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Jalopnik loves LIFE AFTER CARS!

The book "paints a picture of a world that gives me hope. A world where kids can easily meet up with their friends to play, grandmothers can get to church any time they want, adults with disabilities can live independently and be full participants in society, bad drivers don't even own cars, and you never have to find a designated driver or pay for an Uber home from the bar... it's a very real option if we choose to make it a priority."

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The changes Sarah Goodyear and Doug Gordon argue for offer an escape from the endless cycle of some random event blowing up your gas budget every few years. https://www.jalopnik.com/2144859/life-after-cars-book-review/?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_campaign=Echobox-Jalopnik&utm_medium=Social-Distribution&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1776101653

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Chris Murphy May 31, 2025

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Girl on the Net May 30, 2025

"Making roads safer for cyclists is unnecessary because no one cycles on our roads, they're too dangerous."

WHEEZING

Chris Murphy Nov 16, 2024

Emil Jacobs - Collectifission Nov 16, 2024

An 18 lane freeway, 100 meters wide, moves less people than a busy subway line.

The Brooklyn bridge used to move 420,000 people per day.

In the 1950s, trolleys were removed, and since then it has never moved more than 180,000 people per day.

Cars 👏 destroy 👏 cities.

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#Urbanism #PublicTransport

Chris Murphy Jul 17, 2024

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Jul 14, 2024

Well everybody, having essentially no options left and only one skill, I know what I'm going to be doing for the next several months. Years. Whatever

Chris Murphy Aug 24, 2023

IrishCycle.com Aug 24, 2023

"Forget about it" Garda told when he asked how to view CCTV of woman knocked off her bicycle https://irishcycle.com/2023/08/24/forget-about-it-garda-told-when-he-asked-how-to-view-cctv-of-woman-knocked-off-her-bicycle/

“Forget about it” Garda told when he asked how to view CCTV of woman knocked off her bicycle -- IrishCycle.com

“Forget about it” — that was what a former Garda said he was told when he asked how to view CCTV footage in a Garda station without a computer that could be used to access the foo…

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Chris Murphy Aug 24, 2023

Tristan Snell Aug 24, 2023

Rudy Giuliani can’t afford a lawyer.

Rudy Giuliani had to take out a bail bond to pay for his bail.

Yet Rudy Giuliani flew to Atlanta in a private jet today.

Who paid for it?

Chris Murphy Aug 24, 2023

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Chris Wren Aug 24, 2023

@spacehobo @krisnelson @StillIRise1963

when the UK installed a *whole lot* of cameras, they had to install better lighting to make the cameras work. Crime rates improved, but analysis revealed that the effect correlated in time with the installation of the lights, not the cameras, which led to a whole lot of follow-on research about the crime reduction benefits of better street lighting.

it's been decades since I worked in this area, but there are books about it now: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=street+lighting+and+crime+survey

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Chris Murphy Aug 24, 2023

garry Aug 23, 2023

the B in LGBTQIA+ does NOT stand for buses

Chris Murphy Aug 24, 2023

TheJen Aug 23, 2023

Giuliani "If this can happen to me, it can happen to you."

That's the fucking point, asshole.

Chris Murphy Aug 24, 2023

Ian Walker Aug 24, 2023

In shameless self-promotion on GCSE results day, here's our study on how GCSE grades might be affected by how kids travelled to school in earlier years https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/13/3/e068388

Active travel to school: a longitudinal millennium cohort study of schooling outcomes

Objectives Assess longitudinal associations between active travel during the school commute and later educational outcomes. Setting England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Participants 6778 children, surveyed at ages 7, 11, 14 and 17. Primary and secondary outcomes School-leaver General Certificate of Secondary Education exam scores summed to provide a single measure of educational success. Results Controlling a range of sociodemographic and health variables, using active versus passive travel modes during a child’s commute to school during earlier years predicted differences in school-leaver exam performance at age 16. These effects were mediated through changes in self-esteem, emotional difficulties and behavioural difficulties. Examples include: being driven to school at 11 was associated with improved exam performance at 16 mediated through enhanced self-esteem at 14 ( ab =0.08, 95% CI=0.01 to 0.20, p=0.05) and cycling at 14 was associated with better exam scores at 16 mediated through reduced emotional difficulty at 16 ( ab =0.10, 95% CI=0.01 to 0.30, p=0.05). The relationship between travel mode and exam performance was moderated by household income quintile, most notably with poorer exam performance seen in high-income children who were driven to school. Importantly, although our model predicted 21% of variance in exam performance, removing travel mode barely reduced its ability to predict exam scores (Δ R 2=−0.005, F 20,6469 = 2.50, p<0.001). Conclusion There are differences in school-leaver exam performance linked to travel mode choices earlier in the school career, but these differences are extremely small. There appears to be no realistic educational disadvantage from any given travel mode, strengthening the case for cleaner, healthier modes to become the default. Data are available in a public, open access repository. MCS data are available from <https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/>. Study pre-registration available from <https://osf.io/u9wdr>. Analysis code available from <https://osf.io/46eq3>.

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