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😀🚲Had me at retractable <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/bollards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bollards</a> <a href="https://nula.pub/@citynerd" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@citynerd</a>, <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Urbanism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Urbanism</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Seattle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Seattle</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/BanCars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BanCars</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/PikePlaceMarket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PikePlaceMarket</a>-<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFbL9YVonnw" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFbL9YVonnw</a>

😀🚲If I was a city department of <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/transportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#transportation</a>, and preventing catastrophic collapse of our road network's base layer would triple the bureau's current operating budget while we were utterly failing at <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/VisionZero" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VisionZero</a> or <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/ClimateAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateAction</a> plans, I might stop doing something expensive and wasteful like pandering to drivers' feelings by letting any car cut through any street in any direction. <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/ModalFilters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ModalFilters</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Bollards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bollards</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/BanCars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BanCars</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Portland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Portland</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C_YZr-YPNQV/?img_index=3" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/p/C_YZr-YPNQV/?img_index=3</a>

PhilPeriodically some people call for cyclists to pay “road tax” saying that they contribute to wear on the roads etc. so should pay towards maintenance. As I understand it the amount of wear a vehicle causes varies based on the fourth power of the axle weight. So if I’ve got my sums right, having a charge of a pound a month for a bicycle, and taxing motorists in direct proportion to difference in damage done to road could look something like this…<a href="https://folksocial.org/tags/TransportPlanning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TransportPlanning</a> <a href="https://folksocial.org/tags/BanCars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BanCars</a> <a href="https://folksocial.org/tags/TheWarOnCars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TheWarOnCars</a>

Bread and CircusesWant to be happy? Then don’t buy a car! Instead choose a bike, a cargo bike, or an e-bike. 🚲 That is the route to true happiness. 🤗<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/29/extreme-car-dependency-unhappiness-americans" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/29/extreme-car-dependency-unhappiness-americans</a><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/BikeTooter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BikeTooter</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/WarOnCars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WarOnCars</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/BanCars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BanCars</a>

gcvsa ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭As a native of <a href="https://mstdn.plus/tags/NYC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NYC</a>—not a transplant—whose family has lived in NYC for over a century, I have a thing to say about this. The reason we treat our <a href="https://mstdn.plus/tags/sidewalks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sidewalks</a> like highways is because we treat our streets like highways.Get rid of the fucking cars. There would be plenty of room for strolling, if not for the fucking noisy <a href="https://mstdn.plus/tags/idiotboxes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#idiotboxes</a> taking up too much space and <a href="https://mstdn.plus/tags/polluting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#polluting</a> the air.<a href="https://mstdn.plus/tags/BanCars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BanCars</a> <a href="https://mstdn.plus/tags/WarOnCars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WarOnCars</a> <a href="https://mstdn.plus/tags/PedestriansFirst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PedestriansFirst</a> <a href="https://mstdn.plus/tags/Urbanism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Urbanism</a> <a href="https://mstdn.plus/tags/DisabilityAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DisabilityAccess</a> <a href="https://mstdn.plus/tags/PublicTransit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PublicTransit</a> <a href="https://gothamist.com/news/how-to-walk-like-a-new-yorker-a-holiday-guide-for-both-tourists-and-locals" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://gothamist.com/news/how-to-walk-like-a-new-yorker-a-holiday-guide-for-both-tourists-and-locals</a>

Ika Makimaki<a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/BanCars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BanCars</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/NoCarNoProblem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoCarNoProblem</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/carDependency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#carDependency</a>

😀🚲<a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Portland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Portland</a> traffic Engineerers love to sing "give us more money" and "police harder" but <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/bollards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bollards</a> are cheap, let's go <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/BanCars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BanCars</a>katu.com/news/local/audit-of-pbots-vision-zero-shows-traffic-deaths-nearly-doubled-from-2018-to-2023

scott fthis dystopic scene of identical robocars clogging an entire block to carry maaaybe 1/4 of a busload of people, was posted by a waymo employee who thought it made his company look good.<a href="https://carfree.city/tags/banCars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#banCars</a>

😀🚲If you're looking for policy ideas to get people to stop driving, I've got a bunch: try ending the car lane halfway down a block or it's just got a shopping cart or fallen tree branch completely blocking it. If a storm drain clogs and the car lane is flooded, don't worry those people didn't need to go for a drive today anyway. <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/climateAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climateAction</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/transportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#transportation</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/banCars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#banCars</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/legalizeBikes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#legalizeBikes</a>

😀🚲Funny how the business association endorsing a candidate matches up with them talking about cops and "accidents" in the BikeLoud Q&A responses. It's almost like the PBA's thumb on the scale for <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/carSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#carSupremacy</a> is somehow responsible for <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Vision60or70something" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Vision60or70something</a> deaths on our streets. <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/VisionZero" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VisionZero</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/PolicyFailure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PolicyFailure</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/CrashNotAccident" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CrashNotAccident</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/BanCars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BanCars</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ACAB</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/bollards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bollards</a><a href="https://bikeloudpdx.org/2024-candidate-question-2/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://bikeloudpdx.org/2024-candidate-question-2/</a>

