Today, from Amtrak's website:

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https://www.rue89lyon.fr/app/eh-lyon-elle-est-ou-ma-caisse/

So I’m walking to an evening class at a local college, it’s dark. There’s a bend just before the junction and as I’m walking across a car comes round way too fast. I had to step back to avoid being hit. I was wearing gloves and as it went past I hit it, no idea why, just instinct and anger.

I carry on walking and I see the driver has pulled over a bit down the road, I was expecting a “sorry are you ok” but she instead shouted “did you just hit my car?”. That set me off, shouting at her that she almost fucking ran me over. Then she says “you don’t have to use that kind of language”, the fucking nerve.

Gave up and just walked off. Wish I’d have smashed the wing mirror or keyed the car or something.

Has anyone else almost been run over and how do you deal with the anger of it?

Just look at that. This truck is taller than a used kid (10 years old). I assume the truck can run over pretty much any other age but probably the driver might be able to see older kid's heads. Or we could teach our kids to jump to school rather than walk. If you see a truck, jump and make eye contact before jumping while crossing the street. Or we could tell our kids to never go outside until they are 21.

Hi. I've been reading posts and comments in this community for just a little under a month, and every time I visit, I think of this piece, so I'd like to share it:

>I’m looking out over my whole human family And I’m raising my glass in a toast Here's to our last drink of fossil fuels May we vow... to get off... of this... sauce... Shoo away the swarms of commuter planes Find that train ticket we lost 'Cause once upon a time, the line followed the river And peeked into all the backyards And the laundry was waving And the graffiti was teasing us From brick walls and bridges We were rolling over ridges Through valleys Under stars I dream of touring like Duke Ellington In my own railroad car I dream of waiting on the tall blonde wooden benches In a grand station aglow with grace And then standing out on the platform And feeling the air on my face

>Give back the night its distant whistle Give the darkness back its soul Give the big oil companies the finger, finally And relearn how to rock-n-roll

Ani DiFranco wrote the 9 minute spoken word piece, Self Evident while on tour in 2001-2002 USA. It's about being in Manhattan during the terrorist attack on 9/11, Operation Enduring Freedom, historical context and more. This section in praise of train travel starts at 5:00.

Fun fact: Chuck D's group, Impossebulls, covered this song.

We should put our multimodal, open source code to work in that city. Who's in?

Daylighting, which involves removing parked cars from around crosswalks in order to improve visibility and just wiped out about 14,000 street parking spaces, has proved especially controversial.

“If someone doesn’t die because of it, we will never know, while the living have to suffer,” Nina Geneson Otis wrote in an email to The Standard. The real estate broker said daylighting is the kind of policy that makes Democrats lose elections.

Others say the city’s actions remove responsibility from pedestrians to look out for their own safety. “A pedestrian can do anything, and be irresponsible, and no harm will come to them?” Brandi said, describing the policies as “idiot-proof.”

We humans have no natural predator you might say but that is not true: there is one.

It kills millions of humans every year; about one every 30 seconds.

It's a major contributor to a global conspiracy to destroy as much of the environment that humans require to survive as possible; to kill even more humans at an accelerating pace and make the survivors miserable.

Even without its co-conspirators it's capable of turning entire bustling cities into places unfit for humans. Humans now plan their cities specifically with this predator in mind; building some defences but with ultimately little success at curbing its free roam.

Worst yet: It has successfully fooled humans into thinking they are dependent on it when in fact the opposite is the case.

It's a predator that we have created ourselves:

The car.

\#urbanity #urbanism #Verkehrswende #AutoDiktatur #Autokorrektur #climatechange #klimakrise #fuckcars @fuckcars

cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/19753136

BTW the tank has a better forward view than the truck

Edit: to clarify: the message in the ad is actually ironic/satirical, mocking the advice for cyclists to wear high-viz at night.

It uses the same logic but inverts the parts and responsabilities, by suggesting to motorists (not cyclists) to apply bright paint on their cars.

