Global sales of polluting SUVs hit record high in 2023, data shows (www.theguardian.com)
Innovation makes useful things smaller - overconsumption makes them bigger and more meaningless (norden.social)
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/9992203...
A Historical Perspective on Los Angeles' Traffic Congestion Fight - Streetsblog California (cal.streetsblog.org)
The NYTimes is once again trashing the most promising mobility innovation of the 21st century (lemmy.ml)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/16133154...
Official moderator announcement: The land use around North Berkeley Station is an affront to God (hexbear.net)
They built a subway station in one of the worst housing markets in America and put surface parking on top of it. Bare minimum housing around the station should look like this: https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/0844ecd6-9d4e-4324-917c-2289cff92084.jpeg
No for real what's up with those people (hexbear.net)
New Renderings Revealed For 'The Coney': a beachfront casino, hotel, and entertainment complex proposed for Coney Island, across the street from Coney Island-Stillwell Av Subway Station (newyorkyimby.com)
Where is this? Wrong answers only. (hexbear.net)
Spoiler> Downtown Austin skyline
Milan, Italy, is littered with illegally parked cars. Fed-up people counted them: 64000 were found, 30 cars/km of road. (feddit.it)
Milan has 51 cars for 100 inhabitants, which is the double of other big cities in Europe, like Madrid (291,3) o Paris (225,2). One of the consequences is that traffic is terrible, and Milan is, for example, one of the worst cities on TomTom traffic index...
Car Journeys Up In 2023 With Bus And Bicycle Journeys Down, Reports U.K. Department For Transport (www.forbes.com)
Some Massachusetts towns are refusing to comply with state law to zone for more homes. Meanwhile - metro Boston is facing the worst shortage of homes anywhere in the US. (archive.ph)
It’s a Boston article....
US can’t meet EV copper demand, study finds (www.eenews.net)
"Just to meet business-as-usual trends, 115% more copper must be mined in the next 30 years than has been mined historically until now," the study said.
The Brutalist Hotel du Lac in Tunis was an inspiration for the Sandcrawler in Star Wars. (hexbear.net)
The upside down hotel said to have inspired Star Wars faces demolition | CNN...
Crappy local infrastructure thread
Thread to vent about the dangerous and inefficient infrastructure you have to deal with.
Cycling isn't legitimate transportation...apparently (sh.itjust.works)
The person on the left is carrying bags, the one in orange is a delivery driver and a couple of people are wearing backpacks. Aside from car brained, Damaris is also blind.
London flooding: Should the capital become a 'sponge city'? - BBC News (www.bbc.co.uk)
MetaWindow: Noise Reduction from Deutsche Bahn (www.railtarget.eu)
Ready player one is closer than we think (hexbear.net)
Self-balancing commuter pods ride old railway lines on demand (newatlas.com)
“we have Dahir insaat at home” ass monorail
Why Paris Tore Down A Highway To Build A Tram (youtu.be)
Normal empire in decline shit. (hexbear.net)
nbcnews.com/…/barge-slams-galveston-bridge-texas-…
xkcd #2932: Driving PSA (imgs.xkcd.com)
xkcd.com/2932...