@ai6yr The article links to another with this headline "L.A. driver goes on high-speed rampage amid violent downtown protests".
The guy attempts mass murder with a car as a weapon, but it's the protestors who are "violent".
US media is complicit in where we are. #USpol #CarCentrism #Fascism
@kims "Aliens and human cops/military all agree on their hate of cyclists" #BikeTooter #CarCentrism
How long we've been slogging away at this...
#BikeTooter #CarCentrism #ClimateChange
" "The newsletter of the bikeways explosion."
Description based on: Vol. 3, no. 6 (10-68 [Oct. 1968]); title from caption."
I asked my friend why they'd design things this way, and they guessed that it was to save money by only having to build a sidewalk on one side. #Abbotsford #CarCentrism
Cyclists are pretty familiar with cycle paths or lanes that deadend. But car-centrism also includes sidewalks that disappear.
I walked about 2 miles and in that time I had to cross back and forth across the street several times because sidewalk was only on one side of the street and it was somewhat random which side would have it
There usually were not crosswalks where wheelchair users/peds were forced to cross and this in a neighborhood where many have gigantic trucks #CarCentrism #Abbotsford
"the Assembly Water, Parks & Wildlife Committee voted to advance the measure. The 13 members of the committee, including Rogers, weren’t persuaded by the objections from a Native American tribe, environmentalists and transportation advocacy groups that oppose widening highways. They argue that research shows that adding lanes doesn’t reduce congestion.
Only one committee member, Gregg Hart, a Democrat from Santa Barbara, declined to vote"
https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/05/california-highway-37-endangered-species/ #CarCentrism
@breadandcircuses OFC it is...
If it was about preventing #ClimateChange, we'd see #SystemChange & #AbolishCapitalism or at the very least #PublicTransport like #Tram|s and #Trolleybus|es instead of #Cars & their #infrastructure being invested into.
#SystemChngeNotClimateChange #LateStageCapitalism #Capitalism #Enshittification #CarCentrism #MobilityChange
@GhostOnTheHalfShell Gladly I do #WorkFromHome >99% of the time so I'm not required to #commute and there's good, affordable #PublicTransport in #Germany (at least in the urban area I live in)...
It is amazing how consistent the news about the not-so-good impacts of the way we use automobiles is. Here's another report on life cycle costs.
H/T Aarne Granlund, https://bsky.app/profile/aarnegranlund.bsky.social/post/3lkftbmcuzk2d
@meganL yikes. We're experiencing a reversal on infrastructure here in #Boston, too. The Mayor seems to be mulling a cynical campaign pivot to meet her opponent's anti-bike bids to the #CarCentrism chuds. Lots of existing improvements under threat pending a "review" (poll, I'm sure) period
we had a lovely e-trike (Lectric) riding with #CriticalMass #Boston last week in some protest action to compliment some lobbying action to encourage the Mayor not to make a cynical campaign pivot to #CarCentrism to compete with her anti-bike opponent.
It was a pleasure to have #Trike representation in our mass. It left me thinking about how wonderful it is that we can move in different ways, but share the joy of riding, and stand as political allies. And about how that kind of solidarity isn't specific to bikes in a life well lived.
Our research should be of special interest to anyone into #urbanism #carcentrism #cardependence #walkability #segregation like @BrentToderian @TheWarOnCars @nerd4cities @notjustbikes @SheDrivesMobility @straphanger
'Oh the person in front of me was doing under the speed limit so I got frustrated and then <insert a self-absolving description for driving recklessly>!'
If you lack the emotional regulation to drive safely under the mildest adversity, you're not a 'good driver who occasionally gets frustrated', you're a bad driver who frequently gets lucky.
I would go so far as to say 'shouldn't be driving at all', but I recognise a lot of places are impossible to live without a car.
@FluentInFinance Yes because that's very much the norm in #Europe!
Penthouse / Roof Garden
1-5+ levels full with Apartments
1-5+ levels with Offices (i.e. doctors, lawyers, architects, engineers, HR firms, ...)
1-5+ levels Commercial Space (i.e. stores, restaurants, bars,)
1-3 levels Underground parking garage
1-2 levels Cellar for Storage
Also we don't have #ParkingSpaceMandates here so there are more efficient land useages here...
Just saw a delivery van just driving around with a fully flat tyre (front left). They surely must feel it and they certainly must hear it.
Not sure if they're too oblivious to notice, just don't care, or are too pressed for time to stop, so instead are royally fucking up their car and the road.
Either way, these are the people we allow on our roads. Neither of the 3 is a good option for driving a multi tonne killing machine.
Got stuck at a red light in an intersection in the centre of #Crawley today. It seems that the light only goes green when the "system" thinks there's somebody waiting and that somebody has to obviously be in a motor vehicle, despite there being an advanced stop line for cyclists. Watched the lights go through two full cycles until a driver pulled up behind me. *Then* the light changed. Hey hum. And people complain about cyclists running red lights.
The article doesn't specify what the "material moving cart" UCSF uses is...whether it's an electric golf cart or a metal cart on caster wheels. However, on the UC Davis campus, UC Davis employees using both combustion engine John Deere carts and electric golf carts routinely exceed the 15 mph limit on internal campus cycle paths.
https://norcalrecord.com/stories/664911984-plaintiff-alleges-university-negligence-led-to-personal-injury #UCAccessNow #Disability #CarCentrism
Parking Laws Are Strangling America • Climate Town
#Science #Engineering #Economics #ClimatePolicy #TOD #CarCentrism #QualityOfLife
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUNXFHpUhu8
Systemic ableism is:
- UC Davis job ads with "must be able to lift 50 lbs" to screen out disabled people from the git-go.
- Very limited disabled auto parking, even more limited accessible paratransit, which is often not close.
but
- UC Davis abled driving employees parking their air conditioned trucks/vans in the middle of ped/wheelchair paths, blocking ramps coz they "have to carry things" and don't like the couple minutes it takes the AC to cool things.
There are parking lots just beyond that shrub as well as a large lot behind the camera.
Disabled people at UC are heavily policed. Abled convenience lovers? Not so much.
Former LANL Director McMillan Dies in Crash
https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/former-lanl-director-charles-mcmillan-69-dies-in-crash/article_9b8be1a6-6c8e-11ef-bc80-77d8e15a6b11.html #Obituary #Science #CarCentrism
