ProfT @ProfT@qoto.org

Road crashes are a major social problem, with 1.19 million road fatalities per year.

Speeding is the number one cause of road crashes worldwide, especially in cities where pedestrians are highly exposed.

Scientific evidence demonstrated that more than 40% lives saved with the introduction of 30 km/h speed limits in cities.

Launching public awareness campaigns and encouraging Public Transport use and active mobility could be proved beneficial.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S002243752400152X

Paris’ new 2024-2030 Climate Plan drop speed limits, repurpose traffic lanes, remove 60,000 parking spots and create urban “oases” to combat extreme heat…

Paris to Replace Parking Space...

Cycling infrastructure - Build it and they will come.

#BikeTooter #Cycling #CivicInfrastructure #Meme

The subject matter of the trial I’m booked to interpret this week is super heavy. I’m gonna need giggles, folks, and lots of ‘em.

So please send me your memes (with alt text for our friends who need it, please), your jokes, your huddled anecdotes. Send me your groaner puns that would make your dad beam with pride. Send me your zingers and your groaners. Send me silliness in spades, will ya?

Thanks in advance.

"totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty"

--Hannah Arendt

#politics #totalitarianism

The “E-Bike Effect:” Those who bought e-bikes increased their average daily bicycle use from 2.1km (1.3 miles) to 9.2km (5.7 miles), a 340% increase. The e-bike share of all their transportation increased dramatically too; from 17% to 49%. Via @Treehugger
https://www.treehugger.com/e-bikers-ride-much-farther-and-more-frequently-than-regula-bikers-5076231

Spot on by @carolecadwalla & absolutely terrifying.

She is the modern day version of King Canute, exhorting us to witness the infinite fetid ocean of shit rising inexorably around her, as we wring our hands & try to dilute it with our pathetic little eco-friendly water bottles full of “truth”.

It’s not that we’re losing the war; we’re fighting completely the wrong one.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/11/a-new-era-dawns-americas-tech-bros-now-strut-their-stuff-in-the-corridors-of-power

I think it's going to be more important than ever that #Mastodon and the #fediverse are not centrally operated out of the US unlike almost every other social media platform out there.

6a. Politikere kan i et demokrati kun regulere langsigtet, hvis de har borgernes opbakning.

6b. Politikere (og andre) kan påvirke borgernes opbakning til klimahandling.

It's a story as old as cars themselves

He may be starting with lanes in Toronto, but all communities are at risk, including Ottawa. We need to stand up for everyone who uses these lanes, benefits from the cyclists shopping along the routes, and all those who will be too afraid to ride because of the increased danger. See you there! #ottbike #biketooter

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/