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It is probably about car dependency, car-centered areas. Like in the US where in many towns without a car one would struggle to do anything: getting to the grocery store, getting back from the store, reaching the other river bank as many bridges are motor vehicles only.
People can’t live without cars in such places. Even food banks have huge lines of cars, four "lanes". Some homeless people drive cars as well. Imagine the closest grocery store being 1 hour walking distance away, and the weather may be extremely hot/cold.
Many such areas don’t even have sidewalks or anything for walking at all. At the same time so called "jay-walking" is prohibited by law. The term "jaywalking" actually was invented by the cars lobby in the early 20th century. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaywalki…
Moving around by walking is extremely inconvenient, dangerous, taking ridiculous amounts of time, basically incompatible with everyday activities.
Also the parking lots, roads, intersections take up huge chunks of the city. Consider how much longer it takes to walk somewhere compared to what it could be without all these. Urban areas could look very different if they were human-centered and Points Of Interest were packed tightly.
And the bigger the city, the more space car infrastructure takes up. More lanes, wider intersections, parking lots can have up to many thousands spots, highways, freeways, interchanges of ridiculous sizes and shapes.
The topic is huge, what I mentioned is just the tip. Think of what you see around every day. Also all the noise. And danger it brings to everyone, not just drivers. The number of so called "accidents", another convenient term for the horrible things that happen everyday.
The areas which are pedestrian-friendly, bicycle friendly, have public transportation tend to have happier residents, more attraction points, more small businesses, more street life, way better air quality, less noise among other benefits.
Also social connections and interaction happen there and not on a 4-lane highway.
#Cars #Car #City #Urban #Streets
#Cities #CarFree #Roads #CarDependancy #StreetLife #Safety #Bycicles #Walking #UrbanSprawl #OneMoreLane #InducedTraffic #PublicTransport #PublicTransit #Access #PublicTransportation #Accessibility #Accessible #PublicSpaces #Socialization #Capitalism #Subsidies #Lobbying #WordsMatter #History #CarsAreDangerous #FuckCars
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How's the serenity? It was a calm gloomy (low light, hence the blurriness) morning as my bus crossed the Whau River today. #river #WhauRiver #publicTransport #Auckland #TamakiMakaurau #bus #somethingBeautiful #aucklandscenes
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Guten Morgen liebe Fedi-Welt und Drachenkinder ❤️
Egal wie finster die Welt auch ist, Musik macht sie wieder bunter. :)
(Hilft auch dann ganz besonders, wenn man in vollen Öffis unterwegs ist oder das Telefon im Büro überhören will.. ;))
#dragons #music #synaesthesia #colors #mastoArt #publictransport
Congrats to Paris on opening Europe's longest gondola lift today!
It's 4.5 km long (which looks tiny on the map of Paris, but is the same as from the middle of the urban core and mostly to the edge of it here in my capital city of Oslo, Norway) and is a part of the regular transit system. The bus used to take 40 min, now you can soar above the traffic for 18 min instead!
Sounds pretty amazing, if you ask me
unofficialnetworks.com/2025/04…
#gondola #PublicTransit #PublicTransport #paris
The Paris Metropolitan Area Is Getting A New Gondola
The Paris metropolitan area is getting a new gondola to answer a long-time mobility challenge in the region.Nolan Deck (Unofficial Networks)
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From somewhere to nowhere.
#trainstation #publictransport #train #nighttime #lost #mood #bnw #bnwphotography
Imagine if everybody who could, would take the commuter train or cycle, or both. Would not only reduce the 45 deaths per million inhabitants from roads, but likely also make a significant dent into the EU average of 3364 deaths per million inhabitants yearly from cardiovascular diseases alone (2022):
ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statisti…
I.e., merely sitting in a car is also deadly.
And again, nothing about the #transportation transition, about #electromobility. Smaller cars instead of ever-growing SUVs that overlook and run over small children. Fewer cars in cities is the future. The #Commission should promote more #publictransport instead of somehow bailing out the fossil-fuel car industry.
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(1) Public transport in Leipzig
With more than 616,000 inhabitants Leipzig ist the largest city in Germany without a subway system. In consequence the public transport within the city heavily relies on the 13 tram lines and 51 bus lines. They both work well and connect most parts of the city. And while busses often find their limits in capacity, trams can carry a lot more people and usually offer a faster and smoother ride.
The problem with Trams arises, when the tracks aren’t properly separated from the car lanes. In that case the trams get stuck in traffic just as cars and busses do and thereby become much less attractive as a mode of transport.
You can see this effect in the picture below. Due to a concert a few blocks away many cars were on the road, mostly with one or two passengers. Most trams were full, but with the two transport modes sharing the same space the tram didn’t pose a good alternative to individual transport.