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Someone from the Orkney Islands Council roads department recently told me that #pavementparking is a matter for the police. You might expect someone in his position to know about the Transport (Scotland) Act 2019, and that OIC shamefully refused to enforce it and even turned down the offer of a traffic warden to help from Transport Scotland - because that was "an insult" apparently - but this isn't. Absolute clowns.

#CanYouSeeMtHoodFromBurlingameFMpickupSpot4 at about 2pm yesterday?

Yes. #leaveTheCarAtHome #pdxBikes #cargoBikes #eBikes #EV #fuckElon #FuckCars

"The cost of major contracts for a motorway to Sydney’s new international airport has surged again, this time by $152 million, piling financial pressure on the project jointly funded by the federal and state governments.

"Tender documents show the estimated cost of the western section of the M12 motorway has risen by $78 million to $659 million, and the central part by $47 million to $510 million. In addition, two contracts for design work by consultants have almost doubled to $68 million.

"Greens transport spokeswoman Cate Faehrmann said the government did not question forking out millions of dollars more when costs inevitably blew out for new motorways, yet baulked at providing reliable public transport services for south-west Sydney."

“'The public needs to be reassured that the highest level of scrutiny is being applied to these massive contracts by the government, particularly when costs are regularly revised upwards at a tune of millions of dollars at a time,' she said."

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/construction-of-motorway-to-sydney-s-new-airport-hits-financial-bumps-again-20250324-p5lm2s.html

A couple of thoughts on this one.

First, this is yet another example of how the neoliberal infrastructure procurement policies that Australia has imported from America and Britain have led to more expensive infrastructure.

You don't save money by cutting back on public servants, and outsourcing the design and management of big infrastructure projects to the private sector.

Secondly, the Minns government's decision to cut back on the proposed additional metro links to the Western Sydney Airport, yet keep the motorways, us looking particularly foolish.

#nswpol #auspol #sydney #nsw #fuckcars

I was out #cycling with my wife and kid yesterday. Wife was on the cargo e-bike, kid on her little Frog bike, and me on my typical road bike with an unused FollowMe attached.

A family of four walking by stopped us to ask questions about all three, clearly interested. Dude just deadpans: "You don't even have a car do you?"

"Nope, that's our car", I say, pointing to the cargo bike.

"Wild" he says.

There's real #FuckCars energy out there, but I think modelling it helps inspire others.

It's crazy how normal we think it is, that twice in a day (early morning, still sleepy, and after work, already tired) half the population gets into and controls heavy machinery that kills hundreds of thousands of people every year.

EDIT: Typo

Paris has cut air pollution in half, by telling cars to get bent. #Bollards #BikewayNetwork #BusLanes #transit #CarsRuinCities #CongestionPricing #BanCars #AirQuality #FuckCars #TheWarOnCars

https://mastodon.world/@davidho/114326016111533431

Car safety experts at NHTSA, which regulates Tesla, axed by DOGE
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/04/car-safety-experts-at-nhtsa-which-regulates-tesla-axed-by-doge/

Humm, now what possible reason would the owner of Tesla have for doing that...?

Many people would agree that it's absurd that children in the USA wear bulletproof vests to school, and are trained how to behave in an event of a shooting. The same people see nothing absurd in their own children wearing safety vests to school, and being trained how not to murdered by oversized trash cans on wheels.

driving with one headlight and FTY at a crosswalk but tell me about how pedestrians are looking at their phone #DriverAccountability #FuckCars #ODOTGTFOpdx #BarburBlvd

Around 13:21, paraphrasing, "stopping car traffic to let pedestrians cross harms the economy according to the Treasury's economic formulas":

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CVq7XOXkg1U

one day I'll see one of these fuckers murdering someone

A few months ago I wrote a few very short stories. This is one for the other #FuckCars folks in #Europe, who may or may not recognize the risk of continuing to model European cities on the American model. I've been excited to see some pulling back from that, and I hope to see a *lot* more distance between North American cities now and European cities of the future.

"How long can a people live who spoil their own crops, burn their own houses, and feed their own children to monsters?"

https://write.as/hexmhell/the-behemoth-were-not-always-so-large-and-unwieldy-as-they-are-now

The.
Bike.
Lane.
Is.
Not.
Your.
Fucking.
Parking.
Space.

#BikeTooter
#WindsorON
#YQG
#Ontario
#Canada
#Bicycle
#TheWarOnCars
#FuckCars
#CarsKillCities
#VisionZeroNow