This is worth listening to
https://timharford.com/2023/09/cautionary-tales-the-city-that-sold-itself-to-wall-street/
#CautionaryTales #CarDependency

Wow! "How Auto Debt is Holding Millions of Americans In Custody — Sometimes Literally
A new book argues that car dependency is sentencing Americans to a lifetime of extractive debt — and sometimes, literally landing them in jail." https://usa.streetsblog.org/2023/07/24/how-auto-debt-is-holding-millions-of-americans-in-custody-sometimes-literally #cardependency #debt #carbrain #BikeTooter

Maybe we can get an Engineer to look at this. 😒
#bikeTooter #pdxBikes #Terwilliger #InducedDemand #BikeGutter #ClimateDenial #CarDependency

Vancouver Islanders: Was anyone else aware that they are planning to widen the highway through Goldstream and cut down 700-800 trees in the process and damage salmon habitat?! See the article for ways to get involved. Please share. Habitat before cars. Let’s expand public transit instead of this. https://wsanec.com/w̱sanec-nation-members-protest/ #goldstream #CarDependency #habitat #salmon #vancouverisland #BC

@SkibuSmith This sounds like the Nevada equivalent of "build a wall and Mexico will pay for it."

I can only assume that the Clark County commissioners are either very stupid or hoping this project will make it look like they are doing something to improve transit. Good transit planning is hard -- much easier to play along with a ridiculous fantasy.

#cardependency #conmen

Making a grandiose promise to go carbon-neutral eventually is the easy bit. The hard bit is changing what you actually do and how you do it this year, next year, ad infinitum.

The UK's National Trust has not grasped this yet.

To achieve carbon reduction goals, you have to stop privileging car drivers over everyone else.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/01/lyme-park-national-trust-criticised-plans-build-peak-district-biggest-car-park

#NationalTrust #ActiveTravel #greenwashing #CarParks #LymePark #CarDependency

NPlusOne magazine on how #CarDependency drives people into #debt, and from there to debtor's prison, in a country which outlawed that practice: https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-road-to-auto-debt/#fn1-38989

What a great line!: “The Dutch have reclaimed land from the sea, and I think we can reclaim land from parking,” said Donald Shoup, an urban planner at the University of California, Los Angeles who pioneered the field of parking research." https://www.wsj.com/articles/parking-problem-too-much-cities-e94dcecf #cardependency #parkingreform #housingforpeoplenotcars

Are we insane? Glory days for car/truck manufacturers, and a disaster for Americans' financial well-being. "New cars... come out to nearly $50,000 and used, about $28,000, on average.
One in six people who have recently financed a new car committed to monthly payments of $1,000 or more, the highest on record."
#Cardependency #maine #https://wgme.com/news/local/monthly-payments-skyrocketing-maine-buy-vehicles-car-suv-truck-lee-auto-malls

PENNDOT wants to shove this monstrosity into a quiet old town.

https://buckscountyherald.com/stories/penndot-project-in-langhorne-will-destroy-monument-to-african-american-history,16107

http://buckscountyadventures.org/hallowed-ground-of-the-forgotten/

https://www.phillyburbs.com/story/news/2022/01/27/route-1-and-route-413-langhorne-get-major-overhaul-under-80-million-penndot-plan-bucks-county-roads/6605247001/

#CarDependency #highway #planning #sustainability #onemorelane #Pennsylvania

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/18/1163278082/car-prices-used-cars-electric-vehicles-pandemic December 2017-2022: “Sales of new cars over $60,000, meanwhile, skyrocketed. Those vehicles, costing more than the annual income of the average American, went from 8% of the auto market to 25% of sales.” The personal debt crisis is getting much much worse! #biketooter #personalfinance #CarDependency

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN7mSXMruEo In the two days since this video about SUV and "light" truck was posted, there have been 1.1 million views....and now wonder: It's incredibly well done. I learned some things too. Top notch content, @notjustbikes ! #CarDependency #traffic #parking #SUV #PedestrianSafety #bikesafety #biketooter

Our new article on #ElectricVehicles and their #environmental impacts. Some thoughts on our #cardependency. Check it out! https://webegreen.medium.com/evs-are-taking-us-all-for-a-ride-322ba0702e6f

Another reason #cardependency is so toxic. Fuck this.

https://youtube.com/shorts/vWHhKIOEoOQ?feature=share

I'm excited to share that I have taken on the role of Chair of
@CyclingActionNZ
, (CAN).
#Cycling is playing an ever larger role in realising a better #Aotearoa. I am hopeful that the action needed to enable healthy and environmentally friendly ways of getting around is picking up. We cannot continue to put off reining in the harmful & unsustainable level of #carDependency in NZ.
I hope you'll support
@CyclingActionNZ
as we help to deliver better biking for all.
https://can.org.nz/

"As local governments across the US increasingly take steps to make car-centric cities more walkable and amenable to public transit, it makes sense for us to consider what it would take to do the same for car-centric suburbs." #walkability #suburbs #CarDependency
https://www.vox.com/features/23191527/urban-planning-friendship-houston-cars-loneliness

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Putting #solar panels over #parking lots is #greenwashing because while the extra #renewableenergy is nice, the parking lot's existence still enables #cardependency.

Replace the parking lot with something that's more useful, like a community space.

#cars #cleanenergy #urbanism #urbanplanning

https://twitter.com/MikeHudema/status/1621604975242629123

Rear-ended waiting at a stop light by a jacked-up Ram 1500 shitbox. He “didn’t see” my VW Golf. Stationary. At a stop light.

Certainly no problems with vehicle sizes.

I fucking hate driving.

@notjustbikes #yegtraffic
#cardependency

I just heard a story of an American in Italy driving on a medieval bridge, which of course was not built for cars and cars are not supposed to drive on it. It's not surprising Americans think they're allowed to drive a car anywhere since that's how it is for 99.9% of the US. #Infrastructure #CarDependency

I love these #BikeBus stories but they also make me a little sad

I walked to school unaccompanied as a young kid and biked unaccompanied as a middle schooler/high schooler (and also rode plenty of buses)

I think of these as a first, transitional step toward freedom from #CarDependency in the US, but what happens after school? Kids should be able to travel independently at age appropriate levels. We need to prioritize #BikesAsTransportation

https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-start-a-bike-bus/