Gladwyn d’Souza#RegulatoryFailureOrDrownInABathtub. Inequality- supersizing your mobile dining room kills those fated to walk:
Since the 2008 recession, SUVs and pickup trucks have overtaken sedans and station wagons as the top selling vehicles. Now almost three-in-four new cars sold is an SUV or pickup. A number studies have confirmed the relationship between larger vehicles and rising pedestrian deaths. A 2015 review of the research by NHTSA found pedestrian who were struck by SUVs were 2.5 to three times more likely to be killed. Research by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety examined how squarer, more “aggressive-looking” front ends — which are in fashion right now in the automobile industry — contribute to the problem.
#GiveFeetAChance
#carfreecitycenterplease
#VisionZero #RemoveRoads
#DangerousByDesign
#DaylightingSavesLives
#SlowStreetNetworks
#CrashesArentAccidents
#SharedMicroEMobilityNetworksDefuseCarbonBombs
#MicroMobilityFirstAndLastMile
#UNGlamourousSolutions
https://scitechdaily.com/microplastics-from-tires-are-polluting-our-waterways/
Contaminating #stormwater (not counting #TireFillHasPFASAnd6PPDq in plastic grass playfields, etc): the research indicated that during rainfall, about 95% of the microplastics detected in stormwater runoff were from tire wear, ranging between 2 and 59 particles for every liter of water.
#CarFreeCityCentersPlease #RemoveRoads #HousePeopleNotCars #GiveFeetAChance #AtmosphericRiversNeedTransferOfDevelopmentRights
Microplastics From Tires Are Polluting Our Waterways
A recent study led by Griffith University revealed that urban stormwater particles from tire wear were the most prevalent microplastic Published in Environmental Science & Technology, the research indicated that during rainfall, about 95% of the microplastics detected in stormwater runoff wer
Jonathan Vankin for California Local- NHTSA found that, nationwide, about 36 percent of all crashes take place at intersections. Of those, 7.8 percent—more than 60,000 crashes per year—are due to obstructed views. There are numerous ways an intersection view can be blocked, but vehicles parked too close to the corner is certainly a frequent one. Lee’s bill tries to cut down on those obstructions by banning parked vehicles within 20 feet of an intersection or a crosswalk.
#EndDangerousByDesign #CrashesArentAccidents #DaylightingSavesLives #RemoveRoads #SharedMicroEMobilityNetworksDefuseCarbonBombs #AB413Lee2023
#EndDangerousByDesign #CrashesArentAccidents #DaylightingSavesLives #RemoveRoads #SharedMicroEMobilityNetworksDefuseCarbonBombs #AB413Lee2023
#RemoveRoads: Across the country, state transportation departments are warning that public safety is at risk if lawmakers don’t overhaul how road maintenance gets funded.
#ParisAlignedBuildingsInsteadOfSprawl #EMicroMobilityReducesEmissionsFastFairFrugalForEssentialWorkers
https://www.calbike.org/california-cant-be-a-climate-leader-until-it-stops-building-freeways/
#15MinuteNeighbourhoods: But California can’t claim the mantle of responsible climate stewardship while it continues to build freeways
To ship bombs
that increase emissions and pollute vulnerable communities.
#RemoveRoads #CarFreeCityCentersPlease #MicroMobilityFirstAndLastMile
#PricePollution: Long-term exposure to traffic-related air pollution — a complex mixture of exhaust from tailpipes, brake and tire wear, and road dust — has been linked to increased rates of cardiovascular disease, asthma, lung cancer and death.
significantly increased passengers’ blood pressure, both while in the car and up to 24 hours later.
#RemoveRoads #RedLining #ApartheidRoads #DirtyAir
https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2023/narrower-lanes-safer-streets
Exposing #CigaretteScience: The number of #crashes on a street with 12-foot lanes is significantly higher than on streets with narrower lanes. That is the opposite of the general belief and what has been the foundation for street design and lane-width guidelines.
Nature writing/biologists
misconstrue the problem, European as adjective instead of noun, and their roads/progress end up substituting earthworms for calamity/Nakba.
#BusinessAsUsual: we are building all these fancy mass timber #green #buildings for people and loading them up with what Vancouver building scientist Monte Paulsen calls "#carbonbombs" that are #housing #cars.
#HousePeopleNotCars #CarFreeCityCentersPlease #RemoveRoads
https://www.treehugger.com/embodied-carbon-iceberg-under-homes-buildings-5272392
#BipartisanClimateChange: at the end of the day, it’s about appeasing the #highway #construction #firms, the #subdivision #developers that build off of highways, the beneficiaries of the #autocentric #statusquo. This is why these projects stay alive.
#RemoveRoads #WalkableCities #UnGlamorousSolutions
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2023/09/11/why-democrats-and-republicans-alike-keep-expanding-highways
