Birds eating some paint chips off the dividing line (i.imgur.com)
ajsadauskas, Whoopsie! Sydney's road planners just discovered induced demand is a thing, after opening a new motorway.
For those outside Sydney, the New South Wales state government recently opened a new spaghetti intersection just west of Sydney's Central Business District.
It was supposed to solve traffic. Instead, it's turned into a giant car park:
"For the third straight day, motorists and bus passengers endured bumper-to-bumper traffic on the City West Link and Victoria Road. A trip from Haberfield to the Anzac Bridge on the City West Link averaged an agonising 44 minutes in the morning peak on Wednesday.
"Several months ago, Transport for NSW’s modelling had suggested traffic from the interchange would add only five to 10 minutes to trips on Victoria Road through Drummoyne and over the Iron Cove Bridge during morning peaks.
"Those travel delays have now blown out."
So what do motorists say when their shiny new road that was supposed to solve traffic instead turns into a massive traffic jam?
'Dude! Just one more lane!'
From the article:
"[Roads Minister John] Graham and his Transport boss Josh Murray appear reluctant to do what many motorists reckon is the obvious solution.
"That is, add lanes or make changes at the pinch-points that are causing the pain. A three-lane to one merge point from Victoria Road onto the Anzac Bridge, along with two lanes merging into one on the City West Link, are proving to be painful bottlenecks."
#roads #traffic #cars @fuck_cars @sydneytrains @urbanism #urbanism #UrbanPlanning #motorways #fuckcars
Simple proposal to force politicians to improve road design
Elected officials should be forced to go to their workplace several times a week by bike, this could greatly accelerate the improvement of roads for alternative means of transport. Do you agree ?
insane infrastructure needed (feddit.de)
DontMindMe, #Urbanists in #Lexington #Kentucky are invited to provide online public comment for a proposed Campus to Commons Trail, which aims to develop walking infrastructure around #UKY.
Info and survey: https://campustocommons.com
#Appalachia #AutofreiKY #KY #Louisville #Frankfort #Paducah #Wildcats #CollegeFootball #MayfieldKY #LouisvilleKY #FrankfortKY #PaducahKY #LivingstonKY #LexingtonKY #FuckCars #autofrei #Urbanism #WalkableCities #StrongTowns #TaylorSwift #ClimateCrisis @fuck_cars
TheOldRazzleDazzle, Why the fuck does this post have Taylor Swift as a tag?
there still are too many cars in german cities (feddit.de)
A great illustration of how cities can be designed around public transit at scale (www.youtube.com)
DontMindMe, #FuckCars folks in #Texas needed to provide online public comment on plans to double the number of lanes on US 54 between Stratford and the Oklahoma state line.
Deadline Dec. 4: https://www.newschannel10.com/2023/11/13/txdot-hosting-public-meetings-stratford-texhoma-talk-about-us-54-project/
@fuck_cars
#WarOnCars #TheWarOnCars #autofrei #Urbanism #CarBrain #StrongTowns #TaylorSwift #ClimateCrisis #TX #AutofreiTX #Lubbock #Dallas #NFL #Houston #Austin #AustinTX #SanAntonio #CorpusChristi #Abilene #Amarillo #ElPaso #LubbockTX #DallasTX #HoustonTX #Cowboys
What London’s mayor learned when he took on the cars (www.politico.eu)
... and you feel nothing. (lemmy.ml)
Adam Something | Why Robotaxis are a Terrible Idea (www.youtube.com)
DontMindMe, #PublicTransit advocates, #cyclists and #Urbanists in #California needed to provide online public comment for the #SanLuisObispo Short-Range Transit 🚎 Plan, which will guide critical infrastructure projects for the next 5 years.
Survey live thru Dec. 12: https://pasoroblesdailynews.com/slo-transit-and-regional-transit-authority-seeking-community-feedback/184715/
@fuck_cars #CA #AutofreiCA #Berkeley #SanFrancisco #Sacramento #Oakland #Fresno #SantaBarbara #SanDiego #LosAngeles #LA #FuckCars #StrongTowns #TaylorSwift #ClimateCrisis #GoldenBears #UCLA #Bruins #UCLABruins #NCAA
It's that time of the year again (media.mas.to)
How Commute Culture Made American Cities Lifeless -- Yet There's Hope (www.youtube.com)
This video outlines some of the relationships between US commuting culture and the perspectives that it’s engendered about the role of the city. The, when compared and contrasted to other nations’ approach to city design and perspectives shows that it’s possible to have a city core that’s more than just a workplace....
Idea for disrespecting cars
OK so I came up with a slightly crazy idea. Do you know how cars are emblazoned with logos and emblems? Like the brand name (Toyota), the car name (Kluger), engine and other doodads (V6 etc etc). What if we made like jokey versions of these to replace on our cars? Like make a Toyota logo but it looks a bit more like a penis....
Britain's addiction to cars is built on a financial house of cards (www.theguardian.com)
Europe’s politicians are dEsPeRaTe to tackle e-scooters, why aren’t they bothered by monster SUVs? (www.transportenvironment.org)
BDSM (lemmy.ml)
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“15-Minute City” Conspiracies Have It Backwards (yt.artemislena.eu)
Hoboken, NJ reduces annual traffic deaths to zero (www.bloomberg.com)
The mayor of Hoboken, NJ came in with a vision of reducing traffic deaths to pedestrians and cyclists. He instituted several strategies of traffic calming, increasing pedestrian visibility, reducing city wide street speeds to 20 mph with schools and parks down to 15 mph. Within a few years of road improvements and redesigns...