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...
Car Journeys Up In 2023 With Bus And Bicycle Journeys Down, Reports U.K. Department For Transport (www.forbes.com)
US can’t meet EV copper demand, study finds (www.eenews.net)
"Just to meet business-as-usual trends, 115% more copper must be mined in the next 30 years than has been mined historically until now," the study said.
Crappy local infrastructure thread
Thread to vent about the dangerous and inefficient infrastructure you have to deal with.
Cycling isn't legitimate transportation...apparently (sh.itjust.works)
The person on the left is carrying bags, the one in orange is a delivery driver and a couple of people are wearing backpacks. Aside from car brained, Damaris is also blind.
Why Paris Tore Down A Highway To Build A Tram (youtu.be)
The story of Springvale Junction - Victoria's most dangerous intersection (youtu.be)
xkcd #2932: Driving PSA (imgs.xkcd.com)
xkcd.com/2932...
A car-free town in the Amazon serves lessons for pedaling to net zero emissions (www.npr.org)
A new trolley era (lemmy.world)
Weird (s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com)
It’s weird how when the Department of Transportation is using the bike lane, they give themselves an entire car lane for protection....
local anti public transportation comment
Saw this comment on a local news post about the mayor’s state of the city address and the mayor mentioned some of the new public transportation initiatives including adding another line to the train, I was under the impression that Amtrak was a success until the rails became denationalized and corporate greed limited the...
East Asia has lowest car utilization, highest public transportation utilization. North America has highest car utilization and lowest public transportation utilization. (www.visualcapitalist.com)
This Freeway Sucks -- Let's Decommission It (www.youtube.com)
American Motorcyclist Association Urges DOT to Act on Automated Driver System Regulations Following Tragic Collision (americanmotorcyclist.com)
PICKERINGTON, Ohio (April 26, 2024) — In the wake of the most recent tragedy involving a fatal collision between a Tesla vehicle in autopilot mode and a motorcyclist in Washington state, the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) once again urges the Department of Transportation (DOT) to strengthen Automated Driving System...
suv (slrpnk.net)
Small reminders for stupidly big cars
Scotland launches campaign "give cycle space", reminding that those riding bike are real persons (www.youtube.com)
The campaign aims to promote the highway code rule that requires drivers to give at leadt 1.5 m space to cyclists when overtaking....
Cars are a gas (urbanists.social)
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When nature takes over. (lemmy.ml)
mstdn.social/
The reckless policies that helped fill our streets with ridiculously large cars (www.vox.com)
Italian party "Lega" will defend "cars" in the European parliment (mastodon.uno)
Lega is far a far right populist Italian party....
Businesses Are Getting People Killed (darrellowens.substack.com)
The cycling revolution in Paris continues: Bicycle use now exceeds car use (english.elpais.com)
cross-posted from: feddit.nl/post/14246110...
How bike lanes sidelined cyclists: unearthing 190 miles of 1930s cycle lanes (www.globalcyclingnetwork.com)
