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mondoman712

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  • Just one more lane

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  • Your last paragraph is tangential to what I said. It doesn't disagree because it says something different. It's also oversimplified in some ways and just wrong in others.

  • Just one more lane

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  • Beyond the fact that adding five more lanes would still leave you with a horribly inefficient transport system, you also ignore that externalities that you are exacerbating by doing so. You're displacing thousands more people, worsening the division of communities, creating a lot of noise and air pollution, increasing car dependency etc

  • Homelessness jumps 16% in England, laying bare scale of housing crisis

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  • It's an increase of 16%, not to a total of 16%.

  • Bicycle use in Paris now exceeds car use

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  • You have to be insane to do either in New York.

  • Construction Begins on High-Speed Rail Line Between SoCal and Las Vegas

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  • It's deadly in Florida because people drive around the barriers at level crossings. That won't be a problem here because there won't be any level crossings.

  • Taiwan will tear down all remaining statues of Chiang Kai-shek in public spaces

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  • Bad take. You couldn't have pretty much any modern country without their previous problematic leader. You can learn just about them in history class and not honour them though statues.

  • Taiwan will tear down all remaining statues of Chiang Kai-shek in public spaces

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  • Having a place in history doesn't automatically mean they should be honoured. There's plenty of people from history that we can all agree have made a huge impact and yet we wouldn't want statues of them.

  • 2 children dead, 15 people injured after vehicle crashes into building holding child's birthday party

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  • The original comment wasn't even just saying fuck cars, it was a link to a community that discusses the types of infrastructural issues that allow incidents like this to happen. You say that this story isn't about the infrastructure, but unless we talk about that, nothing will change and these things will continue to happen.

  • 2 children dead, 15 people injured after vehicle crashes into building holding child's birthday party

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  • Any time there's an anti car stance to take, somebody will show up with some pedantic nit pick about times when they're useful, and I don't think it's necessary to caveat the original point to try to get ahead of any of those people. It's not the only thing to say about this incident but I think it is valid and gets the conversation started about how car dependency is involved here.

  • 2 children dead, 15 people injured after vehicle crashes into building holding child's birthday party

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  • I don't disagree with any of your points. I just also believe that this happens less when there is less dependency on cars. The driver is still at fault, but just blaming her doesn't prevent this from happening again in the future.

  • 2 children dead, 15 people injured after vehicle crashes into building holding child's birthday party

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  • The sentiment isn't against her car use specifically, but more the infrastructure that makes one completely reliant on a car, and doesn't give you the option to get the bus home after you've had a few drinks.

  • EVs are booming but electric bikes are really cutting emissions

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  • Which city? Because for most of the densest I'd say 30 mins would be way to bother with a car, and if you're actually living in the city you wouldn't even own a car but maybe taxi makes sense for some journeys.

  • EVs are booming but electric bikes are really cutting emissions

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  • Hard to comment on incentives without knowing what part of the world you're in, but yeah they're much cheaper than cars, less effort to use than standard bikes, and in cities can be the fastest way to get around a lot of the time.

  • EVs are booming but electric bikes are really cutting emissions

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  • I have fixed the typo

  • EVs are booming but electric bikes are really cutting emissions

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  • EVs are booming but electric bikes are really cutting emissions

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  • You could stop directly finding funding the oil companies on that list by using an ebike instead of a car.

  • Here’s how EVs could get 200 miles per gallon | A new report says that electric vehicles could double in efficiency in the next decades — if automakers make the right moves

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  • I wasn't sure where you were going with the "I would say..." part, so I thought it was worth saying.

    And to that I would point out that much of North America was redeveloped for the car, since most cities were once walkable and had great public transport networks. It was redeveloped once so it can be redeveloped again.

  • Here’s how EVs could get 200 miles per gallon | A new report says that electric vehicles could double in efficiency in the next decades — if automakers make the right moves

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  • But on the personal vehicle side, the practical first step is phasing out ICE vehicles, which brings a huge overall improvement to transport efficiency as it stands.

    I don't like this line of thinking because the resources required to replace every car we have with an electric one (and if things continue as is, they'll also be bigger). We need to have way fewer cars. Our personal vehicles should be in the shape of bicycles.

  • What apps would you love to have open-source alternatives for?

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  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.ml
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    European governments shrinking railways in favour of road-building, report finds

    www.theguardian.com /world/2023/sep/19/european-governments-railways-road-building-report-motorways-funding-rail
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    On this day in 1967, Protests in London against a ban on drink driving

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    ‘Autobesity’ on course to worsen air pollution caused by motoring

    www.theguardian.com /environment/2023/sep/08/autobesity-on-course-to-worsen-air-pollution-caused-by-motoring
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    85% Of Car Drivers Break 20mph Speed Limits, Reveals U.K.’s Department For Transport

    www.forbes.com /sites/carltonreid/2023/08/24/85-of-car-drivers-break-20mph-speed-limits-reveals-uks-department-for-transport/
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    4chan gets it

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    Geometry hates cars

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    The aliens are definitely real

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    There's 3000 cars on fire in the North Sea

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    The experience they sell to you vs the experience you get

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    Tired of men lying about commitment

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    When your city implements confusing cycling infrastructure

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    Car crashes on Swiss road, response is to ban bikes