"Making roads safer for cyclists is unnecessary because no one cycles on our roads, they're too dangerous."
WHEEZING
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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“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…
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?
@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
Giuliani "If this can happen to me, it can happen to you."
That's the fucking point, asshole.
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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