Deaths from Wars & Cars (files.mastodon.social)
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[article] Owning a car in Montreal costs an average of $1,310 per month (montreal.citynews.ca)
The detail is "where do they park?" The answer is they don't. (aussie.zone)
Shared on Facebook with the caption “Doing absolutely no favours to their international reputation, Americans have swarmed social media posts of Taylor Swift’s Melbourne concerts confused by a very obvious detail. Can you spot it?”...
[image] People would probably hate cars a lot less if they were limited in size and speed to a golf cart (lemmy.world)
Pros of golf carts and neighborhood electric vehicles (NEVs) replacing all private cars within a city:...
Car ownership by country (www.visualcapitalist.com)
Car harm: A global review of automobility's harm to people and the environment | ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com)
A paper summarising ‘car-related harm including crashes, pollution, land use, and injustices’....
[meme]I just want to protect my kids from other drivers... (thelemmy.club)
Self-destruction (lemmy.world)
[discussion] …. But can you walk the walk
I can talk the talk, but this is really going to test that ……...
First contract for widening I-70 approved by Missouri highways commission (missouriindependent.com)
This time, Missouri is going to end congestion…
Car-free ways of going to natural parks?
Quick heads up: natural parks = any place that could be considered outdoorsy. Think national parks or famous lakes like Lake Tahoe. Forest and wooded areas can also be included....
New Colorado bill aims to eliminate parking minimums statewide (kdvr.com)
First contract for widening I-70 approved by Missouri highways commission (missouriindependent.com)
Despite bodies of evidence, Missouri moves forward with adding lanes to interstate 70 highway without any public transit infrastructure additions. We know the outcome already.
US railroad group wants to make tracking train cargo as easy as on Amazon - CNA (www.channelnewsasia.com)
Urban planning YouTube has a HUGE problem. (youtu.be)
TLDR: Watching Not Just Bike and other urbanist YouTube videos alone isn’t going to do anything. We actually need to advocate for this in our local communities and city councils to get stuff done.
Pity SUV drivers, fast being priced out of their badges of contempt for the planet | Catherine Bennett (www.theguardian.com)
[image] Space used for cars in downtown Houston (lemmy.world)
Building a village designed for people (not cars) near Phoenix (www.youtube.com)
“Just outside sprawling Phoenix, developers have built what they call “the first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the US”. Modeled after European villages, Culdesac sits next to a light rail stop and has its own grocery store, restaurant, coffee shop, used clothing store, gym and plenty of gathering spaces....
[discussion] The generation that complains about "participation trophy kids" is the same generation that made it impossible for kids to walk or bike to school
How are kids supposed to become capable and independent if they have to be chauffeured everywhere?
Calls Mount to End the Era of Unquestioned Highway Expansion (www.theurbanist.org)
The article is a bit Washington-centric, but The Communities Over Highways Campaign the article is about is not – I just couldn’t find a source with a broader perspective. You can find the campaign’s site here: americawalks.org/the-communities-over-highways-ca…
Paris Mayor Trying to Remove Highways around Eiffel Tower (www.france24.com)
Getting resistance from the Chief of Police and others.
[image] Toronto Hotel Parking Lot (lemmy.world)
I took this awhile ago and thought maybe someone would be amused by it. I miss that car.
D.C. to Dangerous Drivers: We Will Slow You Down! (usa.streetsblog.org)
Fill ’er up. Burn it down (www.nationalobserver.com)
[image] We don't need trucks or diesel to move freight in cities, just cargo trams (lemmy.world)
en.m.wikipedia.org/…/Sacramento_Northern_Railway...