“Bike riding is largely viewed as a recreational activity – I think that’s the principal philosophy here.”
(in Australia) >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/13/sudden-closure-of-iconic-bridge-to-cyclists-shows-car-is-still-king-in-brisbane
#MobilityDesign #cars #Australia #mindsets #FossilFuel #climate #Automobility #harm #cyclists #pedestrians #ActiveTransport
#Automobility
“Bike riding is largely viewed as a recreational activity – I think that’s the principal philosophy here.” (in Australia) >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/13/sudden-closure-of-iconic-bridge-to-cyclists-shows-car-is-still-king-in-brisbane
#MobilityDesign #cars #Australia #mindsets #FossilFuel #climate #Automobility #cyclists #pedestrians
The #assetization of #automobility through #paywalling can affect the ecology of automobility in ways that entrench powerful + moneyed interests while undermining #ConsumerWelfare + the #PublicGood
👀Bricolageyumyum.bsky.social & mcforelle.bsky.social: https://doi.org/pcgp
Des résidus de pneus retrouvés dans de nombreux légumes vendus en Suisse 🚗
Tyre particles found in many vegetables sold in Switzerland
Highway expansions and road widening
How America (Australia) Can Break Its Highway Addiction
"After a century of rampant roadbuilding, the U.S. highway network is ubiquitous, dominating the American landscape in bucolic rural settings as well as dense urban ones. Rather than being a tool for mobility, it has become a monument to an auto-centric lifestyle that fouls the air and depletes the public coffers. Neither the country nor the planet can afford to keep expanding it."
"At the federal level, even asking questions about the collective climate impact of highway building appears verboten."
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https://slate.com/business/2024/08/construction-traffic-cars-driving-transportation-highway.html
#Sprawl #roads #highways #expansion #cars #automobility #industry #asphalt #Motordom #MobilityDesign #ClimateBreakdown #pollution #NSW #CoffsHarbour #bellingen #GlenifferRoad
Friday Video:
How #America Got Hooked on #Cars
#CNBC put together a solid 15-minute explainer on #car dependency that's perfect for sending to anyone who's never thought about the role of #automobility in their life.
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2025/02/14/friday-video-how-america-got-hooked-on-cars
How Europe crashed its car industry
Short-sighted policy gave China the upper hand
"The production and consumption of cars have long marked decisive junctures in Western political history...Symbolically, cars represented historical progress conceived as individual and democratic freedom." >>
https://unherd.com/2025/01/how-europe-crashed-its-cars/
#cars #CarIndustry #deindustrialization #TheWest #progress #energy #transition #Fossilfuel #automobility #EV #democracy
Australia's lack of fuel security
"Our way of life
depends upon cheaper oil and fuel coming from overseas, but it does so at the cost of our security and resilience...The thought of not having food in cupboards and fridges or prescription medicines would likely exercise people's minds a lot more than the ill-informed thoughts they had during COVID about toilet paper." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-07/australia-fuel-security-falling-short-foi-war-game-report/104745210
Tangled up in oil in Petrotopia
https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/113773037156395951
#energy #vulnerabilities #fuel #FossilFuels #cars #oil #petroleum #fuel #mobility #dependency #EnergyDependency #Australia #infrastructure #automobility #roads #malls #highways #Petrotopia #PetroMelancholia #CarDependency #MobilityDesign #ClimateBreakdown #transformation #societies #MiddleEast #FuelSecurity #MSO #WayofLife
Tangled up in oil in Petrotopia
Imagine life on an Island that has to import 91% of fuel from overseas.
And the entire matrix of the place has been set up for oil dependency a century ago.
Without a car there is no mobility (in Petrotopia)
Without a car one can't get stuff (made /transported by fossil fuels)
Without a car one can't get to work or other places
Without a car one can't drop off the kids
Without a car one can't empty the dogs
Without a car one can't go for a walk
Without a car /mower one can't do the endless lawns
Without a car/ boat/ plane one can't re-create or have a holiday
Australia is reliant on imports for around 91% of fuel consumption.
https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/australia-91-reliant-on-foreign-oil-research-report/
Bondre, N. (2023). Petromobility and Energy Coloniality in Puerto Rico: Reading Luis Rafael Sánchez’s La Guaracha Del Macho Camacho. Green Letters, 27(2), 219–238. https://doi.org/10.1080/14688417.2023.2243488
#energy #FossilFuels #cars #oil #petroleum #fuel #mobility modernity #dependency #EnergyDependency #Australia #islands #infrastructure #automobility #roads #malls #highways #Petrotopia #PetroMelancholia #CarDependency #MobilityDesign #ClimateBreakdown #transformation #societies
All suburbs in Australia need “a fully-staffed control room where they can keep an eye on crowd and traffic management.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-04/summernats-command-centre-police-powers/104781278
#Fossilfuel #cars #hoons #burnouts #BadAppleMyth #automobility #panopticon #petroculture #Australia #recreation #OilGuzzlingLifestyle #petrotopia #culture #ClimateBreakdown
Declining reading rates in Australia
Australians are reading less than other countries. They are buying and reading fewer books than people in many other countries. Why?
Car dependency, sprawling suburbia and a public transport desert do not allow for a culture of reading (while commuting).
