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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”.

  • 10-year-old walked less than a mile to a dollar store, prompting a passerby to call police, who arrested his mom for reckless conduct.

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  • @Trainguyrom @firewyre Better idea for people who observe a child walking where there's no sidewalk and think it's a problem: call the damned transportation department and demand proper infrastructure!

  • Seattle's one fully pedestrianized street is hosting...an automotive photo shoot

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  • @Katana314 @moriquende Another factor is that when women enter into patriarchal marriages, a lot of them allow their husbands to choose their vehicles for them. Certainly there are single women and married ones who buy SUVs for a variety of reasons, but there are also a lot of women who let men choose their cars for them, leading to a car choice that is not necessarily optimal for the safety, comfort, or preferences of the person driving it.

  • Seattle's one fully pedestrianized street is hosting...an automotive photo shoot

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  • @Katana314 @moriquende SUVs have undergone an interesting transformation in their marketing and in how conformist people perceive them. When they first exploded in popularity, they were seen as manly cars. Now in order to keep expanding the oversized car market, they've become the old minivans and a man, even if he lives in a city, is told SUVs are for women and he has to have a giant pickup truck to keep his "man card".

  • A 19-year old Albuquerque woman became the third employee of the city’s bicycle safety center to be killed by drivers in the last two years

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  • @Bennyboybumberchums @Anornymousse Do you say this about motorists who are proceeding through an intersection with a green light when someone comes along speeding on the cross street, fails to stop, and t-bones them?

  • San Francisco is deploying speed cameras this week. If everything goes according to plan, the number of deaths will be reduced

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  • @halffiction @fuckwitmcbumcrumble Tailgating is a ridiculously stupid behavior that far too many US drivers routinely engage in. It's like nobody had physics or driver's ed in high school. On any given day, 1/4 of the drivers are following the vehicle in front of them at a speed and distance that would not allow them to stop if the car in front encountered an obstacle and had to stop or slow suddenly. It's completely preventable and cars can and should be designed to prevent it.

  • San Francisco is deploying speed cameras this week. If everything goes according to plan, the number of deaths will be reduced

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  • @halffiction @fuckwitmcbumcrumble A greater raw number of crashes is sometimes observed when a new red light camera is introduced, but severe injuries and fatalities go down. The crashes prevented are of more severe types, like t-bone crashes or hitting people, while any extra crashes are the rear end variety which produces few major injuries. Plus, rear end crashes are 100% the fault of the trailing driver following too closely. After an introductory period, more people learn not to tailgate.

  • Tesla withheld data, lied, and misdirected police and plaintiffs to avoid blame in Autopilot crash

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  • @DrunkEngineer A normal company fires its CEO and cleans house after something like that. Instead Tesla just offered him a big new compensation package to encourage him to stay and keep destroying their reputation and any shred of morality they may claim to have.

  • A 19-year old Albuquerque woman became the third employee of the city’s bicycle safety center to be killed by drivers in the last two years

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  • @Anornymousse @logicbomb Every state has some version of duty of care or expectation that a driver maintain control of their vehicle to avoid collisions. Passing stopped cars in two adjacent lanes before hitting the person crossing under a flashing yellow light is definitely an indication of negligence. There was clearly some traffic engineer negligence too, but if police/the DA wanted to at least put a mark on the driver's record for killing the victim, they absolutely could.

  • A 19-year old Albuquerque woman became the third employee of the city’s bicycle safety center to be killed by drivers in the last two years

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  • @DwZ Bicycling safety instructors, who wear helmets and meticulously follow all the rules, are dropping like flies at the hands of motorists, but other cities (@BmoreCityDOT) put out press releases claiming they/their partners in disinformation and inaction are meaningfully addressing bike safety by handing out helmets and platitudes.

  • Even households earning $150,000 a year are struggling with credit card and car payments

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  • @blarghly @missdemeanour Certainly there are many examples of middle class people who are living beyond their means and the planet's at the same time, but their overconsumption is child's play in the grand scheme of things. We can encourage people to consume less (I certainly share your disgust with car/monster truck culture, fast fashion and fast food) without insisting anyone struggling in this shit society is a dumbass.

