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nomorefreeways retweeted
The US plan for road safety: Build a system that requires driving everywhere all the time, optimize it for speed and volume then hope that ~240M drivers are never too drunk, high, young, old, exhausted, angry, bereaved, sick or distracted to make good choices. Bang up job guys.
nomorefreeways retweeted
The @USDOT has the sense to tweet about train stations and airports, but the “infrastructure bill” is mostly a slush fund for more highways locking us into decades more of inactivity, pollution, injuries and deaths. This will cost tens thousands of lives and millions of injuries.
Announcing a record-breaking $148 BILLION transportation investment to strengthen Texas roadways.
This includes more than $104 billion to improve safety and address congestion and over $43 billion for development and maintenance.
More: bit.ly/3X31L1V
nomorefreeways retweeted
It shouldn’t be at all controversial to say that $1.9 billion is far better used to build thousands of units of shelter and housing than to unnecessarily expand a freeway.
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nomorefreeways retweeted
Lighting hundreds of $ millions (~$1.9Bn in this case) on fire widening freeways through cities demolishing and dividing communities, bringing traffic, noise, air pollution, CVD, injuries and deaths *and lying about it* has become a DOT standard. They are climate arsonists.
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nomorefreeways retweeted
The four horsemen of the US road fatality apocalypse are road design (DOTs), car design (car manufacturers, NHTSA), driver aggression & negligence and laws, subsidies & policies which prioritize driving convenience over human life. They all work together and reinforce each other.
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nomorefreeways retweeted
I love P Buttigieg. I really do. He’s brilliant, eloquent, moral and a one of the most effective communicators of our generation. But his silence on the public health and safety dumpster fire that is our national highway system is not OK. A delayed flight is annoying, not lethal.
Hannah and her family filed a passenger complaint with DOT - and was able to get reimbursements after a trip was cancelled.
Visit FlightRights.gov to learn what each airline offers if you experience a controllable delay or cancellation.
nomorefreeways retweeted
If I made medical recommendations contrary to the available evidence that were both harmful and a waste of money, I would probably lose my medical license. When do the engineers become liable?
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nomorefreeways retweeted
iirc this bad boy is going up on a billboard by the 580 heading into SF
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nomorefreeways retweeted
highway cost overruns vs transit cost overruns
New data from @USDOTFHWA says that the cost of building & maintaining highways has risen 50% since 2020, effectively reducing FWHA buying power by $21.5 billion ($115b in nominal obligations = $93.6b in "real" obligations). Story:
enotrans.org/article/highway…
nomorefreeways retweeted
In the 1950s, DOTs/cities demolished [POC] urban neighborhoods to plow highways/freeways through cities w/ enduring health consequences. In the 20s, cities put the bulk of new housing next to the same loud, ugly, polluted, dangerous car sewers. Same motivations and consequences.
A driver struck a man crossing San Pablo Avenue in Berkeley on Sunday, sending him to Highland Hospital. It's only the latest injury collision at San Pablo and Virginia, where improvements to make the intersection safer are installed but not yet active.
berkeleyscanner.com/2023/04/…
nomorefreeways retweeted
Beliefs I wish I could crush:
*The parking in front of your home is yours
*Free parking is good for a city
*Density harms the environment
*Widening roads helps
*You can "solve" congestion
*Bike lanes cause traffic, harm business or emergency response
*Driving is a right
nomorefreeways retweeted
Andy Byford wrote this op-ed for The Globe and Mail with a focus on Toronto earlier this month. I think this is the best and most cogent piece of writing on the existential threat facing public transit in North America and UK
theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…
nomorefreeways retweeted
Guess who is more likely to die from unsafe driving, and who is more likely to own a car. The answer may surprise you!
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During WWII, European cities endured carpet bombing and the blitzkrieg. It still did less complete and permanent damage than US DOTs, who destroyed American cities to make it convenient for suburban motorists to drive and park downtown.
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nomorefreeways retweeted
The best analogy I can give for US transportation policy: Imagine we had nationalized healthcare, but *only for smokers.* And the tobacco industry was effectively writing health policy for the country.
Almost everyone would smoke a lot, everywhere, all the time.
shocked to learn about the car industry, who allowed them to happen?!! bloomberg.com/news/articles/…