hundreds of millions of dollars of federal "investment" going to freeway overpasses and seven-lane car-centric intersections with painted bike lanes are not "reconnecting communities". You're just putting a veneer of modernity on the wall of cars that separates kids and other non-drivers from independence, keeping the vast majority of people enslaved to #motoNormativity. #ClimateDenial#transportation#carSupremacy#ODOTGTFOpdx#legalizeBikes
@argv_minus_one@tob@kashhill there are many ham-fisted ways to go about doing anything, including #BanCars or protecting people from corporate surveillance. Exploding or just vanishing every car in an instant with no warning would be one of the more cruel and stupid choices but the buses would instantly work great and your employers would be riding them too. Some stupider ways to do it might still come out better than the status-quo of cascading policy failure that is #motonormativity
"With a mountain of evidence on the devastating health effects of individual vehicular traffic, how is it then that we continue almost exclusively plan and build for the car, instead of prioritizing people and their health?"
Some of us kinda suspected this but it's great to have science to back it up:
Cars are rewiring our brains to ignore all the bad stuff about driving
A new study reveals how unconscious bias leads us to neglect negative externalities of driving. You may call it ‘#carBrain,’ but this research team calls it ‘#motonormativity.’
the mental gymnastics of #drivers faced with the notion of driving around the block sometimes to avoid extincting our species, is how they get their cardio
#PBOT's "traffic calming" projects are such kid-gloves weaksauce that doesn't pretend to control the kinds of drivers who are actually making our streets feel unsafe. Their machines are 5-7000lb lumps of steel being flung around at 30mph with 400hp and Portland has, after a decade of organizing by neighbors and careful work by professional #trafficEngineers, delivered like a dozen rubber bumps and some paint. #tacticalUrbanism is this stuff but overnight, & then iterate
Every single time that someone looks at their #transportation options to get to work, run an errand, take the kids to school... and they choose driving, is ANOTHER CAR ON THE ROAD. Agencies need to quit acting like cars are their most important customers (more importantly, their budgets and revenue models not be structured that way) and account for the long-term insolvency that #motoNormativity#CarBrain#WindshieldBias imposes on the city. #VisionZero + #ClimateAction plans call for urgency!
Westfield Newmarket customers are demanding accountability from the mall’s owner after shoppers were left trapped in their cars for hours and one woman was forced to wet herself as the queue to exit the Auckland shopping centre’s carpark ground to a halt.
Da kommen einfach Wissenschaftler daher, schauen sich ganz frech Daten an, rechnen mit ihnen und kommen zu dem Ergebnis, das Lkw und Pkw Kommunen ne große Menge Geld kosten, das sie sich nicht mal ansatzweise von den Nutzern holen, und die klimafreundliche Dreifaltigkeit aus ÖPNV, Rad und Fuß nicht nur weniger kostet als immer behauptet sondern auch noch stärker an den Kosten beteiligt wird als Lkw und Pkw.
Das ist schon frech.
Wird aber Brummbrummland nicht zu einem schnellen Umdenken bringen. Schließlich sind diese versteckten Subventionen Wachstumsförderung™️
Finally, somebody implemented AI-street reimagining as a public tool: https://dutchcyclinglifestyle.com/
Explore how also in your city almost every street is an urban planning failure! Here #copenhagen. Some of the needed changes are so tiny, yet they are somehow impossible:
And it's not just the quiet side streets. The problem is especially with all those big streets with protected bike lanes. Those protected bike lanes don't do much for liveability - to the contrary, they cement the status quo of #motonormativity : "You got your tiny dedicated space, the rest is for cars."
Ever push a wheelchair bound person forward into a #curbcut? Really dangerous. Its really steep and likely there's a hole at the bottom that will catch the little front wheels. Always back down a curbcut.
Did this with my dad who was at #NewJewishHome on W106 in #Manhattan many times. At every curb cut I'd rotate 180 and move him down the ramp backwards and then rotate 180 again once I was in the street. Total bullshit. Maximal #Carbrain. Just extend the sidewalk so there's no height change when crossing a street. #DSNY might say this messes up their snow removal but its no different than a #speedHump. In climates where there is no snow, there is zero excuse other than #motoNormativity.
I suppose in a city that has imported US automobility values, it's not surprising that the #Galway Advertiser would print a US cartoonist rather than commissioning someone locally, and one that reinforces #motonormativity and the victim blaming that is such a feature of Ireland's #RoadSafety approach. #GalwayCityOfCars
isn't it nifty how the law says you get to pass someone who has their turn signal on, on the side they're turning toward, if your vehicle is more powerful ¯_(ツ)_/¯ #MotoNormativity