Kits FoolFeb 16, 2023
Cameron MacLeod

“In Toronto, we have actually given serious consideration to whether pedestrians crossing the road while looking at their phones should be fined, including if they are crossing legally. What that reveals is that some have accepted the city is the habitat of the car, and humans are merely vermin, a nuisance to be cleared from the path of its movement.”
— @Pkbwood on the dangerous creatures roaming unopposed in our cities.

http://spacing.ca/toronto/2023/02/15/cars-as-predators/

Cars as predators - Spacing Toronto

I am currently on sabbatical leave in Mumbai, India. Last week, I went to an eye-opening lecture at IIT Bombay by Dr. Sunetro Ghosal, “Immoral Wilderness in Urban Spaces.” He raised provocative questions not just about where leopards should live, but what we understand a city to be and how we measure risk. I came […]

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Feb 16, 2023 at 12:15amWeb
Show threadserial26Feb 16, 2023

@c_9 @Pkbwood holy charged words, Batman.. if a person can't make their point without resorting to appeals to emotion then they likely know their position is invalid

Also, the entire point of a road is to provide a space for autos/cyclists to move freely, otherwise they would be something else. This is like building a sports stadium and then complaining it isn't an Opera house

Show threadCameron MacLeodFeb 16, 2023
@serialtwo_six Perhaps you should read more than one paragraph by the celebrating author and geographer and transportation researcher, and then consider being more polite in your conversations. Goodbye.
Show threadserial26Feb 16, 2023
@c_9 Seems as though I touched a nerve, you should learn to be less sensitive and reactionary to opinions different than yours, friendo
Show threadJason MorseFeb 16, 2023
@c_9 @Pkbwood “If we felt the same way about every person killed by a car as one killed by a leopard or tiger, I suspect we would have long since culled the cars in our cities and fenced them into reserve areas.” #publichealth #fuckcars