Capitalism breeds innovation (hexbear.net)
America is full of abandoned malls. What if we turned them into housing? (www.vox.com)
Fatigue 2 - John Brosio (2009) (www.xibtmagazine.com)
Cross posting cause no bikes in this one :-)
Italy’s new road law will make street less safe and slow down sustainable mobility (www.euronews.com)
Matteo Salvini, leader of the far-right Lega party and transport minister has proposed a reform of the traffic road code....
Noticed this while talking with a couple of friends (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)
Old highway becomes public park with 24,000 plants in Seoul (archive.curbed.com)
French Revolution: Cyclists Now Outnumber Motorists In Paris (www.forbes.com)
Why has the ‘15-minute city’ taken off in Paris but become a controversial idea in the UK? (www.theguardian.com)
Federated Ecovillages & Steps Towards a Modern Cybersyn (anarchosolarpunk.substack.com)
The most cost effective measure to beat climate change is building bike infrastructure (www.youtube.com)
Project Drawdown has characterized a set of 93 technologies and practices that together can reduce concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. It’s a gigantic project with a lot of data and analyses....
How To Fix Traffic Forever (www.youtube.com)
How to make streets safer with just a brick - video version (www.youtube.com)
The April’s fool of the brick to cross the street has also an hilarious associated video....
Amsterdam Closed This Bridge to Cars (but not bikes ofc) - YouTube (youtu.be)
TIL…
If you die in the cantilever part, you go to railfan Valhalla (hexbear.net)
twitter.com/NYCPlanning/…/1774846351655707033
Iowans were fooled by a prank to make a busy area of Des Moines... walkable (ody.sh)
15 Minute Cities: A DISASTER waiting to happen (www.youtube.com)
Seriously fuckcars you need to hear this. Have we been fighting for the wrong side the whole time/???
A new kind of crossing just dropped. (hexbear.net)
bsky.app/profile/ketanjoshi.co/…/3koyffl27so22
How to make sure drivers will give way (lemmy.ml)
["Not the Onion" urbanism news] Ex-Caltrain employee, contractor charged with building secret homes at train stations (www.mercurynews.com)
REDWOOD CITY — A former high-level employee and a one-time contractor for Caltrain have been charged with felonies after being accused of building themselves secret mini-apartments inside two Peninsula train stations, all on the taxpayers’ dime, according to authorities and court records....
Has anyone calculated the administrative costs associated with traffic safety research? (crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov)
Just had the fleeting thought that maybe there is a substantial cost to review and create enormous traffic safety research systems and the subsequent training required of law enforcement personnel and administrative staff....
I am shocked. (hexbear.net)
All the Ways Car Dependency Is Wrecking Us (www.youtube.com)
He’s Got a Plan for Cities That Flood: Stop Fighting the Water | A landscape architect in China has a surprising strategy to help manage surges of water from storms supercharged by climate change. (www.nytimes.com)
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/8079352...
MTA gives final approval for congestion pricing in NYC (gothamist.com)
