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@mateosfo

1 year

“but if we add more homes to my neighborhood, where will i park” “in a liberal, free-market democracy, Susan”

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(((Matthew Lewis))) progressive federalism SOS

@mateosfo

2 years

I can not stress enough this point: Literally every last person in the United States who complains about how “crowded” our cities are, is talking about cars. America is not crowded, anywhere. Half the land in our cities is four-lane roads and parking lots!!!!!!!!!

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A bunch of years ago a very well-intentioned high school student convinced everyone he could sweep all plastic out of the ocean. Oceanographers were quite frustrated by attention he got, because most of the plastic in the ocean is micron-scale. And most of it is car tires.

Jake Gotta

@jake_gotta

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Plastic bag discourse is actually so funny bc you could probably use 20 of them every grocery trip for 100 years and create less emissions & plastic pollution than you do from driving for 20 minutes to get to the store

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Next time someone tells you the United States is banning Chinese electric cars “for safety reasons” tell them that the real reason is you can buy one for under $10k and a handful of car executives in Michigan can’t make yacht payments at that price so, we can’t have them.

Colin Mckerracher

@colinmckerrache

2 months

Do people realize just how good Chinese EVs are now?

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4 months

In the United States you can get a $7500 tax credit to buy a $55,000 electric car but you can’t get a $7500 tax credit to rent a condo in a walkable neighborhood where you don’t need a car. And they call it “climate policy.”

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3 years

Last week I was in a thread where someone wondered about heat, human survivability/habitability, and climate change. I've done some technical work on this specific question, so, quick thread on basics, and what to worry about. Key term to know: The "wet bulb" temperature.

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@mateosfo

7 months

Remember folks: Every time a driver hits a safety feature with their car, a human being gets to live the rest of their life.

Politics & Education

@PoliticsAndEd

7 months

Hits inanimate object in parking lot because he can't see over his bulbous truck hood, blames fast-food restaurant. Clueless.

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@mateosfo

1 year

If you think public transportation is a money-loser, wait til I show you the spreadsheet on car culture. You will probably want to be sitting down for this.

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8 months

In fairness, this is also the Democratic transportation plan, they just argue that since the cars will be all electric, maybe, someday, late this century, it’s fine.

ben fryback EIT

@BFryback

8 months

the republican transportation plan

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@mateosfo

3 years

Hypothesis: Riding a bicycle for everyday trips is the gateway drug to local activism, and to realizing the crisis of democracy is government serving loudest voices, rather than majority. First thing that happens when you ride a bike for errands is, drivers try to kill you.

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Driver violence is so normalized and politically acceptable that it took six different violent assaults over *seven months* for the cops to even realize, oh shit, we might have a serial killer on our hands. What are license plates even for.

Salt Lake City man intentionally crashed into 6 female pedestrians in random attacks, prosecutors...

A Salt Lake City man was charged with multiple counts of attempted murder Monday after prosecutors say he crashed his car into six female pedestrians — targeted at random — over the last seven months.

www.sltrib.com

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@mateosfo

8 months

$44,000 per tent. Why are city governments paying $44,000 per tent. And then $33,000 to “maintain” them?!? Give an unhoused person $77,000 they can rent a market-rate apartment for, like almost *4 years.* Good lord, NIMBYs have wrecked city governance.

Can licensed tent villages ease California's homelessness epidemic? This nonprofit thinks so

Taking people off the street and into tents is a new twist on homeless shelter being explored by the San Francisco-based Urban Alchemy in two tent villages operating in Los Angeles and Culver City.

www.latimes.com

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10 months

This just in from a friend stuck in Vegas: “Flights across the US have been canceled today because of excessive heat warning, including my flight from Las Vegas. After multiple delays and an aborted boarding, the pilot said the air conditioner was not cooling the plane …

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@mateosfo

6 years

I am becoming convinced that autonomous vehicles are designed to solve the problem of "I live in a wealthy suburb but have a horrible car commute and don't want to drive anymore but also hate trains and buses."

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@mateosfo

11 months

The clash between US cities and their suburbs has always been inevitable. Suburbs expect cities to be clean, heavily-policed parking lots for their cars. And for much of last 75 years, cities have obliged. But it was always a land use Ponzi scheme. And it’s reached the end.

The New York Times

@nytimes

11 months

Tension between New York City and its surrounding suburbs has grown since the pandemic, as attempts to solve the city’s most pressing problems are putting it in direct conflict with suburban residents and officials who feel that is simply not their job.

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@mateosfo

4 years

Holy crap. California is saving $40 million PER DAY from all the car crashes that aren't happening. $1 billion saved just since shelter-in-place. Car culture costs us so much more than we're even aware.

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@mateosfo

5 months

yes everyone move 👏somewhere 👏with 👏 no 👏 jobs 👏 and 👏 a 👏 right-wing 👏 radical Christian 👏 state 👏 government 👏 where 👏 being 👏 gay 👏 is 👏 illegal 👏 and 👏 clerics 👏 decide 👏 women’s 👏 healthcare 👏 and 👏 you 👏 will 👏 find 👏 cheap 👏 housing

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@mateosfo

3 years

So please, help your city prepare for the refugees. Depose the NIMBYs in your city government. Defeat the car-stans who deny that all of this is happening. Because the heat is coming. It's already here.

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@mateosfo

9 months

Japanese cities won't let you buy a car unless you have a piece of land you own/lease to park it. They also *ban all overnight street parking.* As a result, there is ... very little urban land dedicated to parking, and a lot of livable, walkable, transit-served neighborhoods.

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@ElijahSchaffer

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TikToker visits Japan and can’t comprehend how the cities are so much Cleaner, nicer, safe, and high tech than USA cities He says they don’t even compare. Tons of comments mystified for the same reason Any guess as to what the difference is?

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@mateosfo

28 days

there's always a dril tweet

BaroqueMan

@VivaldiVril

29 days

@Empty_America @egoyle4u A big part of this is aggressive DUI policing. You used to be able to drove home a little tipsy, or even smashed. Now, there is so much greater social stigma and such harsh punishment for DUI, i'm sure its curbed nightlife for people who don't live in a campus.

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5 years

So, putting aside my histrionics for a sec, here's what we know about cars: - most people can't actually afford them - they're poisoning the ocean - they're wrecking the climate - they're the leading cause of death for young humans - they take up most public space in our cities

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This was a legendary action in San Francisco, ~ 10 years ago -- angry drivers complained to city's anti-bike bureaucrats about biklings not coming to a full stop; they sent cops to write us tickets on the Wiggle. So, a Brain Genius organized us all -- to stop at every stop sign.

Bike Lane Creature 🇵🇸

@Shredded_teat

8 months

"cyclists should stop at stop signs" ok bestie ❤️

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5 months

For over 100 years, most New Yorkers have woken up every day and paid to go to work on the subway or bus in the morning. Drivers are seriously the whiniest, most entitled big-government communists in the United States.

David Wolfe

@DavidWolfe

5 months

New York city will be the first city in America to charge Americans just to go to work in the morning

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2 years

Having done my best to piss off a lot of people on this website one thing that stands out is how people who are accustomed to driving their car everywhere have never even really given car culture any thought. Like, no part of it.

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@mateosfo

3 months

the amount of wealth we’ve buried beneath our cars would truly blow your mind

Rethink35 - Stop I-35 expansion & demand better!

@rethink35

2 years

Rochester NY: Inner Loop removal: - Walking rose by 50% & biking by 60% in the area - Reclaimed 6.5 acres of land - $22m highway removal yielded $229m in investment

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@mateosfo

7 months

The car industry’s most impressive achievement, IMO, is hiding how massively, crushingly expensive car culture is.

Kim-Mai Cutler

@kimmaicutler

7 months

My God. Maintaining this road amid climate change is like 1/10th the cost of CA high speed rail.

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@mateosfo

3 months

So we now have the phenomenon of well-intentioned environmentalists who drive everywhere they go, depositing plastic in ocean as they do, killing salmon and poisoning the food chain — and some of that driving is to attend protests to ban plastic bags. You know. For the oceans.

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I love how the driver spends half the time looking at the giant touch screen, which is also a ubiquitous feature of new cars in the US and, because it is *designed* to distract the driver, is more deadly/dangerous than all the faulty doors on all the airplanes on earth.

Elai

@elaifresh

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Cybertruck drives off lot, immediately breaks with critical steering issue

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3 years

(Side note: Weather forecasters should announce the wet bulb temperature or Human Heat Index as a matter of public service) So, what does this have to do with you? Well, up until last ~ 40 years, wet bulb temperatures were *extremely rare* on this planet.

