L.A. Adds Lanes For Cyclists To Recover From Getting Hit By Cars LOS ANGELES—In an effort to improve riding conditions for the city’s long-neglected bikers, Los Angeles officials announced Friday a $10 million plan to add lanes for cyclists to recover from getting ...

Woke disaster of a city L.A. Adds Lanes For Cyclists To Recover From Getting Hit By Cars — theonion.com/l-a-adds-lan...

Well done! Stuck in a lease until October but throwing a party when we get there and return it to the lot! Can’t wait to be out of a muskmobile and stop giving that meatball my money.

Yet some of you still go to great lengths to rationalize your presence on X. At some point, you must ask yourself how poorly this reflects on your values and priorities.

Gigantic SUVs are a public health threat. Why don’t we treat them like one? The anti-tobacco playbook could help turn the US public against their beloved oversized cars.

Like smoking a cigarette, driving a giant SUV/pickup endangers anyone nearby.

The narrative power of secondhand smoke galvanized the anti-tobacco movement in the 1980s – and it could do the same for car bloat today.

My deep dive, in Vox 🧵

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I was just looking for a similar bumper sticker! Love this, especially seeing it on a Tesla!

This is so spot on. As a climate scientist and public intellectual, I see or experience these often

Just look at that beautiful foam! 😍🤤🍻

Says who?!

THIS.

Imagine a city where you don’t have to calculate the risk of crossing a street or plan your route around dangerous traffic. A place where mobility is effortless for all ages, where people, not cars, are the priority, and the freedom to move safely is just a part of everyday life.

We’ve been waiting for a project to come online for months…was supposed to be up and running in July.

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People riding in a bike-lane

“Every $1,300 New York invested in building bike-lanes in 2015 provided benefits equivalent to 1 additional year of life at full health over the lifetime of all city residents, according to a new economic assessment.”

Bike-lanes are a sound public health investment.
www.reuters.com/article/busi...

Comparison of older and newer pick-up truck. Although the truck bed is essentially the same, the overall truck size is substantially larger and higher.

Trucks have been getting bigger, more energy & space consuming, more polluting, and much deadlier to everyone around them including kids. Not because most of us actually need bigger vehicles, but as ego boosts, status symbols & “indicators of male virility.” Note the truck bed is basically the same.

Isn’t it funny how the media suddenly stopped talking about high food and gas prices; soaring crime in the suburbs; the migrant invasion; and immigrants eating dogs and cats?

Heard the Sandhill Cranes and managed to snag a migration pic this morning! Bon voyage, friends!

Removing Toronto bike lanes will make traffic worse, official document shows In preparation for plan, Ontario has indemnified itself from liability if cyclists are killed on streets that once had bike lanes

“They know people will get hurt. It’s incredibly upsetting. The impact of injuries & death involving motor vehicles costs immense wealth, property, time & emotion. And to take deliberate steps to INCREASE the risk? There are no words.”

There are plenty of words. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

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There are still climate people who believe Musk is secretly whispering pro-climate messages into the ears of Republicans and changing them from the inside

Well crap he found me.

Along with a clear upward trend, 2023 and now 2024 are the warmest August to October periods on record for the #Arctic Circle.

Graph is using the NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0 dataset (www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...).

A graph titled "Cost of Transport" showing the relationship between body weight (in kilograms) and energy consumption for distance traveled (calories per gram per kilometer) for various animals and machines. It highlights that a person on a bicycle ranks first in efficiency.

A person on a bicycle is by far the most energy-efficient among animals and machines per distance traveled relative to body weight. The bicycle is magic.

www.jstor.org/stable/24923...

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Amen!

Meanwhile, in the US….

"They've set up a situation where it's good for them to sell clean energy technologies to the world…It's very good economically, and it's good reputationally, and it's good environmentally."

www.npr.org/2024/11/22/g...

Weather is absolutely a tip factor for the Instacart shoppers. Well done!

Only problem is no one can read them as they’re all on their phones while driving…

Icky indeed. Pretty gross that this monster truck is allowed on Chicago streets.