Ika MakimakiSomebody here posted something that stayed in my brain and I think about it every day since:Bars/pubs/nightclubs (places built with the explicit purpose of drinking) should not have carparks. Ever. (they probably expressed it better, but it's still 100% true and evidence of how car obsessed and full of double standards our modern lives are)<a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/BanCars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BanCars</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/CarBrain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CarBrain</a>

Andres Slol what the fuck year is it? <a href="https://social.ridetrans.it/tags/NYC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NYC</a> politicians love cars so much <a href="https://hellgatenyc.com/jessica-ramos-running-for-mayor-interview/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://hellgatenyc.com/jessica-ramos-running-for-mayor-interview/</a><a href="https://social.ridetrans.it/tags/BanCars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BanCars</a> <a href="https://social.ridetrans.it/tags/FuckCars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FuckCars</a> <a href="https://social.ridetrans.it/tags/NYCPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NYCPolitics</a>

ScottStumbled onto this little delight: Frogger but in a walkable city. <a href="https://woe-industries.itch.io/frogger-walkable-city" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://woe-industries.itch.io/frogger-walkable-city</a> <a href="https://better.boston/tags/walkablecity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#walkablecity</a> <a href="https://better.boston/tags/fuckcars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fuckcars</a> <a href="https://better.boston/tags/bancars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bancars</a>

sachaTransit is one of the cheapest, most efficient, and cleanest ways to get people around quickly. We can't afford NOT to make it available to anyone that needs it. <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateCrisis</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/solutions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#solutions</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poverty</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/regressivetax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#regressivetax</a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iichSkwQyjw" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iichSkwQyjw</a><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/transit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#transit</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/bcpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bcpoli</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/translink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#translink</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/fuckcars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fuckcars</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/bancars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bancars</a>

sachaGuys! Hey guys! What if one more lane will fix traffic!?<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ9R0f_wfBQ" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ9R0f_wfBQ</a><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/fuckcars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fuckcars</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/bancars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bancars</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/onpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#onpoli</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/canpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#canpol</a>

Bread and CircusesTraffic deaths in the USA are far higher than in many other countries. * 😢 😡 ____________________________Many crashes involve increasingly large SUVs like the Jeep Grand Cherokee, which countless studies show are statistically more likely to kill people on two wheels. Most cyclists are killed on roads with no protected bikeways and high speed limits that virtually guarantee any collision will be lethal. ____________________________FULL ARTICLE -- <a href="https://usa.streetsblog.org/2024/09/04/what-the-media-is-getting-wrong-about-the-gaudreau-brothers-deaths" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://usa.streetsblog.org/2024/09/04/what-the-media-is-getting-wrong-about-the-gaudreau-brothers-deaths</a>As you can see on the horrifying graph below, deaths in the USA are almost three times higher than in the next closest country shown. * EDIT: My post originally said "deaths in the USA are much higher than anywhere else" but I revised that because, as some readers pointed out, not all areas of the world were included in the data used to create the graph.<a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/BikeTooter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BikeTooter</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/WarOnCars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WarOnCars</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/BanCars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BanCars</a>

Em, Shrimp Borg :shrimplant: :cv_cyan:"It's perfect in it's simplicity, but complex in it's subtlety"<a href="https://corteximplant.com/tags/banCars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#banCars</a> <a href="https://corteximplant.com/tags/fakeAd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fakeAd</a> <a href="https://corteximplant.com/tags/cyberpunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cyberpunk</a> <a href="https://corteximplant.com/tags/techBros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#techBros</a>

Bread and CircusesIf you can get somewhere by walking instead of driving, then do that. It’s good for your health!If it’s too far to walk, ride a bike instead of driving. If you can’t ride a bike (or even an e-bike), try to use public transit instead of driving.Of course, any of these healthy and environmentally friendly choices would be much easier to make *if* cities and towns had better infrastructure and were not always designed to be car-centric. <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Environment</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Climate</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateChange</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateCrisis</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/WarOnCars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WarOnCars</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/BanCars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BanCars</a>

Ika MakimakiCars not only pollute the air and waste valuable urban space. They also keep us poor. <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/NoCarNoProblem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoCarNoProblem</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/BanCars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BanCars</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/CarsRuinCities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CarsRuinCities</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/carDependency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#carDependency</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/CarBrain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CarBrain</a>

😀🚲Make your tiny garage feel enormous with this one weird trick. <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/eBikes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#eBikes</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/CarReplacement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CarReplacement</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/ClimateAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateAction</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/UmbrellaBike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UmbrellaBike</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/BanCars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BanCars</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/nPlus1or2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nPlus1or2</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/hillTopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hillTopper</a>

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