“15-Minute City” Conspiracies Have It Backwards (yt.artemislena.eu)
Birds eating some paint chips off the dividing line (i.imgur.com)
Britain's addiction to cars is built on a financial house of cards (www.theguardian.com)
‘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
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How cities can stem the tide of pedestrian deaths from large cars and SUVs – Ars Technica (lemmy.schuerz.at)
All these children are invisible to the driver…...
When your city implements confusing cycling infrastructure (lemmy.ml)
Source: twitter.com/urban__bird/…/1678222512637767681
A great illustration of how cities can be designed around public transit at scale (www.youtube.com)
BDSM (lemmy.ml)
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Atlanta 1950s and now (feddit.de)
Oxford becomes UK's electric bus capital as 159 vehicles join fleet (www.theguardian.com)
cross-posted from: feddit.uk/post/6709894...
“Can We Talk About Cars?” (2011) (ia600206.us.archive.org) Dutch
old but still relevant vlog - opinion - rant on the dangerous reality of cars
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.
It's that time of the year again (media.mas.to)
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....
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...
85% Of Car Drivers Break 20mph Speed Limits, Reveals U.K.’s Department For Transport (www.forbes.com)
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.
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)
How Cars Turned Into Giant Killers (slate.com)
Who Owns the Streets? How Cars Took Over Our Shared Spaces (www.youtube.com)
What London’s mayor learned when he took on the cars (www.politico.eu)
Adam Something | Why Robotaxis are a Terrible Idea (www.youtube.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...
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....
