Davey @jdavey_2 May 20
The 1800 lb battery for a single F-150 Lightning could be split to power 300 e-bikes. For which the charging infrastructure already exists.
“The car wastes more time than it saves and creates more distance than it overcomes.” – 1973 essay by André Gorz – Brent Toderian Twitter
Brent Toderian @BrentToderian
“The car wastes more time than it saves and creates more distance than it overcomes.” — 1973 essay by André Gorz, “The social ideology of the motorcar.” Still completely accurate and relevant. And the costs are massive. http://unevenearth.org/2018/08/the-social-ideology-of-the-motorcar/
http://unevenearth.org/2018/08/the-so
London’s 24-hour bus lanes trial set to become permanent – Transport Xtra
Mark Moran 22 December 2021
Transport for London intends to make its trial of 24-hour bus lanes permanent after a trial found that extending bus lane hours on London’s busiest roads cut journey times and helped reliability.
Improvements in bus journey times were particularly noticeable in central and inner London, especially in both the mornings and evenings and throughout Sundays. 24-hour bus lanes are also expected to improve service reliability in the longer term.
Earth’s Energy Imbalance is equivalent to the energy of 800,000 Hiroshima bombs added to the Earth system every day, 365 days a year – Leon Simons (James Hansen) Twitter
Leon Simons @SunnySimons Replying to @MrMatthewTodd
Note that the clip from James Hansen is from a while back. The Earth’s Energy Imbalance is now twice as high, about 1.2 Watts/m². That makes it equivalent to the energy of 800,000 Hiroshima bombs added to the Earth system every day, 365 days a year.
Curbing Traffic with Melissa and Chris Bruntlett – TheWarOnCars.org
December 27, 2021
In 2019, Melissa and Chris Bruntlett and their two children moved from Vancouver to the small city of Delft in the Netherlands. The experience of transitioning to and living in a place that puts people first over automobiles forms the basis for Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives. The book, the Bruntlett’s second on the lessons offered by Dutch cities, explains the many benefits of car-free and car-lite spaces, from lower anxiety and stress, better social trust, improved health and increased independence for people of all ages and abilities. Plus, as you’ll hear, cities with fewer cars are quiet!
The Unstoppable Appeal of Highway Expansion – bloomberg
bloomberg.com David Zipper
Twelve lanes of Interstate 35 slice through the heart of the city of Austin. But that doesn’t appear to be enough: The highway is often choked with truck and commuter traffic, which is only thickening as the regional population balloons. A recent study named Austin’s section of I-35 the worst bottleneck in Texas.
The Texas Department of Transportation, known as TxDOT, says it knows what to do: Widen the freeway. The agency proposes adding eight more lanes, at a projected cost of $7.9 billion.
Many Austinites are skeptical. The plan would require destroying an estimated 150 homes and businesses and further embed an infrastructural barrier that has served as a racial dividing line since the 1940s. It would also increase vehicle emissions at a time when Austin is struggling to reach its climate goals. But TxDOT maintains that environmentally friendly alternatives to road widening, like investing in transit, are off the table. “We are allowed, right now, to be furious, to break things, to do what is needed to demand to be heard,” Austin Chronicle columnist Mike Clark-Madison recently wrote.
“The cyclists go in flocks like starlings, gathering together, skimming in and out.” – Virginia Woolf, Amsterdam, 1935 – Dutch Cycling Embassy – Twitter
@Cycling_Embassy
“The cyclists go in flocks like starlings, gathering together, skimming in and out.” – Virginia Woolf, Amsterdam, 1935 Newly-restored, colourized, and motion-stabilized footage from the streets of Amsterdam almost a century ago, in full-high definition. https://youtube.com/watch?v=e9s_PD
Free ‘Fix Your Bike’ £50 voucher scheme has been quietly shut down for good – mirror.co.uk
Dan Bloom
The government issued 400,000 vouchers worth £50 each since last summer to help people fix up their bikes – but this week announced it ‘does not plan’ to issue any more
A £20million voucher scheme to help people fix rusty bikes during the Covid pandemic has been quietly shut down for good.
Some 400,000 £50 vouchers were issued between July 2020 and May 2021 to redeem at bike shops across England.
Until this week, the government had held out the possibility that the scheme could be extended.
Its website said: “Any updates on future releases of vouchers will be published on this page.”
But on Monday that was ditched.
Dr Tero Mustonen | Cascading Arctic Changes will create new planet soon – Nick Breeze ClimateGenn – Twitter
Nick Breeze ClimateGenn
In this ClimateGenn episode I am speaking Dr Tero Mustonen who is based within the Arctic Circle about the enormous changes happening there today and that are going to cascade across the globe impacting everyone of us. Follow on https://genn.cc or support via Patreon on https://patreon.com/genncc Tero works with indigenous peoples inside the Arctic Circle and beyond, utilising what is called Traditional Knowledge Systems that include the linguistic, cultural and natural environments that are complex and holistic. These ancient ways of understanding the world also hold the key to solving many of our systemic problems and yet they are being extinguished, along with the broad swathe of life on Earth. This is all a result of centuries of extraction and consumption, that underpin our contemporary experience of living in developed nations. Despite Tero’s despairing message, he also suggests a pathway to planetary repair through rewilding and by deepening our custodial relationship with nature.
End of the roads – Business Daily – BBC Sounds
20 Dec 2021 Available for over a year
Roads? Where we’re going, do we need roads? Some countries think they’ve already got too many. In the face of a climate catastrophe, the Austrian and Welsh governments are reconsidering plans to expand their road networks, moving away from a car-first model to better include more environmentally modes of transport. In Wales, they’ve all but halted any new roads as Climate Minister Julie James tells us, and are instead looking at improving public transport and active travel measures. In Austria we speak to Leonore Gewessler, Minister for Climate Action in the national government, who says that to build more roads would only attract more traffic and therefore more pollution. Electric vehicles could go some way to lowering carbon emissions, but the take up isn’t fast enough, says transport researcher Giulio Mattioli and so reducing reliance on cars altogether has to be a priority. And that means reimagining how cities are built to accommodate convenience, but without the car – transport planner Susan Claris tells us how that can be done. Today’s programme is presented by Tamasin Ford and produced by Russell Newlove.
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