Cars are rewiring our brains to ignore all the bad stuff about driving (www.theverge.com)
Study Finds More Americans Commuting To Work Splattered On Grill Of F-150 (www.theonion.com)
WHO TAUGHT YOU THAT WORD?!? (slrpnk.net)
Cummins Diesel Cheats Emissions Tests - Fined $1.6B by US (www.thecooldown.com)
SUVs Now Account More Than Half Of All Cars Sales In Europe (www.motor1.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)
Prague urban planning (via Adam Something) (yewtu.be)
I live in Prague and I Approve this Message.
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)
Speed camera cut down for second time in Cornwall (www.bbc.com)
It’s insane the lengths that some people will go to save a few seconds on their commute, while also endangering others.
French city of Montpellier makes public transport free for all residents (www.theguardian.com)
Cross posted from: lemmy.nz/post/4701018
Paris mayor plans to triple SUV parking tariffs to cut air pollution (www.theguardian.com)
Go ahead. (slrpnk.net)
BDSM (lemmy.ml)
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Hoboken, NJ reduces annual traffic deaths to zero (www.bloomberg.com)
The mayor of Hoboken, NJ came in with a vision of reducing traffic deaths to pedestrians and cyclists. He instituted several strategies of traffic calming, increasing pedestrian visibility, reducing city wide street speeds to 20 mph with schools and parks down to 15 mph. Within a few years of road improvements and redesigns...
Parents Of Baby In Carjacked Vehicle Are Suing VW For Refusing To Assist Police (jalopnik.com)
Volkswagen representatives demanded a $150 fee before using GPS to locate the vehicle and child....
Truck bloat is killing us, new crash data reveals (www.theverge.com)
‘People are happier in a walkable neighborhood’: the US community that banned cars (www.theguardian.com)
It’s nice to see more car free places, but it’s also hard not to criticise the capitalistic hellscape in which your neighbourhood has a CEO
Why Norway — the poster child for electric cars — is having second thoughts (www.vox.com)
TL;DR: Norway subsidised electric cars a lot, that money went to the rich more than the poor, and left them with less money to spend on transit which delivers better outcomes for cities.
‘People are happier in a walkable neighborhood’: the US community that banned cars (www.theguardian.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/6669422...
Tire Dust Makes Up the Majority of Ocean Microplastics, Study Finds (www.thedrive.com)
J.R.R. Tolkien’s little-known feud with cars (web.archive.org)
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/9176670...
Suburbanites Baffled By Person Outdoors Who Isn’t Delivering Something (The Onion) (www.theonion.com)
SUGAR LAND, TX—Confused by the man outside who was not wearing a UPS uniform or carrying a package of any kind, local suburbanites expressed bafflement Thursday when they looked out their front windows and saw a person walk by who wasn’t delivering anything. “Huh, our Amazon orders already came today, so what’s this guy...
