SF traffic death at 101 on-ramp follows Oracle Park crash | | sfexaminer.com
https://www.sfexaminer.com/sf-traffic-death-at-101-on-ramp-follows-oracle-park-crash/article_6a3ae87a-4379-11ee-a1ba-f36da434c899.html

#visionzerosf #walksf #sfmta #caltrans #sfexaminer #freeways #missiondistrictsf

@DoomsdaysCW
>nighttime heat is even more common in cities because of the UrbanHeatIsland effect, in which metro areas are significantly hotter than their surroundings.

>"Places with a lot of asphalt, concrete, buildings and #freeways absorb more of the sun’s heat than areas with ample #parks, #rivers and #tree-lined streets. At night, when temperatures are supposed to cool down, the retained heat is released back into the air, said

Cars cause most of this, you can't have lots of trees and shrubs because if cars, ecars will not fix this. Cars are the issue, what's powers them is a distraction. Bikes are one of the silver bullets to ameriolating the worst of climate change, biodiversity loss and resource depletion.

In cities, we need to be using oir sliver of emissions budget to dig roads up, turing parts of them into tram or ebus specific lanes and planting out lots and lots of trees and shrubs... or not... and keep doing the same dumb shit and living in denial of what's coming.

Why #nighttime #heat can be so dangerous and why it’s getting worse

On average, nights are warming faster than days in most of the United States, a national climate assessment found.

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN, Jun 30, 2023

"Summers are getting hotter than ever, shattering all-time high temperature records, straining the energy grid and damaging critical infrastructure.

"#HeatWaves also are coming to include another increasingly dangerous element: overnight temperatures that don’t cool down enough to offer sufficient reprieve from stifling heat, particularly for people without access to #AirConditioning.

“'Most people don’t realize that hot nighttime temperatures have been outpacing daytime temperature increases across most populated regions worldwide in recent decades,' Columbia University’s Data Science Institute postdoctoral research scientist Kelton Minor told CNN.

“'We think it’s because as the days grow warmer, there is more moisture in the air that traps the heat,' the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health’s executive director, Lisa Patel, told CNN. 'During the day, that moisture reflects the heat, but at night, it traps the heat in.'

#Increasing nighttime heat is even more common in #cities because of the #UrbanHeatIsland effect, in which #metro areas are significantly hotter than their surroundings.

"Places with a lot of #asphalt, #concrete, buildings and #freeways absorb more of the sun’s heat than areas with ample #parks, #rivers and #tree-lined streets. At night, when temperatures are supposed to cool down, the retained heat is released back into the air, said University of Washington climate and health expert Kristie Ebi.

"Areas with a lot of #GreenSpace – with grass and trees that reflect sunlight and create shade – are cooler on summer’s hottest days, she said.

“'Many cities put together #CoolingShelters, but people have to know where they are, how to get to them and what hours they operate,' Ebi told CNN, noting city officials must rethink #UrbanPlanning to consider #ClimateChange."

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe #HeatIndex #WetBulb

https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/why-nighttime-heat-can-be-so-dangerous-and-why-its-getting-worse/1551868

The interchange of the San Diego and Ventura Freeways, 1995, with weekend-lite traffic. #losangeles #freeways #california

Dallas leaders want to study the impacts of tearing down I-345 | KERA News #FreewayRemoval #freeways

https://www.keranews.org/transportation/2023-04-12/dallas-leaders-want-to-study-the-impacts-of-tearing-down-i-345

#Podcast about #LosAngeles / #GriffithPark #mountainLion #P22 #puma born in the #SantaMonicaMountains

#wildlifeConservation #wildlifeCrossing #freeways #wildlifeCameras #predators #coexisting #coexistence #endangered #inbreeding #LA

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5mZWVkYnVybmVyLmNvbS9PbG9naWVz/episode/NmNiMzZkNDEtNzNhNy00MjVkLTkzZjUtZDMzOWEyNGRkYjgz?ep=14 #ologies

Some of #theseshows
Let’s say we reverse engineered a crashed #UFO at #Roswell

We gained Fiber Optics 10 years earlier
We gained memory metal
We gained #SiliconChips 10 yrs early

#SoWhat ??

I was promised #FlyingCars in my youth but I seriously don’t trust these idiots on #Freeways in Two dimensions

One of my favourite things to post are inspiring before-and-after photos of transformed urban places. They often speak for themselves…except what you can’t tell from the after-photos is that vehicle traffic often actually gets BETTER.
This one of #Dusseldorf #Germany’s waterfront comes from @iamcais.
#cities. #waterfront #urbanism #freeways #transportation #cars

One of my favourite things to share on Twitter are inspiring before-and-after photos of transformed urban places. They kind of speak for themselves…except what you can’t tell from the after-photo is that vehicle traffic often actually gets BETTER.

This one of #Dusseldorf #Germany comes from @iamcais.

#cities. #waterfront #urbanism #freeways #transportation #cars

Famed Los Angeles mountain lion had been struck by a car euthanised. Before it was put down it had a nibble on a Chihuahua. The wide-roaming big cats face #habitat fragmented by urban #sprawl and are hemmed in by massive #freeways that are not only dangerous to cross but are also barriers to the local population's genetic diversity.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-18/famed-los-angeles-mountain-lion-euthanased/101785678
#roadkill #roads #monoculture #dogs #suburbia #wildlife #biodiversity

Today in Australia, the idea of demolishing a freeway is pretty much unthinkable.

And yet, around the world, cities from Seoul to Helsinki have begun tearing theirs down.

Even the US, the homeland of Dwight D Eisenhower’s Interstate Highway System, the idea is gaining traction.

The Biden Administration has set aside $US1 billion ($A1.3 billion) for urban freeway removal, as part of its infrastructure bill. Cities from San Francisco to Rochester in upstate New York have already called in the bulldozers on their freeways.

Is it time for Australia to start doing the same?

(This article includes comments from @danielbowen).

https://thefifthestate.com.au/urbanism/infrastructure/why-australia-needs-to-have-a-conversation-about-removing-freeways/

#UrbanPlanning #sustainability #trains #PublicTransport #Urbanism #freeways #auspol #ClimateChange #cycling #bikes #cities #cars #freeways

🛣 Changes to the California Highway Website covering August-October 2022 https://cahighways.org/wordpress/?p=16489 #Roadgeeking #Roadgeek #Caltrans #Highways #California #Freeways #CTC

There’s nothing free about freeways.

#CarDependency #cars #induceddemand #cities #freeways #transportation #cityplanning #urbanplanning #congestion