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)
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:...
New York Spends Biden Cash on Highways Over Public Transit (nysfocus.com)
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...
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)
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.
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.
A car-free town in the Amazon serves lessons for pedaling to net zero emissions (www.npr.org)
East Asia has lowest car utilization, highest public transportation utilization. North America has highest car utilization and lowest public transportation utilization. (www.visualcapitalist.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...