The article, and Woburn are an excellent example of car centric culture.
Not only are the commuter rail options never discussed (I mean, everyone in Boston owns a car right?) But just look at this shocking walk of 3 miles to practically skirt the entire town. Although; do a stroll on street view and you'll see you're actually walking through mile after mile of parking lots.
It's poetic, Oh woe-burn!
My sense of humour: bus number 777 takes us to the casino. Walking away from the bus stop (or out of the casino after losing all your money...?) seems to be unthinkable.
#Montréal, #Québec #Canada
#Casino #Bus #Line #CarCentric
This is a very blatant #clickbait and common #misconception:
Simple things like:
pension / retirement plan
...
In the #US, gross salaries are only higher because it's WAY MORE EXPENSIVE to get the same "perks", because #ForProfitHealthcare exists and noone gets paid vacay per law, so everyone has to cut that.
#Solidarity-based systems make things way cheaper, and people won't demand 6-digit salaries when they have to spend like 10% of their salary just to downpay a #car in a #CarCentric #suburban shithole but have excellent #PublicTransport at affordable rates right at their doorstep!
Premier #DougFord could fine you $1000 for ferrying your kids to school in an electric cargo bike.
Last November, the #Ontario govt overturned a law regulating electric bikes and replaced it with a new law that bans anyone under 16 from riding an e-bike even as a passenger.
A vlog from yesterday's bike ride, using the insta360, testing the different wide angle and fishbowl options, plus the software motion blur.
Commentary towards the end about how car centric construction is working against active transportation.
https://youtu.be/wZHkP5D-rtI?si=yRWUZye8MnVcaVf2
#bedfordhighway #claytonpark #kearneylake #insta360x4 #cycling #bikelife #urbancycling #actioncamera #videography #davinciresolve #telemetryoverlay #bikecomputer #garmin #carcentric #urbanplanning
#halifax
Not only are #Malls, #BigBoxStores and #Hypermarkets are #CarCentric hells, they also fail to provide any "#AddedValue" compared to #OnlineShopping unless one needs something right now and can't wait 2-3 business days to get it shipped.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEqKtqBShTY
Like: #Groceries and #Consumeables, but why bother driving when I can walk faster to the #ALDI than unpark and park my car?
@lightweight @dynamic #CarCentric might be more due to #capitalism than urban design. The new mixed use neighborhoods might become "Welcome to WalMart Meadows". I think the answer lies more in wealth redistribution and more regulation of societal harm than in urban planning.
It also appeared that present day mixed use, walkable neighborhoods might be hard for the middle class to afford.
This is most interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nw6qyyrTeI looking at the 'cost-per-acre' in a few different communities (most in the US)... #CarCentric #PoorSubsidisingRich tl;dw "in *every case* mixed used, walkable neighbourhoods outperform car-focused suburbs. Interestingly, Auckland is included.
The idea that #bicycles should require licenses, registration, and/or insurance is a #CarCentric idea that carries over from the #propaganda of the 1970s that tried to convince people of #JustLikeACar. Do you remember those stickers they forced on kids in the 1970s?
Bicycles present a minuscule danger to #pedestrian and #disability access. #MotorVehicles, by contrast, present a grave threat to everyone else. 7,522 pedestrians and 1,105 cyclists were killed by cars in the US in 2022.
One-day family trip to New York City. Staying at the outskirts is a money-saver, but a major chain hotel next to a major highway with no sidewalk (Google didn't recognize this fact, but no one to blame for not doing our research) in this #CarCentric stroad hell known as northern #NewJersey, where even going to the nearest corner store requires driving, is just not it. Well, I guess that's suburban United States for me...
全家纽约一日游。住郊区是省钱了，然而没仔细考虑，最后选了一个在新泽西某高速辅路上的某大牌酒店，没有车简直寸步难行……
@Mirabeaulacht @claasgefroi Just one more Train will fix it!
#autokorrektur
#onemorelane
#carCentric
I found the craziest most gigantic parking structure I've ever seen in #spokane. This monstrosity pays true homage to #carculture. I've never seen anything that comes even close, though a quick internet search reveals there are substantially larger structures. Just mind numbing.
#Berlin in #Germany does now what Robert Moses did in #NYC: Tearing down buildings, clubs, housing - for a new #freeway/#Autobahn. People in Berlin voted for more cars, more parking, less bicycle paths, and less pedestrian zones. Berlin goes backwards.
It is a nightmare.
#carcentric
This is what you get when electing "Conservative."
https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/regional/berlin/a100-techno-100.html
This is what is going on in the #US. #car #madness. #Size war. And people using this to buy even bigger #cars #trucks.
It is a slippery slope to a world where everyone needs a tank.
Twitter/X is full of "This is why I bought an Escalade (or any other high bumper truck). For the safety of my family."
It is a spiral no-one seems to want to stop. #traffic #carcentric #roadsafety
@serac absolutely, it’s a total pity. I can argue that also some national assets like Grindelwald or St Moritz are completely ruined by #owncar #carcentric design.
United states of...erm...Switzerland. Kinda new hipster area (shopping, gym, restaurant) without sidewalks.
Spundisstrasse, #Chur #Graubünden #Schweiz
#carcentric #autokorrektur #urbanplanning
American society wasn’t always so car-centric. Our future doesn’t have to be, either. (Quoting Prof. Peter Norton, who spoke at the @summit Winter Gathering.) https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2023/10/american-society-wasnt-always-so-car-centric-our-future-doesnt-have-to-be-either/ #Autonorama #CarCentric #GreaterNW @peternorton12@bird.makeup
Good grief! The level of selfishness & entitlement is off the scale here. This is outside the Aldi in London Road, Bishopdown, in my ward, and why we need segregated cycle lanes not pathetic painted shared usage paths! #salisbury #entitled #selfish #carcentric
