ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIESAmericans visiting #Europe (probably #Netherlands)
Sara FL Kirk"What this budget pre-season has taught us is that our municipal government is not flexible enough to adapt to the rapid changes required by the ongoing climate emergency and the future of our climate-changed world". On municipal politics #TheCoastHFX reporter #MattStickland is 🔥 #HFXpoli #CarCult #ClimateAction
Read more at: https://www.thecoast.ca/news-opinion/daring-to-question-city-halls-new-car-habit-32028080
Lu 🇦🇲"Driving is a communal activity sold to us as an individual one" - Craig Sellar
I can’t stop thinking about all the preventable deaths of remarkable humans, because we have been brainwashed that a driver’s convenience is worth more than someone's life. A failure of public policy & political will as this article clearly demonstrates #CarCult #CarBrain #ClimateAction #RoadSafety #SafeStreets https://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2023/sep/12/road-casualties-have-become-normal-in-britain-but-there-is-another-way
@DrTCombs Ah, so familiar! This is from last year but same challenges in #ZeroVisionHFX #CarCult #CarBrain
@philmoscovitch Almost got hit by a Casino taxi driver today in a crosswalk. I was lit up like a Christmas bauble and he had plenty of time to stop but hey, why should he? Drivers can do what they like in #ZeroVisionHFX, and they do #CarCult
@ProjectFearlessness Yes, not a good look to advocate for the deaths of children, be it from #AirPollution, #ClimateBreakdown or being hit by an oversized vehicle. Photo credit #DarrenCullen, www.spellingmistakescostlives.com/
“The problem is how do you sell death … you do it with the great open spaces … the mountains, the open places, the lakes coming up to the shore". Written about tobacco, but just as applicable to #SUV advertising. It's time to make drivers and manufacturers pay for these damaging monstrosities. Hats off to #France for leading the way.
"Cars are so ubiquitous that we casually accept the massive public safety tragedy unrolling under our tires. Cars are killing the planet". Another excellent assessment of the perils of our #CarCentric worldview by #MattStickland of #TheCoastHFX
Nova Scotians are being governed very badly when it comes to climate
In the past few years it seems like tragedy has piled on Nova Scotia, which has only been compounded by recent—likely now normal—climate changed weather. In the fires of Tantallon, the flaws and vulnerabilities of suburban sprawl were on full display:
@Bikeyface Joining the "world class city" of #HalifaxNS in dumping all the burden on pedestrians while ignoring the person driving the massive 2-ton box of metal 🙄 It's just an advert for the ignorance and stupidity of city bureaucrats who suffer from #Carbrain. What an embarrassment!
#CarCult
#SafeStreets
#VisionZero
#ZeroVisionHFX
#Motornormativity