What a surprise, the laws of physics apply in Wales just the same as everywhere else, no matter what the motor/oil industry lobbyists claim to the contrary...
We have created a society where to survive a large proportion of people are compelled to spend a ton of money to risk their life and risk becoming killers, at least twice a day, every single workday! They have no other choice.
It is madness!
We have created a society where such a system is so normalized and internalized that the victims of it fight to keep it! And the more victimized, the harder they fight.
Shit. Thought I saw a positive story about refurbishing and reopening a major train station...and it turns out it's just a puff piece about a rich Ford family guy buying it and turning into a "tech hub" for Ford's campus. #Trains#FuckCars#Transportation
Imagine if most people shopping at WalMart carried a chainsaw, running full tilt. ( For some hypothetical reason, shopping took half as long with the chainsaw, than without )
Shoppers would hold the chainsaw out in front of them, and be very careful passing other people. But every now and then, somebody would trip, or sneeze, and cut off another shopper's arm, leg or head. Or maybe they just got angry, and then claimed they'd sneezed.
The news, the police and the safety officials would cluck and say "oh, no. This is so sad. We will dearly miss Aunt Mildred from Lincoln Avenue [ but mistakes will be made, and we understand that ]".
Some people could decide not to carry chainsaws, and accept that their shopping takes twice as long. But they are ridiculed, and told they aren't personally any safer without the chainsaw.
This is basically how we live with cars in our crowded cities.
As I heard the Indy cars zipping around in circles on my father in law's TV, I remarked, "You know, people ride around at 200mph or more every day on bullet trains and planes, and nobody finds it exciting. It's mundane, like walking or sleeping. But do it recklessly in tiny little metal boxes, instead of safe big metal boxes, and people get excited. That's weird."
"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
The person on the left is carrying bags, the one in orange is a delivery driver and a couple of people are wearing backpacks. Aside from car brained, Damaris is also blind.
@chiliedogg@Annoyed_Crabby@fuck_cars
I'd bet that a lot of that inefficiency was built in as a precondition of its passage. That's how it works in red states. Let blue islands implement "woke" policies, but only in ways that kneecap them from the beginning, so you can campaign against their "failure" in a few years.
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.
The NYTimes is once again trashing the most promising mobility innovation of the 21st century (lemmy.ml)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/16133154...
Cycling isn't legitimate transportation...apparently (sh.itjust.works)
The person on the left is carrying bags, the one in orange is a delivery driver and a couple of people are wearing backpacks. Aside from car brained, Damaris is also blind.
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)