Raven (she/her/it) 
the phase-out of leaded gasoline was responsible for up to 28% of the steep fall in homicide rates from 1989 to 2014
holy fuck
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looking at the charts of the Parisian air pollution as they phased out a lot of car traffic through the city is absolutely WILD
Gosh I need to read "Life After Cars"
@notjustbikes being a rave DJ in the 90's is incredible lore
when you live in a walkable city you get a base amount of daily without even thinking about it
YES! I can't wait till im cleared to ride my bike again around pdx
im 17 minutes into this video and now it's paused while i listen to NJB's DJ mixes lmao
the discussion on city-accessibility is really good
like, cars and car infrastructure is clearly horrible for accessibility
a fact from the vid that i didn't know: average cost in the US of owning a car is $12k/year
a study ... estimated that 25 to 50 percent of all inter-country wars since 1973 were started due to access to oil
The Austraila footage being upside down LMAO
apparently, we in pdx ended minimum car parking requirements in 2023
The Portland City Council approved an overhaul of the city's parking code Wednesday afternoon, ushering in a host of changes aimed at eliminating development road blocks and spurring greener construction, including eliminating the last of the city's minimum parking space requirements for new projects. -https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/city-council-portland-parking-overhaul/283-d69d17e0-a41e-4b53-bbb8-9669477264ca
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and according to portland.gov,
Bike parking is required for most types of uses to encourage the use of bicycles.
highway 401 through Toronto, is the busiest highway in all of North America. And yet it moves fewer people per day, than line 1 of the Toronto subway. Not the whole subway system. Just line 1.
i love this quote bc it totally illustrates that car infra is just super-inefficient compared to transit
Well that was an excellent video and highly recommend viewing!
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Maxx (she/her)@sparklepanic going to japan and seeing what good public transit actually looks like i was just blown away. like holy shit this is what it could be ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