Austria to ‘Super-Speeders’: We’re Taking Your Car (www.bloomberg.com)
Nice to see more countries adopting this practice
Friday Metro Transit Updates: Ridership Growing, Service Changes, and Electric Bus Charger Issues - Streetsblog Los Angeles (la.streetsblog.org)
Elon Musk haters vandalized dozens of Tesla Cybertrucks by spray painting "F**K ELON" on dozens of them (electrek.co)
Why Tire Companies Love EVs (youtu.be)
People are dying on West Midlands streets - if we care, we have a funny way of showing it (www.birminghammail.co.uk)
Newly obtained video shows driver after deadly Goodyear cycling crash (www.abc15.com)
… and he calls some random people after he mows down the cyclists, but not 911? How is he only facing misdemeanor charges?!?
Carbrained problems in narrow (wide) streets at the edge of suburban sprawl (www.abc.net.au)
Build the greatest car parks ever in the Car Park Capital! (www.gamingonlinux.com)
I think the developers of this satirical game could be subscribed to this community:...
Homeowners Block My Local Passenger Rail
I’m not sure if an opinion piece is appropriate here, so please let me know if this doesn’t fit the theme of the community, and I’ll avoid sharing such thoughts in the future....
New York Spends Biden Cash on Highways Over Public Transit (nysfocus.com)
Strong Towns: We Built Isolating Places. Can We Get Out? (youtu.be)
cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/12940955...
The Case Against Car Ownership (www.perplexity.ai)
An AI search engine I use recently came out with a pretty nifty feature, and this seemed like a pretty good topic to explore as an example of what it can do.
Quinn Evans completes restoration of historic Detroit train station for Ford Offices (www.dezeen.com)
Leading UK cyclist out of Tour of Britain after being struck at ‘high speed’ by 4x4 (www.theguardian.com)
Never wait in the school car line again. Here’s how. For the first time in decades, a small but critical mass of children are riding their bikes safely to school again in the US. (wapo.st)
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/10212084...
Third Place vs. Right to the City (youtu.be)
With so much of left-adjacent urbanist youtube borrowing terms from conservatives like “third places”, I think this video does a good job of questioning the notion of “third places” in favor of a more radical critique about the way we use our cities.
Colorado’s Bold New Approach to Highways — Not Building Them (www.nytimes.com)
Alternative link: archive.ph/BxMKZ
This could be humorous… but it’s actually tragic (climatejustice.social)
climatejustice.social/…/112535649882421445
Colorado’s Bold New Approach to Highways — Not Building Them | The state has made it harder to widen highways, and transportation officials are turning their eyes to transit. (www.nytimes.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/16028585...
An LA "Bus Stop" (www.instagram.com)
Global sales of polluting SUVs hit record high in 2023, data shows (www.theguardian.com)
Innovation makes useful things smaller - overconsumption makes them bigger and more meaningless (norden.social)
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/9992203...
The NYTimes is once again trashing the most promising mobility innovation of the 21st century (lemmy.ml)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/16133154...
Milan, Italy, is littered with illegally parked cars. Fed-up people counted them: 64000 were found, 30 cars/km of road. (feddit.it)
Milan has 51 cars for 100 inhabitants, which is the double of other big cities in Europe, like Madrid (291,3) o Paris (225,2). One of the consequences is that traffic is terrible, and Milan is, for example, one of the worst cities on TomTom traffic index...