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2 years

This is wild. The CEO of Rivian, the electric truck maker, on the record: - the future of urban mobility and deliveries is e-bikes - fully autonomous cars are unlikely/impossible - the battery supply shortage will slow the electric car transition

Rivian's RJ Scaringe on the future of micromobility, AVs and the supply chain | TechCrunch

Rivian founder RJ Scaringe said onstage at Disrupt that about half of its nearly 15,000 employees are focused on what's next.

techcrunch.com

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@mateosfo

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When she was 75, my mother moved to a walkable neighborhood from her car-dependent neighborhood in DC. She’s now 83, and is more physically and socially active than she had been in the previous ~ 30 years. Drivers routinely lie to defend their parking and personal preferences.

Lance

@Lance_in_DC

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@Boenau ‘walk-friendly, bike-friendly, transit-friendly’ is not ‘80 yr old friendly’ given the mobility issues that come with old age.

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@mateosfo

8 months

I love that the backlash against violent, entitled drivers is going mainstream. Just because our politicians are still more afraid of violent drivers than peaceful pedestrians, does not mean we're not going to win.

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2 months

Watch the video. This is truly the most incredible thing I’ve ever seen an elected official say, from any political party: He lays out the entire case for humans, and against cars, and it’s just pure facts, personally-lived expertise/experience — and 100% raw gorgeousness.

Jonathan Berk

@berkie1

2 months

“We built cities all over America that are designed for automobiles and not designed for people... Our housing costs are high, in part because of the way that we've designed our cities." - @GovDougBurgum North Dakota comments during the @NatlGovsAssoc winter meetings

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You really have no idea what the car industry destroyed in the United States. But I hope these photos offer proof that anything that can be built can be destroyed, and re-built, and we can always decide to destroy the car industry, and re-build the world we want.

Culture Critic

@Culture_Crit

3 months

This is what great American cities looked like a century ago (thread): 1. Buffalo, New York (1908)

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There’s a widespread presumption — and it is very presumptuous — that since many Americans move to suburbs to start families, & buy SUVs, that’s “consumer choice.” But in fact, it’s *not a choice.* Cities have banned family-sized apartments. And carmakers only make SUVs.

Rachel Cohen

@rmc031

1 year

NEW: Cities are losing families with kids, and not all want to decamp to the suburbs. But even in cities that are adding new housing, developers are mostly building one and two-bedroom apartments. I wrote about what needs to happen beyond zoning reform

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@mateosfo

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A driver shoots another driver to death every 16 hours in the United States.

David Hogg 🟧

@davidhogg111

23 days

When everyone is armed this is the America we will have. Not one where we are safer but one where otherwise no lethal situations like road rage or someone knocking the wrong door or a bar fight become lethal

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@mateosfo

7 months

It is so weird to be an American Jew. Most of us are “white,” but whiteness is provisional/geographic — in more Republican/white supremacist areas, we’re less white & subject to racist terror attacks. Most of us are liberal/progressives who despise Bibi & Likudniks but also …

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11 months

People freak out over the $100 billion cost of California’s high speed rail, but I’m like … a) we spend that much on car culture *every fucking year* b) there is nowhere in the US that makes it harder to build things we need than California c) take a & b together & realize

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who wants to tell him at the “end of the world” the biggest gun fights will be at the gas stations, where drivers will slaughter each other trying to make it the next ~ 400 miles. what’s an actual “end of the world car” look like? it looks like this:

Sam Parr

@thesamparr

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You're buying your end of the world car. A vehicle that, sh*t goes down, you can use to escape. Has to be under $100k, mostly stock, and can last 20 years. What you getting?

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@mateosfo

11 months

Rome was built in 753 B.C., subway in 1955 Paris was built in 259 B.C., metro in 1900 Beijing was built in 1045 B.C., subway in 1971 Americans are the most proudly and aggressively ignorant people on earth when it comes to urban transportation.

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6 months

Los Angeles transforming overnight, because it can. Car culture is a giant lie. “On Tuesday, there was a 19% increase on the number of riders when compared to Monday … L.A. Metro sees about 950,000 riders a day, but the system could handle more.”

L.A.'s post-fire push for public transportation: Free rides, faster trains, more buses

After a massive fire shut down a vital section of the I-10 near downtown, city officials are finding ways to persuade Southern Californians to take public transit.

www.latimes.com

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@mateosfo

10 months

This is basically a map of parts of the United States that will be unsurvivably hot for ~ 2-4 months a year by mid-century. I.e., people signing a 30-year mortgage today in Texas or Arkansas. Love the SUV ads at the bottom, really brilliant touch.

