Colorado’s Bold New Approach to Highways — Not Building Them | The state has made it harder to widen highways, and transportation officials are turning their eyes to transit. (www.nytimes.com)
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/10092805...
WOKE transit vs PATRIOT transit (lemmy.world)
Me doing my part to portray car dependency as deeply unpatriotic. Which it kinda unironically is.
Cupra born electric hatch, 5 star crash rating. You don't need a suv to be safe anymore. (lemmy.world)
Gone is the excuse that you need a 90k escalade suv to be “safe” on the road.
Electric vehicles and hybrid electric vehicles were found to be approximately twice as likely, on average, to collide with a pedestrian than internal combustion engine vehicles (press.psprings.co.uk)
Cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/20086798...
An M1 Abrams Tank can see children in front better than many current trucks. (thelemmy.club)
Global sales of polluting SUVs hit record high in 2023, data shows | Half of all new cars are now SUVs, making them a major cause of the intensifying climate crisis, say experts (www.theguardian.com)
This, but unironically (lemmy.world)
How moving freight by rail rather than road could help Australia reduce carbon emissions - ABC News (www.abc.net.au)
Japanese Companies Help Build Metro Lines Overseas; JR East And Others Share More Than A Century’s Worth Of Knowledge - The Japan News (japannews.yomiuri.co.jp)
Amtrak Borealis launches, connecting Chicago and Twin Cities – NBC Chicago (www.nbcchicago.com)
[meme] Suburban sprawl starter pack (lemmy.world)
[image] Concrete suburbs disrupt the natural water cycle. (lemmy.world)
Car free cities should be the future. (lemmy.world)
[image] Autoless Autumn / Walking Wednesdays : spread the word! (lemmy.world)
This should be a thing.
Pedestrian and bicycle bridge in Warsaw 2 months after opening (www.facebook.com)
Concerns over lack of pedestrian and bicycle separation had been raised one year before opening....
Outrage as new Aussie car tax ignores 'dangerous' mega-utes (au.finance.yahoo.com)
Rhode Island DMV Is Trying To Ban Kei Trucks Again (www.thedrive.com)
But why the decision to ban Kei trucks from Rhode Island streets? Because the DMV claims they don’t meet Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS).
‘Mini Holland’ scheme in Walthamstow hailed as major success as traffic falls by half, cycling and walking scheme is model for other cities (www.standard.co.uk)
Campaigners have called for “mini Holland” walking and cycling schemes to be introduced in towns across Britain after the first London pilot scheme produced dramatic results....
They Transformed a Nasty Stroad With Bus Rapid Transit (CityNerd) (www.youtube.com)
In Albuquerque NM, they not only built world class BRT infrastructure – they leveraged it to transform old Route 66 into a safer, more people-friendly corridor. Albuquerque Rapid Transit, or ART, is already a big ridership success, but there’s so much more potential. So today we’re taking a tour of the US’s only...
‘Stroads’ Aren’t Streets. They Aren’t Roads. And They Don’t Work. (www.wsj.com)
Transportation mode, World vs USA (jlai.lu)
cross-posted from: jlai.lu/post/6800661...
Evacuations with cars are a bottleneck (lemmy.world)
A highway camera photo shows traffic in FortMcMurray jammed in the southbound lane of Highway 63 on the north side of the Athabasca River. The image was captured at 3:11 p.m. MT, about an hour after an evacuation order was issued for four neighbourhoods. (511 Alberta)...
‘I made curtains on the train’: the commuters livening up their journeys (www.theguardian.com)
The pandemic opened the eyes of many to the benefits of running or cycling to work – or “active commutes” – and some have kept up the habit....
Congestion Charges: A Tool to Transform Cities (RMTransit) (www.youtube.com)
In its latest move to implement a policy that London implemented long ago, New York Is doing congestion charging! In all seriousness, it will be a complete game changer - not only for the city, but for the entire continent.
[discussion] Bike/pedestrian-unfriendly retail & shopping centers
I was surprised that even here in Portland, OR…not far from downtown…I was on my bicycle and pulled into a small shopping center. I guess you could call it a strip mall, but it was pretty small and completely surrounded by small residential streets....