
The continued build out of the freeway system creates an ever-increasing cost spiral for infrastructure built.

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The Truth Is Out There: The Cost of Roads Is Bankrupting the Highway Trust Fund, Not Electric Vehicles.
The continued build out of the freeway system creates an ever-increasing cost spiral for infrastructure built.
Just half of road funding is paid for by road users through funding mechanisms like fuel taxes or vehicle registration fees, and the largest share of that (the federal gas tax) has not been raised in over 30 years. However, some in Congress have tried to blame the rise of electric vehicles and fuel-efficient gasoline-powered vehicles for the federal government’s struggles to fund decades of road-building.
Below I walk through why the federal government’s ability to pay for highways has nothing to do with electric vehicles and everything to do with Congress’s insatiable desire for road-building.
Drive Though Supermarket Concepts (3 videos)
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3 animations, choc with metaphors on the wastes of car infrastructure and the robbing of choice.
I do not know if the author intended for these to be dystopic or utopic, I have a hunch they are playing both games. They try to improve supermarket visit efficiency by expanding the use of cars at the cost of everything else.
Concept 1 (main link): Indoor drive-through shopping. . Less than a few percent of floor space is actual store, the rest is road. The store sprawls across multiple levels because there is no longer any safe space for humans to work or walk in the customer areas.
There is also no basket or trolley to store things in and change your mind. You grab an item and within seconds one of the approximately (by my count) 100 cashiers scans it and bags it. Made a mistake? Just buy your way out of it, you're holding valuable customers up, tut tut.
[Concept 2: Drive-through shopping in private.](https://www.youtube.com/wa
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Let’s Talk About Cars and Car Culture
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Paris votes to make 500 more streets car free
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Noise: The not-so-silent killer? - The Global Story podcast, BBC World Service
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Council's committee of the whole approved the Vision Zero action plan, which also includes more automated speed enforcement and red light cameras
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