"The ultimate test to prove what cars have done to the American psyche only requires that you walk out your front door. Take a photo with your phone. Now highlight in red the places in which it would be fully legal for a car to strike and kill you. Now highlight in yellow the places in which a car could strike and kill you and you would have to make a legal case that it was not your fault. Now highlight in green places where you believe you are safe from cars." - Dan Sheehan #fuckcars
6:30am, Thursday, San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
This congestion could have been a single train car, but the powers that be decided that it was better (for them) to make everyone dependent on the oil and auto industry.
Buy a polluting gas guzzler today and we'll give you €500 to fly somewhere on holiday. Spread the joy of fossil fuels far and wide.
Fun for the kids as well: colour in this picture of a huge #wankpanzer of the kind that is particularly good at killing kids and if you're lucky you might win tickets to be driven to a adventure park.
"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
@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...