"An official study of low-traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) ordered by Rishi Sunak amid efforts to stop them being built has instead concluded they are generally popular and effective and the report was initially buried"
'An official study of low-traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) ordered by Rishi Sunak amid efforts to stop them being built has instead concluded they are generally popular and effective and the report was initially buried, the Guardian has learned.'
A top European auto safety body is releasing new rules that will require physical buttons and knobs for key vehicle features to receive a full five-star safety rating. I’d like to see the same in North America.
Behind Elon Musk’s empire is a mountain of environmental waste and countless stories of worker harm.
In a Patreon bonus episode, I spoke to Linette Lopez about how he went after Tesla worker Martin Tripp and his growing ties to authoritarian governments.
This week in the Disconnect Roundup I talk about why the Apple Car never made any sense, should’ve been cancelled long ago, and should be the death of self-driving hype. Plus, recommended reads, labor updates, and other news!
Mass transit along California’s North Coast is difficult. The long distances between rural communities are trouble for ordinary battery-powered electric buses, which don’t have the range to make there-and-back trips. Hydrogen buses, however, are able to make the long journey. And thanks to a $38.7 million grant, Humboldt Transit Authority is purchasing 11 state-of-the-art buses and building a hydrogen fueling station.
Its great for #London that TFL has again frozen fares for #transport, but this is in stark contrast to the rest of #England & #Wales where Govt. 'intervention' has limited rises just under 5%.
What is needed is a range of bodies across the regions with similar powers to TFL & a similar outlook about the social worth of #publctransport.
To adapt the old saying of socialism for the rich & capitalism for the rest of us... its a public transport for London & cars for the rest of us.
Y'know what'd be awesome to minimise the material footprint of cars? Standardised, modular battery systems.
Imagine: for your daily city usage you use a small battery with, say, 150-300km range. Then when you want to take your family on holiday you take your car to the local battery swap and install the 800km range battery.
Smaller battery means:
Lighter cars = less wear on roads & less danger in crashes
'Department for Transport figures show 118.1 miles of roads in Hampshire had improvement work done in the year to March 2023 – down from 207.8 miles five years ago. The maintenance could include strengthening, resurfacing and preservation of roads.'
I hope this is the final nail in the coffin of the idea that self-driving cars will make any meaningful difference in transportation. It was never true, but distracted so many people from real solutions for over a decade.
Having more money than sense, Apple threw billions at a bad idea they should’ve pulled the plug on years ago.
In ‘news that should surprise nobody but it’s nice to have it quantified’: high speed rail is less carbon intensive than short-haul flights, even when you take into account the full life cycle (including construction).
In other words, we should be banning short-haul flights and investing in trains.
We are calling on the Philippine government to enforce legislation to ban the farming, slaughter, and consumption of dogs. #DogSlaughter for consumption was banned in the Philippines in 1982. This ban was reinforced in 1998 via the #AnimalWelfareAct which prohibits killing dogs for food with minimum penalties set at 1,000 pesos (equivalent to about US$22 at the time) and not less than six months in prison.
Dogs are intelligent and are regarded as family by many people. They are loyal, loving and have a long history as companion animals for humans.
Dog Meat Trade Cruelty
Dogs captured for the meat trade are often injured during #transport, suffer #dehydration and #exhaustion, and extreme #terror and confusion at their betrayal by humans, before being violently killed.
Vous avez le droit de vous plaindre, mais uniquement le dimanche soir entre 2h du mat' et 4h, la 6e semaine de chaque mois, sans lune et pendant les années bissextiles dont la racine carré fait 42 multiplier par l'âge du 2e président de la IIIe république.
Hein, faut pas gêner les gens qui travaillent ou les bourgeois qui vont au ski !