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Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
174 followers · 3156 posts · Server sfba.social

#forestfortrees #ebike #safety #cars #killing #roads #20splenty #carfreecitycentersplease #walkablecities

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CLondoner92 · @CLondoner92
104 followers · 406 posts · Server mastodon.cloud
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for press release:
to launch 65km (40 miles) of new lower speed limit schemes to cut road danger across the capital and save lives
tfl-newsroom.prgloo.com/news/t

#transport #london #tfl #roadsafety #urbanism #uk #england #cars #traffic #travel #roads

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John Arnold · @JohnDA
90 followers · 1362 posts · Server social.vivaldi.net
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_The Evening Post_, 11 Sept 1923:
LOCAL AND GENERAL
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During the recent severe southerly gale, a considerable amount of damage was done to the Day’s Bay-Lowry Bay road by erosion of the foreshore. The Hutt County Council inspector reported to the council to-day that the roadway had been reduced in width by from three feet tor four feet in the small bays, in addition to the sweeping off of some of the metal,…
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/news

#onthisday #otd #paperspast #newzealand #roads #damage #storms

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Nathan Young · @nvyoung
21 followers · 2534 posts · Server disabled.social
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Going through the tunnel for a railroad in Birmingham.

#tunnel #roadscapes #roads

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BellingenNSW · @Bellingen
170 followers · 722 posts · Server mastodon.au
The Conversation - 3,200 deaths a year: 1 of many reasons air pollution in Australia demands urgent national action

Air pollution kills 3,200 Australians a year.
"Air pollution is the world’s single greatest environmental cause of preventable disease and premature death. In Australia, it’s linked to more than 3,200 deaths a year at an estimated cost of A$6.2 billion."

"Decarbonising transport will improve air quality as well as reducing emissions."

End
Killer mobility (Bushmaster like combustion tanks: SUVs)
Treating the Earth's air/atmosphere as a tip
Slash and burn 'plantation' forestry
Burning everything down before it might burn culture

theconversation.com/3-200-deat
# OneHealth

#fossilfuel #transportation #cars #trucks #traffic #heavymachinery #roads #bushfires #smoke #nativeforests #nswlogging #bellinglogging #burning #pollution #air #climate

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Verkeer Brussel Mobiliteit · @verkeersinfo
48 followers · 223 posts · Server socialmedia.mobilite-mobiliteit.brussels
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Hoe ziet het Center eruit, de plek waar we het Brusselse opvolgen? 🤔 Operationeel verantwoordelijke Peter geeft je het antwoord in deze video.

#brussels #mobility #verkeer #mobiliteit #auto #tunnels #wegen #geheimeplek #behindthescene #goodmove #brussel #roads #road #traffic

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BellingenNSW · @Bellingen
170 followers · 720 posts · Server mastodon.au

Bulldozing roads through biodiversity.
NSW does it, but India does it better:

6 Lane Highway pushing though the web of life, drone view
youtube.com/watch?v=dTLwtr0ssv

Raipur Visakhapatnam Expressway Update | Expressways in India | Papa Construction
youtube.com/watch?v=BYZixOLy6Y
makers

#roads #highways #bellingelogging #glenifferroad #forest #habitat #wildlife #biodiversity #extinction

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BellingenNSW · @Bellingen
170 followers · 720 posts · Server mastodon.au

Environmentalists condemn Australia’s ‘woeful record’ after 48 plants and animals added to threatened species list

“This many species being added to the list in one go is a sign of widespread ecological collapse,” Tim Beshara of the Wilderness Society.

“Australia has a woeful track record when it comes to protecting our unique animals and plants. We are a world leader in sending mammals to extinction – and it is mostly because we keep allowing their homes to be bulldozed, logged and overrun,” Nature campaigner Jess Abrahams

“We need stronger laws to protect these species and significantly more funding to do it with."

theguardian.com/australia-news
makers

#australia #environmentalmanagement #sprawl #roads #cats #dogs #deforestation #logging #nswlogging #thegreatkoalanationalpark #biodiversity #endangeredspecies #wildlife #koalas #conservation #care #extinction

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:rss: Hacker News · @ycombinator
54 followers · 5500 posts · Server rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com
The Irish News - Plans to cut speed limits ‘will significantly improve road safety' – minister

#ycombinator #gosafe #helen_mcentee #jack_chambers #motoring #roads #rte_radio_one #speed_limits #republic_of_ireland

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Nathan Young · @nvyoung
21 followers · 2494 posts · Server disabled.social
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Weekend Road Art: In honor of Labor Day, the American Dream is dead.

#roaddrawing #roads #road #Art #Drawing

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BellingenNSW · @Bellingen
167 followers · 699 posts · Server mastodon.au
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Monopolising and overusing residential roads for the purpose of industrial extraction.

For over half a year they made a highway out of the scenic Gleniffer Road so that the forest ' stuff' can be extracted and monetised before all that 'bush' is possibly declared a Koala National Park.

When Gleniffer Road was closed and traffic went along Roses Rd., the steep and bendy road was smashed into bits by overuse in the last seven month.

Almost on a daily basis various fossil fuel trucks and machinery patch the damage with small fossil fuel 'bandages' and widen the shoulders so that they can accommodate the machinery of (forest) destruction.

Stop logging native forests
Stop logging the homes of biodiversity

#glenifferroad #rosesroad #bellingenlogging #forests #nativeforests #loggingimpacts #roads #bellingen #thegreatkoalanationalpark #climate #fossilfuel

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Mine Nest · @minenest
22 followers · 17421 posts · Server channels.im
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#beatingminecraft #beatingminecraftbut #mcbut #minecraft #minecart #minecraftbut #minecraftbutchallenge #minecraftbutmod #minecraftbutpickaroad #minecraftbutyoucan #minecraftbutyoucancraft #minecraftchallenge #minecraftchoice #minecraftcraft #minecraftdecision #minecraftminecart #minecraftop #minecraftpickone #minecraftroad #minecraftsurvival #minecraftvideos #minecraftwouldyourather #nestorio #roads #xnestorio

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BellingenNSW · @Bellingen
166 followers · 687 posts · Server mastodon.au
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Motorists are immune to wildlife signs

"Wildlife signage make absolutely no difference to anything"

"The conservative estimate is that 4 million marsupials are hit on the roads in Australia each year."

"According to insurer AAMI, there were 17,000 animal collision claims across Australia in 2022. That number does not include animal collisions where cars weren't damaged."

Factor in overpasses on all roads..

abc.net.au/news/science/2023-0
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Image: Bellingen koala signage lasted a few days before it was mowed down.

#cars #motorists #crashes #boats #speed #koalas #wildlife #roads #overpasses #mobilitydesign #biodiversity #extinction

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BellingenNSW · @Bellingen
166 followers · 686 posts · Server mastodon.au

Killer roads prevent fossil fuel free mobility

"...Most transport funding goes towards building wider and longer roads “embedding car dependency” – which leads to more driving and ultimately more congestion."

"Thirty-five cyclists were killed on Australia’s roads last year, slightly down on the 10-year average of 38.5. About half of those were aged 40 to 64, and most were men, according to the Bureau of Infrastructure and Transport Research Economics.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare statistics show 14,796 bike riders were hospitalised in 2021-22."

theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2

#bellingen #nsw #roads #speed #cardependency #infrastructure #glenifferroad #northbankroad #cycling #walkability #climate #publichealth #mobility #mobilitydesign

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BellingenNSW · @Bellingen
164 followers · 679 posts · Server mastodon.au
"We are killing this ecosystem": the scientists tracking the Amazon's fading health

Fading forests
The Amazon, the Congo or Australia – it's the same story

"Many ecologists say that the selective logging permitted by the Forest Code is often not sustainable. That’s because the trees that are removed are generally slow-growing species with dense wood, whereas the species that grow back have less-dense wood, so they absorb less carbon in the same space. And few companies follow the requirements for selective logging, such as limiting road construction or the number of trees cut...About 90% of selective logging in the Amazon is estimated as illegal, and therefore doesn’t follow any of these procedures."

nature.com/immersive/d41586-02

#forests #logging #roads #degradation #deforestation #carbonemissions #climate

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BellingenNSW · @Bellingen
152 followers · 644 posts · Server mastodon.au
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The biggest likely source of microplastics in California coastal waters? Our car tires
Driving is not just an air pollution and climate change problem — turns out, it just might be the largest contributor of microplastics in California coastal waters.

“No one had looked at all the water rushing off the streets during rainfall events to see whether that had plastics in it...That makes all that driving we do something to think about, not just in the Bay Area, but any setting where there are cars.”

“...It’s about individual behavior change, it’s about more corporate responsibility. Together, we can make a big change.”

latimes.com/environment/story/
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#tyres #cars #roads #traffic #pollution #plastic #bellingen #thedrive #parking #rivers #bellinger #neverneverriver #water #catchment #ocean #biodiversity

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h2g2bob · @h2g2bob
47 followers · 471 posts · Server mastodon.dbatley.com
London’s other forgotten motorways

The 1970s wasn't just planning to demolish London for the ringway motorways, but also for these extra motorways too. A wrong turn narrowly avoided (mostly) roads.org.uk/blog/londons-othe

#roads #london

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BellingenNSW · @Bellingen
150 followers · 635 posts · Server mastodon.au
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Bushfires and the 15-kilometre traffic jam
Dangerous fires and a bottlenecks when fleeing bushfires

"There will be people caught in their cars, trying to get out of the area...When wildfires tore through the county of Maui in Hawaii earlier this month, leaving more than 100 people dead, some whom perished in their cars on the gridlocked road out of the town."

abc.net.au/news/2023-08-25/wol

#planning #sprawl #exitroutes #fossilfuel #bushfires #risks #cars #traffic #roads #gridlocked #bellingen #waterfallway

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BellingenNSW · @Bellingen
150 followers · 632 posts · Server mastodon.au
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The extraction roads they are building around Bellingen (for the last year) could be sourcing the road making materials from the NSW Hunter region which is also a koala habitat. The forests there and here are covered in dust and residents relying on water caught off their roofs are forced to drink polluted water.

abc.net.au/news/2023-08-25/hun

#koalas #logging #quarry #stoplogging #nativeforest #bellingenlogging #roads #traffic #dust #pollution #water #bellingen #watertanks #rosesrd #glenifferroad #savetuckersnob

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Sam Butler · @sambutlerUS
282 followers · 290 posts · Server kolektiva.social
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#depave #waroncars #carfree #tacticalurbanism #urbanism #bikes #transit #housing #plastic #microplastics #pollution #suburbia #roads #writing #shortstory #screenplay #script #fiction #creativewriting #speculativefiction #solarpunk #fuckcars #strongtowns #planning #urbandesign #policy #ClimateCrisis #climateemergency #climate

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