Yesterday a road-raging toy pickup driver called me a dick for crossing the street. I told him to GET A JOB. Then, about a dozen chemistry grad students laughed at him from the sidewalk. I hope he's still mad.
@rbellinger Sure, bikes are fun, healthy, an extremely efficient/fast way to get around, cheap, and on and on.. but perhaps the best thing about them is the way that they short-circuit #CarBrain every time.
The saga of Waverley Park — Melbourne's car-dependent suburban AFL stadium with a planned seated capacity of over 150,000 (not a typo!)
A really good run down by @philip on the plans by the AFL (and its predecessor, the VFL) to build the world's largest stadium in outer-suburban Melbourne.
Unfortunately, a planned railway line past the stadium to Rowville was never built. That meant a massive 25,000-spot car park as the only real means to get there.
While most of it has been demolished and redeveloped for housing, the oval itself still used by Hawthorn Football Club as a training and administration centre.
I still think the most under-reported, most holy shit tech story of the last 5+ years is how good e-bikes have gotten and how much more affordable a decent e-bike has become.
E-cars and trucks are a nice change but mostly meh. E-bikes, tho? They are magic.
They deserve subsidies and way more press attention.
I ascribe it to English-language people suffering from #CarBrain, and since English-language journalists are of that culture it's hard for them to go around the blind spot. Same for EVs that are buses, by the way.
But yeah, worldwide, the EV revolution came on TWO wheels. Here's a thread
Red state attempts to tell city what to do / not do. This is the kind of delay tactics that is the current brand of #ClimateDenial. Helped by #CarBrain that says bus riders are undeserving.
" The bill targeted Indianapolis and could have scuttled over one hundred million dollars in federal funds. Specifically, the bill put a one year moratorium on dedicated lanes deemed essential for the Blue Line while a one year study could be conducted on their effectiveness."
But the delay tactic has been foiled, and now #Indianapolis is getting a third line in its bus rapid transit system. BRT means that buses get a dedicated lane (so they don't get stuck in car traffic). #CarBrain, which believes it owns the entire street, hates that.
"The Blue Line rapid transit system has been recommended to receive roughly $140 million in support from the federal government."
Periodic reminder that space flight is cool, alt-right billionaires are not. You can get to space without fashy billionaires.
The same Tesla fans who are completely shocked that BYD sells more cars, will also be surprised to know that China has its own space station, and is ahead of the US in the race to a manned mission to Mars.
When I tell people that >20% of the population everywhere cannot drive, they always quibble about including children in that calculation. I think it says a lot about our car brained society that it's normal to think minors shouldn't have independent mobility.
As expected, the govt's transport policy is backwards, regressive, and basically environmental vandalism.
The #carBrain kind of stuff oil and car companies probably drafted for the transport minister thinking there was no way they would get all they wanted but then did.
This government really is three lobbyists in a trench coat.
#climate
Folks applaud the US’ infrastructure bill— but instead of leveraging investment for our children’s future, we are doubling down on #carbrain#infrastructure which will worsen #ClimateChange
☒ Adding more road and parking space for the ever-increasing number of cars.
☑ Taking a step back and realizing that the path of supporting these highly inefficient modes of transport is unsustainable.
It just never ceases to amaze me how bad drivers have gotten in the past few years. We have one car, which I drive as if I'm a grandma riding my bike - aka the speed limit & head on a swivel - because other drivers have gotten so terrible. Does #carbrain cause dementia? Is it all the California drivers? Did everyone just decide that rules don't apply to them anymore? Is it the fentanyl? What is going on? #carssuck
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.
"Thankfully, the vehicle was not transporting any passengers at the time of the blaze, and Waymo is no longer required to have a safety driver in each of its vehicles."
No, Jalopnik:
It is precisely the zero occupation of the car that brought on the attack.
Also, a real person would have steered the car around that crowd.
Das lokale Käseblatt in #Karlsruhe zeigt klar, auf wessen Seite es bei Fragen der #Verkehrssicherheit steht.
Wie kann die Stadt auch nur auf die Idee kommen, nur wegen der #Kinder den #Autoverkehr "auszubremsen"?!
Ronan the Soothsayer hath a prophesy that he doth tell:
When the first court cases come in for accidents caused by self driving cars, and they place responsibility on the person sitting in the front seat, drivers will swiftly turn away from the technology. Car companies, on the basis of sunk cost, will plough on, but will rebrand it as AI Driving Assistant #carBrain#tech#future#ooohHowCanHeKnow
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.’