"Wohnraum statt Hubraum" auf ein dickes Wohnmobil kleben und dieses in einer ohnehin engen Fahrradstraße in einer der teuersten Städte Deutschlands abstellen und damit den Flächendruck nur noch erhöhen...
Manchmal verzweifle ich echt an der egozentrischen selbstgerechten Dummheit unserer MitbürgerInnen.
@kim_harding I know nothing about the California electricity grid. But I do know electricity demand more or less follows a sinewave and overnight demand is negligible. So set your timer to start charging at 9 pm and run till 7am and you actually help the grid, using otherwise unusable energy which would have to be dumped.
And in some parts of Australia the grid can actually tap into household and EV batteries at the peak half hour just after 8am so they can cope with the excess demand
Well the next stage of birds in the manufacturing environment is to die in an inconvenient spot then get a plant wide meeting about keeping the doors closed.
@capntransit@evanpeterjones Yeah, I've told you this but I don't know if Evan knows that the origin story of the blog name was from when I walked around Worcester, was horrified by how unwalkable it was, and put some photos onto a Facebook album with the title "more pedestrian observations."
@Alon@evanpeterjones I'm not sure you ever actually told me the story behind the name! Pretty cool.
I've changed trains in Worcester, England, and I've been to a lot of towns in Massachusetts, but for some reason I've never been to Worcester, Massachusetts....
Looking at modern American cities, and at photos of General Motors' "Futurama" exhibit - where they promoted their utopic view of a future in which everyone was their customer - it's clear that GM succeeded in pushing through with their vision.
Modern American cities look very much like the models they presented there.
They were razed and re-made, not according to the will of their citizens but that of a handful of corporate profiteers.
If Earth Day really meant anything, it would be World Scrap a Car day, doesn't have to be yours (if you don't have one), just any random car... that way we really could start to save the planet...
@cheeaun of course they need to start from somewhere. But quite curious normal driver here are aware of those bike lanes or not? (Maybe they thought those are motorbike lane 🤣)
But they also mentioned “he said, highlighting that the lane was built according to safety regulations and specifications.”.
@henrylim96 maybe good for initial awareness/marketing/education despite still useless. I see the lanes got put bicycle icons. Now just need to see if the awareness thing or the maintenance work will persist 🫣
SG also got such issues last time but they really rebuilt the whole road (widening, move trees, move bus stops, etc) instead of monkey-patching.