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@cbcottawa_mirror this is a ridiculous headline.
Pedestrians don't have fatal collisions.
This person was struck and killed by a motor vehicle which was ostensibly under the "control" of another person.
@cbcottawa_mirror this is a ridiculous headline.
Pedestrians don't have fatal collisions.
This person was struck and killed by a motor vehicle which was ostensibly under the "control" of another person.
Andres
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https://phys.org/news/2025-12-nyc-congestion-pricing-air-pollution.html “In the first six months of the program, air pollution—in the form of particulate matter 2.5 micrometers and smaller—dropped by 22%” #NYC #PublicHealth #CleanAir #CongestionPricing #WarOnCars
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"You couldn’t dream up a more fitting way to mark L.A.’s decade-long failure to make life less dangerous for pedestrians and cyclists... a Los Angeles police officer on Sunday arrested a guy trying to make streets safer"
https://www.golden-state.org/disgraceful-end-to-vision-zero/
https://phys.org/news/2025-12-nyc-congestion-pricing-air-pollution.html “In the first six months of the program, air pollution—in the form of particulate matter 2.5 micrometers and smaller—dropped by 22%” #NYC #PublicHealth #CleanAir #CongestionPricing #WarOnCars
"You couldn’t dream up a more fitting way to mark L.A.’s decade-long failure to make life less dangerous for pedestrians and cyclists... a Los Angeles police officer on Sunday arrested a guy trying to make streets safer"
https://www.golden-state.org/disgraceful-end-to-vision-zero/
nullagent
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After an extremely similar situation in Seattle, NYPD cops were seen this passed week getting into a serious collision with each other and nearly running over a 3rd cop who just happened to be directing traffic.
Seems like this time the cops entered the war on cars on all sides.
![A skeet (eg, bluesky toot) from The New York Post. Theheadline reads, "Mamdani hires car-hating activist Ben Furnas to transportation team: 'war on drivers'", with the subhed "Car-hating TRansportation Alternatives boss Ben Furnas has been appointed to Mamdani's transition team for transportation, climate, and infrastructure.."
The first response to it is someone named "Lunchtown", saying "Are you guys [meaning the nypost] on bsky for like humiliation fetish reasons?"](https://mastodon-usw-cache.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/115/641/841/730/995/704/original/5c4252afb2c3fa76.png)
After an extremely similar situation in Seattle, NYPD cops were seen this passed week getting into a serious collision with each other and nearly running over a 3rd cop who just happened to be directing traffic.
Seems like this time the cops entered the war on cars on all sides.
I had a dream that me and my friends decided to create a theme park but it the themes were like how the automobile industry destroyed the world’s largest network of passenger rail
@danirabbit Hell yeah, @TheWarOnCars theme park! :D
New project for them after they're done with their book tour 😁
After the Seattle police killed an innocent pedestrian Jaahnavi Kandula in a case of reckless driving local police watchers have paid more attention to the driving records of Seattle cops.
Recently disclosed video from August shows how not even the cops are safe from other boys in blue behind the wheel.
Via @divestspd's IG
#BeaconHill #Seattle #SPD #ACAB #PNW #WarOnCars #WillardJared
Børge
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Tech companies have plenty of bad ideas they say will improve transportation — but the car remains a menace.
On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke with @BrooklynSpoke and @sgoodyear to discuss the many ways cars harm society and why that must change.
Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/301_why_we_need_a_war_on_cars_w_doug_gordon_and_sarah_goodyear
Tech companies have plenty of bad ideas they say will improve transportation — but the car remains a menace.
On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke with @BrooklynSpoke and @sgoodyear to discuss the many ways cars harm society and why that must change.
Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/301_why_we_need_a_war_on_cars_w_doug_gordon_and_sarah_goodyear
Looking at pictures of downtown Denver from the early 20th century I was struck by how Denver’s vast electric trolley system played so nicely with both human and equine pedestrians. The spacious streets, initially designed to allow large herds of cattle to be driven through them, don’t seem wide at all today, so bloated are these dangerous machines we drive through them now. #WarOnCars
Every journey in Europe should be a safe one 🚗🏍️🚴♂️🏃♀️🚶♂️
In 2024, 19,940 people lost their lives in road crashes across the EU, a 2% drop compared to 2023.
We are not yet where we want to be, but it shows that we are moving in the right direction: Towards our Vision Zero goal of halving road deaths and serious injuries by 2030 and getting close to zero by 2050.
At 45 deaths per million inhabitants, EU roads still remain among the safest in the world.
Every life saved counts.
Imagine if everybody who could, would take the commuter train or cycle, or both. Would not only reduce the 45 deaths per million inhabitants from roads, but likely also make a significant dent into the EU average of 3364 deaths per million inhabitants yearly from cardiovascular diseases alone (2022):
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Cardiovascular_diseases_statistics
I.e., merely sitting in a car is also deadly.
Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉
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Everyone is sharing their photos of the @TheWarOnCars book LIFE AFTER CARS but I have the epub of it purchased from bookshop.org that I have on my Boox Palma Android ereader.
Everyone is sharing their photos of the @TheWarOnCars book LIFE AFTER CARS but I have the epub of it purchased from bookshop.org that I have on my Boox Palma Android ereader.
tools for commensality 🧿
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My class has gotten to this bright motor age of daring death drivers and the mechanical Moloch. I am reflecting again on the need to translate the transportation planning and engineering works of Knoflacher into English so that we in the car brained Anglosphere can understand what everyone else is doing. (I do not speak German) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Knoflacher #translation #TransportationPlanning #WarOnCars #SafeStreets