Here’s the thing — If you HAVE to drive, or even just WANT to drive, it’s in your best interest for public transit, walking & biking to be as attractive as possible to EVERYONE else. It means everyone else can take up a lot less space to move.

If everybody drives, nobody moves.

#cities #mobility #cars #bikes #transit #urbanism #transportation #cityplanning

Funny how if billionaires leave b/c Govt raises billionaire taxes, it’s Govt’s fault—but as teachers leave because Govt won’t raise teacher salaries, it’s the teachers fault.🤔

Protecting billionaires & exploiting teachers in poverty is class warfare against working people.

The Government is engaged in what is - quite nakedly - voter suppression

Read this and weep from the #ElectoralReformSociety on one of the ways that Government is deliberately making it harder for young people to vote

#VoterID #UKPolitics #VoterSuppression #ElectoralReform

https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/voter-id-list-gives-few-options-for-younger-voters/

Some useful numbers regarding vehicle speeds:

20 miles/hour = 29 feet/second
25 miles/hour = 36 feet/second
30 miles/hour = 44 feet/second

I use these when comparing how people outside cars are treated in our transportation system.

E.g. A 300 foot detour for a person walking @ 3 feet/second is time-equivalent to a 3600 foot (~0.6 mile) detour for a person driving at 25 mph.

We’ve always needed safe infrastructures for people, but that need is now even greater as vehicles have gotten bigger and bigger in cities.

In 2000, an urban bike-rider next to the most common vehicle back then, a Toyota Camry, had 18 inches on either side. Today an urban bike-rider next to a now frighteningly common Ford F-150 has just 4 inches.

Stolen space.

Via @TransAlt

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