Andy

Americans are addicted to cars, but in many ways it's a forced addiction. Decades of policy have made cars the dominant mode of travel at the expense of others, and marketing reinforces the car as the "best" choice. This isn't to excuse individual choices, but car dependency is a systemic issue.

I can't speak for the US but I find in the UK car users tend to overestimate how difficult it would be to replace many car journeys with active or public transport using existing provision, while also underestimating (& refusing to learn) how difficult it is for non-drivers to make certain journeys.

You won't believe this ONE SIMPLE TRICK to save fuel...

I'm looking forward to seeing what price per litre petrol needs to be before people stop engine idling whilst parked...seems like it must be way too cheap at the moment 😏

White text on black If YOU THINK PEDESTRIANS + CYCLISTS DON'T PARTICULARLY LIKE SHARING THE ROAD WITH DRIVERS, WAIT TIL YOU MEET OTHER DRIVERS. DRIVERS ARE PROBABLY THE MOST ANTI-DRIVER PEOPLE OUT THERE.

It’s brutal out there.

94-year-old dies in Hackney crash as police appeal for witnesses Ismail Bham died in hospital days after being struck by a van in Upper Clapton

A pedestrian has died after being knocked over by a van driver in Hackney. Police are appealing for witnesses to the collision which occurred at 3.46pm on Thursday 12 February at the junction of Alkham Road and Cazenove Road in Upper Clapton. www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...

Money and More Money.

Teddy: I hope you realise that it isn't easy being this handsome.

Good Morning

Tree trunk being transported by bike using a trailer.

"But what if I want to transport a huge tree trunk?"
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The Guardian view on secrecy in parliament: hiding the names of MPs’ staff would undermine democracy | Editorial Editorial: Security concerns must be treated seriously. But with trust in politics fraying, transparency has never been more necessary

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... I had missed this @theguardian.com absolutely right “voters must retain their right to know who is roaming the corridors of power”

Oh dear. Oh dear, oh dear. And what have we here?

Such a distracted driver. Good job I was there to draw his attention to the fact that he was driving a motor vehicle on a road. I'll help him remember this by reporting this to the police so they can issue some "guidance".

holy shit

Proper urban infrastructure deals out consequences to the motorists, not the people they attempt to hit with their cars.

A queue of traffic along a narrow residential street disappears into the distance.

The heavy traffic cannot sensibly negotiate the various traffic calming features which were put in to control traffic speeds and to try to discourage motorists from using the route as a rat run...it's not working!

Another day, another entirely unsuitable residential back street being used as a rat run...

A reminder that humans in cars - notably omitted from this thanks to motonormativity - kill 1.2m people every year

This is an absolutely huge jump in oil prices.

It's also why Europe needs to get off fossil fuels asap (beyond climate change impact). We can't be beholden to this.

My thoughts are with British Iranians and their loved ones.

We need safe and legal routes for those seeking refuge, and a serious commitment to peace. Bombs will not deliver democracy. Diplomacy must lead the way.

We ask so much of our children so that people can drive as fast as they want

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A traffic violence story doesn't get more American than this.

A man whose wife was killed crossing the street advocated for a signal and was later killed at the same intersection himself.

Neighbors have been asking for a traffic signal there for 40(!) years.

It’s SO STRESSFUL to drive while being expected to not run over humans! You should pity me!

Migration is part of what makes this country great.

We're not an island of strangers - we're an island of neighbours.

The Green Party will always support fair & managed migration.

Reform fury as someone else wins by Our By-election Editor Tim Shipsink The losing candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election, Matt Goodwhinge, has demanded an immediate re-run of the election on the grounds that he lost comprehensively to someone else. "It's totally unfair and rigged," said Goodwhinge. "I shouldn't be required to sit there and suck it up, just because I lost." Mr Goodwhine continued, *I can't believe that all those voters I demonised failed to back me. Especially after I was endorsed by Tommy Robinson and ten million Russian bots on X. "We have clear evidence of family voting, where people voted in order for me to stop deporting their families." Mr Badloser concluded. "I'm the victim of colour prejudice. They didn't vote for me simply because I'm not green." Reform leader Mr Farage, speaking from a sun lounger on a rock near the Chagos Islands said, "It's a tragedy that the people of Manchester won't see Matt in Westminster, but my constituents don't see me in Clacton either." PLUMBER DEFEATS MATT GOODWIN Photo of Hannah Spencer with speech bubble saying… I've stopped the cock

Beautiful from Private Eye on the massive toddler-tantrum that Matt Goodwin and Reform are having, because they got whooped in Gorton and Denton.

Mum and 2 kids cycling on the pavement outside Hnps Hackney where the road was improved but no safe cycle lanes were added

3 kids cycling on pavement outside HNPS Hackney

For every family cycling on the pavement outside my kids’ school, there are many more who just feel too unsafe to cycle at all. Really ‘solving the school run’ means being much bolder. @solveschoolrun.bsky.social

I’ve been arguing on Nextdoor again 😖. Why do people who insist it is literally impossible for families to get kids to football practice without a car not see they’re talking to families who already get their kids to football practice without a car? Apparently it’s ’gaslighting’ to point this out.

Alice, a poodle lab mix

Oh Alice. Picked up as a stray in Arkansas and unclaimed. She was scheduled to be euthanized but caught a break and is coming to the Twin Cities. She needs a foster home and some love.

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When bike parking infrastructure decisions are left to people who have never ridden a bike since childhood.