Getting hit by a driver going above 30mph/50kmh (especially a car with a taller hood) you are almost certain to be killed
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Getting hit by a driver going above 30mph/50kmh (especially a car with a taller hood) you are almost certain to be killed
People walking and biking are very vulnerable obviously, they represent about 20-25% of all vehicle crash related deaths in the USA (higher percentage elsewhere where people walk more). People in cars are relatively well protected and die at lower rates in crashes
Unfortunately here in Canada we’re going backwards as well. In Montreal, our new mayor has even promised an “audit” of our new and wildly popular bike lanes to appease the conservative wealthy car drivers in the anglophone areas
Here in Canada we’re only
about half as likely to be killed by a driver as in the USA, but we’re still behind most of Europe when it comes to preventing road deaths. We need to invest in public transit which is ~10x safer than driving and make cheap, common sense road safety upgrades now.
We need to start calling gas cars “fossil cars”. I hate all cars but we need to start stigmatizing fossil cars more.
A surefire way to make transportation more abundant and affordable?
Increase density.
In Bloomberg, I explained why. 🧵
Every cent spent on electric car infrastructure in cities should have been spent on improving bus service
Waited for a bus that only comes every 30 minutes that didn’t show up, and now I’m in an expensive Lyft. Just another day in North American transit
A St. Paul resident says federal officers knocked on her door and asked her to identify Hmong and Asian households in her North End neighborhood last week.
"Transit's not supposed to be for profit. It is an essential service. It has a very important social function of bringing people to work and bringing people to their desired destination," Carvalho said.
President Trump called the fatal shooting of Renee Good “a vicious situation” in an interview with The New York Times Wednesday, saying Good appeared to run over an ICE agent. “I want to see nobody get shot. I want to see nobody screaming and trying to run over policemen either,” he told the Times. But after watching a slow-motion surveillance video of the incident, Trump expressed discomfort and struggled to justify the agent’s response. “It’s a terrible scene,” he told the Times, once the video concluded. “I think it’s horrible to watch. No, I hate to see it.”
man, did the viziers in the WH not actually show him the actual video?
Make it viral.
“'The guy, I’m telling him like, "Please step off the school grounds," and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he knocked me down,' an official at Roosevelt High School said. 'They don’t care. They’re just animals. I’ve never seen people behave like this.'"
The @ndp.ca should have started with this CUPE debate. I’m actually getting to hear what the NDP leadership candidates stand for rather than watch them struggle to communicate in French. Also, workers are our party. Would have made sense to start with a union moderated debate.
Sorry, but triumphant claims about autonomous vehicle safety are wildly exaggerated.
It's an open question whether today’s self-driving cars are any safer than those driven by humans.
And if reducing crashes is the goal, that isn’t even the right question.
My deep dive, in Bloomberg 🧵
one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it
Condemn the kidnapping and murders perpetrated by the United States or you’ll have lost the last shred of credibility that you had left.
The most under-reported story of the year, IMO, is about the national implications of the extreme and wildly popular success of congestion pricing in New York City.
When you remove cars from cities, you not only make money for things the city needs; you make people in the city much, much happier.
Do transit folks know what groups are involved with pro transit advocacy- specifically bus advocacy - in Montreal?
Sort of like how one has to diversify an investment portfolio or risk losing everything all at once, a transportation system that doesn't have a diversity of modes is destined to crash. Building everything around cars, autonomous or otherwise, is always going to lead to this outcome.
Fast, frequent and accessible public transit for seniors who cannot drive safely anymore!
the fact that there is free parking at all in manhattan is wild to me
Child told to go outside and ride their bike also told to get off the street and ride on the sidewalk also told to get off the sidewalk - decides to just go back inside on screens told to get off screens and go outside.
Kids these days.
So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
NDP debate “in French” was pretty disappointing. They all really need to improve. Avi Lewis’ French was best and I like him, but he doesn’t have a seat. Heather McPherson is great and actually has her seat, but her French was pretty tough to listen to.
Bill 2 Threatening Care for Quebec LGBTQ+, Homeless, and Vulnerable Populations therover.ca/bill-2-threa... A great piece written by Isaac Peltz about bill 2 which is going to decimate Quebec’s already fragile medical system. The CAQ needs to go.
Government shutdown in the US should immediately trigger new elections for the house and senate
What are you smoking. It’s plainly illegal. It’s sad you’d normalize a clear violation of the US constitution for a few clicks
It’s time for Canada also to end anti-circumvention laws that don’t allow the reverse engineering American tech. Canada was forced into these laws with the threat of tariffs. Trump put the tarrifs on anyways so now there is no reason to keep these harmful laws doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...
I wanted to preorder the book so it became a very early Christmas present haha