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Sam Butler · @sambutlerUS
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💨 When you sell a car (even for an EV), your gas car gets re-sold and keeps on polluting and emitting.

🛞 Tires are the worst form of car pollution. They shed microplastics and toxins every day — which kill everything.

The only way to end the problems of cars, is to end cars.

Boost on Twitter too, so people know:

twitter.com/sambutlerUS/status

#depave #waroncars #carfree #tacticalurbanism #urbanism #bikes #transit #housing #plastic #microplastics #pollution #fuckcars #strongtowns #planning #urbandesign #policy #ClimateCrisis #climateemergency #climate

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😀🚲 · @enobacon
680 followers · 6766 posts · Server urbanists.social

in is doing awesome and organizing that on-the-ground and they have regular hangouts and game nights you should get in on. (do I want to be on another slack though, where's your mastodon account?)

strongtownspdx.org/

#strongtowns #portland #pdx #urbanist #climateaction #bancars #tacticalurbanism #betterblock #stuffinthestreet

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Sam Butler · @sambutlerUS
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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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Sam Butler · @sambutlerUS
282 followers · 290 posts · Server kolektiva.social
Twitter - Dr. Jonathan Foley on X

Re: twitter.com/GlobalEcoGuy/statu

When people trade-in their gas cars for EVs, their gas cars are re-sold to other countries and keep on polluting.
(edition.cnn.com/2023/05/21/afr)

Tire pollution (the microplastics and metal pollutants that come off tires as people drive) is 2000x worse than tailpipe emissions, and EVs don't help with this.
(washingtonpost.com/climate-env)

3,000 pound vehicles for personal transportation make these problems inescapable.

The only thing that makes sense is transitioning beyond cars in general.

#fuckcars #mobility #bikes #transit #publictransit #carfree #strongtowns #evs #bicycles #cycling #walking #walkablecommunities #PublicSpaces #safestreets #housing #density #urban #urbanism #tacticalurbanism #climate #climateemergency #ClimateCrisis #sustainability #sustainabletransitions

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😀🚲 · @enobacon
675 followers · 6497 posts · Server urbanists.social

Basically since the moment bulldozed the trees and widened 39th (now Cesar Chavez Blvd) to four lanes, residents have stories of how they & other kids were not even allowed to go near that street on their bikes. But the bureau of "" remains perplexed about how to solve the problem they created or how to make their budgets work 🙄

portland.gov/transportation/bb

#pbot #portland #transportation #vision60or70something #CarsRuinCities #vmtreduction #buslanes #RoadDiet #tacticalurbanism #climateaction #jfdi

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😀🚲 · @enobacon
671 followers · 6426 posts · Server urbanists.social
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tag yourself, I'm "milk cans filled with concrete"

#tacticalurbanism #bancars

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😀🚲 · @enobacon
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Amazing stuff in this video of Denver's street designs @activetowns this is what north america's need to be doing, like mini-roundabouts for the price of a speed hump 😍, choke points mid-block on side streets, let's go!!! I particularly love how much they are squeezing these car lanes, if you want to change culture, only give like 3in of slack and engineers can go "🤷 just slow down, it'll fit" 😎

youtu.be/HUtI-Fk0yCw

#Quickbuild #tacticalurbanism #trafficengineers #drivers #climateaction

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😀🚲 · @enobacon
661 followers · 6294 posts · Server urbanists.social

So, is the trick of getting PBOT to ignore your installation, that you must use official-looking materials, or does the design also need to display disdain for poor people?

bikeportland.org/2014/12/17/gu

#tacticalurbanism

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😀🚲 · @enobacon
659 followers · 6237 posts · Server urbanists.social

👉 "the project started with planters and the decision to make the street safe" 💯

[project= Telegraph Ave in Oakland]

let's go
do or get

#stuffinthestreet #tacticalurbanism #portland #visionzero #vision60or70something

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Josh :verifiedlgbt: · @joshh
102 followers · 172 posts · Server mas.to

This reinforces my belief that “street furniture” closer to the edge of the road perceptually changes the designed speed of road.

This is also why drivers go too fast in suburban neighborhoods with massive setbacks dedicated to lawns.

More street furniture please: trees, lampposts, bike racks, gardens—anything that protects sidewalks and people.

From: @davidho
mastodon.world/@davidho/110686

#tacticalurbanism #urbandesign #trafficcalming

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Andres Salomon · @Andres4NY
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@scott "we regret this bike lane" 😂

#tacticalurbanism

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😀🚲 · @enobacon
601 followers · 5365 posts · Server urbanists.social

Or use rockets if it's rocket science, LFG. urbanists.social/@enobacon/110

#tacticalurbanism

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😀🚲 · @enobacon
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What do you call this pointy lane-narrowing paint job? (spotted in Hawaii) I like it. , so it might as well be threatening to 🤷 .

#BikeTooter #transportation #tacticalurbanism #paintisnotprotection #drivers

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😀🚲 · @enobacon
579 followers · 5166 posts · Server urbanists.social
Mashable - How to fight car-centric culture

"channeling online curiosity and anger about car-centric policy can include advocating for new solutions in front of one's city council, protesting deadly intersections, joining a traffic-related commission, participating in public city planning meetings, or exploring the legality of carrying out DIY [] safety measures like painting a crosswalk when the city refuses to provide one. groups exist in major cities across the U.S."

mashable.com/article/car-free-

#tacticalurbanism #trafficsafety #bancars

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😀🚲 · @enobacon
567 followers · 4969 posts · Server urbanists.social

@silvernailsea @rachael @owen
Exactly. It's not just the process but also the designs are by and for . New concrete bikeways aren't wide enough to meet demand, let alone goals. They need to be operating a working prototype NETWORK, , not designing a permanent monument. Then ask people who are actually using it, or even just observe, and adjust. Maybe they can change, but I've said all this for a decade, and now I'm at until I see it.

#carsupremacy #climateaction #tacticalurbanism #defunddots

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Crosswalk Collective LA · @crosswalksLA
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Crosswalk request: "This is an intersection right across from a busy school … I never feel safe (and hate seeing moms having to run with/hurry their children even when they have the right of way)."

Two crosswalks marked at Council and Westmoreland in Koreatown.

#losangeles #tacticalurbanism #diy #diyurbanism #transit #cars #urbanplanning

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😀🚲 · @enobacon
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" in the Streets" program from PBOT is talking about "art encroachments" and I'm hearing planters and traffic calming?

#portland #tacticalurbanism #pdxbikes #stuffinthestreet

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Rik @ bikescape · @bikescape
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A person on a bicycle crashed into this fire hydrant yesterday and had to be evacuated by helicopter to a hospital. Since the hydrant isn’t going anywhere, how would you fix this to make it safer?

#crappybikelanes #bikelanes #BikeTooter #Planning #tacticalurbanism #urbandesign #bicycle #cycling #safestreets

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😀🚲 · @enobacon
539 followers · 4518 posts · Server urbanists.social

#strongtowns #urbanism #induceddemand #tacticalurbanism #stroads #betterblock #visionzero #20isplenty #climateaction #15minuteneighborhood #bikes #transit #bikewaynetwork

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😀🚲 · @enobacon
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"For the first time in ten years, emergency response times for firefighters in have fallen to below seven minutes.

A key reason? Because the French capital's network of new cycle lanes are also wide enough for use by emergency services."

bird.makeup/users/adamtranter/

#bikewaynetwork #jfdi #tacticalurbanism #climateaction #BikeTooter #paris

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