https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/06/bicyclist-killed-in-bridgeport-crash-was-cdot-employee-devoted-to-bike-infrastructure

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/50300782

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/47587372

The more of this type of behavior is allowed the worse the regime will act. Right now they’re testing what they can get away with

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Tiny particles of rubber cast off by car tires, which have long been known to harm wildlife, may also pose a risk to humans, according to a new study.

The chemical 6PPD, which is added to tires to prevent cracking, transforms when exposed to ozone pollution, which arises from car exhaust. One compound formed from this process, 6PPD-quinone, has been implicated in the deaths of spawning coho salmon in the Pacific Northwest. For decades, heavy rains have led to surges in salmon deaths as polluted stormwater washed into urban waterways.

The new study finds that many of the other chemicals derived from tire wear may pose a threat to humans when inhaled.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/30733236

This map shows the average commuting time from home to work in Europe.

(Author: Maps.interlude, Link to image information and dfferent resolutions )

It might be surprising that, in spite of wildly different traffic systems and large differences in the use share of cars, these times are so similar.

An explanation is given in the wikipedia article on Marchetti's Constant. Basically, the time spent commuting is mostly an anthropological constant, and is largely independent of means of transport and culture.

In other words, if we use faster means of transport, we almost automatically commute larger distances - regardless whether this improves our quality of life or not.

This relationship should probably be central in modern traffic planning, but it is often not considered. (There is an interesting article in German by the traffic scientist Rudolf Pfleiderer, titled "Das Phänomen Verkehr", which describes in more detail the relationships between traffic, speed, and distance - perhaps somebody knows a good English article?)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-increase-traffic-fatalities-9.7221211

Australia actually has an oversupply of parking, both on streets and in parking lots. Across five of the state capitals, most postcodes have more on-street spaces than there are registered cars.

That’s great for drivers, given most on-street parking outside the inner city is free and has no time limit. Many spaces are used by locals with a driveway or garage who find it more convenient to park on the street.

The problem is, abundant street parking comes at a cost. Streets jammed with parked cars look bad – and remove space for bikes, e-bikes and scooters.

Busting the myth of the "scofflaw cyclist" Danish Road Directorate studies reveal that while 66% of motorists routinely break road traffic laws only 5% of cyclists do so. Law breaking by cyclists is higher where there is no cycle-specific infrastructure.

Forest Lawn's road safety project was supposed to go in the ground next week but ‪@mayorofla‬ intervened.

Isn't it a conflict of interest for cemeteries to oppose a road safety project? Why is Bass listening to them instead of ‪@LADOTOfficial‬ ?

crossposted from: https://feddit.it/post/29954054

Source and additional pics:

https://beige.party/@Lana/116684403003398772

Also from the same thread:

For people who aren't intimately knowledgeable about the Seattle rail system, the Mt Baker station is an elevated platform. Meaning she had to have driven the WRONG WAY on a railroad about 40 feet up in the air for SEVERAL MILES to end up here.

Edit: it looks like it was not "several miles" but less then one mile; a notable feat anyway:

https://piefed.social/comment/11604144

In 2024, nearly two-thirds of L.A. voters passed Measure HLA, requiring the city to make streets more multimodal, more inclusive. Since HLA became law, the city has been scrambling to find ways to not follow HLA.

Some of the city’s loophole strategies are legal. Some appear not to be. All of them are supporting the city’s deadly car-centric status quo and undermining nascent efforts toward a balanced multimodal transportation system.

In the last month or so, the city appears to have decided that the way it can get around HLA – and around disability access laws – is to only repave streets without sidewalks.

This practice is making the city less equitable, because streets without sidewalks are nearly all in relatively well-off neighborhoods. City repaving is currently focused on many hillside areas including Bel Air, Holmby Hills, Mount Washington, Pacific Palisades, and Studio City. The city is also resurfacing sidewalk-less streets in other car-centric suburban neighborhoods including Northridge, Toluca Woods, Valley Village, Valley Glen, and Woodland Hills.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/61292621

Crossposted from https://leminal.space/post/36155780

Security experts have cautioned that internet-linked vehicles pose an increasing threat to Australian consumers as their data-gathering capabilities grow.