#ÝosemiteConservancy missed massive opportunity in #Yosemite village. Rather than build ped/bicycle infra like raised crosswalks, reliable shuttle, clearing fallen trees blocking paths, they are adding curbs to car lanes. #carbrain. And #SierraClub should be calling them out and they are not.

As if we needed more reasons to hate the auto industry.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230906171800/https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/sep/06/cars-collect-extensive-personal-data-on-drivers-study-warns

#CarBrain #UbiquitousSurveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism #Tesla #BigData #privacy

What’s the most #CarBrain thing someone has said to you on or off your #bike ?

I was once at a red light and the #driver of Escalade rolled down his window and said “you need to stay out of the road. You’re taking up too much space!” This happened again with the driver of a lifted #Jeep. I’m the #roadhog apparently.

I’ve had several drivers yell “Get a car!!!” at me, which is still very confusing logic.

#nyc #biking #bikecommuting #BadDriver

@TimHarford brilliant! Recommend to @TheWarOnCars @kim_harding #CarBrain #WarOnCars

Coverage of floods in North America is never complete without videos of people driving through dangerously high water, as if that's a safe & normal thing to do #flooding #carbrain

Didn't need all those extra stairs at the Franz Sigel Monument.
https://www.westsiderag.com/2023/08/19/what-happened-here-dont-ask-the-nypd
#WestSideRag
#OurTaxesAtWork
#Absurdity
#CarBrain #FranzSigel
#UpperWestSide

The picture that lives in my head rent free every time I'm sitting in a car in traffic. #rentfree #publictransport #carbrain #CarfreeCities

@Bman Unfortunately, NYers are for the most part infected with #carbrain and believe cities were always noisy.

@ascentale @glightly

A2b. a few years later, similar Circumstances, but a busted right shoulder.

The worst wasn't the pain, but dealing with people stuck in #CarBrain

Not as bad as #ablism but still very annoying.

#BikeNite

It was 3 years ago but still can't stop laughing:

A woman drove her car under a train (she survived with just some minor bruises).

She told the police that the train was "slowing down and tooting its horn, so I assumed he's letting me go first"

:-)

https://raportkolejowy.pl/myslala-ze-maszynista-ja-przepuszcza-wypadek-na-przejezdzie-kolejowym-na-linii-poznan-wolsztyn/

#idiotsincar #carbrain #accident #funny

At this point if you're not part of the solution, you're actively part of the problem. How incomprehensible. Magnus deserved better & the driver needs to be thrown in jail. #BikeTooter #Trafficfatalities #carbrain

https://jalopnik.com/magnus-white-17-year-old-u-s-national-team-cyclist-k-1850693308

"The @nytimes attacks #Ebikes while ignoring the real danger"

Typical NYT lies & distortions to push an elitist agenda. These & more devastating crashes are all #carbrain failures to address #cycling #infrastructure. NYT should be ashamed, but never is.

https://electrek.co/2023/07/30/the-new-york-times-attacks-e-bikes-while-ignoring-car-danger/

"killed by a driver" not "hit by a car"

#cycling #bikes #CarBrain #VisionZero

I'm fairly sure I could be tempted to shop at a slightly more expensive grocer if they banned cars within a 200m radius.

Don't like the swarming cars one bit. Most of these people have no idea there are other persons in traffic.

#carbrain #bicycle

When you're afraid of sitting next to strangers on public transit but not putting your life in the hands of strangers driving cars
#urbanism #transit #cars #fuckcars #carbrain

As an avid city stairway hiker, here's something I've sometimes had in the back of my mind: Reckless drivers careening down a stairway right of way, just like this crazy video shows from San Francisco's Sanchez Street stairs in the Castro.

https://sfist.com/2023/07/23/video-car-flies-down-sanchez-steps/

#CarBrain #Stairways #WalkableCities #PedestrianSafety #SanFrancisco

@NewNordicNormal

Had to slow down people who've said everyone should use bicycles and should be the only solution for everyone.

More disabled people use bikes than I thought at first, but some can't. Some people having time constraints.

#CarBrain is a problem, though.
One incident on public transportation and people generalize it to all. But a crash in a Car and most go right back to it. Daily carrying refrigerators, constantly raining and always traveling more than 2 miles every trip.

Via @davidzipper in The Atlantic:

"New EV models tend to be heavier and quicker—generating more [tire] particulates and deepening the danger. In other words, EVs have a tire-pollution problem, and one that is poised to get worse as America begins to adopt electric cars en masse. None of this is inevitable. EVs don’t need to be so massive and lightning-fast—these are choices that the auto industry has made. All of us will pay the price."

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/07/electric-vehicles-tires-wearing-out-particulates/674750/

#EVs #Pollution #CarBrain

Traffic has been extra horrendous in and around the University District in Seattle (especially on the approaches to the University Bridge, due to ongoing Montlake Blvd closures at SR 520, which has shifted Montlake Bridge traffic to other bridges).

I kinda want to stand at the awful 5-way intersection of NE 40th St & 7th Ave NE with a sign that says "You're not stuck in traffic. You are traffic!" and see what happens.

#Seattle #CarBrain

Reading Tim Carman's deeply reported feature in The Washington Post about the sad, complex conflict over the Front Porch restaurant in The Plains, Virginia, I couldn't overlook how much squabbles over parking helped lead to greater acrimony and other disputes.

Battles over parking lead to so much unnecessary stress!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/interactive/2023/front-porch-restaurant-virginia-dispute/

#Parking #CarBrain