😀🚲 · @enobacon
692 followers · 7339 posts · Server urbanists.social

It's simply amazing, how people will bend their brains around cars. But the absolute failure to apply basic logic to the problems cars cause you and your city is understandable. I mean, who can think their way out of a paper bag with a car parked in their head?

#CarBrain #CarsRuinCities #geometryhatescars #bancars

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😀🚲 · @enobacon
691 followers · 7285 posts · Server urbanists.social

I think what most people misunderstand about , is that we're losing this planet and moving to mars, not because "cars are useful" or something, but because a system of "too many cars everywhere always" inevitably leads to monstrously stupid waste, not for some essential good, but simply to move people around in cities at speeds that are usually slower than biking or transit, and wildly unpredictable.

#bancars

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Sieva 🚴🚇🏙️🌹 · @Anibyl
265 followers · 1266 posts · Server mas.to

“A West Vancouver man who struck and killed a woman as she was crossing an Ambleside street in a marked crosswalk will pay a $500 fine but face no driving ban”

Infrastructure is a joke, justice for road victims is a joke. Makes me furious.

nsnews.com/local-news/west-van

#bancars #fuckcars #pedestriansafety #trafficfatality #visionzero #WestVancouver

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Andres Salomon · @Andres4NY
803 followers · 6256 posts · Server social.ridetrans.it
Karstan 🚲🍑💨⛵ · @Karstan
110 followers · 1916 posts · Server urbanists.social

I've mentioned this here before, but I spend an unfortunate amount of time thinking about how the Oregon Department of Transportation and their Portland counterparts at PBOT continually say there's not enough money for solid barriers to protect people outside of automobiles. But as soon as a poor person starts camping under a bridge, they suddenly have funds to dump truckloads of boulders to "keep everyone safe."

#bikes #BikeTooter #bancars

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MLive Curated · @mlive_curated
87 followers · 473 posts · Server social.iheartmichelle.com

Which Michigan counties had the most distracted-driving crashes in 2022?

from MLive.com
by Justin P. Hicks, Scott Levin

mlive.com/public-interest/2023

#michigan #bancars

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lofi beast to relax/study to · @g1comics
232 followers · 27305 posts · Server equestria.social

"It’s Official: Cars Are the Worst Product Category We Have Ever Reviewed for Privacy" foundation.mozilla.org/en/priv (h/t @so_treu)

I have my doubts about Mozilla these days, but nice to see they're getting with the movement

#bancars

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MLive Curated · @mlive_curated
85 followers · 433 posts · Server social.iheartmichelle.com

20 Michigan communities with the most deer-vehicle crashes

from MLive.com
by Justin P. Hicks

mlive.com/public-interest/2023

#michigan #bancars

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Jeff Forcier · @bitprophet
653 followers · 6796 posts · Server social.coop

but I will say they are occasionally nice when they are:

- electric
- comfortable
- used to go on a quiet, sunny, /almost/ relaxing drive through a lush green late summer in the outer counties

That's the neat thing about NJ, it's kinda like California in that you can do mountains, hills, plains, cities, suburbs, and shore, all within an ~hour's drive (or train ride!). We ran around NYC midweek and were way out in the countryside today.

#bancars #newjersey

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Lets stop being idiots and ban cars.

#bancars

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😀🚲 · @enobacon
685 followers · 7029 posts · Server urbanists.social

TIL was an auto industry PR blitz @activetowns How corporate disinformation harms our health and the environment

youtu.be/dP41Hsr4fMA?t=1593

#accidentnotcrash #crashnotaccident #visionzero #bancars

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MLive Curated · @mlive_curated
84 followers · 418 posts · Server social.iheartmichelle.com

Chain-reaction crash that closed I-94 spilled 800 gallons of chemicals

from MLive.com
by Brad Devereaux

mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/2023/

#michigan #bancars

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😀🚲 · @enobacon
685 followers · 7001 posts · Server urbanists.social

@garyshaff How does it make sense, under a declaration, to prioritize the pavement maintenance of multiple redundant car lanes over the usability of bikes and transit? The existing funding is creating the problem, so it's simply absurd to try to fix it with more funding without changing the carway layout. Our miles-traveled is flat because we haven't added or removed car lanes, to get we have to cut back on car subsidies. I'm already at and .

#climateemergency #vmtreduction #defunddots #bancars

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Karstan 🚲🍑💨⛵ · @Karstan
109 followers · 1816 posts · Server urbanists.social

Just ran some quick numbers, and if my arithmetic is correct:

On average a person is killed by traffic violence a little more than once every 13 minutes in the United States. That's nearly 5 every hour, 117 a day, 42,750 a year. Every single one of those is preventable. Not only that, but preventing those deaths would drastically reduce greenhouse gasses and would be CHEAPER.

Sigh.

#bikes #climatechange #bancars #FuckCars

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Wesley Cook ⚡🚲 · @wesley
409 followers · 431 posts · Server theatl.social

I'm interested in the levels of car ownership in the urbanist circles around here

How many cars does your household own?

Household here defined as the people you live with or in close proximity to that you'd be willing to share a car with.

If you're car free I'd love to hear about what makes it work for you!

#carfree #biketooter #cars #transit #bikes #fuckcars #bancars #urbanism

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MLive Curated · @mlive_curated
86 followers · 403 posts · Server social.iheartmichelle.com
Wesley Cook ⚡🚲 · @wesley
408 followers · 420 posts · Server theatl.social

This article really captures my experience traveling without a car in my city. We're not car free, but we have gone down to one car and I usually try to avoid using it when making trips by myself like commuting or meeting friends/coworkers somewhere.

This is part two of a 3 part series on a family going car free and their experience (good and bad)

strongtowns.org/journal/2023/8

#carfree #transit #strongtowns #bancars #fuckcars

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Kiki · @Kiki
134 followers · 809 posts · Server framapiaf.org

@maiwann
Il est à jour et conforme à la règle, le PLU?
Je sais que c'est un sacré sac de noeuds entre les différents textes et que ce n'est pas uniforme partout en France mais, pour avoir vu récemment des PLU votés par des municipalités qui ne respectaient pas les minimum de places vélo prévu par les codes (urbanisme et construction), ou le PDU, ou le PLUI, je n'ai guère confiance dans les villes.
Mais je n'ai pas de recette miracle pour vérifier.
Bon courage !

#plu #stationnement #bancars

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First night where the evening light looked like fall. First night I could see and smell smoke in a very long time. Not a great combo.




#climatechange #bancars #fossilfools #UrbanMobility

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MLive Curated · @mlive_curated
85 followers · 379 posts · Server social.iheartmichelle.com

More lanes on U.S. 131, bridge repairs: MDOT reveals proposed projects in 5-year plan

from MLive.com
by Bradley Massman

mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/20

#michigan #mdot #bancars

Last updated 1 year ago