#Cars Ruin Cities

[scopophilic1997]

scopOphilic_micromessaging_1030 - scopOphilic1997 presents a new micro-messaging series: small, subtle, and often unintentional messages we send and receive verbally and non-verbally.

[carhatred]

Walker noticed that people tend to have a giant blindspot when it comes to certain behaviors associated with driving, whether it’s speeding, carbon emissions, traffic crashes, or any other of the vast litany of negative external effects that result from a culture that caters to automobile drivers.

“One of the things you notice if you spend your career trying to get people to drive less is people don’t like driving less,” Walker said in an interview. “We said, well, let’s try and measure this. Let’s just demonstrate the extent to which the population as a whole will make excuses, will give special freedom to the context of driving.”

(...) People were less tolerant of bad behavior that didn’t involve a car and vastly more tolerant of similar-sounding behaviors that involved driving. For Walker, this disconnect is where motonormativity comes into play. “We wanted to demonstrate that when you talk about driving, people are not applying their normal values,” he said.

(...) That’s because, for most people, driving is a convenience. And because it’s easy, we tend to assume it’s part of the natural order to drive. That’s why there’s so much hostility around cycling and alternate forms of transportation: because, for many people, it challenges the natural order of driving. “Not only do people do what the world makes easy, but because it feels easy, people conclude that it’s right,” Walker said. 

[dyscomancer]

Introducing the new 2024 Ford Pedestrian Obliterator. This new pickup truck is 8 times the size of the average sedan, gets a half mile to the gallon, and has a truck bed no bigger than any other pickup made in the last 50 years.

Comes complete with LED headlights capable of shining at drivers in front of you at 200 octillion lumens. The perfect truck for annoying dudes who don't actually haul anything, guaranteed to grind any pesky driveway-dwelling toddler outside of your field of vision into a fine red paste!

[mxwhore]

this is so fucking exhausting lmao

[minglana]

this is me just being nostalgic at this point but ugh. look at plaza paraiso before and after the tram🥺😭

[autumnalhalcyon]

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[kidrat]

'he wouldn't say that' but it's he (baz pitch) wouldn't study there (university in london)

[figuerockfaeth]

I NEED TO MOVE OUT NOOWWWWWWW

[baconcolacan]

Hey so uhhh…..guess who had their electricity cut for the whole day

[threadatl]

Property lines in Mechanicsville reveal the damage of freeways & parking

This is the Mechanicsville neighborhood in Atlanta.

The yellow boxes are property lines where houses, businesses, schools, and churches used to exist before the interstate highways were built -- before much of the land became parking lots and road lanes.

You can find this on the City of Atlanta's GIS mapping portal at gis.atlantaga.gov

The lesson to take away: large parts of the city were decimated by cars. Not just the highways themselves, but the land beside them too. This means that we have a lot of work to do with our urbanism in order to overcome the lingering damage.

And when we say "by cars," we mean that the decimation was done by leaders and planners who valued car-flow and storage more than they valued the residents and store owners of pre-freeway Mechanicsville (along with many other neighborhoods that were equally affected).

You could also replace "by cars" with "by racism," since the freeways were often placed intentionally to hit Black neighborhoods the hardest.

Our work load is heavy, in terms of repairing this ugly situation through improved urban design and policy. We shouldn't forget that.

[kaoharu]

hmhmm actually ykw rant in tags kinda

[ssaalexblake]

well, the problem of having had a huge box of books for donation in the garage for 2 years but nowhere to donate them to has handily been solved by the fact that that stupidly long period of rain a few of weeks ago kind of flooded the floor where they were kept and like 90% of them have mould now :/ 

not how i’d have liked this to end (i hate chucking books) but it’s not like i can Not chuck them now

[unhonestlymirror]

Кияни вимагають реконструювати «одну з найгірших вулиць міста»

ПЛАЧУ, РОКИ ЙДУТЬ, АЛЕ МОЯ ВУЛИЦЯ ВСЕ ЩЕ В ТОПІ НОВИН, НЕВАЖЛИВО: МАЙДАН, ВІЙНА, ІНОПЛАНЄТЯНЄ

Одна з небагатьох стабільних речей в цьому світі.

Я б навіть вже й нічого не робила, хай стоїть як стоїть.

[rucow]

had a horrible experience just now and im trying to calm down :') might watch LND or something just to distract myself from having a panic attack

[uwanosorade]

its so unfair we dont just have trains. like i am grateful that i can afford to pay for a car but i would definitely say i experience my car much more as a burden than as a source of freedom

[snoozingbear]

NEW PROFILE PIC what is it I’m excited

HI YES it’s this (very zoomed in) picture of elliott smith smoking a cig and crossing the street

i <3 the blue tones of it it feels wintery