Plus I see West Parliament Square has been turned into a carpark again. Why must we spoil our history for individual convenience?#CarsRuinCities #Edinburgh

Watching people in town who’ve been so conditioned by beg buttons at traffic lights they stop and press them before even looking to see it’s a green man.
#CarsRuinCities

Imagine if we handled air quality alerts by suspending driving until conditions improved? #CarsRuinCities https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-08-29/dementia-risk-grows-with-increased-exposure-to-air-pollution

"They’re also correct that ride-hailing worsens congestion, increases total driving and reduces transit ridership. That is a far cry from the early, heady corporate pitches about liberating cities from the automobile."

"The average car sits for 95% of the time" mantra seemed to win out.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-15/ride-hailing-critics-look-back-with-anger-at-uber-s-dc-debut

#tnc
#carsruincities
#davidzipper
#UrbanMobility

Good thing pollution and congestion aren’t real:

https://mastodon.social/@docpop/110851628616645098

#ClimateChange #CarsRuinCities

Car travel is heavily subsidized,part n: “Using publicly available data, the authors put the annual public tab at $35.7 billion, which amounts to about $14,000 for every household in the state. Those that do own vehicles pony up an additional $12,000 on average in direct costs.” #CarsRuinCities #ClimateChange https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/01/massachusetts-car-economy-costs-64-billion-study-finds/

Win votes by letting people run down children!

Loving this new political death spiral

"Ministers consider curbs on councils’ use of 20mph speed limits
Exclusive: moves against what PM terms ‘anti-motorist’ policies follow order of review into low-traffic neighbourhoods"
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jul/30/rishi-sunak-councils-20mph-speed-limit-low-traffic-neighbourhoods-ltns

#UKPol
#CarsRuinCities

"...the right to drive is secondary to a right to not be harmed by the driving of others..."

https://thewaroncars.org/2023/07/18/108-traffication-with-paul-donald/

#TheWarOnCars #CarsRuinCities

Y este toot ayuda mucho a comprender el movimiento de la industria automovilística hacia la SUVización:

https://kolektiva.social/@HeavenlyPossum/110780530656182740

#SUVs #CarsRuinCities #thewaroncars

"...let's face it, bike lanes aren't bike infrastructure, they're car infrastructure. Remove the cars and you don't need bike lanes" #bicycles #CarsRuinCities

"....the best cycling infrastructure is restricting cars"

#bicycles #CarsRuinCities

There is no creek that the Victorian Government hates more than the Moonee Ponds Creek.
#SpringSt #Melbourne #CarsRuinCities

A lovely view of the Moonee Ponds creek
#Melbourne #CarsRuinCities

A lovely view of the Maribyrnong River.
#Melbourne #CarsRuinCities

At $8K to $80K per parking space, with 1 billion parking spaces in the USA, that is between $8T and $80T worth of parking spaces.

The USA national debt is only $32T.

#CarsRuinCities #WarOnCars

https://youtu.be/OUNXFHpUhu8

As a firmer #KPBS listener, this was impressive - I never expected something like that to make it past #SanDiego car culture:

https://www.kpbs.org/podcasts/freeway-exit

#ClimateChange #CarsRuinCities

“I remember the first half of my career, we would just say ‘Hey air quality alert tomorrow, make sure you don't do that after work jog. But that's where it ended. Now, part of that message is, ‘Driving causes pollution, if you drive less, pollution will be better. You're gonna help yourself and everybody else.’” #CarsRuinCities https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2023/07/14/car-culture-produces-pollution-pollution-hurts-humans-ny1-meteorologist-john-davitt-on-cars-and-the-climate-crisis

@MyOpinion @BrentToderian
#CarsRuinCities
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_the_car_on_societies

Why pedestrian deaths in the US are at a 40-year high
https://www.vox.com/23784549/pedestrian-deaths-traffic-safety-fatalities-governors-association

#visionzero #carsruincities

Perfect 4th attire. 🎇🇺🇸🎆

#carsruincities
#carsmeltglaciers
#waroncars
#urbanmobility