  • Even households earning $150,000 a year are struggling with credit card and car payments

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  • @blarghly @missdemeanour This kind of animosity within the working classes (including the relatively privileged middle class) is exactly what the oligarchs want. If you're busy casting aspersions at couples earning $75k each in New York City who probably don't own a car much less a pavement princess and are struggling tokeep up with the bills their parents were easily able to afford, you're looking away from how a handful of billionaires are dismantling the country and trashing the planet.

  • Another carbrain ready to kill innocent people

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  • @gurnu @WorldsDumbestMan Misogyny is part of why so many men buy oversized cars and drive them aggressively. Find a better insult that actually focuses shame on the person behaving badly.

  • Chicago author says the city must stop building new apartments if there is no parking. Finding space to park cars is more important than housing.

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  • @Davriellelouna People who choose to live in the suburbs should be limited to working in the suburbs. No writing for a big city paper, making policy decisions for the city as an employee or consultant, policing the city, acting in downtown theaters, displaying your art in downtown galleries, even working in downtown banks. If you love suburbs and suburban lifestyles so much, marry them and don't stray from them.

  • Chicago will no longer require new buildings near transit to include parking.

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  • @pc486 @Duamerthrax Parking does degrade though. Lots need resurfacing and sometimes stabilization to prevent sinkholes and garages can collapse altogether. We're already starting to see serious structural problems with decks built in the mid-late 20th century that are buckling from a combination of age, lack of maintenance, and not anticipating that they'd be filled with oversized SUVs and pickup trucks, many with electric batteries making them even heavier.

  • Chicago will no longer require new buildings near transit to include parking.

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  • @humanspiral @schnurrito The entire society is not conditioned to need a car. In many large US cities, particularly those that were built mostly before freeways and minimum parking requirements, around 30% of households don't own cars. A massive PR campaign by the auto industry, combined with classism and racism, has convinced much of the middle class that everyone needs a car, but statistically that belief is not supported. Even in rural areas about 7% of households are carless.

  • Chicago will no longer require new buildings near transit to include parking.

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  • @humanspiral @Taldan Micromobility has little to do with it. There always have been large numbers of people in cities who get around by walking, transit, and sometimes their own bicycle. Policies decided largely by suburbanites and influenced by the fossil fuel and oil lobbies have long sought to chip away at our ability to travel freely without consuming their products. Some of the tech disrupters have made it trendier for yuppies to ditch cars, but they haven't significantly changed modeshare.

  • Chicago will no longer require new buildings near transit to include parking.

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  • @makyo @kresten The "data" used to create most residential parking mandates was collected in car-dependent suburban areas and is completely inappropriate for application to dense urban apartment buildings near transit where many residents don't own cars. Eliminating the costly mandate to construct parking that often goes unused on valuable land only restores choice. A developer isn't prohibited from building as much parking as their market research tells them they can profitably sell or lease.

  • This is a lovely gesture, but also it's pretty sad (and very North American?) that if your car dies at the store you can't get home without relying on the tenuous kindness of strangers

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  • @destructdisc @BilboBargains Unfortunately, public transportation is one of the many public goods that has been in decline for decades due to neglect by both major political parties in the US and is now getting absolutely demolished under the new fascist regime, and people who walk and cycle have also had targets painted on our backs by hatemongers. We need to fight more actively than ever for our freedom to travel freely by the mode of our choosing.

  • This is a lovely gesture, but also it's pretty sad (and very North American?) that if your car dies at the store you can't get home without relying on the tenuous kindness of strangers

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  • @destructdisc @BilboBargains Our culture normalizes constant car use in so many ways, from how retailers and professional services offices give directions to their businesses to what is shown and how in pop culture. People for whom everyday car use has become normalized often just need to hear alternative voices consistently and persistently for a while to realize that they can and should at least reduce if not eliminate their car use.