@BinstedVillage
The Rife Valley yesterday, between Walberton and Binsted, where
@NationalHways @grantshapps
want to put a massive new dual carriageway, the Arundel Bypass.
Be ready to help us stop them, statutory consultation starts in January – we will need everyone to object!
#NoMoreRoads
Attorney General refuses to challenge sentence of delivery driver who killed cyclist while high on cocaine – road.cc
An appeal under the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme was rejected after the driver was sentenced to seven years in prison for killing father-of-two Stephen White
Ryan Mallon Dec 10, 2021
An appeal to increase the prison sentence of a Yodel delivery driver who killed a cyclist while driving under the influence of cocaine and cannabis has been rejected by the Attorney General’s Office.
In May 2020 Jonathon Ramsbottom, 37, collided head-on with 54 year old father-of-two Stephen White (pictured) in Todmorden, West Yorkshire. White, who was training for an Ironman event, suffered serious head injuries and died in hospital shortly after.
1964) Automania 2000 – Halas and Batchelor (Youtube)
Jul 22, 2016 Network Distributing
The British-based animation team Halas and Batchelor are best known for their adaptation of George Orwell’s Animal Farm, but they made a string of brilliant short films too. Here is their consumerist satire Automania 2000, about a scientist whose inventions cause environmental havoc, which was nominated for an Oscar in 1964.
Study: More Bike Infrastructure Could Prevent 15,000 Deaths Annually | Planetizen News
In addition to reducing air pollution and congestion, improving bike infrastructure could save thousands of lives each year, according to new research.
A new study that models the “comprehensive global public health impacts of the mode shift to cycling” found that replacing car trips with bike trips can prevent over 15,000 deaths per year in the U.S. alone, reports Kea Wilson for Streetsblog.
The study analyzed rates of premature deaths due to car crashes and pollution-related disease, as well as how many car trips could be replaced with robust investment in bike infrastructure and other incentives.
Even if just 8 percent of those new bike trips replaced journeys in a car — an extraordinarily conservative estimate, considering that in this hypothetical world, every urban area in the world would be outfitted with Amsterdam-levels of bike lanes — researchers say that 18,589 lives could be saved across the globe, 1,227 of which would be in the U.S. alone.
Two years in prison for drunk driver who left cyclist with horrific injuries – road.cc
Victim sustained life-changing injuries including multiple fractures to his skull in crash in April
Simon Macmichael Dec 08, 2021
A drunk driver who crashed into a cyclist in Surrey, leaving him with horrific injuries, has been jailed for two years after being convicted of causing serious injury by dangerous driving and driving while over the legal limit for alcohol.
Seth Wheeler, aged 50 and from Dorking, was also banned from driving for four years when he appeared at Guildford Crown Court last Friday, and will have to take an extended retest should he wish to regain his licence once the ban finishes.
A drunk driver who crashed into a cyclist in Surrey, leaving him with horrific injuries, has been jailed for two years after being convicted of causing serious injury by dangerous driving and driving while over the legal limit for alcohol.
Seth Wheeler, aged 50 and from Dorking, was also banned from driving for four years when he appeared at Guildford Crown Court last Friday, and will have to take an extended retest should he wish to regain his licence once the ban finishes.
The Deadly Myth That Human Error Causes Most Car Crashes – The Atlantic
David Zipper November 26, 2021
More than 20,000 people died on American roadways from January to June, the highest total for the first half of any year since 2006. U.S. road fatalities have risen by more than 10 percent over the past decade, even as they have fallen across most of the developed world. In the European Union, whose population is one-third larger than America’s, traffic deaths dropped by 36 percent between 2010 and 2020, to 18,800. That downward trend is no accident: European regulators have pushed carmakers to build vehicles that are safer for pedestrians and cyclists, and governments regularly adjust road designs after a crash to reduce the likelihood of recurrence.
COP a load of this nonsense – Jonathon Pie
General Motors streetcar conspiracy – en.m.wikipedia.org
Contributors to Wikimedia projects
48-61 minutes
The General Motors streetcar conspiracy refers to convictions of General Motors (GM) and other companies that were involved in monopolizing the sale of buses and supplies to National City Lines (NCL) and its subsidiaries, and to allegations that the defendants conspired to own or control transit systems, in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act. The suit created lingering suspicions that the defendants had in fact plotted to dismantle streetcar systems in many cities in the United States as an attempt to monopolise surface transportation.
How to Stop the Climate Crisis in Six months | 4 September 2021 | Roger Hallam – YouTube
Given there is a real world out there and we have 3-4 years to stop it being destroyed, we have to engage in nonviolent direct action to stop governments imposing upon us the greatest act of criminality in the history of humanity: namely destroying the livelihoods and lives of the next thousand generations. This video gives you the key elements of success which people are adapting as they step into their responsibilities to force political change. Nothing is more important. We can not longer afford to lose.
