Fuck Cars

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/27638728

This was the third such referendum in Paris in as many years, following a 2023 vote that approved a ban on e-scooters, and a decision last year to triple parking charges for large SUVs.

Even with the caveats about limited data and untangling causation and correlation, the statistics are striking: the first year of a scheme in Wales where the speed limit on urban roads was lowered to 20mph resulted in about 100 fewer people killed or seriously injured.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s recall, which covers more than 46,000 Cybertrucks, warned that an exterior panel that runs along the left and right side of the windshield can detach while driving, creating a dangerous road hazard for other drivers, increasing the risk of a crash

Protesters in Toronto are calling on an engineering firm to cancel its contract with the Ontario government to help remove some city bike lanes, alleging the removal will endanger cyclists and worsen the climate crisis.

A good article from The Guardian discussing the trouble we face in Australia with ever increasing vehicle sizes.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/19431148

A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém.

Not a local but sharing the word since this is highly needed.

Michael Bloomberg wrote an opinion piece that collecrs a lot of reason why congestion pricing is good for NYC

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/6623846

"Konfitura" channel

TJ Day liked riding his bike to and from work at Walgreens. It helped him stay fit and gave him time to wind down in the evening.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26304594

Interestingly worded title - did the car drive itself into the crowd? No, right? Then why would they word it like that?

Housing Rule

UPDATE: the battery fire obviously didn't help, but according to new reporting it turns out that the Cybertruck really did trap the victims inside.

My city (La Mure in Isère, 5,000 inhabitants) is trying to create a town square (right now, it's just parking lots). The city hall attempted a temporary urbanism approach, but there was a strong backlash from shop owners. In the end, six months later, no one's complaining anymore, and we're still waiting for the predicted death of businesses... but well.

If possible to cover on a water-repelling material, then what is the point of cars? Why need to still produce pollution even after death?

Good article about why plain switching to EVs isn’t the solution.

Local big box HW store (but one of their smallest stores) has closed their front doors on main street Monday to Friday. You know the doors near all the nice footpath seating.

He dreamed of a cycling revolution. Then an SUV crushed him

"It does suck, because everybody kind of makes fun of the Cybertruck. To the outside person, it's kind of weird, it's ugly, whatever. Once you actually get in it, drive it, you realize it's pretty frickin' cool," he says. "It's kind of been sad, because I've been trying to prove to people that it's a really awesome truck that's not falling apart, and then mine starts to fall apart, so it's just... Yeah, it's kind of unfortunate and sad."

Summary

https://nitter.net/WhiteHouse/status/1892295984928993698#m

Are you kidding me?

When the dummy was dressed in the reflective jacket, the CR-V didn’t slow in any of the trials, regardless of additional roadway lighting.

It's probably time we admit cars that are a bit too useful as weapons to continue affording them the vast uncritical access they currently enjoy in our built environments.

What if we handle road safety as general safety?

San Mateo remains driving dependent city.

This is maybe more like 'wtf cars'.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25125181

stolen from Simon Tatham

I started doing a "one short story a week" challenge, and I ended up writing something I think y'all might appreciate.

https://www.copakeauction.com/featured-lot-taxonomy/cavalry/

100 years ago: Electra Lynne was arrested for violating LA's newly-enacted traffic ordinance that prioritized cars over people.

Source: https://partyon.xyz/@nullagent/113878729653655042 I would have shared this one directly from Mastodon but I couldn't find out how. Seems as if the fediverse actually still is a bunch of fediplanets 😔

NJ Residents/voters/potential primary challengers take note

Dutch university researcher Holger Caesar heads out into the afternoon traffic on a bicycle like no other, equipped to collect data he believes may one day save lives.

Well, I guess that's one way to solve the problem 🙄

WTF? Hers a better jdea, ban on steeet parking. Prove you have somewhere to park the car or not be allowed to buy it.

OSAKA — Yumeshima Station opened Sunday morning on a reclaimed island in Konohana Ward, Osaka, the location of the 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo.

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/21517409

The ambient air pollution by particulate matter (PM) has strong negative effects on human health. Recent studies have found correlations between pollution and mortality due to Covid-19. We present here an analysis of such correlation for 32 locations in 6 countries of the Western Europe (France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom), for the 2020–2022 period. The data are weekly averaged, and the mortality values were normalized considering the population of the locations. A correlation is qualitatively found for the time-series of PM2.5 pollution and Covid-19 mortality.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/52646883

A number of Southwestern metropolises listed as dangerous to pedal-powered travelers are endeavoring to reduce traffic, improve air quality and slow climate change by making roads safer for cyclists.

This study aims to expand the understanding of public acceptance of carbon taxes by exploring the role of habits. Habits play a pivotal role in guiding our behaviors and reasoning and can even influence our self perception and identity but remain an underexplored variable in relation to public policy acceptance. We employed a large scale (N > 5200) national survey to measure public acceptance of higher carbon taxation in Sweden, also capturing car driving habits, car usage, and other relevant variables. The findings show that habit strength is negatively correlated with policy acceptance, regardless of self reported driving distance, while also appearing to moderate the relationship between policy acceptance and environmental concern and political leaning, variables previously shown to be of relevance. The study suggests that the influence of habits needs to be recognized to better understand the formation of climate policy acceptance, and exploring this perspective paves the way for future research.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/184198

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/6623846

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24007336

Walking? For 20 minutes? My father did not make all this money for me to be forced to mingle with you commoners