ProfT @ProfT@qoto.org

We've dropped an old Patreon bonus into the feed: "Cars as a Virus with Hermann Knoflacher." Hear from the man who invented the gehzeug ("walkmobile") about the space cars take up, why cars can be compared to a virus, and what we can do about it.

https://thewaroncars.org/2024/10/29/extra-cars-as-a-virus-with-hermann-knoflacher/

#thewaroncars #podcast

THIS IS HUGE. Paris City Hall has announced that starting on Monday, Paris will limit (not ban) car traffic in the city centre, as cities like Ghent have done. They’re creating a limited traffic zone (ZTL) about 2 sq miles in size, to clean the air & create more space for people.

🇸🇮🚞☀️ If you are looking for the most beautiful spots on this earth, you have to have an eye on #Bled🇸🇮, situated in the Julian Alps🏔 with its famous lake! 😍

A place perfectly reachable by train, located on the 1906 built Bohinj Railway🛤 between #Jesenice🇸🇮 and #NovaGorica🇸🇮! This time worked by a #SŽ🇸🇮 class 610 "Stadler FLIRT" DMU.

Today is the 50th anniversary of women gaining the right to have mortgages, business loans and credit cards in their own names.

I am 47 years old. My mom did not have access to her own credit card without her husband or father's approval. People like to think that this stuff happened in the ancient past. It didn't. People you know were directly affected by anti-women systemic oppression.

Hi everyone, there's good news and bad news. The good news is that I did another cartoon about climate change... https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2024/oct/28/scientists-have-discovered-that-earths-carbon-sinks-are-not-really-carbon-sinking-at-the-moment

I think that fact that we're using AI to write emails because we find it hard and AI to summarise emails because we can't be bothered to read them suggests that we should take a look at how we communicate rather than boiling the oceans to have LLMs hallucinate at each other on our behalf.

WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data.
https://toronto.citynews.ca/video/2024/10/24/annex-businesses-tell-ford-to-back-off-bloor-bike-lanes/

#fahrradalltag #victimblaming #fedibikes

Even people who love their cars, or really need their cars, or both, can still probably admit that the worst thing about the city they live in is that there are too many cars.

I cannot stop looking at this. HT @samim

#Verkehrswende heißt Priorität für den Fuß- und Radverkehr, danach kommt der öffentliche Nahverkehr und ganz am Schluss, falls noch Platz übrig ist, kommt das private Auto. #StädteFürMenschen
@vcoe_mobilitaet_mit_zukunft

The always excellent @ProPublica shows what happens when Trump cultists take over local governments -- focusing here on a Texas county where the population is closely divided but the extremists' rule is borderline fascist.

https://www.propublica.org/article/tarrant-county-judge-tim-ohare-far-right

In summary, we should charge NYC drivers for their use of existing roadway space, not create brand new spaces for them. We've been creating brand new spaces for drivers for over 100 years, and it makes everything worse.