High Quality Transit Should be the Standard for “Normal” Cities (www.youtube.com)
Same title (lemmy.ml)
‘Autobesity’ on course to worsen air pollution caused by motoring (www.theguardian.com)
The Laughable Ways Traffic Engineers Try to Make Car Dominated Streets "Safe" For Walking (www.youtube.com)
How cars spy on their drivers and passengers (foundation.mozilla.org)
Wales lowers speed limit to 20 mph to cut car use and save lives (www.euronews.com)
cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/7658487...
Paying child support to drunk drving victims (youtu.be)
New law in Texas will make drunk drivers who murdered parent or guardian to pay child support until the child is 18 years old.
85% Of Car Drivers Break 20mph Speed Limits, Reveals U.K.’s Department For Transport (www.forbes.com)
Suspended Sentence: Mandurah man avoids immediate prison time for killing cyclist in Lakes Road crash (grittynewstoday.info)
WTF? A suspended sentence for killing someone with a car while on drugs?...
Dodge RAM driver kills a cyclist. Media calls it a "bike crash". (www.koin.com)
Two of Starmer’s biggest donors are motor industry bosses (www.opendemocracy.net)
Kier Starmer is the leader of Labour, the largest opposition party in the UK.
4chan gets it (lemmy.ml)
If We Want a Shift to Walking, We Need To Prioritize Dignity (www.strongtowns.org)
Have you ever had a friend return from a vacation and gush about how great it was to walk in the place they’d visited? “You can walk everywhere! To a café, to the store. It was amazing!” Immediately after saying that, your friend hops in their car and drives across the parking lot to the Starbucks to which they could...
Why cities are better with cargo bikes (www.youtube.com)
Modern Cities Suck, But They Don't Have To (www.youtube.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.
Let’s play Roulette Obscura — getting to know random interesting places
Follow this link. It leads to a random page on Atlas Obscura — a website dedicated to collecting unusual places around the world. Tell us what you landed on and share a few thoughts about that subject. You can reroll a few times since not all the results might fit the theme of the community....
the Ontario Science Centre, a piece of sustainable brutalist architecture designed to integrate into and show respect to it's environment, is slated to be torn down (i.ibb.co)
I thought those of you who aren’t torontonians, and may have never heard of the science center, would be interested in this story. The science center is a phenomenal building that most people living in Ontario have fond memories of. It was designed to draw attention to the environment it existed in, emphasizing natural...
the curious story behind japan's manhole covers (www.frankie.com.au)
Each one is custom made for a city.
NEON: A brief history
An enduring love affair with the solar systems 5th most common element
Inside The Mystery Of The Toynbee Tiles, Eerie Mosaics With Messages About Reviving Dead People On Jupiter
All That is Interesting
The coolest city sculptures, in my opinion, are the ones you don't notice right away (www.atlasobscura.com)
A series of small sculptures of Lemmings from an amazing 90s video game interacting with their environment in Dundee, Scotland
The decline of American playtime — and how to resurrect it: The world can be terrifying. But we should still give kids the freedom to explore it. (www.vox.com)
Why Paris Tore Down A Highway To Build A Tram (youtu.be)
America is full of abandoned malls. What if we turned them into housing? (www.vox.com)
