85% Of Car Drivers Break 20mph Speed Limits, Reveals U.K.’s Department For Transport (www.forbes.com)
Oxford becomes UK's electric bus capital as 159 vehicles join fleet (www.theguardian.com)
cross-posted from: feddit.uk/post/6709894...
Electric cars: The equivalent of switching from binge drinking whiskey to binge drinking wine. (lemmy.ml)
Thank the gods we live in such a car-saturated nation, how horrible it would be if this space was used to house people (media.kbin.social)
Speed camera cut down for second time in Cornwall (www.bbc.com)
It’s insane the lengths that some people will go to save a few seconds on their commute, while also endangering others.
US Pedestrian deaths rose a troubling 77% between 2010 and 2021. (www.ghsa.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/12581895...
“Can We Talk About Cars?” (2011) (ia600206.us.archive.org) Dutch
old but still relevant vlog - opinion - rant on the dangerous reality of cars
[image] Riyadh (population 7.6 million) is finally getting a metro. Initially scheduled for 2018, after successive delays it will open early this year (lemmy.ml)
Ministers prioritised driving in England partly due to conspiracy theories (www.theguardian.com)
Predictably, it’s the 15-minute-city conspiracy crap.
Can Cleveland go from urban decay to transit Haven? (urbanists.video)
title (files.catbox.moe)
link to toot
insane infrastructure needed (feddit.de)
same bed length (feddit.de)
Parkable cities (startrek.website)
They probably assumed this is like a theme park or something and not an actual city that people actually live in year round. Cities having nice, people friendly places away from cars? Who’s ever heard of that?
Why are cars getting bigger? A theory. (theluddite.org)
I laugh at the Ford every time I see it. Today i got at chance to park next to it and the the size difference is comically large. (feddit.dk)
One of these has definitely hauled more than the other, and i guarantee you it’s not the ford.
Why Norway — the poster child for electric cars — is having second thoughts (www.vox.com)
TL;DR: Norway subsidised electric cars a lot, that money went to the rich more than the poor, and left them with less money to spend on transit which delivers better outcomes for cities.
Suburban Cycling Myths Busted: It's Closer Than You Think (yt.artemislena.eu)
NYC MTA sets Manhattan congestion price at $15 for most vehicles, just one MTA vote left before the first congestion pricing in North America (www.planetizen.com)
New York City’s congestion pricing program is moving forward with a $15 fee on passenger vehicles, reports Stephen Nessen in Gothamist, after the MTA board voted to approve it. The program now enters a 60-day public comment period before a final vote....
8 lanes in one direction (beehaw.org)
This is in a city of 175,000 people. And in a “liberal”, West Coast, US city. You really can’t get away from this stuff in North America.
Chicago Sold it's Parking Meters to Morgan Stanley for 75 years. (The consequences have been terrible) (www.youtube.com)
Dubai Metro Blue Line is part of the Dubai 2040 Urban Master Plan, which aims to create a '20-minute city’ (www.khaleejtimes.com)
Dubai Metro is getting a third line in 2029. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Line_(Dubai_Metro)
A ubiquitous tire rubber–derived chemical induces acute mortality in coho salmon (sopuli.xyz)
In U.S. Pacific Northwest coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch), stormwater exposure annually causes unexplained acute mortality when adult salmon migrate to urban creeks to reproduce. By investigating this phenomenon, we identified a highly toxic quinone transformation product of...