My last message got a bit controversial.
We have been sold #freedom as an excuse for not trying to change #carcentrism.
Political will is needed to improve alternative infrastructures to the car.
If you have heard complaints about “minimum parking requirements”, but aren't sure what the issue is, @ClimateTown@twitter.com just made a great video explaining the situation, some history, and how it hurts businesses and makes things more expensive for all of us:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUNXFHpUhu8
#ClimateTown #Parking #Infrastructure #CarInfrastructure #CarCentrism
#ClimateTown #parking #infrastructure #carinfrastructure #carcentrism
#ClimateDiary Profound (not) musings on my daily walk between home and school:
Trees and flowers are beautiful
(“Weeds”too - 💚 #NoSpray)
Cars are really ugly
Yet #CarCentrism and #Motonormativity mean most of us spend far more time seeing and thinking about cars than plants- driving them, trying not to get yourself or your children run over by them
#ClimateDiary #nospray #carcentrism #motonormativity
If anyone is actually interested in covering "bike-friendly" UC Davis' car-centric institutional culture, I've got loads of photos and can walk people around showing them the hostile infrastructure we deal with.
There are improvements UC Davis needs to make that it's trying to paper over instead.
#BikeTooter #UniversityOfCalifornia #UCDavis #TrafficViolence #CarCentrism
#biketooter #universityofcalifornia #ucdavis #trafficviolence #carcentrism
Apparently UC Davis tweeted a press release about the City of Davis PD investigation but released that on January 10 of this year. Why did it take so long for the public to get this? Why hasn't local press published a follow-up to their reporting on this death? Was the delay to make it less likely local press would still be interested or the public eye be on UC Davis? https://www.plantsciences.ucdavis.edu/news/yasay-accident-report-released-davis-police
#BikeTooter #UniversityOfCalifornia #UCDavis #TrafficViolence #CarCentrism
#biketooter #universityofcalifornia #ucdavis #trafficviolence #carcentrism
What could possibly be in it for UC Davis to frame cyclists as the danger when the public still hasn't seen the results of a good deep investigation into the killing of a UC Davis student who was cycling, by a UC Davis employee operating UC Davis equipment? 4/?
#BikeTooter #UniversityOfCalifornia #UCDavis #TrafficViolence #CarCentrism
#biketooter #universityofcalifornia #ucdavis #trafficviolence #carcentrism
we've seen UC-sponsored legislation framing the danger on campuses as being non-car forms of transportation (which are usually more sustainable and less damaging) as being the danger. 3/?
#BikeTooter #UniversityOfCalifornia #UCDavis #TrafficViolence #CarCentrism
#biketooter #universityofcalifornia #ucdavis #trafficviolence #carcentrism
UC Davis is being sued by the parents of the student that was killed. In the past week, we've seen UC Davis PR place a story in local press about how UCDPD (which already has a huge budget) getting approved for a grant to "increase cyclist safety" by passing out free helmets and lights. And 2/?
#BikeTooter #UniversityOfCalifornia #UCDavis #TrafficViolence #CarCentrism
#biketooter #universityofcalifornia #ucdavis #trafficviolence #carcentrism
On May 25, 2022, a UC Davis student was killed by a UC Davis employee driving a UC Davis sanitation truck. The first responders - UC Davis Fire and UC Davis PD - were also UC employees. The first investigation was done by them, then handed to City of Davis Police. To this day, I have not seen any press publish the results of that investigation. 1/?
#BikeTooter #UniversityOfCalifornia #UCDavis #TrafficViolence #CarCentrism
#biketooter #universityofcalifornia #ucdavis #trafficviolence #carcentrism
@gardiner_bryant +9001%
The #CarCentrism that is mostly pushed in the #USA and was mostly exported post-#WW2 is just bad.
@notjustbikes literally made an entire series about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_SXXTBypIg&list=PLJp5q-R0lZ0_FCUbeVWK6OGLN69ehUTVa
@DaemonFC @B_Whitewind #Funfact: #ElonMisk admitted he only pushed #Hyperloop to sabotage & defund #CHSR (California Highspped Rail)...
#CarCentrism is the big problem: #Suburbia is the #scam!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IsMeKl-Sv0
#Scam #suburbia #carcentrism #chsr #hyperloop #elonmisk #funfact
@iyalei @femphysics I mean, I find #CarCentrism to be utter bullshit and a scam at best.
Like the whole concept of suburbia...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IsMeKl-Sv0
#CTNewsJunkie Op-Ed: Street Violence Continues As Pedestrians and Cyclists Fight Over Scraps
#Connecticut #roads #carcentrism
#carcentrism #roads #connecticut #ctnewsjunkie
#CTNewsJunkie Op-Ed: Street Violence Continues As #Pedestrians and #Cyclists Fight Over Scraps
#Connecticut #roads #carcentrism
#cyclists #pedestrians #carcentrism #roads #connecticut #ctnewsjunkie