We have created a society where to survive a large proportion of people are compelled to spend a ton of money to risk their life and risk becoming killers, at least twice a day, every single workday! They have no other choice.
It is madness!
We have created a society where such a system is so normalized and internalized that the victims of it fight to keep it! And the more victimized, the harder they fight.
It's the morning rush hour in Downtown Bellingham and, clearly, the newly installed bike lane on Holly Street is leading to hell-in-a-handbasket traffic conditions for area motorists who are now denied one of three travel lanes!
Not surprised the City of Melbourne LGA has 60% of households with zero to one cars; I've always said you could easily live without a car in inner-city Melbourne. Would be interesting to see how many households here have precisely zero cars.
Just got hit by a car again. Luckily he was going super slowly. I had already crossed a lane of traffic and he had a stop sign he just completely ignored. Fucking drivers. "I was staring at the homeless dude on the sidewalk instead of looking where I was going" is not a fucking excuse unless he's planning on giving the guy his car. #waroncars#carswaronpeople
Listening to a podcast this morning where the hosts try to push back against toxic masculinity, patriarchy, and gender norms. Randomly in the middle of an episode specifically about toxic masculinity and how harmful it is one of the hosts made a joke in response to something one of the other hosts said about how they "probably ride a bicycle with a bell on it like a child in the 30s". Car culture is so absolutely ingrained that this was entirely passed by without comment or concern.
For anyone in the #Denver area who is looking to reduce their carbon footprint, the city is starting a program to pay people to ride their #bike instead of take their car.
Transportation is the second biggest driver of greenhouse gas emissions and the largest contributer reducing air quality in three city. Every bit helps and the $150,000 in funds will hopefully help push people to make the healthier choice we all benefit from.
Serious politics going on to try to disrupt a plan to make Los Angeles safer for pedestrians and cyclists. Quite a bit of car-supporting backlash, highlighting the issues that seem to come up in any plan to attempt to battle fossil fuels usage.
Candidate for City Council:
“We don’t have room for bicycle lanes that one person might ride down once a day,” he said. “We need the mobility, and we need it for cars.”
Urbanists and cyclists 🚴♂️ in Naugatuck Valley #Connecticut are encouraged to complete an online survey examining habits, preferences, and challenges to walking/rolling and cycling in the community.
Operating on less than five hours of sleep, your risk of a car crash increases threefold. Get behind the wheel of a car when having slept just four hours or less the night before and you are 11.5 times more likely to be involved in a car accident. Note how the relationship between decreasing hours of sleep and increasing mortality risk of an accident is not linear, but instead exponentially mushrooms.
Many of us, when we refer to the #WarOnCars, really mean the war on us - as individuals, communities, societies, cultures - conducted through the car. This isn't so much an issue of modernity vs tradition as it is one of capital, atomization, and alienation against us all.
Yelled at somebody for running a stop sign (in front of a park where multiple people have been hit within blocks of a school during school commute hours in the rain) and he did a u-turn and followed me around the block.
I don't think men always understand the amount of threat that cars represent for a woman walking down a street. This guy did - he was using it to make some sort of point. #BanCars#WarOnCars