Berlin: proposal to remove 30 km/h zones because air quality improved, thanks to 30 km/h zones
Berlin: proposal to remove 30 km/h zones because air quality improved, thanks to 30 km/h zones
Auf Dutzenden Berliner Hauptstraßen wurde wegen schlechter Luftqualität Tempo 30 eingeführt. CDU-Verkehrssenatorin Bonde will dies zurückdrehen. Die SPD befürchtet negative Auswirkungen für Schüler und fordert erst eine ausführliche Prüfung.
The absurdity of the proposal is already in the title, and shows how motonormativity is spread all over the world.
Berlin has a very good public transit system, and a few 30 km/h zones cannot be that bad.
I would love to hear opinions from someone who lives there!
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This could be a great example of the "mental fenze" cognitive model. We remove things without understanding why were there in the first place
Seriously.
Case in point, I had a student once who had a note on file to watch for seizures. Me and other teachers/staff were puzzled as this student didn’t have this worry of seizures the years before — turns out the children’s home they were housed at took them OFF the anti-seizure medication they were on, noting that the student didn’t need the medicine anymore as they were not showing signs of seizures. WTF?!
Sorry to spew political rhetoric like vomit everywhere, but this reminds me of the same self-inflicted idiocy of trump and his cultists.
To be honest, anti-seizure medication has significant side effects, maybe they were hoping the seizures were gone so they could stop needing the medication
I guess that’s a consideration for some, but that student was experiencing seizures (again) after being taken off the meds.
Knowing this specific children/orphan home, they do some backward ass things beyond what I care to share/type out so we just chalked it up to most likely the change in staff at the children’s home (the head nurse over there, *cough* that bitch *cough*) don’t know what they’re doing and/or they’re bad at their job. Last I heard before I left, the student’s case worker was working with our school nurse to pressure the children’s home to get the student back on their anti-seizure meds.
*Edit: and not to downplay the severity of the side effects that can accompany powerful medications which I have seen firsthand, or to say that it doesn’t make a difference anyway with this student’s future, but this student is also a very high needs special education student with an all too familiar tragic background. They can’t go to the bathroom on their own, let alone do things like take friggin tests, so we at the school thought, might as well make them comfortable at least and quell the seizures 🤷