… Das Schlüsselwort hierbei ist „exponentiell“ – eine Verringerung der Geschwindigkeit um nur 10 mph könnte einige der Probleme des Verkehrs, wie #Straßenlärm und #Feinstaubbelastung, um die Hälfte reduzieren.«
Paul Donald, #Traffication, S. 193
#Tempolimit #VisionZero #Verkehrswende
… Das Schlüsselwort hierbei ist „exponentiell“ – eine Verringerung der Geschwindigkeit um nur 10 mph könnte einige der Probleme des Verkehrs, wie Straßenlärm und Feinstaubbelastung, um die Hälfte reduzieren.«
Paul Donald, #Traffication S. 193
Quite.
#Traffication
More #Traffication?
Because #traffication
“The rise in high-fronted SUVs poses a clear and growing threat to public safety, especially for children,” states the report. “With no benefit to society, it’s time for lawmakers at all levels to act.” Via Carlton Reid in Forbes
Cap SUV/truck hood heights. And ban unsafe designs. #Auspol […]
“Automobiles have produced far more cumulative damage in the world, in terms of death, illness, and environmental destruction, than nearly any other invention in human history.”
@TheWarOnCars
#Urbanism #Traffication #TheWarOnCars #FuckCars
https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780593850725
“Seems bad”
#Traffication
Images of a street full of cars on the left and image on the right showing it years later, car free, filled with bikes and people.
From Traffic Sewer to a Street for People #Urbanism #Traffication #theWarOnCars
Cars are getting bigger and more dangerous.
Larger cars have greater emissions per mile, reduce road capacity and are more dangerous to pedestrians and cyclists.
#traffication
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Life after cars book cover featuring a traffic light covered in plants.
Woohoo!
Life After Cars!
By the good people from @TheWarOnCars
Added to my #ReadingList
#Urbanism #TheWarOnCars #Traffication
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757609/life-after-...
A reminder …
#CleanAirNow #Traffication
"We urge governments to prioritize the extensive remaining roadless areas and avoid altogether the construction of new roads in these areas." Pierre Ibisch
#Traffication
youtu.be/KusgV2PkMrs
#Traffication ‘… toxic cocktail …’
Large car parked next to a small car
Why should these two vehicles pay the same for parking? #Urbanism #Traffication #Parking #TheWarOnCars
Good to read #Traffication used real evidence sources.
Dr Paul Donald has a strong background leading RSPB research and then working at BirdLife International.
Locally we have the problem of segregated paths being opposed / inadequately lit because they *may* disrupt nocturnal animals. I'll take that objection seriously when the same specialists also actively object to the death & disruption of myriad species by road traffic at all times... #traffication
Auf dem Buchcover ist eine Straße abgebildet, über die ein Vogel fliegt, auf der ein Frosch sitzt und ein Dachs läuft. Das Cover trägt den Titel „TRAFFICATION: How Cars Destroy Nature & What We Can Do About It“ von Paul F. Donald. Ein Zitat von James Rebanks lautet: „Jeder, dem die Natur am Herzen liegt, sollte dieses Buch lesen.“
HIer und auf den folgenden beiden Screenshots: ein Zitat aus dem Buch von S. 208-209: "Traffication has crept up on us insidiously. It is a creeping barrage of noise and pollution that has eroded and fragmented our environment, and our connections with it, so gradually that we have forgotten how much richer and more integral to our lives nature used to be. In 2020, we were given a brief reminder of what the car has cost us. The COVID-19 pandemic was a human tragedy of immeasurable proportions but it did at least reveal to us, fleetingly, what an even slightly de-trafficated world might look like. The travel restrictions put in place to slow the spread of the disease did not return us to some state of pre-industrial, or post-apocalyptic, immobility; we were not de-trafficated back to the Stone Age. Our driving fell by little more than half in most places during even the strictest restrictions, and summed over the whole of 2020, traffic volume in Britain was only a fifth lower than it had been in the previous year; in the USA it fell by just a tenth."
"Yet within days of lockdown the air cleared sufficiently for mountain ranges and stars to reappear through the smog for the first time in a human generation. Satellites orbiting the planet detected a record drop in the levels of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere. The planet quite literally stopped vibrating to the rumble of vehicles: all around the world, seismologists were able to detect faint creaks and gurgles of magma deep beneath the Earth’s surface that are normally swamped by the ground-bending shudder of traffic. People started to notice birdsong; many found that this reconnection with nature helped them to cope with the isolation of lockdown. The sound they heard was the natural song of birds, not some simplified, high-pitched version screamed out over the clamour of engines. Roadkill rates fell for the first time in generations. Animals hounded by traffic into a reclusive nocturnal existence started to reclaim the day. The internet was flooded with videos of deer, bears, wild boars, otters, pumas, goats and jackals emerging nervously by the roadside, cautiously approaching suburbs. Birds and bats"
"swooped low near newly quieted roads where none had been the year before. It was as if nature had been given a chance to breathe out, to relax; to revisit, however briefly, ancestral homelands long lost to the car. This, the natural world seemed to be saying to us, is how we could live together..."
#Buchtipp: #Traffication von Paul F. Donald
über den Einfluss des Kfz-Verkehrs und des Straßennetzes auf das Leben von TIeren und die biologische Vielfalt.
"Does for road traffic what Silent Spring did for agrochemicals."
#Verkehrswende #Artenvielfalt
pelagicpublishing.com/products/tra...
We know how to make our streets better and safer and greener.
#Urbanism #Traffication #TheWarOnCars
#TVTipp: Zweiteilige #Doku über das massenhafte Töten und Verstümmeln von Tieren durch den #Straßenverkehr und das Aussterben von Arten aufgrund der Zerschneidung der Natur durch ein immer engmaschigeres #Straßennetz.
www.3sat.de/wissen/wisse...
#Roadkill #Traffication #Artensterben #Verkehrswende
