Mastodawn

"close to bankruptcy … had to go with cheapest option available, which was cycling infrastructure"

> When it became clear that those investments were yielding environmental, health, efficiency and economic gains, the city doubled down …
> close to ⅔ of the city’s residents commute by bike at least several times a week, largely because it’s the quickest and easiest way to get around"

#InducedDemand #carsRuinCities

https://bsky.app/profile/brenttoderian.bsky.social/post/3mnw4fazal22n

Brent Toderian (@brenttoderian.bsky.social)

“When mayors in other cities ask me how #Copenhagen afforded to invest in its cycling networks, I ask them how on earth they have been able to afford highway projects. We invested in bike lanes because that was the cheapest option.” What the world can learn from Copenhagen’s cycling revolution. https://theprogressplaybook.com/2024/01/31/what-the-world-can-learn-from-copenhagens-cycling-revolution/

Bluesky Social

CHOCCY MALK™

6d ago

I find it baffling to the point of comedy that there’s cheap street parking around the #OlympiaWa downtown transit center. It should be nigh impossible to bring a car within spitting distance of a high capacity transit center but here it’s encouraged!
#transit #IntercityTransit #parkingRuinsCities #carsRuinCities

Stefan Bohacek Jun 8

Pretty incredible.

"Carlos Moreno, a professor at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University and a former adviser to the city, said the French capital has developed “an urban policy based on well-being.”"

Paywalled link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2025/04/12/air-pollution-paris-health-cars/

#news #climate #ClimateChange #cars #CarsRuinCities #AirQuality #AirPolution #paris #france

Show thread

😀🚲Jun 4

Of course, the heat is much less intense if you're on a tree-lined path instead of in the vast heat island of space we've cleared to make cars faster. #stroads and their parking lots inflict so much suffering on cities, and all of these drivers in a hurry to travel at 5mph (net speed after working to pay for the car and fuel and debt of this whole farce.) #carsRuinCities

Show thread

🌈☔🌦️🍄🌱🍉May 26

ca the 1930's the pedestrian space was already claimed, even if there where not so many cars yet. Space for cyclists and trams

Roelof Hartplein.

#amsterdam #cars #carsruinCities

Show thread

🌈☔🌦️🍄🌱🍉May 26

Eerste Constantijn Huygensstraat crossing the Overtoom in 1956. Redesigned for cars, pedestrians or bicycles hardly get any space any more.

In the middle ages the overtoom was a pilgrims path to the Rokin, now it takes cars into and out of the city.

#cars #amsterdam #carsRuinCities

Show thread

🌈☔🌦️🍄🌱🍉May 26

A single car doesn't have to be an issue. There is a difference between made for cars and having a few cars around (for for instance care needs).

This is the crossing of Bilderdijkstraat and De Clercqstraat in 1903. So much space in comparison with now.

#amsterdam #cars #tram #carsRuinCities

🌈☔🌦️🍄🌱🍉May 26

Frederik Hendrikstraat in 1910. Before cars... soo much better. can we have wide streets again with space to play?

#amsterdam #cars #carsRuinCities

Show thread

Mark May 9

@FluentInFinance

…and all the silly news stories that focus on gas prices. The real focus should be on the insane costs of car centricity.

Everything from purchase price (inflated by protective tariffs), car infrastructure (public & household), inefficient land use, pollution, public health costs, etc.

Why the focus isn’t on affordable mobility options instead of gas price.

Grrr!

#OilyBoys #urbanism #media #Transit #cars #CarsRuinCities #CarsRuinBudgets

Jesse May 8

A 71yr old women was hit-and-run while crossing Sydney Rd (near Barkly St) yesterday.

Police are yet to locate the driver but have CCTV footage of them.

Sydney Rd is a major shopping street where people need to access shops on both sides of the street. This women was crossing 100m from the nearest southern pedestrian crossing and 150m from the nearest northern crossing.

Sydney Rd is busy and difficult to cross because there is no space in the middle to safely wait. When I cross I wait a long time for both ways to be clear or for traffic to backup.

For a 71yr old this isn't possible because it requires that you can move pretty fast.

The fact that it's 40km/h is probably what prevented this crash from being instantly deadly.

For such a dense shopping street (there are 1800 shops along here) it's absurd that there isn't a crossing every 50m.

#Brunswick #SydneyRd #VicPol #CarsRuinCities

https://brunswickvoice.com.au/police-investigating-sydney-road-hit-and-run/