London: many more people move around by bike than by car during daytime
Thanks to a clear and defined strategy, the car number has decreased by 34% since 2017, and the number of cyclists has increased by 70%. In a city where the transit is really excellent.
These are the results that you get when you build quality infrastructure, as already seen in Paris
Sources:
Residents Notice Significant Drop In Traffic After Riyadh Metro Launch
A recent picture of Riyadh’s traffic maps has been making waves on social media, and for good reason! The once-familiar sea of red traffic jams has turned into a sea of green, showing a huge drop in congestion across the city. With residents flocking to use the Metro as their primary mode of transpo...
Seattle driver whose unoccupied SUV killed 12-year-old girl will not be charged
The Seattle Police Department has concluded its investigation into the crash that claimed the life of a 12-year-old girl last month.
Eyesight rules for motorists unsafe, says coroner
Visual legal standards for motorists is "ineffective and unsafe", a coroner says.
HM Senior Coroner for Lancashire Dr James Adeley:
"The current system for 'ensuring' drivers meet the visual legal standards is ineffective, unsafe and unfit to meet the needs of society as evidenced by the deaths of Marie Cunningham, Grace Foulds, Anne Ferguson and Peter Westwell where the DVLA continued to provide licences to drivers who had failed to meet the legal sight requirements."
Terry Wilcox, of Hudgell Solicitors, representing the families of Mrs Cunningham, Mrs Foulds and Mr Westwell, said loop holes that are available for drivers who want to evade reporting on their eyesight are "jaw-dropping".
Rob Heard, chairman of the Older Drivers' Forum, warned that more people would die if changes were not made soon.
Road network spreads ‘arteries of destruction’ across 41% of Brazilian Amazon
The Americas have a long history of occupation based on the destruction of nature and the violent massacre of native peoples, all in the name of a particular idea of “progress.” Brazil’s military dictatorship, which ran from 1964 to 1985, embraced this ideology to the point it had a specific motto —...
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/20385906
Fuck roads.
Archived (Wayback Machine)
Update 2025: https://slrpnk.net/post/20382724
As Mongabay reported, researchers have found 3.5 million km (2.2 million mi) of roads in the nine Brazilian states encompassing the Legal Amazon. They estimated that at least 86% of these roads are used by loggers, gold miners and unauthorized settlers — branching off from official roads. Studies have also found that 95% of deforestation happens within 5.5 km (3.4 mi) of a road and 85% of fires each year occur within 5 km (3.1 mi).
'Don't be a Putin': Brussel residents take action against parked cars 'annexing' pavement
Residents protested against motorists parking on the pavement by putting up stickers reading: "Don't be a Putin. Don't annex the pavement."
A collective of pedestrians living in the Brussels is fighting illegal parking by putting humorous stickers on the rear windows of cars parked on the pavement – hindering people wanting to walk or cycle safely.
The sticker read: "Don't be a Putin. Don't annex the pavement."
Want better bike lanes? Make room for wheelchairs and mobility scooters
So far, Quebec is the only Canadian province that has updated its legislation to allow wheelchairs and mobility scooters on bike and roll routes and low-speed roads.
Ontario planning experts slam Ford's war on bike lanes
Opposition continues to pour in over Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s fight against bike lanes. The Ontario Professional Planners Institute (OPPI), with over 5,000 members, sent a letter to the government opposing new legislation that could remove bike lanes in Toronto or any other municipality.
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 an
National Highways to stop using the word ‘accident’ in UK
National Highways move branded a ‘significant step forward’ in recognising the preventable nature of road collisions.
This is really a big step in my opinion, as language choices can shape opinions, as the article states "a ‘significant step forward’ in recognizing the preventable nature of road collisions."
The transportation minister will table the new bike lane rules as part of his next major piece of legislation, which the government has said will focus on stifling congestion.
The law, Global News has learned, is currently set to be titled the Reducing Gridlock and Saving You Time Act and could be presented when the legislature returns at the end of October. Primarily aimed at drivers, it will include new provincial requirements on bike lanes.
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The specifics of the legislation have not been made public but sources told Global News said the government was considering restrictions on towns and cities removing existing lanes of traffic to create bike lanes.
Absolute clowns.
What to do about America’s killer cars
The country’s roads are nearly twice as dangerous as the rich-world average. It doesn’t have to be that way
THE NEXT time you are stuck in traffic, look around you. Not at the cars, but the passengers. If you are in America, the chances are that one in 75 of them will be killed by a car—most of those by someone else’s car. Wherever you may be, the folk cocooned in a giant SUV or pickup truck are likelier to survive a collision with another vehicle. But the weight of their machines has a cost, because it makes the roads more dangerous for everyone else. The Economist has found that, for every life the heaviest 1% of SUVs or trucks saves in America, more than a dozen lives are lost in smaller vehicles. This makes traffic jams an ethics class on wheels.
Each year cars kill roughly 40,000 people in America—and not just because it is a big place where people love to drive. The country’s roads are nearly twice as dangerous per mile driven as those in the rest of the rich world. Deaths there involving cars have increased over the past decade, despite the introduction of technology meant to make dr
Malaysia to acquire trains via $3.18b leasing deal with China | The Straits Times
The government aims to acquire 62 new passenger train sets. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Waymo cars honk at each other throughout the night, disturbing SF neighbors
San Francisco resident Randol White says he heard the noises for the first time about two weeks ago -- he was woken up around 4 a.m. to the Waymos honking at each other.
Japan is inventing trains
The Japanese government is planning to connect major cities with automated zero-emissions logistics links that can quietly and efficiently shift millions of tons of cargo, while getting tens of thousands of trucks off the road.
How traffic noise hurts children's brains | BBC News
As awareness grows of the toll of noise on children's health and learning, some cities show the way to quieter roads and classrooms.
Montreal becomes largest North American city to eliminate mandatory minimum parking spots
Montreal is the latest city to eliminate mandatory parking minimums, and the largest North American city to have done so.
Build the greatest car parks ever in the Car Park Capital!
I feel like I just need to play Car Park Capital after discovering it today. Styled much like a late 90s retro tycoon game, it looks like it's from a different time and I love it.
I think the developers of this satirical game could be subscribed to this community:
The car industry has identified a few places on earth that do not know THE FREEDOM OF CAR DEPENDENCY.
So they hired you to increase car sales and oil consumption.
How? By building the greatest car parks ever!
Turn neighborhoods into car parks, create the need for car commuting and parking. Use propaganda to inform people on why they need it.
Learn to become a real tycoon.. Asphalt means freedom, right?
Cross-post da: https://feddit.it/post/8640086
In France, the Future Is Arriving on a Barge
The Seine is becoming a test case for a European plan to cut carbon emissions by turning rivers into the new highways.
The Seine is becoming a test case for a European plan to cut carbon emissions by turning rivers into the new highways.
New data shows which states were more deadly for pedestrians in 2023
Preliminary road-safety data for the first half of 2023 has been published.
Guidlines for Posting
In the absence of a flair system on lemmy yet, let's try to make it easier to scan through posts by type in here by using tags:
I have copied that idea from another community. I forgot which one so sorry!
Feel free to discuss that here, I would like that change because it makes it a lot easier