Matthew Lewis -- living in the era of cults and consequences

Road transport CO2 emissions in the European Union could peak in 2025 - International Council on Clean Transportation Recent regulations, including the CO2 standards for cars and vans, and its homologue legislation for trucks and buses, have put Europe on track for an early emissions peak. Berlin, 14 January – In the...

”In the European Union, transport remains the only major economic sector where carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions have risen since 1990.”

#EU27 should not ease the regulations.

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That color scheme. This looks like a screenshot from that alternate history Wolfenstein game where Nazis win WW2 and take over the USA.

Got a cab near the Department of Education. Hadn’t seen the Charlie Kirk banner before.

YouTube video by Adam Savage’s Tested Adam Savage Rebuilds His Stolen Bicycle!

Highly recommend Adam Savage’s latest video!

He spent years using a bike as his primary transit in NYC and understands the freedom it brings. Nice to see a prominent voice validating that we don't need 4,000lb boxes just to navigate a city.

When homes are built in extreme hazard zones, and local jurisdictions gave them the building permits, and so electric utilities are required *by law* to build power lines to serve those newly-permitted high-risk homes (which is most new homes in the US) ...

Who's gonna pay?

All of us. That's who.

From California to Texas, electric utilities are struggling to manage mounting fire risk in a warming climate. They are spending more than ever before on lawsuits and settlements, as well as on preventative measures, such as undergrounding lines. 1/5

Cars are essential in most of the U.S. They're also increasingly unaffordable The average new car costs $50,000. The average used car is $25,000. Insurance, repairs and maintenance are soaring. But America's car-centric habits also cost us in more subtle ways.

I know there's little chance of getting normal people to think about how ubiquitous government regulations mandating car ownership and driving are one of two leading cause of financial struggles in the US.

But at least the data is there. We really don't want to see it. www.npr.org/2025/10/29/n...

In ~ 2015, US carmakers started telling investors/analysts about plans to stop making smaller, affordable cars in favor of larger, far more expensive trucks and SUVs.

The plan: Sell fewer new trucks/SUVs, drive up profitability AND ALSO increase the cost of used cars (by reducing supply).

Welp.

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

i love this

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

"state regulations" which state actually enforces regulations on passenger vehicles

I can’t believe this is real

[stares in 30 minute BART headways]

wouldn't you prefer a nice game of chess

hold on i gotta take this

Why isn’t LA repaving streets? — LA Public Press With the city’s budget issues and new paving practices, the potholes and cracks on Los Angeles streets are only expected to worsen.

Why isn’t L.A. repaving streets? - LA Public Press

How shitty is this? We aren’t paving our streets because LA doesn’t want to have to put in ADA compliant curbs and bike lanes. WTF.

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regional transit connections map, lots of transit on it across the whole Bay

The Bay Area's new transit map is out and it comes with one incredibly exciting change: parks accessible by transit services!

Let's talk regional wayfinding to parks and destinations 🧵

I don't think EV advocates want to know this

will you engage the evidence? bsky.app/profile/holz...

that's because they're not relevant to the epidemiological phenomenon of the human toxic stress response to road noise, which is mostly from tires and speed. They are polluting, which is reason enough to ban them. But replacing them with batteries does not solve the noise problem.

that's great.

road traffic noise that causes heart attacks (& other severe health impacts) is from tires rolling at speed; there is no improvement in noise from EVs at speed; let's agree to pull out urban freeways and cap urban speeds at 20 mph, which ensures the only noise will be from engines.

many people have been saying

Transit Oriented Development Eliminate Parking Minimums Missing Middle, Lot Size, and Related Zoning Reforms Mid-Rise Apartment Zoning Reforms Building Code Reforms Local Government Planning and Accountability Facilitate ADUs Pre-approved Plans Condo Liability Reform SEPA / CEQA Reforms Manufactured Housing Parity Model Tree Ordinance Low Income Weatherization Energy Labeling Woodland Urban Interface Code Form-Based Code

Tailpipe pollution from cars is the largest source of emissions in the United States – and housing policies that reduce car dependence can go a long way towards addressing it. For example, state and local govt.'s can adopt: