"Paris has closed more than 100 streets to motor vehicles, tripled parking fees for SUVs, removed roughly 50,000 parking spots, and constructed more than 1,300 kilometers of bike lanes since Mayor Anne Hidalgo took office in 2014. Those changes have contributed to a 40% decline in air pollution..."
@bbbhltz@TheWarOnCars it never ceases to amaze me how #CarBrain people think that freedom means that we should build our own homes to cater for them to be able to travel through with their metal murderboxes.
No, suburbanites, cities don't owe you a nice car infrastructure so you can haul your @$$ to our city in your personal vehicle. We need to build the cities for the people living there, not the people passing through.
The person on the left is carrying bags, the one in orange is a delivery driver and a couple of people are wearing backpacks. Aside from car brained, Damaris is also blind.
@chiliedogg@Annoyed_Crabby@fuck_cars
I'd bet that a lot of that inefficiency was built in as a precondition of its passage. That's how it works in red states. Let blue islands implement "woke" policies, but only in ways that kneecap them from the beginning, so you can campaign against their "failure" in a few years.
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!
One only has to bring in the costs of not taking the train: all the state subsidies to roads, to traffic police, to health care not just for accidents but also from the lack of exercise and the crankiness of not interacting with fellow human beings and being stressed in a car, plus the cost of lost leisure and labour from having committed the time to driving instead. And the environmental damage of driving and cars.
#BeppeSala vuole una "città meno convulsa", "con meno macchine e più verde", ma "senza fare la guerra alle macchine"
Il concetto di "guerra alle #auto" è sbagliato. Sono le auto che fanno la guerra a tutto il resto, occupano la gran parte dello spazio pubblico con un'efficienza scarsissima, e hanno trasformato le nostre città in luoghi dove chiunque è fuori da un'auto non si sente né a suo agio né sicuro.
"But with most American cities designed to promote cars over all other forms of transit, the health of scooter users is, like those of pedestrians and cyclists, at risk once wheels hit pavement. Perhaps it should be no surprise that of the 30 people killed in 2018 while riding an e-scooter, 80 percent were struck by a car."
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.
@maxkennerly This gift link isn't the same as for NYT or WaPo. Bloomberg requires registration of the reader, even if free. Having not read the B article, it is easy to see why auto insurance is and will be higher: body shops are already past their limits as are insurance adjusters. People buy vehicles with the name "Gladiator" (a Jeep model) not because they want simple economic transportation. If Romans took out insurance on real Gladiators, but it would not have been cheap. #waroncars
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
@scott Oh indeed. I'm a #waroncars guy even though I have one. And think the most powerful path forward is maybe through e-bikes. But many people want cars and until we get there BEV is an improvement.
The NYTimes is once again trashing the most promising mobility innovation of the 21st century (lemmy.ml)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/16133154...
Cycling isn't legitimate transportation...apparently (sh.itjust.works)
The person on the left is carrying bags, the one in orange is a delivery driver and a couple of people are wearing backpacks. Aside from car brained, Damaris is also blind.