Do you know that thing when you get on the highway and the speed limit is mocking you?

I mean.. it's 120kmh/75mph, but the traffic allows for a maximum of 20kmh/12mph.

That's what happens every time I drive home form work.
*head desk

#driving #traffic #trafficJams #HateTrafficeJams #HateTraffic

Via @parismarx: The Week of Cone against Autonomous Cars, https://twitter.com/SafeStreetRebel/status/1676695665278337024?t=4nspmkzBDioCR_sHjdKyyQ&s=19
#autonomouscars #traffic #trafficjams #autonomousvehicles #autonomousdriving #autonomouskilling #sf #sfba #thewaroncars

Why is your city not like #Tokio ?

- no #trafficjams
- lowest air #pollution
- <1/4 the #trafficdeaths compared to the US (2.7 vs 12 per 100.000 inhabitants)
- same average travel speed (18km/h)

The author hides the answer in the last paragraph: “Japanese value the society more than their own comfort”

Also: No on street parking, need to have a personal parking spot to register a vehicle.

https://www.zeit.de/2023/05/japan-verkehrspolitik-staus-unfaelle

#citiesforpeople #urbanism #japan

@vallery
Agree! When people don't mind rush hour #trafficjams because they can put their feet up and read a novel while commuting in their self-driving cars, it will lead to traffic jams even in previously pristine rural areas.
Reminds me of that doctor who episode where the entire planet is covered with flying cars in a traffic jams that last for years, and one character says, "we're still on the same trip as when my 5-year-old daughter was first born there in the backseat."

Drove my #car in #Krakow after another 1-2 weeks hiatus, during which I was using my #EV scooter and #trams.

Weather was poor (0-1 deg. C), so I decided this way. I see that 99% of people made the same decision. And... Driving a car is a dangerous, expensive undertaking, consisting mostly of not moving😶

Why we're doing that? Why I spent 6+ hours driving around the city for 100 km (incl. the circular highway), to make 2 small appointments? Then vegetated in #trafficJams?

#carDependency #cities

משקיעים היום בפקקים של מחר

We are investing today in the traffic jams of tomorrow.

#UrbanPlanning #trafficjams #induceddemand #תכנוןעירוני #פקקיתנועה #מתכנניםהיוםאתהפקקיםשלמחר #ירושלים #jerusalem

https://jerusalem.mynet.co.il/local_news/article/rygww1lti

#NorthCarolina could be #wasting millions on #widening #roads without #fixing #traffic - Axios Charlotte

According to the idea of #inducedDemand, if you widen a #road to relieve #trafficJams, #driving becomes easier for #people. But the new #lanes will become #congested again in a matter of time, #experts warn.

https://charlotte.axios.com/315264/north-carolina-could-be-wasting-millions-on-widening-roads-without-fixing-traffic/

RT @PontWorld@twitter.com

As travel chaos looms, #PONT from 4 November 1936: THE BRITISH CHARACTER - LOVE OF WAITING IN TRAFFIC BLOCKS #railstrikes #petrolcrisis #queues #travel #trafficjams

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/PontWorld/status/1536308473557819394

RT @PontWorld@twitter.com

As travel chaos looms, #PONT from 4 November 1936: THE BRITISH CHARACTER - LOVE OF WAITING IN TRAFFIC BLOCKS #railstrikes #petrolcrisis #queues #travel #trafficjams

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/PontWorld/status/1536308473557819394

Ants excel in managing #trafficjams. They are far better than us human. A nice experimental and theoretical work by Audrey Dussutour's team from Toulouse. #science #biology #animalbehaviour #ant
📄 Poissonnier et al (2019) eLife 8:e48945 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.48945