cars. #waroncars #parisbiking
A Russian air defense missile blows up a fuel tank at the Moscow Oil Refinery following a failed attempt to shoot down a Ukrainian drone.
🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 4mo agoUFOS ARE REAL!!!
Scott Pelley: “Bari Weiss sends an email to my boss, Tanya Simon: can we make the protesters look more violent? I’m paraphrasing Also: Renee Good’s car. You need to describe her as driving toward the officer. That’s not what the video shows. The officer is standing off the front of the car”
This is exactly what happens when cars are the default transportation policy. EVs are often sold as the ultimate fix, but they take up the exact same amount of space as gas cars. A blanket "cars-for-everything" policy will always fail because geometry always wins.
“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.
Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.
washingtonpost.com
High gas prices are ANOTHER good reason to end car dependency, and to rethink how we get around cities, especially for short trips. @chrisboardman.bsky.social agrees. "You need moments in life where there's a reason to try something different and the high fuel costs at the moment are exactly that."
Chris Boardman says fuel price surge a reason to swap car for bike
Olympic medal winning cyclist Chris Boardman calls on drivers to change the way they travel.
bbc.com
Globally, car culture claims 3,500 lives a day. Yet our moral panic is spent on ebikes, people riding on sidewalks to stay safe, and pedestrians wearing dark clothing or wearing headphones. We have normalized mass casualties while villainizing people just trying to exist outside of a vehicle.
“Paris has embarked on a grand transformation, planting 155k trees, adding hundreds of kms of bike lanes, pedestrianising 300 school streets and banning cars from the banks of the Seine. Parking has been turned into green space…Fewer parents fear their child being run over when they walk to school.”
How Paris swapped cars for bikes – and transformed its streets
Under Anne Hidalgo – mayor for 12 years until last week – the French capital added bike lanes, cut traffic and reclaimed public space, but not without resistance
theguardian.com
Les pistes cyclables ne servent pas qu’aux cyclistes. C’est pour cela qu’il faut les développer et les sécuriser (et sans pavé). Paris, 23 mai.
On this day 25 years ago, #MulhollandDrive by #DavidLynch pioneered at #CannesFilmFestival, where he was awarded the Best Director jointly with #JoelCoen.
Europe is the world’s fastest-warming continent. We’ve seen record heatwaves from the Mediterranean to the Arctic, while glaciers have been shrinking and snow cover melting. The evidence is unequivocal: climate change is not a ‘future’ threat. It is our present reality. ⬇️
WATCH this video to understand better why positive and badly needed change in cities can be so HARD AND CONTROVERSIAL, at least INITIALLY when proposed (spoiler — quite often that change becomes popular, or just not noticed much at all, after implementation and once the “status quo bias” wears off."
This Is The Real Reason We Can't Have The Cities We Dream Of
YouTube video by Global Cycling Network
youtube.com
"Waymo has told advocates that expecting it to respect bike lanes is 'too high a bar' because customers expect to be dropped off in them." To be crystal clear, it's illegal for a car to be in a bike lane. It doesn't matter what Waymo's customers expect; the company shouldn't be doing it.
Waymo Is Not In The 'Vision Zero' Toolbox: Data - Streetsblog New York City
At least two of the cities where Waymo operates have not experienced declines in traffic-related injuries and deaths.
nyc.streetsblog.org
The leader of the Russian communist party warns that if urgent measures are not taken the country might end up in.... Communism. Every day you have to check if it is 1st of April or any other day
20 years of pickup truck design progress in one photo
Rode legally through a roundabout today. An SUV had to yield. Because her time is clearly worth more than mine, she laid on the horn, sped past, and flipped me the bird while yelling. The entitlement of motoring culture is exhausting.
If this were an ebike, the community would be really upset.
Deputy Councilor for Urban Affairs, D13@williamhazen.bsky.social · 6mo agogood morning - an adventurous drunk driver in a suburb of Indianapolis drove into a middle school classroom late last night and then took off running
Recap of tonight’s address by the Orange Man.
