Rishi Sunak diverts £8.3 Billion from high speed rail to... fixing potholes (www.bbc.com)
It’s almost like car infrastructure has dogshit durability and longevity and is a massive money sink compared to more efficient transportation infrastructures!
The world's 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars (theconversation.com)
Study shows 'Substantial falls in motor traffic within LTN schemes, especially in Inner London' | ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com)
By contrast, little average change in motor traffic on LTN boundary roads...
What modes of transport do you really like?
For me personally, trams are right up there. Aside from the main issue of sharing the roads instead of having a dedicated line, they really make it easy to get from one part of a city to another, especially for wheelchair users. They’re usually as frequent as buses, but much faster. The stations are much more attractive...
Parents Of Baby In Carjacked Vehicle Are Suing VW For Refusing To Assist Police (jalopnik.com)
Volkswagen representatives demanded a $150 fee before using GPS to locate the vehicle and child....
Truck bloat is killing us, new crash data reveals (www.theverge.com)
Paris mayor says her city has too many SUVs, so she’s asking voters to decide on a parking fee hike (www.independent.co.uk)
MAY USE FULL LANE (lemmy.ml)
trying to share the lane with vehicles in the USA is very dangerous
Vehicles with higher, more vertical front ends pose greater risk to pedestrians (www.iihs.org)
Això és una prova (putaespanya.com) Catalan
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/c/fuck_weapons (lemmy.ml)
Dear consumer: do not operate this motor vehicle while experiencing emotion...
Traffic trauma: are cars holding Birmingham back? (www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk)
EPA sides with tribes on petition to regulate toxic tire chemical that kills salmon (www.kuow.org)
In the radio segment, they also mentioned that this chemical might be responsible for many other environmental and human health conditions. This is likely the tip of the iceberg....
Driving Today was SO Obnoxious
I had to drive to and from an appointment twice today (drop off and pick up)(not a school) and I faced like… A dozen moments of aggression from other drivers. From being cut off, to being blocked from merging. Some dangerous, others harmless. Just a dozen pointless but intentionally rude moments. Usually I’m getting tailed...
Yes, also Teslas (media.mastodon.scot)
The Conspiracy of…Cities? (w/Doug Gordon) — Conspirituality (www.conspirituality.net)
‘People are happier in a walkable neighborhood’: the US community that banned cars (www.theguardian.com)
It’s nice to see more car free places, but it’s also hard not to criticise the capitalistic hellscape in which your neighbourhood has a CEO
ajsadauskas, When Newcastle had Australia's longest tram route.
Here's a really interesting look at the very extensive tram network that used to exist in Newcastle, stretching as far west as West Wallsend and as far south as Lake Macquarie.
Sadly, the original tram network was ripped up in 1950.
https://youtu.be/9bH91LlJO_A?si=517R6YKXntDIf5LF
#trams #LightRail #urbanism #rail #nsw #Newcastle @fuck_cars @urbanism
EU poised to water down new car pollution rules after industry lobbying (www.theguardian.com)
Monsters of the road: what should the UK do about SUVs? [The Observer] (www.theguardian.com)
It’s midnight on the edge of Clapham Common in early September. The streets are eerily quiet as a shadowy figure in black shirt, shorts and baseball cap emerges from the common. He is wearing a red face mask, his features, except for some blond locks, hidden from view.
Chicago Sold it's Parking Meters to Morgan Stanley for 75 years. (The consequences have been terrible) (www.youtube.com)
CGI Uber ad with 200 seats (v.redd.it)
Hi-viz (files.mastodon.online)
alt textPost by Urban Cycling Institute. text: ‘New study into effectiveness of hi-viz for cyclists in car traffic’ - by Brendan Gavrin images: Two photos. One is captioned “Driver’s view of cyclist dressed in black”, the other “Driver’s view of cyclist dressed in hi-viz”. Both depict a phone in front of a...