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@mateosfo

3 years

So, the moral of the story: Many of the places humans currently live on the planet are on their way to being functionally uninhabitable by humans. They will have to move. Some may try to "adapt," and some may pull it off. But this will be exceptionally difficult.

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riding home through Oakland from dinner, stop to pickup ice cream at corner store two men talking about e-bikes “I paid $1200, it goes 25 and carries all my groceries, neighbor said, ‘$1200 for a bike? crazy!’ i told him ‘dude you paid $75k for a Silverado” me, smiling, silent

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Worst part of coastal California NIMBYism is, when they complain about building housing "for new people" instead of "people already here" -- many of the "new people" are *literally* "new people" created by "people already here." They're called "children." And they're *leaving.*

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where exactly are all these new people in san francisco supposed to go?

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@mateosfo

3 years

But that's over, now. We're already seeing multiple wet bulb temperatures per year in multiple locations. By mid-century, parts of the Southeastern U.S will see *weeks* of wet bulbs *every year.* This is quite bad. Thousands of people will die on each of those days.

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I unironically love wealthy suburbanites who want to de-fund the sprawl that they live in.

Jon Elder | Amazon Growth | Private Label

@BlackLabelAdvsr

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I don’t know who needs to hear this but even if you’ve paid off your home, you will pay monthly property taxes the rest of your life. I’m in Texas and I am looking at ~$500/month forever. Refuse to pay? Lose your home. You never truly own your home in America.

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10 months

The water in the gulf of Mexico is 98 degrees, New England had 7 inches of rain and massive floods, it'll be 117 degrees in Phoenix this week, and Canada is still on fire. But hopefully, everyone found the perfect parking spot. Focus on what matters.

Florida ocean temperatures at ‘downright shocking’ levels

A heat dome has led to extremely warm coastal waters, including temperatures of 92 to 96 degrees in the Florida Keys.

www.washingtonpost.com

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@mateosfo

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If there's one thing I wish people concerned about climate change would fully internalize, it's this: Most of the new cars sold today will still be on the road, somewhere, in 2035. That means that most of the global car fleet of 2035 has *already been sold.*

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If we do everything right, starting now, there's a chance we could return some of those places to habitability for future generations, in the 3rd millenium or so. But as of today, we've already roasted most of them. Carbon emissions have a very long life in the atmosphere.

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You can wake up in Milan, walk down the block for a coffee, and — without changing clothes or going home or even deciding til you get to the train station — go for lunch in Lake Como, or Florence, or Venice, or Sienna. The developed world is amazing, we should join it.

Marco Chitti

@ChittiMarco

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Weekends is the moment of the week when I most feel like I lost a lot in quality of life by moving to car-dependant North-America: here, getting to another city for a leisure daily trip is a miserable and costly undertaking that requires a lot of advanced preparation.

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“Yesterday on a Delta flight in Vegas, on the ground, 5 people passed out from the heat and were taken out on stretchers.” And they really think we can’t get people out of cars.

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@mateosfo

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We have made it legal for violent drivers to kill children. It is legal in the United States for violent drivers to kill children.

San Francisco Chronicle

@sfchronicle

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The driver who struck and killed a 4-year-old girl in a S.F. intersection will avoid jail time, the DA’s Office announced. Karen Cartagena, 71, will serve two years of probation, complete 400 hours of community service and enroll in a driver safety class.

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Not only is it generally legal for drivers to kill pedestrians in US — they just need to stay by corpse, be sober, & tell police “I didn’t see them” — but city traffic engineers will tell you, to your face, it’s OK for drivers to kill a certain number of pedestrians per year.

K | CEO of tortured poets era

@keyladelslay

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@mateosfo Normalized and politically acceptable? No dude...it isn't..

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This has ... implications. Human habitations get very difficult to manage when thousands and thousands of people are dying every day, for weeks, every year. This is actually an active area of climate science and resilience study:

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Something electric car advocates really don’t want to talk about is how the very rapid acceleration of EVs will lead to a dramatic surge in driver violence — and *especially* among boomer drivers, who already can’t handle the accelerator.