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https://theconversation.com/australians-are-reading-less-than-other-countries-a-new-report-shows-why-243272
#books #reading #culture #cars #sprawl #commuting #mindsets #harm #automobility #PublicTransport #PublicHealth #MobilityDesign #FossilFuels #dependency
Despite the widespread harm caused by #cars and #automobility, governments, corporations, and individuals continue to facilitate it by expanding roads, manufacturing larger vehicles, and subsidising parking, electric cars, and resource extraction.
One in 34 deaths are caused by cars and automobility with 1 670 000 deaths per year.
Cars and automobility have killed 60–80 million people since their invention. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0966692324000267
The tyranny of automobility and sprawl
While the Bellingen /Gleniffer area is transitioning from an ‘idyllic tourist town’ into a ‘normal Aussie suburb’ (of Coffs Harbour), road congestion gets everyone stuck in traffic.
Car dependent motorists in their SUVs and bloated oversized trucks demand more and wider roads, larger car parking and a right to pothole-free roads for their 'sports utility vehicles’.
Extreme commuting for the necessaries of life are conducted in big private vehicles powered by fossil fuel. An aggregate of ugly big-box stores (large format retail, Coffs) with hostile giant car parks deliver what consumers desire. These consumption hubs are mostly inaccessible to pedestrians and can be dangerous ‘non-places’ (Marc Augé).
The mobility design of old school traffic engineers responds to the sprawling expansion with more of the same: more roads, wider roads and bypassing the last bypass. They call it ‘upgrades’.
As the latest $2.2 billion highway or forest road ‘upgrade/s’ are blasting their way through the landscape, they are silent about the ‘public bads’: the destroyed biodiversity habitat, the downgraded neighbourhoods, the violence and the polluted biosphere.
The ‘normality’ of automobility, or the 'car in the head' in petromodernity together with regulatory inertia make a transition to alternative land uses, energy systems, mobilities and ways of being a challenge.
#sprawl #suburbia #mobility #cars #roads #JevonsParadox #externalities #automobility #pollution #biodiversity #ClimateExtremes #FossilFuels #Petromodernity #GlenifferRoad #CoffsHarbour #Bellingen #SettlerSociety #liveability
Transport within earth system boundaries
"A sustainable mobility and transport system requires assessment of its impacts on climate, land, water, aerosols, amongst others, to ensure that it operates within safe and just boundaries."
Within a finite ecospace "transport (road, rail, air, water) using fossil fuels needs to be phased out as soon as possible to avoid too much of a transgression of the 1.5 °C target."
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Gupta, J., Chen, Y. & Rammelt, C. Transport within earth system boundaries. npj. Sustain. Mobil. Transp. 1, 5 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44333-024-00005-5
#FossilFuels #transport #pollution #EcoSpace #PlanetaryBoundaries #limits #climate #roads #cars #mobility #automobility #MobilityDesign
Recycling toxic car tyres through the body and the environment
When tyres are used, tiny particles of rubber are released and accumulate on road surfaces. These particles can be washed away by rainwater into storm drains, ultimately ending up in nearby water bodies such as rivers, lakes, and oceans.The particles contribute to a range of negative health impacts including heart, lung, developmental, reproductive, and cancer outcomes.
Tyre wear particle (TWP) are generated by contact between tyre and road surface during driving, acceleration and braking.>
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969720313358
Tires are a complex source of pollutants including whole tires, particles, compounds, and chemicals. As they wear, tires emit pollutants via atmospheric, aquatic, and terrestrial pathways.>
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969724012920
Tyre wear particle emissions have outweighed those from the exhaust and are potential for microplastic pollution.>
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1352231023000237
Tyre wear particles pollute the environment, the air we breathe, the water run-off from roads and has compounding effects on waterways and agriculture.
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/243333/prioritise-tackling-toxic-emissions-from-tyres/
#cars #roads #vehicles #EVs #speed #machinery #pollution #FossilFuels #microplastics #harm #regulation #automobility #TRWP #TWP #toxicology #ecotoxicity #PAH #water #runoff #waste #food #health #risk
How sound can boost beneficial soil microbes to heal nature
By this, we mean barriers to protect ecosystems from potentially undesirable noises. For instance, we’re asking questions such as:
do traffic and industrial noises harm the ecosystem?
>>
https://theconversation.com/the-biodiversity-jukebox-how-sound-can-boost-beneficial-soil-microbes-to-heal-nature-235866
#noise #vibration #pollution #roads #cars #trucks #loggingIndustry #ecosystems #soil #Biodiversity #FossilFuel #machinery #automobility
A comprehensive comparison of the social cost of #automobility, #cycling and #walking in the #EU.
The cost of automobility is about €500 billion per year.
Due to positive #health effects, cycling is an external benefit worth €24 billion per year and walking €66 billion per year
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0921800918308097
I knew #cars were out of #control. People are questioning #automobility, letting cars be #mobile in new ways, for many years by now. Thanks @theguardianrss for pointing this out.
🌍 The high cost of cars: A global review reveals the shocking harm caused by automobility to people and the planet. #Automobility #SustainableMobility #Environment https://gearandgrit.com/car-harm-a-global-review-of-automobilitys-harm-to-people-and-the-environment/
🚗 Curious about the true cost of our car-centric world? "Car Harm: A Global Review of Automobility's Harm to People and the Environment" dives deep into the impact on health, the environment, and more. Check it out here: https://t.co/mHUzduDg0C #sustainability #automobility
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