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
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.
The new Gray’s Inn Road cycle route
This new route was completed in October, adding almost 2.5km of protected cycle lanes to the network in Camden. The lanes are protected by bollards except opposite the bus stops where stepped tracks are used. It plays an important role in the cycle network.
COP a load of this nonsense – Jonathon Pie
General Motors streetcar conspiracy – en.m.wikipedia.org
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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
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 case for giving every American a free e msnbc.com
Chris Hayes and opinion writer Jay Caspian Kang discuss how electric bikes could help save the planet—and why cities should be giving them away for free.