Paris Mayor Trying to Remove Highway Around Eiffel Tower (www.france24.com)
Getting resistance from the Chief of Police and others.
New York Congestion Pricing Tolls Could Start Mid-June (www.bloomberg.com)
New York could start charging drivers $15 to enter Manhattan as soon as mid-June, a lawyer for the state’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority told a judge at a hearing on New Jersey’s lawsuit to block the plan....
SUVs Now Account More Than Half Of All Cars Sales In Europe (www.motor1.com)
Guess how much jail time for - through a red light, wrong way down a one way street, crashes, takes one year old out of the car, reverses over it causing fractured skull and broken ribs, drives on and crashes again. All while drunk. (kbin.social)
20 Months and a 3 year ban.
Guess how much jail time for - through a red light, wrong way down a one way street, crashes, takes one year old out of the car, reverses over it causing fractured skull and broken ribs, drives on and crashes again. All while drunk. (kbin.social)
10 Months and a 3 year ban.
Decision-makers to be grilled about modelling that failed to foreshadow Rozelle Interchange traffic nightmare (www.abc.net.au)
Whenever I feel sad I just think the words "Rozelle Interchange" and my life gets a little bit better...
"Time for degrowth" (lemmy.world)
Cartoon by https://newsie.social/@royaards
Cycling in Amsterdam: watch the traffic flow at a transformed busy intersection! (bicycledutch.wordpress.com)
The video mentioned is at the end of the article. I created a separate video post or you can skip on over to youtube to watch.
A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us. (slate.com)
Paris votes on SUVs: voters back proposal to triple parking fees for SUV drivers (www.lemonde.fr)
The measure to make vehicles weighing 1.6 tons and over pay 3x the parking rates for the first two hours has passed in Paris....
Paris Votes To Triple Parking Charges For SUVs (www.forbes.com)
We don’t *need* more cars, more traffic, more congestion, more pollution, more road damage, and more CO2 emissions. (climatejustice.social)
Khan hints London could copy French plan to charge SUV owners higher parking fee (www.telegraph.co.uk)
NYC Congestion Pricing
Has anyone found any good videos explaining NYC congestion pricing? Most of what I'm finding are fear mongering news clips. I understand there is some subtlety to the issue and I was hoping some urbanist/bike/traffic engineering/numtot youtubers would have done an in depth review explaining whats good and whats not.
Prague urban planning (via Adam Something) (yewtu.be)
I live in Prague and I Approve this Message.
It makes cycling easier #shorts - YouTube (youtube.com)
I love it when I see cities, towns and villages putting real effort into non car infrastructure.
Higher Vehicle Hoods Increase Pedestrian Deaths (arstechnica.com)
I know, you’re shocked right?
The Lifesaving Tech Drivers Hate (www.youtube.com)
The real cost of freeways in LA (www.youtube.com)
What if We Had the Right to Public Transport? (newint.org)
Where did the rules of the road come from? (www.youtube.com)
So I'm not posting this in this community because I think the old way of having no rules of movement is better with the current state of car infrastructure, obviously it's not and the rules are what keep cars from being even more deadly. But I'm just saying, the old system worked really well right up until cars showed up, and if...
Yes... pirated cars will definitely fix the problem (slrpnk.net)
A pirated car would just be a more free way to access the $10k/yr pay wall you live your life behind. Car-dominant infrastructure is vendor lock in....
Gen Z is choosing not to drive (www.newsweek.com)
Oxford becomes UK's electric bus capital as 159 vehicles join fleet (www.theguardian.com)
cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/6709894...
Are Cars Making Us Lonely?
Do ya'll ever wonder if single family zoning, and car-centric urban planning, are some of the primary factors behind modern adults suffering from rampant loneliness? Two environments renown for fostering friendships and social activities are university campuses, and seasonal jobs in remote locations. What do those two things...