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Paris mayor plans to triple SUV parking tariffs to cut air pollution (www.theguardian.com)

Anti-ULEZ extremists blow up a ULEZ camera using an IED (news.met.police.uk)

Car-brains now actually blowing things up in suburban England, with the tacit support of Tory MPs.

‘People are happier in a walkable neighborhood’: the US community that banned cars (www.theguardian.com)

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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...

What London’s mayor learned when he took on the cars (www.politico.eu)

Britain's addiction to cars is built on a financial house of cards (www.theguardian.com)

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Uber paid 58 Australians $1350 to have One Less Car (www.forbes.com.au)

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)

280 million e-bikes are slashing oil demand far more than electric cars. E-bikes and scooters displace 4x as much demand for oil as all of the EVs in the world. (arstechnica.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...

Vehicles with higher, more vertical front ends pose greater risk to pedestrians (www.iihs.org)

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)

Això és una prova (putaespanya.com) Catalan

Això és una prova per veure si puc posar un string random al camp URL.

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....

Traffic trauma: are cars holding Birmingham back? (www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk)

The Conspiracy of…Cities? (w/Doug Gordon) — Conspirituality (www.conspirituality.net)

Study Finds Cyclists Are Better People Than Drivers | Jalopnik (jalopnik.com)

I’ve always argued this wasn’t the case and that motoring is a worse transport mode because of the associated externalities, not because of anything inherent to the users....

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.

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