PedestrianError :vbus: :nblvt:
Enemy of car culture and cisheteropatriarchy
Profile & banner image: bad so-called pedestrian safety campaigns. Profile pic is a poster saying “WALK SAFE most pedestrian crashes are the pedestrian’s fault” & banner is a cartoon crab on a lifeguard stand holding flags that say “save yourself” and “use crosswalks”.
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PedestrianError :vbus: :nblvt:@towns.gayto Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•Trump wants to stop Tesla having to report its crashes with Autopilot and Full Self-Driving26·6 months ago@TheTechnician27 @Vittelius Why bother vandalizing something that’s just going to fall apart on its own within a few weeks or months?
PedestrianError :vbus: :nblvt:@towns.gayto Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•Carbrain is having your brother die in road violence and still complaining about speed limits222·7 months ago@x00z @talzag Traffic engineers often consider themselves much more expert than they actually are on a lot of things and their traditional methods of setting speed limits are little more than astrology which all but ignore the needs of non-car road users, but if there’s one group less expert than traffic engineers on safe driving speed, it’s cops.
PedestrianError :vbus: :nblvt:@towns.gayto Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•Since the US seems to be trying to emulate Russia these days, I figured now might be a good time for a reminder about how Russians deal with douchebag drivers4·8 months ago@NarrativeBear @lnxtx No, people have a right to use legally owned weapons in self-defense, so a driver has no right to drive recklessly and endanger random people and can only use their car as a weapon if their life is in imminent danger from someone else’s assault, such as a pedestrian standing in front of their car firing a gun at them.
PedestrianError :vbus: :nblvt:@towns.gayto Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•[image] Who cares? They're only pedestrians.1·8 months ago@FireRetardant @LifeInMultipleChoice If you have to drive regularly you should also write to your local politicians that your needs are not being met safely because it’s too difficult for you to travel in ways that are safer and more efficient.
PedestrianError :vbus: :nblvt:@towns.gayto Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•Hochul moves to revive Manhattan toll plan after Trump win1·8 months ago@huginn @vividspecter It’s not like the potential for another Trump administration wasn’t foreseeable. Hochul and her allies should have considered that and Pete Buttigieg and others at USDOT should have reminded them. Then again, when I started urban planning school in 2005, the potential for congestion pricing in New York was the talk of the town so it’s not like these centrist cowards are the first to delay it.
PedestrianError :vbus: :nblvt:@towns.gayto Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•How American Fire Departments are Getting People Killed111·11 months ago@beefbot @TheTechnician27 Firetrucks are inanimate objects. Humans make decisions about how to design, deploy, market, and accommodate them. A local fire chief just parroting industry dogma may be less responsible than someone with more power who chose not to sell reasonably sized fire trucks for suburbs and small towns in the US, but the trucks aren’t buying themselves or testifying against safe street designs at the planning board.
PedestrianError :vbus: :nblvt:@towns.gayto Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•But how will people know what size the pp is?11·11 months ago@SqueakyBeaver @ji17br Funny how such items enter chats a lot more frequently than they enter the bed of the typical suburban driver’s pickup truck.
PedestrianError :vbus: :nblvt:@towns.gayto Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•A pediatric doctor on a bike died9·1 year ago@apfelwoiSchoppen @ByteOnBikes Active voice would be, “A driver killed…”
PedestrianError :vbus: :nblvt:@towns.gayto Fuck Cars@lemmy.ml•Cyclists are dying on our roads at an alarming rate - why don't we care?4·1 year ago@mondoman712 @zelifcam If we’re going to blame people for using badly designed roads, why don’t we ever blame motorists for that?
PedestrianError :vbus: :nblvt:@towns.gayto Fuck Cars@lemmy.ml•Cyclists are dying on our roads at an alarming rate - why don't we care?107·1 year ago@li10 @mondoman712 All the driving video games made driving feel like playing a video game. I grew up playing games like Simpsons Road Rage and Crazy Taxi because I wasn’t allowed to have first person shooter games. All that did was normalize violence of a kind a kid raised by middle class suburban liberals was a lot more likely to commit.
PedestrianError :vbus: :nblvt:@towns.gayto Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•Cars prove far deadlier than guns in NYC so far this year7·1 year ago@fruitycoder @Leviathan Not as harrowing as being stuck in a traffic jam with reckless monster truck drivers trying to weave through the traffic at high speed while livestreaming on Facebook.
PedestrianError :vbus: :nblvt:@towns.gayto Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•Cars prove far deadlier than guns in NYC so far this year19·1 year ago@Leviathan @DrunkEngineer The American political class lives primarily in car-oriented suburbs and those who live in cities are so rich they can afford to use a car even where it’s woefully inefficient. Our urban policy is run by suburbanites who white flighted out of the cities last century through various state, federal, and local mechanisms (like MPOs) and even city politicians live in fear of the mythical stroad-loving suburban swing voter.
PedestrianError :vbus: :nblvt:@towns.gayto Fuck Cars@lemmy.ml•A beloved palm and pine tree mark California’s center. Now they’re being cut down3·1 year ago@jabathekek @Flax_vert “preserving acceptable facility operation” = continue killing & injuring the same number of people we currently are, or increasing it a bit since there will be more people driving on the expanded facility
@Humanius @praise_idleness That and shared car ownership is an important part of the picture. When everybody owns a private car, everyone has taken on the sunk costs of ownership and feels an urge to drive more to justify it, plus cars dominate the landscape. Having to walk a few blocks to pick up a Zipcar and then pay a rate that to some degree reflects the cost of the trip significantly reduce discretionary driving by those who can walk/bike/use transit.
PedestrianError :vbus: :nblvt:@towns.gayto Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•One Neighborhood’s ‘Bizarre Culture War’ Over Bike Lanes20·1 year ago@FireRetardant @Zoot In fact, narrowing roads and reducing speeding makes it easier for seniors to keep driving as their vision and reaction time decline. Older drivers tend not to feel very comfortable driving on 5 or 6 lane wide stroads.
PedestrianError :vbus: :nblvt:@towns.gayto Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•The Biden administration’s new automatic braking rule is “impractical,” auto industry says5·1 year ago@FatLegTed @DrCake When I went to driver’s ed, the instructors repeatedly reminded us that we had to be prepared to stop at any time because the driver in front of us could brake for a squirrel or encounter debris in the road or stop for any reason. Most drivers don’t seem to understand the basic physics that stopping distance increases with speed. A key feature of driver assistance systems should be speed-based tailgating prevention.
PedestrianError :vbus: :nblvt:@towns.gayto Fuck Cars@lemmy.ml•People are dying on West Midlands streets - if we care, we have a funny way of showing it18·1 year ago@scrubbles @mondoman712 Car company propaganda 100 years ago started these arguments. Prior to the invention of “jaywalking,” there was broad consensus that streets were public spaces for civic life including children’s play and motorists who barreled through them with entitlement to kill whatever got in their way were the bad guys.
@VinesNFluff @A_Random_Idiot Yup, and yet the US and its consulting firms desperately try to export this failure to other countries and expect to be paid for their “expertise” in how to destroy cities.