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@ PedestrianError @towns.gay

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Enemy of car culture and white supremacist cisheteropatriarchyAI = BS. Stop building data centers!

Profile & banner image: bad so-called pedestrian safety campaigns. Profile pic is a poster saying “WALK SAFE most pedestrian crashes are the pedestrian’s fault” & banner is a cartoon crab on a lifeguard stand holding flags that say “save yourself” and “use crosswalks”.

  • A new ‘solution’ to student homelessness: a parking lot where students can sleep safely in their cars

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  • @vsg @technocrit This has all gotten much worse over the last few decades as state governments have systematically defunded public higher education and tried to "run it like a business" instead of an essential public service at the same time as degrees were becoming more essential to earning a living wage.

  • A new ‘solution’ to student homelessness: a parking lot where students can sleep safely in their cars

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  • @vsg @technocrit Most don't have enough for all their students and they're expensive to live in if they are available. A lot of larger schools are surrounded by outrageously expensive private for-profit student housing complexes built on the ability to overcharge teenagers living off student loans for crappy accommodations without them understanding how badly they're being ripped off. Meanwhile homeowners near universities lobby to ban affordable rentals to protect their property values.

  • "One false move and you are dead"

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  • @phed @lgsp If you're driving and the environment including the presence of other road users is making you feel uncomfortable, slowing down should help.

    Also, you do know that at a crossing without a light, you have to stop for pedestrians, right? They stand on the edge of the curb to let you know they want to cross. If they stand back out of the way, they might never get to cross until a really kind driver comes along and there aren't many of those these days.

  • Zohran Mamdani hires car-hating activist Ben Furnas for NYC transportation team: ‘War on drivers’

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  • @CompactFlax @lechekaflan Much of what I hear from New Yorkers lately is complaints that Transportation Alternatives has become too centrist during his time there.

  • Keep these Stupid American Trucks out of Europe

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  • @brbposting @Taldan Reading a paper map and looking up directions before you drive and then remembering them are critical skills that should be on driving tests.

  • Colorado state Senator Faith Winter killed in car accident

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  • @vanes What a tragic irony considering her work to try to fix our murderous transportation system.

  • Neurobiology professor hit and killed by a car that did not stop in an intersection. Driver charged with a misdemeanor.

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  • @Jollyllama That's important and needed grassroots work, but it would be made a lot easier if universities reformed their civil engineering curriculum to reflect scientific understanding of the harms caused by promoting cars and trucks as the primary modes of transportation so that advocates didn't have to start by providing basic education to alleged professional experts who have been granted a degree that gives them power to rearrange communities.

  • Neurobiology professor hit and killed by a car that did not stop in an intersection. Driver charged with a misdemeanor.

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  • @limer @Fredthefishlord But many of those arseholes aren't driving, they're sitting in offices designing dangerous streets or vehicles.

  • Neurobiology professor hit and killed by a car that did not stop in an intersection. Driver charged with a misdemeanor.

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  • @canihasaccount I hope all the other faculty at NC State gang up on the civil engineering department to demand changes in what and how they teach. NCDOT is a terrible, deeply anti-pedestrian state DOT that does everything it can to prevent meaningful safety improvements and the bulk of their workforce comes from NC State.

  • Americans are afraid of transit crime. Part of the negative image around public transit comes from the idea that it is dangerous

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  • @setsneedtofeed @Vaya Your chances of getting punched, groped, or pickpocketed on public transit are still far lower than your chances of suffering bodily injury or property damage from a non-fatal traffic crash.

  • Americans are afraid of transit crime. Part of the negative image around public transit comes from the idea that it is dangerous

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  • @Vaya So if we're going to deploy the military domestically in the name of public safety, the best use of their resources would be to park their tanks on highways and stroads to block off excess lanes and prevent the extreme speeding that's so rampant on US roads.

  • Those monstrosities should be f*ing illegal

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  • @BanMe @AA5B Cameras do nothing for people who are hit with the vehicle because the driver is operating it negligently or to reduce the environmental impact (in fact they increase it by using more energy & rare earth minerals). Cameras are a very expensive harm reduction strategy, not a full solution to the problem of oversized vehicles.

  • Republicans Want to Scare You off Mass Transit. Cars Are Scarier.

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  • @FlashMobOfOne @jjjalljs I take transit more than I drive because I care about the environment. I've had a few uncomfortable encounters with unwell or overentitled people on transit. I've had many more encounters where my life was actually endangered by reckless drivers while driving (and that's not even counting all the drivers who've almost killed me while I was walking or biking).

  • Young child dead, nine injured, one toddler in critical condition after Hyundai SUV smashes into Ontario daycare

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  • @PyrPressure Are you talking about a curb or a wall between the street & the sidewalk? Regardless, people don't cross exclusively at crosswalks, people who park along the street need to get onto the sidewalk, etc. Turning sidewalks into fortresses would be highly inefficient and have a lot of unintended consequences. We need more limits on where and how fast cars can go and safety features like automatic braking to prevent crashes, not to rearrange the whole built environment for cars again.

  • Young child dead, nine injured, one toddler in critical condition after Hyundai SUV smashes into Ontario daycare

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  • @PyrPressure @rocky1138 That would lead to a lot more broken ankles and other more serious injuries for people walking, not to mention making it a lot more challenging to make sidewalks ADA accessible.

  • In Trade Deal With Trump, Europe Sells Out its Pedestrians

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  • @BakerBagel @LibertyLizard And you've gotta have a place to park it. I've lived in urban US neighborhoods that were burdened by fools who moved in from the suburbs with their monster trucks or bought one without any thought to how they'd park it, but a lot of European cities have narrower streets and a lot less parking than our "historic" neighborhoods from the 1800s.

  • California lawmakers could bail out Bay Area oil refinery

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  • @DrunkEngineer Fucking useless Democrats aiding and abetting Trumpism every damned chance they get.

  • Today, Philadelphia’s transit system SEPTA is cutting service by 20%. What’s going to happen? A death spiral: Worse service ➡️ fewer riders ➡️ less revenue ➡️ worse service

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  • @AceBonobo No, the taxes should be paid where they work instead of where they live (or claim to, which the very rich they often game which of their properties they live in to minimize their taxes).

  • Today, Philadelphia’s transit system SEPTA is cutting service by 20%. What’s going to happen? A death spiral: Worse service ➡️ fewer riders ➡️ less revenue ➡️ worse service

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  • @AceBonobo @roguetrick Yes, while forgoing the income tax revenue from residents of their communities who commute into cities to earn their living. A lot of these "rural" conservative legislators aren't from farm or mountain country, they're from bedroom communities.