Andy Boenau

@Boenau

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The US is going to have 30-40 million 80 yr olds driving because the built environment is car dependent. Baby Boomers are a huge reason for local govs to legalize walk-friendly, bike-friendly, transit-friendly neighborhoods. (psst, abolish zoning)

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New entry for the “Things You Could Not Possibly Make Up” file: Berkeley’s most unhinged NIMBYs are fighting a bike lane and are rallying folks to go to a special city meeting on April 18. Their e-mail call to action? “It will be hard to park, so walk or ride your bike.”

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@mateosfo

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However, key interaction here is evaporation, which is controlled in part by a) amount of energy in the sweat (how much heat it is carrying) and b) how much moisture is already in the air. E.g., when people tell you "it's a dry heat" as if it's "more tolerable," they are correct.

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I had this exact experience with my father before he died. He did not care that he was under doctor’s orders not to drive for a serious medical condition. Many old people are simply not qualified to drive a car, they know it, and don’t give a fuck.

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@hnjohnso And before people say it’s not fair to blame the poor grandma, we had to basically steal my grandma’s car because she refused to stop driving after causing multiple accidents and being nearly blind. She simply didn’t give a shit if she killed people, she wanted to drive to lunch.

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Them: “I support safe streets but it takes too long and is too expensive” Us: “We installed, in total, over 3,000 linear feet, five city blocks of bike lanes with this machine in one single day."

Santa Monica's Ocean Ave Protected Bikeway Installation Captures the World's Attention - Streetsb...

Many of you have seen the tweet. On May 27, the city of Santa Monica tweeted a video of a machine smoothly and quickly laying down the concrete barrier for a protected bike lane. Just about everyone...

la.streetsblog.org

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When cities finally start enforcing traffic/public safety laws, drivers gonna completely lose their minds. They're so accustomed to casually stealing public space they can't fathom how anti-social, selfish, and entitled they seem. Dude's got a private garage *right there.*

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The Daihatsu Midget 2 costs $9,000 new, the Cybertruck with range extender will cost $99,000 So my question, is feeling cool for a few minutes/days worth $90,000? I know some really good therapists who can help you feel cool for the rest of your life for, like $5,000

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London has a population of 9 million on 600 square miles, winters get below freezing, & 110 days of rain per year Los Angeles has a population of 4 million on 500 square miles, winters get down to 50F, & 36 days of rain per year 40% of Londoners ride bikes, 3% of Angelenos

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This could be Los Angeles. But isn't.

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Reason: While body temp is ~ 97-99 F, we maintain temp by sweating. If sweat won't evaporate, our body temp rises, continuously. And when body temp hits ~108, we're dead. For a vulnerable person in wet bulb temp, this takes much less than an hour. Naked. In the shade.

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OK so, just because I'm *that guy* I went ahead & did some calcs to figure out exactly how much these drivers stole from the City of San Francisco by illegally using public space for their private vehicles. About $10,900 each. So for each picture, each car is blocking ...

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@mateosfo

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So, Americans spend $1.5 trillion per year on their cars. That is the “out of pocket” expense of our decision to place the burden of capital expense of the vehicle on each individual. Then, we also pay another $ half trillion in taxes and fees each year to pay for pavement.

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Wet bulb takes a minute to grok because it's not about *heat,* per se. It's about the absorptive capacity of air. A wet bulb temperature in the mid-80s F can, and does, kill humans. Heat waves in the EU & Russia in 2003 and 2010 killed over a hundred thousand people at ~ 82 F.

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@mateosfo

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LOL I read report, had a hunch about why Houston -- fastest-growing large city in US -- is broke. My hunch was correct!! It's the actual cost of car sprawl coming due. What's funny is, since the report was written by a right-wing/pro-sprawl org, they focus on "pension reform."

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@mateosfo

3 years

Guys really, trust me on this one, I’ve been researching/doing the math for ~ 25 years. You can’t solve cars with cars. Not electric ones, not robot ones - no version of car provides a solution to problem of car. Only not-car solves cars. There are tons of not-car solutions!

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@mateosfo

3 months

People get really, really upset when you point out that owning a car and living somewhere that makes you drive it all the time is very, very expensive.

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@mateosfo

3 years

"Wet bulb" temperature is the temperature + relative humidity at which water stops evaporating off a "wet" thermometer bulb. If air is sufficiently humid (saturated w/ water vapor), evaporation will no longer cool the bulb, and it gets continuously hotter.