“We struggle to name any climate scientist who at that time thought the Paris Agreement was feasible. We have since been told by some scientists that the Paris Agreement was “of course important for climate justice but unworkable” and “a complete shock, no one thought limiting to 1.5°C was possible”. Rather than being able to limit warming to 1.5°C, a senior academic involved in the IPCC concluded we were heading beyond 3°C by the end of this century.”
There’s No Time for Gradualism – jacobinmag.com
Alyssa Battistoni
There’s a strange circularity to writing about climate change. Every few months or so, a new report comes out from an esteemed scientific body; each time, the conclusions are grim: the planet continues to warm steadily; each time, there are more severe observed effects at lower levels of warming than scientists had previously predicted. Every time one of the well-meaning scientists who wrote the report says something like “the final tick box is political will.” Another says something like “it’s a line in the sand and what it says to our species is that this is the moment and we must act now.”
The Deadly Myth That Human Error Causes Most Car Crashes – The Atlantic
Every year thousands of Americans die on the roads. Individuals take the blame for systemic problems.
David Zipper November 26, 2021
More than 20,000 people died on American roadways from January to June, the highest total for the first half of any year since 2006. U.S. road fatalities have risen by more than 10 percent over the past decade, even as they have fallen across most of the developed world. In the European Union, whose population is one-third larger than America’s, traffic deaths dropped by 36 percent between 2010 and 2020, to 18,800. That downward trend is no accident: European regulators have pushed carmakers to build vehicles that are safer for pedestrians and cyclists, and governments regularly adjust road designs after a crash to reduce the likelihood of recurrence.
COP a load of this nonsense – Jonathon Pie
Jonathan Pie | 1st December 2021 | The Author
Watch Jonathan Pie’s exclusive inside investigation of COP26 now only with The Ecologist.
Climate change does’t get sexier than COP26. Greta is here. Obama is here. Not that I’m saying Greta is sexy. Or Obama – well Obama is. In any case, I’ve made this cutting edge documentary so you can see for yourselves what everyone is really thinking.
What is climate change, you ask? Cars burn oil, guff CO2 out of their a-holes, planet heats up, ice caps melt, sea-levels rise, Bangladesh drowns. The end. Yes. There will be some flooding in the UK. But only the nice bits. Posh people with converted basements as games rooms. So it’s not going to effect me much. And COP26 is supposed to tell us whether we can keep within 1.5oC of warming, as set down in the Paris Accord at the end of COP21 six years ago.
General Motors streetcar conspiracy – en.m.wikipedia.org
Contributors to Wikimedia projects
48-61 minutes
The General Motors streetcar conspiracy refers to convictions of General Motors (GM) and other companies that were involved in monopolizing the sale of buses and supplies to National City Lines (NCL) and its subsidiaries, and to allegations that the defendants conspired to own or control transit systems, in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act. The suit created lingering suspicions that the defendants had in fact plotted to dismantle streetcar systems in many cities in the United States as an attempt to monopolise surface transportation.
How to Stop the Climate Crisis in Six months | 4 September 2021 | Roger Hallam – YouTube
49,759 views11 Oct 2021 Extinction Rebellion UK 71.5K subscribers
“We have to move quickly. What we do, I believe, in the next three to four years will determine the future of humanity”.
Sir David King. Former Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Government.
Given there is a real world out there and we have 3-4 years to stop it being destroyed, we have to engage in nonviolent direct action to stop governments imposing upon us the greatest act of criminality in the history of humanity: namely destroying the livelihoods and lives of the next thousand generations. This video gives you the key elements of success which people are adapting as they step into their responsibilities to force political change. Nothing is more important. We can not longer afford to lose.
“We struggle to name any climate scientist who at that time thought the Paris Agreement was feasible. We have since been told by some scientists that the Paris Agreement was “of course important for climate justice but unworkable” and “a complete shock, no one thought limiting to 1.5°C was possible”. Rather than being able to limit warming to 1.5°C, a senior academic involved in the IPCC concluded we were heading beyond 3°C by the end of this century.”
There’s No Time for Gradualism – jacobinmag.com
Alyssa Battistoni
There’s a strange circularity to writing about climate change. Every few months or so, a new report comes out from an esteemed scientific body; each time, the conclusions are grim: the planet continues to warm steadily; each time, there are more severe observed effects at lower levels of warming than scientists had previously predicted. Every time one of the well-meaning scientists who wrote the report says something like “the final tick box is political will.” Another says something like “it’s a line in the sand and what it says to our species is that this is the moment and we must act now.”
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