Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
174 followers · 3156 posts · Server sfba.social#ForestForTrees: The focus on young #ebike riders’ #safety can obscure the bigger crisis: People driving #cars and trucks are #killing more people on our #roads
#20sPlenty #CarFreeCityCentersPlease #WalkableCities
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#forestfortrees #ebike #safety #cars #killing #roads #20splenty #carfreecitycentersplease #walkablecities
Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
171 followers · 3056 posts · Server sfba.social#EmbodiedCarbon: Sand and gravel makes up half of all the materials #mined in the world. Globally, 50bn tonnes of sand and gravel are used every year – the equivalent of a wall 27 metres high and 27 metres wide stretching round the equator. It is the key ingredient of #concrete and #asphalt.
#DeterioratingCarbonSinks #RemoveRoads #CarFreeCityCentersPlease #UnbundleParking
#embodiedcarbon #mined #concrete #Asphalt #deterioratingcarbonsinks #removeroads #carfreecitycentersplease #unbundleparking
Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
167 followers · 2911 posts · Server sfba.social#TakeBackOurAir from #RegulatoryCapture at #CARB which results in these laughable notices from the #AcceleratingKeelingCurve.
#CarFreeCityCentersPlease #NationalizeFossilFuels #PetroOligarchsAreRICO
#takebackourair #regulatorycapture #carb #acceleratingkeelingcurve #carfreecitycentersplease #nationalizefossilfuels #petrooligarchsarerico
Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
166 followers · 2892 posts · Server sfba.social
#CarFreeCityCentersPlease: A 4-year old in a stroller being pushed by her father had a #walk signal. The #driver had a green light. And was turning right!!! The 4 year was killed. The traffic engineer who signed off on #4thAndKing will never be confronted with the #consequences of what they did.
#NoConsequences #DangerousByDesign #AbolishThePolice #5sPlentyAtStations #CarFreeCityCentersPlease
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2023/8/23/everyone-involved-was-following-the-law
#carfreecitycentersplease #walk #driver #4thandking #consequences #noconsequences #dangerousbydesign #abolishthepolice #5splentyatstations
Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
166 followers · 2890 posts · Server sfba.social#EnforcementWorks: #Speed #violations down 30% on #CameraEnforcedRoutes which flies in the face of "cash grab" #complaints from #speedcamera detractors. Speed was a reported factor in nearly one-third of #deadlycrashes in the U.S. in 2021.
#SpeedKills #DataToManage #AbolishThePolice #20sPlenty #CarFreeCityCentersPlease
#enforcementworks #speed #violations #cameraenforcedroutes #complaints #speedcamera #deadlycrashes #speedkills #datatomanage #abolishthepolice #20splenty #carfreecitycentersplease
Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
165 followers · 2843 posts · Server sfba.social
#InstitutionalFailure: globally, #carcrashes are a major cause of #death, killing more #people than #homicides and #suicides combined. #Cars killed 43,000 Americans in 2021, a number that has increased by nearly a third in the last decade while our peer countries have decreased their #carfatalities.
#RegulatoryCapture #MassDeath #VisionZero #CarFreeCityCentersPlease #RemoveRoads
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2023/8/25/23844717/america-safe-air-travel-car-safety-accidents
#institutionalFailure #carcrashes #death #people #homicides #suicides #cars #carfatalities #regulatorycapture #massdeath #visionzero #carfreecitycentersplease #removeroads
Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
164 followers · 2743 posts · Server sfba.social
We must rapidly expand our #infrastructure to meet the realities of 21st-century #modes of #transportation. This includes installations of #ebike #charging stations en masse and other resources to support this #workforce.
#CarFreeCityCentersPlease #safestreetsforall
#infrastructure #modes #transportation #ebike #charging #workforce #carfreecitycentersplease #safestreetsforall
Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
158 followers · 2614 posts · Server sfba.social#TransitAdjacent #Streets should mean a #PedestrianOnly zone.
#transitadjacent #streets #pedestrianonly #carfreecitycentersplease
Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
148 followers · 2241 posts · Server sfba.social
#laneDiets #CarFreeSchoolZones #MicromobilityPriorityParking #VisionZero #RegulateSafetyOutsideVehicles #CarFreeCityCentersPlease #HousePeopleNotCars
#lanediets #carfreeschoolzones #micromobilitypriorityparking #visionzero #regulatesafetyoutsidevehicles #carfreecitycentersplease #housepeoplenotcars
Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
146 followers · 2195 posts · Server sfba.social
https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2023/08/paved-paradise-grabar
In a new book, Paved Paradise: How #Parking Explains the World (Penguin Press), Grabar illustrates how Americans have saturated their cities with parking. Along the way, they have demonstrated that they often care more about housing cars than housing people.
