Survey: Most Americans Are Open To Ditching Their Cars — Streetsblog USA Automakers have spent a century and countless trillions of dollars making car-dependent living the American norm. But U.S. resident still aren't sold, a new survey suggests.

“The majority of Americans are open to living car-free even after decades of car-centric planning, a new survey finds…A stunning 18% of car-owning U.S. residents indicated that they were ‘strongly interested’ in living car-free, and another 40% said that they were ‘open’ to it.” @usa.streetsblog.org

Freie Lastenradl (@Freie-Lastenradl@pixelfed.social) Nach nicht mal 23 Stunden war Andi wieder mit seinem heißgeliebten Bullitt vereint! Gleich mehre aufmerksame Menschen haben es in Giesing gesichtet, Andi und uns Bescheid gegeben. Einen riesen Dank an...

Wurde gefunden - vielen Dank an die aufmerksamen Meldenden!

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Demo-Plakat: ERNEUERBARE ENERGIEN VERTEIDIGEN! DEMO SAMSTAG 18. APRIL 12 UHR MÜNCHEN SIEGESTOR

Für die Erneuerbaren!💚
Gegen Putin-Gas und Trump-Öl!💪
Für Freiheitsenergien!💚
Gegen die Klima-Saboteure der Bundesregierung!💪
Für die Energiewende!💚

Ah - we're a nonprofit cargo bike library so the city asks us to come to things, we don't have to organize the whole thing ourselves that way.

I especially like this kid map idea, could present results to the city afterwards, hmmm...

What sort of kid activities do you offer at an event like this? We tend to piggyback onto street fairs that are already happening. @freie-lastenradl.bsky.social

Harder better faster petit porteur.

Paris, 6 avril.

“Q: What is the film about? A: The fight to make Rainbow Road less car-centric and more pedestrian-friendly.” Via The Onion

I’ve never cared about the Super Mario Galaxy Movie even a tiny bit, except now I care about it a whole lot.

Thanks @theonion.com @bencollins.bsky.social theonion.com/what-to-know...

Erneuerbare Energien verteidigen! Samstag 18. April, Demos in Berlin, Hamburg, München, Köln

❗ Katharina Reiche bekämpft erneuerbare Energien und schadet dem notwendigen Klimaschutz. Ihre Politik zerstört weiter Lebensgrundlagen. Für eine gesunde Zukunft haben wir keine Zeit mehr zu verlieren!
Außerdem machen uns erneuerbare Energien unabhängig von Autokraten & ihren fossilen Geldquellen.

Here's the ultimate solution to this—and all future—oil price shocks:

The Non-Polluting,
Autonomy-Building,
Fitness-Enhancing,
Non-Middle-East-Oil-Burning,
Happiness-Producing,
Self-Driven Vehicle.

A man in an off-white t-shirt and navy pants.

A man in a tan suede jacket, white shirt, and dark pants.

The point is not to push you in any one aesthetic direction, but simply to encourage you to have one special outfit for when "It" happens. A good outfit will elevate your mood and help you mark the occasion. Celebrating in a t-shirt is fine — but a nice outfit is better.

“»Die Republikaner haben ein Naziproblem«”

If the Germans are saying it…

Gelbes Bullitt gestohlen!

Amarillo Bullitt gestohlen - Augen auf! Heute im Westend! www.instagram.com/p/DWtzIIyjTKZ/

Madam Chutney hat sehr gutes vegetarisches! Wenn sie Platz haben... www.madamchutney.com

Tom Lehrer immer passend!

vertical image of a still retention basin and sunlit sky. the sky is split starkly down the middle, clear on the left, gray clouds on the right, sun at the center. the cloud line is reflected perfectly on the basin surface below the horizon. photo by Lindsay Schiel NEORSD

not ‘shopped. not cropped. not stock.

straight from the phone of stormwater inspector Lindsay Schiel snapped yesterday at a basin in Hudson.

We are screwed….

Every Reason to Hate Cars YouTube video by Not Just Bikes

WATCH: Whether you love cars or hate cars, you should watch this new video and better understand the truth about the real costs & consequences of too many cars in our cities, and the car dependency many of us live in. You might find it hard to watch, but watch it to the end anyway. Via #NotJustBikes

HAPPY ELON REJECTED FROM BERGHAIN DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE!

“Speed wasn’t a factor” Speed is always a factor. Via the Urban Truth Collective

Never forget, when it comes to the likelihood of car crashes, or the deadly consequences of car crashes, speed is ALWAYS a factor. #UrbanTruth

“We could never do THAT is OUR city!” Leadership doesn’t make excuses.

“Speed wasn’t a factor.” Speed is ALWAYS a factor.

“If we don’t build housing to solve homelessness, we don’t really want to solve homelessness.”

Not density OR trees, density AND trees.” Better cities are climate action. All posters are ads by the Urban Truth Collective

EXPLORE & SHARE OUR POSTERS! As we get closer to releasing our first BIG campaign, we’ll keep releasing our “quick hit” posters, and we hope you’ll help us make them viral. Repost/quote-post our posts sharing them, or include them in your OWN posts and ping us! www.urbantruthcollective.com/content

Study: How Capping Vehicle Sizes Could Help Save the World — Streetsblog USA A new study demonstrates the mutually reinforcing strategies of shrinking cars; shifting people to bikes, walking and transit; and electrification.

A multi-pronged transportation reform strategy is critical to curb climate change, slash road deaths, and more.

Iconic Andy Singer cartoon with a driver saying “Public Transit wastes money. It always has to be SUBSIDIZED!” He is surrounded by evidence that driving is heavily subsidized. In fact, investing in walking, biking, public transit, and housing for the otherwise homeless saves public money.

One of the biggest disinformation campaigns ever applied to cities involves the constant claims that “driving pays its way.” It’s actually MASSIVELY subsidized, while things like walking, biking, public transit & supportive housing for the unhoused actually SAVE PUBLIC MONEY. #UrbanTruth

13 Millionen Erwachsene haben keinen Führerschein. Und damit keine Lobby." Unten ein Foto von Miniatur-Figuren auf Fahrrädern auf einer Holzoberfläche, Hintergrund unscharf.

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Wer keinen Führerschein macht, ist Sonderling.
Wird von Familie und Peer Group unter Druck gesetzt.
Das zeigen mir viele Gespräche, gerade auch mit Jugendlichen.
Manche von ihnen machen den Führerschein nur, um "Ruhe zu haben, Oma und Opa zahlen ja auch."

There was a series of tweets on how to describe the band Cake to anyone under 30 ("spoken word poetry at a bowling alley", "Weezer with a trumpet", "half-time ska because the guitarist has carpal tunnel") that slaughtered me at the time

A man in a Margaritaville camp shirt and blue shorts sitting on a grey Lectric trike with a front and rear cargo basket

More people can ride a bike than can drive a car! Teenagers and the elderly often can't drive but can bike, especially with new tools like etrikes! Like this delightful gentleman I met back in June 2024 (he may well drive, but a great example of using an etrike!)

Love me a sweet wrasse.

Plakat Zonen-Gaby Meine erste Banane Das Plakat für Zonengabys

shop.titanic-magazin.de/meine-erste-... classic Titanic cover after the fall of the wall November 1989

Thank you! At an event last night I said "If the word hope doesn't work for you try, 'Never fucking surrender.'" The word hope seems too sunny to a lot of people, but the heart of it as I'm interested in it is: we make the future in the present, if we show up, and that never surrender part.

Night Into Day The thing changing the world this year is...batteries.

This looks like a complicated chart, but in fact it's some of the simplest and best news imaginable: batteries are quickly turning night into noon. Worth a read if I say so myself
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