I step out of my office, and a woman operating an SUV with her phone directly in her front of her face drives down the bus lane and through a solid red light. And people still ask why pedestrian fatalities are increasing.
Toronto’s consultation process is broken: the decision to not pedestrianize Kensington market was justified by 34 objections out of 1615 survey responses.
Yesterday my wife was on the way to taking our daughter to school via our electric cargo bike, as usual, and a classmate's father taking the classmate to school in a car pulled up beside them and offered to take our kid the rest of the way. As if the only reason we'd be biking is because of economic necessity. My wife replied "No thanks, we LIKE biking"... Now I'm wondering if maybe I should make a flag or sign for the bike that says "we're not poor, we just like bikes"... or "we just hate cars"? Or "we just believe in climate change and live by our beliefs"? #climatechange#bikes#bicycles#carsRuinCities
"You can't solve congestion, we solved congestion during COVID when nobody was travelling — the question is, whether you have people on high-capacity public transport, on footpaths, on e-scooters...That's the question about what congestion you want, not can you solve it."
"a van crashed into one of the CarGoTrams as it was turning right... the van probably passed a red traffic light... As the other CarGoTram was not in service at that time, the accident ended the service.
Also, I managed to rent a #Tesla for the first time this week. It's an interesting experience - it seems to have been designed by someone who has never designed a car before, and knows nothing about #UserInterfaceDesign for safety-critical environments.
I think I now know why Tesla drivers are always cutting up cyclists. They're too busy trying to find controls on a massive touch-screen to pay attention to the road.
There are much better EV options. Like a Chevy Bolt (I have the EUV verson).
Better still would be if the cities of North America had never abandoned superior technology and urban development; if they still had the streetcars they had in the 1890s through the mid 1950s. Those would be cities worth living in. #transit#CarsRuinCities#enshitification
@glightly Every state DOT at this point is essentially a machine for turning federal grants into paving contracts (with a splash of bike-hostile design to ensure that bikes and walking and transit are never viable.) Political pressure is essential but they need to be more than reined-in, IDK, like 0% of the realm of possible futures for policy/design & funding imagined by the staff + electeds is even real, #GeometryHatesCars#CarsRuinCities#HousingCrisis#ClimateCrisis#DefundDOTs#BanCars &c