#HousePeopleNotCars #CarFreeCityCentersPlease #WarsForOil
#parking #housepeoplenotcars #carfreecitycentersplease #warsforoil
Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
142 followers · 2138 posts · Server sfba.social#dirtyair: According to data published by Public Health England, #airpollution is the single largest #environmental #risk to #publichealth, and is linked to between 28,000 and 36,000 UK deaths a year. The estimated #cost to the NHS and #socialcare of #airpollutants is estimated to be £1.6bn between 2017 and 2025.
#ulez #CarFreeCityCentersPlease #walkablecities #keepitintheground
#dirtyair #airpollution #environmental #risk #publichealth #cost #Socialcare #airpollutants #ulez #carfreecitycentersplease #walkablecities #keepitintheground
Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
141 followers · 2089 posts · Server sfba.social
Culdesac is a concerted effort to transform a windswept desert lot into the portrait of a #15minute #city. The company has partnered with Bird #scooters and the #carsharing network Envoy. They gave free Lectric #ebikes to the first 200 residents to sign a lease. The property even abuts a light rail stop. Instead of a parking garage, visitors can use any of the 1,000 bike-parking spaces.
https://momentummag.com/culdesac-is-the-first-bona-fide-car-free-neighborhood-in-america/
#15minute #city #scooters #carsharing #ebikes #carfreecitycentersplease #keepitintheground
Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
140 followers · 2048 posts · Server sfba.social#BrokenTaillightPolicing: #attacked by a #police K-9 while #surrendering to #authorities with his #handsup earlier this month told emergency dispatchers that officers were “trying to kill” him and he did not feel #safe pulling over
#DrivingWhileBLACK #abolishthepolice #CarFreeCityCentersPlease
#brokentaillightpolicing #attacked #police #surrendering #authorities #handsup #safe #drivingwhileblack #abolishthepolice #carfreecitycentersplease
Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
131 followers · 1874 posts · Server sfba.socialThe only way to avoid crossing these #tippingpoints is to stop #heating up the #planet. And comprehensive #Earth system models show that if we stop adding #carbonpollution, the warming of Earth’s surface stops soon thereafter.
So that brings us back to where we started. Yes, we have failed to prevent dangerous #climatechange. It is here. What remains to be seen is just how bad we’re willing to let it get- Michael Mann
#keepitintheground #TaxBillionairesOutOfExistence #WalkableCites #CarFreeCityCentersPlease
#tippingpoints #heating #planet #earth #carbonpollution #climatechange #keepitintheground #taxbillionairesoutofexistence #walkablecites #carfreecitycentersplease
Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
131 followers · 1818 posts · Server sfba.social
Build it and they will come: Annual #ridership of #bikesharing programs in six big cities, including New York, Boston and Chicago, continues to grow after jumping 27% in 2022 from pre-pandemic levels. The trend’s biggest foe? Improper city #infrastructure.
#CarFreeCityCentersPlease #visionzero #bikenetwork
#ridership #bikesharing #infrastructure #carfreecitycentersplease #visionzero #bikenetwork
Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
127 followers · 1687 posts · Server sfba.social
#PricePollution: Wear and tear on #tires and #brakes produce more #particlepollution, by mass, than #car #exhaustsystems... fine #particles (known as PM 2.5, with diameters up to 2.5 microns) and #ultrafine particles (known as PM 0.1, with diameters of 100 nanometers), which can enter through our #bloodstream and harm our #organs.
#pricepollution #tires #brakes #particlepollution #car #exhaustsystems #particles #ultrafine #bloodstream #Organs #polluterspay #carfreecitycentersplease #walkablecites
Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
115 followers · 1382 posts · Server sfba.social
https://grist.org/equity/race-must-be-factor-decrease-air-pollution/
“#Income is not a good #proxy, alone, for #race,” said Polonik.
Additionally, researchers found that #pollution from #powerplants and #transportation are particularly important in perpetuating #airquality #inequity. When these types of pollution are targeted, it can reduce imbalances.
#pricepollution
#pricedriving
#PriceParking
#congestionpricing
#CarFreeCityCentersPlease
#income #proxy #race #pollution #powerplants #transportation #airquality #inequity #pricepollution #pricedriving #priceparking #congestionpricing #carfreecitycentersplease
Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
115 followers · 1380 posts · Server sfba.socialhttps://www.curbed.com/2023/06/new-york-suv-trucks-weight-based-fee.html
#CrashesArentAccidents: Mamdani is co-introducing legislation for a #weightbased vehicle-registration fee intended to discourage people from purchasing #heavier #vehicles. “The #carindustry is pushing the sale of heavier and larger vehicles,” he says. “The state has to make it clear that these types of vehicles come with a certain kind of cost.”
#CarFreeCityCentersPlease
#crashesarentaccidents #weightbased #heavier #vehicles #carindustry #carfreecitycentersplease
Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
99 followers · 1077 posts · Server sfba.social
If you can’t #TakeTheLane take the #bus: 7th is one of the few #bikefriendly routes through LA. Sometimes blocked with parked vehicles and making the separated bike lanes feel like it was designed for the #righthook.
#takethelane #bus #bikefriendly #righthook #carfreecitycentersplease #keepitintheground #priceparking
