"The ultimate test to prove what cars have done to the American psyche only requires that you walk out your front door. Take a photo with your phone. Now highlight in red the places in which it would be fully legal for a car to strike and kill you. Now highlight in yellow the places in which a car could strike and kill you and you would have to make a legal case that it was not your fault. Now highlight in green places where you believe you are safe from cars." - Dan Sheehan #fuckcars
Buy a polluting gas guzzler today and we'll give you €500 to fly somewhere on holiday. Spread the joy of fossil fuels far and wide.
Fun for the kids as well: colour in this picture of a huge #wankpanzer of the kind that is particularly good at killing kids and if you're lucky you might win tickets to be driven to a adventure park.
Housing good, parking mandates bad, more at 11. It's interesting to see the precise results of these reforms though. Removing the mandates is really more pro-flexibility than anti-car. The example of the development that would have been illegal under the old code not because it didn't provide parking, but because the parking was next door and technically on a separate lot, was particularly illuminating. https://www.sightline.org/2023/04/13/parking-reform-legalized-most-of-the-new-homes-in-buffalo-and-seattle/ #yimby#housing#FuckCars
A 33-year-old Toronto man pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing death of a woman and dangerous driving causing bodily harm to her husband in March.
"Wohnraum statt Hubraum" auf ein dickes Wohnmobil kleben und dieses in einer ohnehin engen Fahrradstraße in einer der teuersten Städte Deutschlands abstellen und damit den Flächendruck nur noch erhöhen...
Manchmal verzweifle ich echt an der egozentrischen selbstgerechten Dummheit unserer MitbürgerInnen.
Estimates are that 475 million non-human animals are killed on the roads of Brazil every year. So what's a scientist to do - figure out how to expand the train network and get cars off the roads?
Nope, these people trained an "AI" image detector to identify animals. It didn't do very well, and doesn't even work in low light or bad weather. And the tasks of installing cameras and - um, doing something to prevent the deaths of the animals - is left to others.
A car that appeals to assholes, and that can also "drive itself" in notoriously dangerous ways, can now accelerate to deadly speeds even easier and much faster than pedestrians can respond and get out of the way.
Daughter of woman killed in Gardiner crash: ‘I don’t understand the recklessness of it’ - Toronto | Globalnews.ca (globalnews.ca)
A 33-year-old Toronto man pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing death of a woman and dangerous driving causing bodily harm to her husband in March.
Traffic rule (slrpnk.net)