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@mateosfo

1 year

Some personal news: Neighbor who used to block the church driveway with his car came home couple weeks ago with a Rad Power Bike. Saw him yesterday, told him, cool bike bro. He said they got rid of 2nd car, now he rides everywhere in town. “My stress levels have evaporated.”

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@mateosfo

3 years

This matters for humans, because our bodies regulate heat via evaporation: sweat glands carry heat from body to the skin surface, where it evaporates, dissipating heat into the air. As long as you stay hydrated (and take salts! salt is important), you can stay cool at high temps

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@mateosfo

3 months

the performative environmentalism will continue until, is our oceans learning

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@mateosfo

1 year

I think the government should not force me to have to buy a $45,000 vehicle to get where I need to go. My choice is to walk, ride a bike, or take transit and only spend ~ $1500 a year on mobility, that’s my budget. The government is trying to force me to spend $10,000 a year

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@mateosfo

3 years

Dry air has essentially infinite capacity to absorb moisture, so, humans can survive in very high temps if the air is dry - though when you get up into the high 120's and above, you'll start seeing hyperthermia death among children, the elderly, and infirm. But, the wet bulb.

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@mateosfo

1 year

Honestly, I think the biggest challenge we face in the USA is that boomers decided to convert all of our cities to suburbs and almost everything else we fight about starts and ends there.

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@mateosfo

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We’ve “decided” to make the car industry the central component of the entire US economy, to the tune of about ~ 25% of GDP. Yes, cars are so expensive that if we weaned ourselves off them, we could fully fund luxury gas space transit and we’d all be millionaires …

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@mateosfo

1 year

The joke among people who actually need trucks for work is that none of the top-selling trucks available in the U.S. can fit a full sheet of plywood or drywall in the bed, let alone timber. They're just fancy steel toupeés for fancy drivers. Good piece.

Daniel Knowles

@dlknowles

1 year

I discovered a type of vehicle mania I like. My piece this week is about the growing number of Americans importing 25 year old tiny Japanese "Kei" pickup trucks to do actual pickup truck work, for much less than a giant luxury American pickup costs:

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@mateosfo

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This specific device has saved my life a dozen times. Most drivers don’t know traffic laws, and certainly don’t care about the lives of biklings — but every single driver speaks loud car horn. If they think their life is at risk, they’ll stop. The horn works. Get one!!

Andy Boenau

@Boenau

3 months

Buy a car horn for your bicycle.

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@mateosfo

3 months

the bog standard “progressive” city in the US is governed by NIMBY Democrats who refuse to fund transit (“yucky poor people!”), have banned straws (“to solve climate change!”) and massively subsidize car culture (“housing for cars is a human right!!”)

Collin Slattery

@CJSlattery

3 months

@mateosfo Sounds like another good reason to live in urban environments and take mass transit.

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@mateosfo

11 months

The “crime” of jaywalking was invented by car industry executives who realized their product would be banned in cities if it kept killing humans. A lot of city cops are literally just tools of the car industry.

The forgotten history of how automakers invented the crime of "jaywalking"

In the 1920s, auto groups redefined who owned the city streets.

www.vox.com

Jason Doucette

@JDoucette2050

11 months

Here’s a another video in our ‘road safety is a shared responsibility’ series. Traffic signals are set up to keep us safe and to keep traffic moving. Not following the rules can be dangerous, clog things up, and lead to frustrations. #RoadSafety

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@mateosfo

1 year

In the 1940s, the average car weighed ~ 2500 pounds. Today, the average gasoline SUV weighs 4-5000 pounds. When they start selling more electric SUVs, they’ll weigh 7,000 - 9,000 pounds. Hope that works out for them.

Fifty Shades of Whey

@davenewworld_2

1 year

Holy shit. A parking garage in Manhattan collapsed. New nightmare unlocked.

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@mateosfo

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On the one hand, you could live in the greatest city in the US, make good money, eat like kings/queens, and take epic vacations. On the other hand, you could pay $1400 a month for a GMC Sierra.

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@mateosfo

2 months

Drivers kill more children than guns in the USA.

Jerimiah Lee Lancaster

@JerimiahLee

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When we had our third child I bought a Yukon. It’s very safe and built like a tank. We always had sedans and crossovers which have no chance against large trucks. The lives of my children are too important to risk to another driver.

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@mateosfo

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A $1400 a month car payment, invested in index funds, is ~ $900,000 in 20 years. People think they're making some kind of point by defending massive car payments. The point they're making is, they could be millionaires, but they'd rather drive a Sierra. Which ... fine?

