Looks like Paul Bristow, Cambs' preposterous mayor, is basing his transport policies on motonormative culture-war vibes rather than evidence. Quelle surprise. (See also: Mill Road Cambridge, with which he seems strangely obsessed).
More than half our car's speedometer is dedicated to speeds that it is never legal to reach on UK roads
"Cars are the most absurd means of transport in a city. They are parked 95 per cent of the time. It takes two tonnes to move someone who weighs 70 kilogrammes. And the denser the city, the more absurd it is."
Gerald Ratner comes to mind ,,,
He said he believed it could work in theory.
I think this is a disqualifying prior for Polanski (like Corbyn's positions on Russia/terror, or Farage's racism). And it's a shame, since the last thing the Greens need is to be haunted by quackery/pseudoscience. Fingers crossed they find a more credible leader ...
Agenda for next week's City Council meeting to debate the proposed Cambridge Development Corporation. This would last for 25 years, cover the whole of Cambridge and South Cambs, and be completely under central government control. democracy.cambridge.gov.uk/ieListDocume...
For every pound spent on net zero, the benefits would outweigh the cost by between 2.2 and 4.1 times says @thecccuk.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/d163...
The Guardian on our new study, which shows that global heating is significantly gathering speed. Our efforts to overcome our fossil fuel addiction should do the same.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Every time a politician or campaigner tells you that not everyone can cycle or that we need to bring everyone with us or that we need to balance modes and priorities ask yourself what have they done about all the cars...
(Answer: probably hardly anything useful)
Billboard ad for public transit visible from a freeway filled with cars and congestion, that says “You are not stuck in traffic. You ARE traffic.”
One of the best of all time.
“You’re not stuck in traffic. You ARE traffic.”
Wish we had come up with that one. #UrbanTruth
If only they could do something about those bloody Bristol hills
A diagram showing how a 2 minute delay to an active travel trip reduces the accessible area from a 15-minute trip by 25%
As I was made to wait 2.5 minutes to cross a road this morning, let's again do the maths simple.ghost.io/lets-do-the-...
It's exactly like talking to committed old smokers back in the day, isn't it? They defend smoking as something they like, that they need, that they want, that they have a valid choice to do. While ultimately it's killing them and all of the people around them who they profess to love.
Also: 1 megawatt you say? www.livescience.com/technology/e...
So this idea that these days (unlike the good old days) if you work hard you can't afford a foreign holiday – what are the actual figures? And do we want more people taking foreign holidays (= more aviation)?
New study of media collision reporting from @patrickrerat.bsky.social
"Cyclists are placed at the center of the narrative, while motorists are either omitted or reduced to their vehicles... Making these biases visible is essential for challenging motonormativity"
findingspress.org/article/1575...
New meta-analysis of 26 published studies concludes that AVs will lead people to use cars a lot more — which would thicken congestion and worsen pollution (even if AVs are electric).
"AV deployment is anticipated to lead to an overall increase in Vehicle Miles Traveled."
doi.org/10.1016/j.tb...
One reason I can't take COP seriously is because they measure per country rather than per capita.
(Deliberate decision because it conveniently obfuscates the fact that the energy use of people in developed nations far exceeds that of people in developing and underdeveloped countries)
Finally, airlines have to pay for the CO2 emissions of their flights within Europe. Until now, they got a 50% discount. And they still don't pay for the indirect global warming effects they cause, which probably double the total damage done. nos.nl/l/2602799
The strategy is to say actively stupid things so we have waste time arguing about basic facts rather than getting on with what we have to do: shifting to a post-fossil society.
It's the same with the right and identity and race. Actively offensive things so it jams up democracy with distraction.
There's no point doing anything to mitigate climate change because China. Oh ... www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
If government made it cheap to travel by helicopter, there'd be a lot more helicopter trips. The fact those trips are not happening today does not mean people are being deprived of their mobility
I just identified Jeffrey Epstein's Wikipedia account (I'll post a link here shortly)
Reminder that "jaywalking" was literally made up by american car manufacturers to shift the blame for accidents from drivers to pedestrians. "Jay" was a slang term meaning "idiot" or "rube".
The Telegraph and other media platforms like Facebook should come with a health warning, while media literacy lessons for over 40s needed. Only thing "Stalinist" about this is the wild lies & conspiracy theories from those determined to keep driving all times, everywhere...
HT @monkemma.bsky.social!
... unless he was discussing holding up motorway traffic or something ...
A reminder that in 2023 Tory MP Iain Duncan Smith supported Ulez camera destroyers.
“Stop asking candidates if they “believe in” climate change and start asking if they understand it. It’s science, not Santa Claus.”
Can we please never forget this. #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency
