From Australia:
"New research has found public transport fares have not been a decisive factor in pushing people to shift from car to public transport."
"Better public transport access, coverage, reliability, and travel time have a greater impact than price in changing long-term commuting habits."
7. My commute time is zero.
It's a cheap membership to the gym of life. I've seen recommendations of 150min/week of "moderate intensity activity".
That's my commute instead of paying a gym membership, and wasting time / energy on car maintenance + gym-ing inplace.
purple billboard These Machines Fight Traffic in white with two bikes.
These Machines Fight Traffic.
Walked by this beauty last night - pretty awesome to see these messages out in the world.
Things that are simultaneously correct:
•There are more passenger rail services connecting more communities in the U.S. now than the last 75 years, and in some places, ever.
•Given our resources and by international comparison, we’re still way behind many other countries.
🛤️🚉🚆
When gas stations raise prices to compensate, how meaningful is the relief?
There is a physical lack of oil on the world market right now.
This is a context where sellers are less likely to pass on savings to consumers (compared to a normally-functioning market).
"It’s time to reframe the narrative on traffic fines. Viewed as a way to punish drivers for breaking the rules, traffic fines are rarely perceived as a crucial element of road injury prevention. Fines act as a powerful deterrent preventing crashes and reducing injuries and deaths."
Combined with the fact that drivers can't help themselves from acting like psychopaths around bikes: cutting us off to get to a red light, parking in bike lanes, passing within inches at high speeds, not waiting till it safe and overtaking into oncoming traffic etc. Makes it all the more infuriating
Carney suspending federal gas tax to provide relief to drivers.
Problem: There is physically less oil available now. Cutting taxes doesn’t create more gasoline.
Some way or another, people have to use less. The mechanism that makes that happen is higher prices.
This is a big problem. Lumping together deaths among peds/cyclists and car occupants obscures the extent to which the US fails to protect people outside of cars.
Congress & safety advocates should push NHTSA to stop doing it.
"I broke the law, endangered my community, and now I'm the victim because driving safely isn't sexy."
This is the exact entitlement that makes our streets too dangerous for kids to walk or bike to school. The carbrain mindset compounds itself.
gas should be over 10 dollars a gallon across the US
What a time to be alive
comic of two women bicycling along a bridge over a canal, another bridge with bikes in the background. One turns to the other and says, "If anyone proposed this in my town I'd kill them."
it's a take to imply that traveling abroad is what gives insight into the basic technocratic steps that would enable transit agencies to defeat the car dependency imposed by federal, state, and city govts in America. Meanwhile, ~every rich person who takes those trips whines about gas prices and
I hear the EV drivers cackling, but everyone suffers when the price of food goes up.
And yeah, the urban sprawl and car dependency isn't helping with that either.
Okay CTA. This is a good sign.
Documenting the volume of hit and runs is helpful.
Many Americans recoil from monitoring cars the way Libertarians are aghast about drivers licenses. It's easier for them to ignore the victims, disproportionately from marginalized groups, when cardealer funded news makes hit and runs seem rare.
“In London cyclists now outnumber cars in the City by 2 to 1. Paris, where they now outnumber motorists across the whole city, is catching up with Europe’s traditional bike capitals, Amsterdam & Copenhagen…In Copenhagen, bikes account for almost half of commuter trips to work/school.” @economist.com
As an American, I'm 100% on Team 🇪🇺 here.
Monster trucks don't fit on US streets, let alone European ones.
Watching the numbers on the gas pump climb higher and higher I shake my fist, screaming, "Bicyclists must pay their fair share!"
What I don't get about American consumer psychology is that people seem extraordinarily price-insensitive about vehicle purchases and the implicit costs of commuting but hyper-sensitive about gas prices and groceries.
Now *this* is the correct response to a surge in the price of petrol and diesel – well done Victoria!
Don't cut fuel duty. Cut demand!
A photo of the gigantic No Kings crowd in Atlanta, Georgia.
Atlanta is showing up to say no ICE, no war, No Kings. #NoKings
We need a vehicle weight tax. If you can justify buying an $80k, 3,000 kg Wagoneer to haul one bag of groceries, taxpayers shouldn't be subsidizing your pavement wear and tear plus the added danger to our streets. If you can afford the payments, you can afford to stop asking society to subsidize it.
Parking penalties (and fines for other driving offences) need to be a lot higher then. It's madness that the find is cheaper than doing the legal act.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Every car in your city represents $8-12K/year being sucked out of your local economy instead of being spent on housing, goods & services.
I wish more parking-obsessed retailers & elected officials understood this.
#WindshieldBias
#CarBlindness
Cars vs housing
Who's winning?
Every bike lane needs to have barriers like bollards or a curb, as most motorists are entitled assholes. If they’re not driving in them, they’re parking their cars in them.
Definitely sick of the bs bad faith argument that giving people alternative options to car travel equates to forcing everyone to never drive.
I see more honest, not-self-aware, "Americans need to drive" discussions.
As if that is not terrible.
