You know how you sometimes come across something, an article or social media post or video, that makes you wonder if there’s a carbon monoxide leak in your house…? #YouAreTraffic #UrbanPlanning #CarCentric

https://youtu.be/gFueHhAo6mM?feature=shared

#Carcentric cities are taking away our children's rights to play and roam independently. It was refreshing to see young Audrey drawing attention to the inequity of unsafe infrastructure for #Cycling.

https://momentummag.com/two-kids-steal-the-show-at-toronto-meeting-to-decide-fate-of-bike-lane-pilot-project/

#BikeFriendlyCanada #BikeStories #CarBrain

New Dublin City Council buildings just past Ballymun near the on- off-ramps for M50. The entire section highlighted is just a car park. In case you had any illusions as to where their sympathies lie.
Bonus points: this would have been linked with Metro North
#carCentric #cityPlanners #urbanism #design #sustainability #dublin #ireland

Nice, @peterdutoit

I see this is based on the literature in scientific journals, but seeing that "switching to BEV" has been judged so favourable compared to going #carfree or using #PublicTransit by so many studies, I cannot help but think that many studies have been asking the wriong questions or using wrong /unrepresentative "boundary conditons" / assumptions. Perhaps in part due to where financing came from or because we live in a #carCentric culture?

@TatianaIlyina

@Wonderdog @shermozle

Toowoomba is the same. Cars rule.
They replaced a zebra crossing with this:

#Toowoomba #BadUrbanPlanning #CarCentric

@urbanistorg #Bellevue is frustratingly #CarCentric, but I agree, this is nice. Despite the car focus, I miss living in DTB, which is relatively walkable among #Seattle #suburbs.

@majdal Yes, #HalifaxNS declared a climate emergency in 2019 but continues to invest in #carcentric infrastructure. #NovaScotia released a climate action plan and promptly announced an increase in the burning of #biomass 🙄 #ClimateCrisis #CognitiveDissonance

My sister keeps listening to pop country trash, and every song has diagetically taken place in a truck. It’s actually kinda sad - they spend so much of their time in cars that the only relatable space they can set their songs is the inside of one. Country *pretends* it’s all rugged and outdoorsy, but like they’re just taking their trucks between places to drink and places to park. In cities you spend your time actually outside walking between places. Pop country is an entirely #CarCentric genre.

In our unquestioning worship of the #automobile, we have built cities that are hostile to people!
Cities OF people that are hostile TO people! How ridiculous is that?
This image is a classic and it illustrates how most of our #carCentric spaces feel for humans on their feet, for kids wanting to play, for our disabled whānau trying to live a normal life.
We can do better! We have done better for our whole history. It's really the last century or so where we allowed cars to take over everything.

There's no other way to square it.

The car-centric #townPlanning and Keynesian #economics of the last century did generational mental, spiritual and psychic damage to the west. Europe in some respects evaded the #carCentric trap, by the sheer scale and quality of their built #heritage and other factors, but succumbed to Keynesian shortTermism.

Many individuals who adjusted to the #maladjustedModel never classified as #mentallyill , yet the #left who know and feel the damage are compelled to.

@icedquinn
Yes, its supposed to scale but it likely gets in the way of the #carCentric spawling-suburb model, that defines western civilisation and BigOil.

War on Europeans is preferable to changing how we do things.
@mian