Our children are victims of road violence. We need to talk about the deadly norms of car use (theconversation.com)
Tire Dust Makes Up the Majority of Ocean Microplastics, Study Finds (www.thedrive.com)
Prague urban planning (via Adam Something) (yewtu.be)
I live in Prague and I Approve this Message.
Some good news from the UK: London cycling numbers go wild | London Cycling Campaign (lcc.org.uk)
Cycling numbers are up in London!...
“15-Minute City” Conspiracies Have It Backwards (yt.artemislena.eu)
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
BDSM (lemmy.ml)
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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.
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)
What London’s mayor learned when he took on the cars (www.politico.eu)
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....
Suburban Cycling Myths Busted: It's Closer Than You Think (yt.artemislena.eu)
Rails and bike in vehicle. Can't get better than this! (feddit.it)
Found this today at a flight museum (with a transit section) close to Milan
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....
Dodge RAM driver kills a cyclist. Media calls it a "bike crash". (www.koin.com)
EU poised to water down new car pollution rules after industry lobbying (www.theguardian.com)
‘People are happier in a walkable neighborhood’: the US community that banned cars (www.theguardian.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/6669422...