bettybarcode (she/her)2d ago
Has Rochester or any other city ever ripped out a driving lane due to unspecified and anonymous concerns, or, more to the point, people getting killed on them? #WindshieldBias

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bettybarcode (she/her)4d ago
It seems odd to me that no one (AKAIK) has written a theology of the automobile, a study of what the car teaches us about holiness, morality, community, our place in the universe. The closest is Andre Gorz's essay, a sociology of the automobile. unevenearth.org/2018/08/the-... #WindshieldBias

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bettybarcode (she/her)Mar 16
Every car in your city represents $8-12K/year being sucked out of your local economy instead of being spent on housing, goods & services. I wish more parking-obsessed retailers & elected officials understood this. #WindshieldBias #CarBlindness

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bettybarcode (she/her)Mar 16
#WindshieldBias

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bettybarcode (she/her)Mar 9
Every time someone says we can't reduce highway capacity until we have better transit, we didn't wait until everyone had cars to reduce transit in favor of highway capacity. #WindshieldBias

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bettybarcode (she/her)Mar 8
DOTs love to characterize any conversion of a highway to an urban street with sidewalks, bike lanes, lower speeds, signalized intersections, etc., as a "downgrade." Don't let them. This is an *upgrade* by every metric: air quality, noise levels, property values, mobility options. #WindshieldBias
bettybarcode (she/her)Mar 5
You may have carbrain if you... [finish the sentence.] Thinking of compiling the best replies into a blog post, with full credit. So don't reply if you don't want to be quoted outside of Bsky. #WindshieldBias
bettybarcode (she/her)Mar 4
Mention vehicular bullying on here and drivers angrily rush to defend their honor. When we're the ones doing the actual dying. #WindshieldBias #CarBrain bikeleague.org/another-year...

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On April 8th, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) issued a press release announcing its early estimates of overall traffic fatalities for 2024, projecting that 39,345 people died in…

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bettybarcode (she/her)Mar 4
This is one of the defining symptoms of carbrain: the inability to conceive of bicycles as a form of transportation and that the people who ride them are going from point A to point B for the same reasons you are in your car. #WindshieldBias

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bettybarcode (she/her)Jan 27
Every car in your city represents $8-12K/year being sucked out of your local economy instead of being spent on housing, goods & services. I wish more parking-obsessed retailers & elected officials understood this. #WindshieldBias #CarBlindness

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