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@mateosfo

3 years

Because of the intense adrenaline rush of almost dying, you never actually get used to it. It is traumatizing every time. You start wondering why your city isn't enforcing laws against ... drivers killing and maiming people. This is the rim of the rabbit hole.

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@mateosfo

4 months

One of the biggest causes of transit cost bloat is the decimation of "state capacity" and the outsourcing of everything from design to procurement to engineering to manufacturing to consultants and other grifters. BART bringing this in house is a huge win.

Paul E Williams

@PEWilliams_

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BART did in-house engineering work on its new train cars, sped up production, and now the project is being delivered early and 15% under budget.

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@mateosfo

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I ride a bicycle & walk & I 100% endorse charging pedestrians/biklings full cost for use of public infrastructure. Make it proportional to spatial needs/impact, let drivers do same. As a show of good faith: I'd gladly pay $100/year! That puts driver fees at $16 million. Each.

Bella Chu

@bellachu10

4 months

A favorite trope of drivers is "People who ride bikes should pay their fair share." When you explain what that actually looks like, enthusiasm generally evaporates. By all means, let's price property damage, space, road wear $=kg^4, pollution (air, noise), injuries and deaths.

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@mateosfo

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The mathematical reality of climate change is , we have to reduce how much people drive by at least 25% this decade. The beauty of this is, virtually all American humans prefer walkable neighborhoods near amenities like schools, daycare, grocery stores, and transit. The weird

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@mateosfo

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My only comment on submersible discourse is, we are living on a water planet and we have so little concept of that water that we can more easily communicate with a satellite 15 billion miles out in space than a submersible 750 miles off Boston. The ocean is

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@mateosfo

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The hardest lesson the climate movement refuses to learn is that the car industry will never, ever be a good-faith partner on climate action. “Pollution could have been 30 percent less between 2010 and 2022 if cars had stayed the same size.”

Report: Transportation is Still the Leading Source of U.S. Emissions — And Not Just From Tailpipes...

The transport sector still leads the nation in greenhouse gas emissions — but that's not all.

usa.streetsblog.org

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@mateosfo

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Probably the most surreal experience of my professional life -- So, evidence of the collapse of car sprawl is growing every day: The home insurance crisis is the tip of the spear, but underneath that is local and state fiscal crises around maintaining sprawl infrastructure.

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@mateosfo

11 months

Simply amazing. After months of a Koch-funded, climate-denying, carbrained, right-winged freakout over "15 minute walkable cities," support for 15 minute walkable cities is ... ... above 75%.

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@mateosfo

3 years

"America was built for the car!" they insist. No, that's a bald-faced lie. America was *destroyed* for the car. Not figuratively; not metaphorically. Destroyed: With bulldozers, dynamite, and wrecking balls.

Dustin 🚌🚶‍♂️🚲

@EngineerDustin

3 years

Holy crap

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@mateosfo

5 months

Among many ways the car industry works to kill people — I don’t understand how they get away with it — Headlight luminosity is out of control. Why does every late-model car have headlights w/ brightness of a billion suns? I thought NHTSA set standar … Ah, there’s the problem.

Harvey J. Miller

@MobileHarv

5 months

Pedestrian deaths in America are soaring, particularly at nighttime. The reasons are complex: a mix of technological and social changes. But they have come on top of a road system and a culture that prioritizes speed over safety.

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@mateosfo

3 years

meeting adjourns and this is where i was radicalized

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@mateosfo

2 years

This is an oil pipeline

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@mateosfo

7 months

So here’s another fun aspect of electric cars! First they’ll steal public street parking by putting a charger next to the curb. Then they’ll put up a sign saying “electric vehicles only.” Then they’ll call the cops when another electric car tries to charge there!

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@mateosfo

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This is a perfect example of the NIMBY problem: The entire City of Berkeley -- every member of city council, a supermajority of residents -- want housing built at People's Park. 100 NIMBY protestors -- in a city of 125,000 -- are trying to block it.

Live updates: Berkeley police arrest 5 People's Park protesters Thursday afternoon

Activists faced off with police as they protested UC Berkeley’s move to wall off the open space with shipping containers.

www.berkeleyside.org

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@mateosfo

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Electric bikes and trikes are just completely demolishing electric cars on decarbonization of transport and it’s not even close. E-bikes are racing ahead of car culture and not looking back. Great report, as always, from @colinmckerrache :

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