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"a 51-year-old woman failed to place her GMC Acadia in park and got out of the SUV, which rolled about 75 yards downhill and [killed a child on the sidewalk outside of a school] shortly before 12:30 p.m. [#Seattle] Police have not publicly identified and did not arrest the woman, who ...was not impaired." #BanCars #FuckCars #ACAB #VisionZero #DriverAccountability #CrashNotAccident
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βThe way (Seattle police) approached them, explained things, was like, βMove on. This is an accident. Accidents happen,ββ said Ajema.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/β¦
As I wrestle once again with the annual agony of getting the car MOTβd and serviced (made worse by trying a new garage whoβve turned out to be useless so I will get to do some of it again next week at my usual place), and look at the insurance renewal that has just come through and while lower than last year is painful, I would really really like it if society would stop forcing me to own the bloody thing.
"Nijmegen: The City That Tamed Cars So People Can Walk & Bike Where They Please" All you have to do is embrace #FuckCars as a central tenet of #trafficEngineering. #BanCars #Bollards #CarsRuinCities
Car culture is killing us.
Car culture kills cyclists.
Car culture kills clean air.
Car culture kills children.
Car culture kills wildlife.
Car culture kills fitness.
Car culture kills the environment.
Car culture kills friendliness.
Car culture kills pedestrians.
Car culture kills equality.
Car culture kills the atmosphere.
Car culture kills serenity.
Car culture kills!
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#BikeTooter #StreetsAreForPeople #BanCars
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We are people from all walks of life with one aim: To make it impossible to own a huge polluting 4x4 in the world's urban areas.Tyre Extinguishers
#banCars #brulezVosBagnoles
Periodically some people call for cyclists to pay βroad taxβ saying that they contribute to wear on the roads etc. so should pay towards maintenance.
As I understand it the amount of wear a vehicle causes varies based on the fourth power of the axle weight.
So if Iβve got my sums right, having a charge of a pound a month for a bicycle, and taxing motorists in direct proportion to difference in damage done to road could look something like thisβ¦
#TransportPlanning #BanCars #TheWarOnCars
On of my kid's teachers canceled a meeting with us today because his car wouldn't start in the cold. Cars, as always, remain incredibly stupid.
[edit: And I don't mean that he couldn't, like, drive to our silly little meeting or something. I mean that he actually had to take the day off of work because he couldn't drive to school.]
As a native of #NYCβnot a transplantβwhose family has lived in NYC for over a century, I have a thing to say about this.
The reason we treat our #sidewalks like highways is because we treat our streets like highways.
Get rid of the fucking cars. There would be plenty of room for strolling, if not for the fucking noisy #idiotboxes taking up too much space and #polluting the air.
#BanCars #WarOnCars #PedestriansFirst #Urbanism #DisabilityAccess #PublicTransit
gothamist.com/news/how-to-walkβ¦
How to walk like a New Yorker: A holiday guide for both tourists and locals.
While city sidewalks arenβt as heavily regulated as multi-lane freeways, several practiced pedestrians told Gothamist that some of the same general rules should apply.Samantha Max (Gothamist)
βEveryone thought it would cause gridlockβ: the highway that Seoul turned into a stream
Cheonggyecheon stream in the South Korean capital has become an attraction β and helps with flood management, fighting air pollution and cooling the cityRaphael Rashid (The Guardian)
RFP to 2025 Oregon Active Transportation Summit by Feb 14 for conference April 23-25th at the DoubleTree #Portland, hosted by The Street Trust #pdxBikes #BikeTooter #Urbanism #VisionZero #CityPlanning #BanCars #ClimateAction #Bollards
"Reclaiming the Basics: Safe Streets and Active #Transportation for a Connected #Oregon"
Je profite de la blague, pour rappeler que la neige est un excellent outil urbanistique pour s'interroger sur l'usage de la voirie : blog.elueslocales.fr/delegatioβ¦
#NousSachons #BanCars #UrbanismeTactique
Repenser lβamΓ©nagement des villes grΓ’ce Γ la neige, cβest possible
La neige se rΓ©vΓ¨le Γͺtre un excellent moyen de dΓ©couvrir si l'amΓ©nagement des routes en ville correspond aux rΓ©els besoins des automobilistesΓdouard (Le Blog Γlues Locales)
#MustGetInFront #CarBrain #MotoNormativity #InducedDemand #BanCars #SchoolStreets
Want to be happy? Then donβt buy a car!
Instead choose a bike, a cargo bike, or an e-bike. π² That is the route to true happiness. π€
theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dβ¦
#BikeTooter #WarOnCars #BanCars
How extreme car dependency is driving Americans to unhappiness
A car is often essential in the US but while owning a vehicle is better than not for life satisfaction, a study has found, having to drive too much sends happiness plummetingOliver Milman (The Guardian)
"Ce que l'on sait sur le fusil qui a tirΓ© sur le promeneur qui ne portait pas de gilet fluo lors de sa balade dans l'espace public, ici en forΓͺt."
Continuons d'invisibiliser les auteurs d'homicides, le premier pas pour culpabiliser les victimes.
So for three glorious days, we stayed in hotels along KΔΚ»anapali Beach on Maui - around 3 miles of connected (with public walkways) beach with hotels, activities, restaurants, stores, etc, without a car in sight. Three days of not seeing or hearing a fucking car.
Then yesterday we went elsewhere for kayaking, and our launch spot was right off a main road. It's so incredibly jarring to hear (and smell) the awfulness that is cars after even a short reprieve from them. #BanCars
Funny how the business association endorsing a candidate matches up with them talking about cops and "accidents" in the BikeLoud Q&A responses. It's almost like the PBA's thumb on the scale for #carSupremacy is somehow responsible for #Vision60or70something deaths on our streets. #VisionZero #PolicyFailure #CrashNotAccident #BanCars #ACAB #bollards
bikeloudpdx.org/2024-candidateβ¦
2024 Candidate Question 2
How would you help Vision Zero succeed, and reduce the number of people killed and injured by automobiles in Portland?BIKELOUD
I guess somebody should have told this bollard to wear high-viz and a helmet. Send thicker #bollards.
#schoolStreets #FuckCars #BanCars #CarsSuck #DriverAccountability
Acquaintance complaining how they needed to cut their gym session short because traffic was so bad they wasted most of the time they had for it.
The Most Efficient Systemβ’ strikes again.
#BanCars #NoCarNoProblem #carsRuinCities
Welcome to "the software industry owns your ability to access daily needs", are we ready to #BanCars yet?
infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/1β¦
Serious question: Is anyone making a list of where it may be possible to purchase a *new* car that isn't just spyware on wheels? I've seen the Consumer Reports study but it all just looks like varying degrees of suckiness.I'd also settle for one that doesn't make it hard to turn all the tracking off permanently. Or maybe someone's got a nifty piece of hardware that can be plugged in to nix all this nonsense?
We got blank checks for billions of dollars in freeway widening but need to have a bake sale for kids to ride their bikes to school. Maybe we spent too much getting cars a free ride to school, and a few hundred million for flashing lights is just more car infrastructure anyway. #BanCars #SchoolStreets #BikeBus #defundDOTs
bikeportland.org/2024/12/09/orβ¦
Oregon tops nation in 'Safe Routes' participation, but funding needs loom
We could invest much more on this strong foundation if we wanted to.BikePortland
this dystopic scene of identical robocars clogging an entire block to carry maaaybe 1/4 of a busload of people, was posted by a waymo employee who thought it made his company look good.