How Cars Turned Into Giant Killers (slate.com)
Why does induced demand seem to affect highways but not transit, cycling, or walking infrastructure? (TLDW: It does for all of those but highways are worse at dealing with it) (www.youtube.com)
NYC MTA sets Manhattan congestion price at $15 for most vehicles, just one MTA vote left before the first congestion pricing in North America (www.planetizen.com)
New York City’s congestion pricing program is moving forward with a $15 fee on passenger vehicles, reports Stephen Nessen in Gothamist, after the MTA board voted to approve it. The program now enters a 60-day public comment period before a final vote....
Some good news from the UK: London cycling numbers go wild | London Cycling Campaign (lcc.org.uk)
Cycling numbers are up in London!...
Paris mayor plans to triple SUV parking tariffs to cut air pollution (www.theguardian.com)
Anti-ULEZ extremists blow up a ULEZ camera using an IED (news.met.police.uk)
Car-brains now actually blowing things up in suburban England, with the tacit support of Tory MPs.
... and you feel nothing. (lemmy.ml)
A great illustration of how cities can be designed around public transit at scale (www.youtube.com)
there still are too many cars in german cities (feddit.de)
It's that time of the year again (media.mas.to)
same bed length (feddit.de)
Simple proposal to force politicians to improve road design
Elected officials should be forced to go to their workplace several times a week by bike, this could greatly accelerate the improvement of roads for alternative means of transport. Do you agree ?
Go ahead. (slrpnk.net)
Who Owns the Streets? How Cars Took Over Our Shared Spaces (www.youtube.com)
“15-Minute City” Conspiracies Have It Backwards (yt.artemislena.eu)
Europe’s politicians are dEsPeRaTe to tackle e-scooters, why aren’t they bothered by monster SUVs? (www.transportenvironment.org)
Idea for disrespecting cars
OK so I came up with a slightly crazy idea. Do you know how cars are emblazoned with logos and emblems? Like the brand name (Toyota), the car name (Kluger), engine and other doodads (V6 etc etc). What if we made like jokey versions of these to replace on our cars? Like make a Toyota logo but it looks a bit more like a penis....
Birds eating some paint chips off the dividing line (i.imgur.com)
insane infrastructure needed
What London’s mayor learned when he took on the cars (www.politico.eu)
Britain's addiction to cars is built on a financial house of cards (www.theguardian.com)
How Commute Culture Made American Cities Lifeless -- Yet There's Hope (www.youtube.com)
This video outlines some of the relationships between US commuting culture and the perspectives that it’s engendered about the role of the city. The, when compared and contrasted to other nations’ approach to city design and perspectives shows that it’s possible to have a city core that’s more than just a workplace....
BDSM (lemmy.ml)
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Hoboken, NJ reduces annual traffic deaths to zero (www.bloomberg.com)
The mayor of Hoboken, NJ came in with a vision of reducing traffic deaths to pedestrians and cyclists. He instituted several strategies of traffic calming, increasing pedestrian visibility, reducing city wide street speeds to 20 mph with schools and parks down to 15 mph. Within a few years of road improvements and redesigns...
Cars Are A Disaster For Society -- Here Are the Numbers (www.youtube.com)
