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@ PedestrianError @towns.gay

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Enemy of car culture and white supremacist cisheteropatriarchy. Old enough to have warned people about ICE before it was formed.AI = 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”.

  • [meme] Anon likes bikes

  • @Jarix @Shellofbiomatter The overwhelming majority of trips aren't aimless wandering in search of freedom, they're utilitarian trips to the grocery store, library, a friend's house, your kids' school, etc. The percentage of people in sprawly countries who truly live too far away from daily necessities to get there by bicycle if the roads were designed for safety and comfort is far too small to justify adopting standards that force even cities to make their streets bike-unfriendly.

  • You don't own your vehicle anymore

  • @Korhaka @RockBottom Keep your old bikes in good working order, they'll probably start requiring tracking devices on new ones soon.

  • As fuel prices rise, US lawmakers push to suspend the federal gas tax

  • @grue @Armok_the_bunny But with that said, as gas taxes do pay for some of road maintenance and expansion and the politicians in power (from both parties but especially Republicans) will never get over their addiction to reckless highway expansion, any temporary or permanent cuts to gas tax will be accompanied by efforts to end federal funding for transit as well as any facilities at all for people to walk and bike safely on roads.

  • The US would rather make people homeless than build apartments without parking, study finds

  • @daychilde @NomNom What about all the places that have density and public transit but hamstring themselves with parking mandates based on suburban trip generation assumptions? The more you mandate parking, the harder you make it to get around or do business. We have walkable urban neighborhoods that are food deserts and people want to open corner stores in old vacant buildings but are blocked because they don't have space for off-street parking.

  • Key Witness Who Disputed ICE Account of Fatal Texas Shooting Dies in Car Accident

  • @CubitOom Definitely a #CrashNotAccident here, and it seems like quite a coincidence for reckless or negligent driving to take this witness right after the story of his friend's murder by Trump's gestapo started gaining traction.

  • A toddler has died after being struck in a crosswalk in Calgary, Canada 🇨🇦

  • @JoshuaFalken @NomNom How do they post that picture but include nothing in the story about whether such a vehicle was legal to operate on a public street, never mind the ethics of exposing the public to something like that for one's own personal vanity?

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th January 2026

  • @sc_griffith @BlueMonday1984 So just making it official that rich white men can commit all the sex crimes they want but those with less privilege might be stopped or face consequences.

  • Trump wants to bring Japan's 'cute' tiny cars to America — but it may not be easy

  • @UltraMagnus @frizzo Particularly for 2+ car households, a family could trade one of their midsized sedans or SUVs for a kei car and use the bigger one when they go on a weekend road trip or one of them travels out of town on business.

  • Trump wants to bring Japan's 'cute' tiny cars to America — but it may not be easy

  • @UltraMagnus @frizzo One thing we need to do is allow cities to ban personal vehicles over a certain size within their dense urban cores to cut down on crash danger, property damage, and congestion and other nuisances due to oversized vehicles parked where they don't fit. That way someone who lives an urban lifestyle could choose a minimalist car with less concern about mixing it up with monster trucks on their daily errands.

  • Trump wants to bring Japan's 'cute' tiny cars to America — but it may not be easy

  • @andrewrgross @HiddenLayer555 Also that urban planners don't actually plan cities in the US, traffic engineers do. Planners only decide what to do with the land that's left after people who know nothing about cities have made plans for everyone to speed around in a private car and how much of that space has to be mandatorily devoted to parking the cars.

  • The American mind cannot comprehend this

  • @Fabrik872 @Sine_Fine_Belli Though we're not the majority, there are plenty of USians who don't live in sprawl hell and there's probably some correlation between going to public downtown events and living and/or working near downtown. Suburbanites who commute to a downtown office are likely to be somewhat more familiar with transit options than their neighbors who never leave suburbia.

  • SpaceX Is Buying Up an Unfathomable Number of Cybertrucks

  • @technocrit Using taxpayer money that they're granted due to the outsourcing of government functions like NASA and communications to bail out their incompetent boss's other failing business which was initially built on tax credits supposedly created to address climate change. None of Musk's companies are profitable, they're just good at stealing from the mooks who run governments.

  • A new ‘solution’ to student homelessness: a parking lot where students can sleep safely in their cars

  • @vsg @technocrit This has all gotten much worse over the last few decades as state governments have systematically defunded public higher education and tried to "run it like a business" instead of an essential public service at the same time as degrees were becoming more essential to earning a living wage.

  • A new ‘solution’ to student homelessness: a parking lot where students can sleep safely in their cars

  • @vsg @technocrit Most don't have enough for all their students and they're expensive to live in if they are available. A lot of larger schools are surrounded by outrageously expensive private for-profit student housing complexes built on the ability to overcharge teenagers living off student loans for crappy accommodations without them understanding how badly they're being ripped off. Meanwhile homeowners near universities lobby to ban affordable rentals to protect their property values.

  • "One false move and you are dead"

  • @phed @lgsp If you're driving and the environment including the presence of other road users is making you feel uncomfortable, slowing down should help.

    Also, you do know that at a crossing without a light, you have to stop for pedestrians, right? They stand on the edge of the curb to let you know they want to cross. If they stand back out of the way, they might never get to cross until a really kind driver comes along and there aren't many of those these days.

  • Zohran Mamdani hires car-hating activist Ben Furnas for NYC transportation team: ‘War on drivers’

  • @CompactFlax @lechekaflan Much of what I hear from New Yorkers lately is complaints that Transportation Alternatives has become too centrist during his time there.

  • Keep these Stupid American Trucks out of Europe

  • @brbposting @Taldan Reading a paper map and looking up directions before you drive and then remembering them are critical skills that should be on driving tests.

  • Colorado state Senator Faith Winter killed in car accident

  • @vanes What a tragic irony considering her work to try to fix our murderous transportation system.

  • Neurobiology professor hit and killed by a car that did not stop in an intersection. Driver charged with a misdemeanor.

  • @Jollyllama That's important and needed grassroots work, but it would be made a lot easier if universities reformed their civil engineering curriculum to reflect scientific understanding of the harms caused by promoting cars and trucks as the primary modes of transportation so that advocates didn't have to start by providing basic education to alleged professional experts who have been granted a degree that gives them power to rearrange communities.

  • Neurobiology professor hit and killed by a car that did not stop in an intersection. Driver charged with a misdemeanor.

  • @limer @Fredthefishlord But many of those arseholes aren't driving, they're sitting in offices designing dangerous streets or vehicles.