So this ad is not pro or against high-viz, it's against victim blaming

Cross-posted from: https://mastodon.uno/users/rivoluzioneurbanamobilita/statuses/113544508246569296

On November 15, 2021, President Joe Biden signed the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) into law. The IIJA included a five-year transportation authorization for U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) programs, plus a standalone infrastructure law representing the largest-ever infusion ($643 billion over five years) of federal funding for surface transportation, including highways, roads, and bridges. The White House hailed the IIJA as “a once-in-a-generation investment in our nation’s infrastructure and competitiveness,” along with making lofty promises that it would “repair and rebuild our roads and bridges with a focus on climate change mitigation, resilience, equity, and safety for all users.”

But the lion’s share of IIJA funding flows into what’s known as “formula” programs that are controlled by states and their departments of transportation, and they decide what to build, where, and how.

Unless these patterns change, we extrapolate that states’ federal formula-funded investments made over the course of the IIJA could cumulatively increase emissions by nearly 190 million metric tonnes of emissions over baseline levels through 2040 from added driving. This is the emission equivalent of 500 natural gas-fired power plants or nearly 50 coal-fired power plants running for a year.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/33680678

> On a Montréal, Canada project to design a space in the city for kids, rather than for cars. > > Youtube version

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/33453283

> >Basinski said space for bike lanes should not be viewed as contributing to congestion. “One lane of mixed traffic can move up to 2,000 passengers per hour in optimal conditions. However, a dedicated bike lane can move up to 12,000 passengers per hour,” the letter reads. > > > >”What problem is this (the proposed legislation) actually solving?” Basinski said. “If anything, it seems to move us backward, away from the common goal of creating complete, livable and sustainable communities that are accessible to all Ontarians, regardless of where they live.” > > >The City of Toronto estimates the cost to taxpayers for removing these bike lanes could reach $48 million, with the city already investing $27 million in their construction. Restoring vehicle lanes will likely offer minimal improvements in travel time and undermine the public health, environmental and economic benefits of active transportation, the report warns.

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A man who drove impaired on a suspended license and crashed into a bicyclist, killing him, while allegedly going nearly double the speed limit, agreed Thursday to serve at least four years in prison, documents said.

On Oct. 3 around 4 p.m., officers responded to a report of a collision between a car and a person riding an electric bicycle near Harmon Avenue and Lamar Circle just east of the Las Vegas Strip. Witnesses told police the driver, later identified as Luis Fernandez, 27, drove off after the crash.

Fernandez was driving with a suspended license, police said. The state suspended it indefinitely as of January 2022. Witnesses estimated he was driving between 60 and 70 miles per hour in the 35-mile-per-hour zone, documents said.

When officers told Fernandez someone had died, he reportedly replied, “That fool died?” police said.

Fernandez agreed to plead guilty to a charge of DUI resulting in death and serve between four and 10 years in prison, documents said.

A sentencing date was not available as of Thursday.

Fernandez was out of custody on $10,000 bail. It was not immediately clear why Fernandez’s license was revoked.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/24261346

cross-posted from: https://real.lemmy.fan/post/8280082

> Cops Searching for Vigilante Who Installed NSFW Traffic Signs in Colorado > > I wanna fistbump the 'offenders'

> About half of Americans (49%) say people in their area are driving more dangerously than before the coronavirus pandemic, while only 9% say people are driving more safely, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. What publicly available data there is on the subject suggests that those perceptions may be right, at least in part. > > There’s no one definitive data source for how common “dangerous driving” is, or even necessarily agreement on what specific behaviors that involves. Most data on people’s actual (as opposed to self-reported) driving habits comes from encounters with law enforcement – arrests, citations, accident reports and the like. Thus, the resulting data can’t be representative of the entire driving population. > > Nonetheless, there’s a fair amount of data indicating that Americans’ driving habits have worsened over the past five years, at least in some ways.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22242978

> Summary > > A white SUV was driven into a crowd outside Yong’an Primary School in Hunan, China, injuring several students and adults. > > Parents and bystanders subdued the driver, who was handed to police. > > While no life-threatening injuries were reported, this is the third crowd attack in China this week, raising alarms about public safety. > > The incidents have ignited online discussions about the growing trend of “taking revenge on society,” where individuals target strangers in response to personal grievances.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/20101057