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I studied #German for 4 years in high school, but eventually gave it up because I didn't find it useful. All the Germans I met at university and conferences spoke English.

This is certainly not the case for people in the #car sales industry. When I bought a BMW in #Germany 10 years ago, it was a big official dealer and there was only one person who could speak English with me. Now I'm buying an Audi, it's again a big official dealer and there's no one who speaks English. We're negotiating a €25k deal with the help of translators. 🙂

#german #Germany #car

#transportation #Berlin #cars #bikes #urbanism #car #cities #bikelanes #kids #city #LetKidsBike @Daniel

#christmas #winter #car #Xmas #tree #December

We've built streetscapes that centre and prioritise cars before everything else. And then we wonder why kids don't play outside anymore, why they can't be independent.
Entire parks, playgrounds, homes and other amenities have been demolished since the 50s to make space for parking and motorways and service stations.
The cult of the #car has robbed us even of childhood.
Older folks wonder why don't kids go outside anymore? The outside they built: Picture shows a wide road full of cars and with no space for people at all.
#car

This culture of anger that #CarCulture encourages has a very high cost. Lives are lost everyday inside and out of cars, but we've convinced ourselves that this is the only way to live. There's nothing we can do and these lives must be sacrificed in the altar of the #car.

Cars ruin cities. Cars ruin public transport, our health and our very lives.

Simpsons meme format. Willie the janitor says Cars and cyclists are natural enemies. Like pedestrians and cars. Or public transportation and cars. Or walkable cities and cars. Or cars and other cars. Damn cars, they ruined everything.
#carculture #car

Space for cars can never be enough because of the natural rules of geometry and maths.
You cannot move that many people in their individual boxes. It is inefficient, wasteful and really at some point just plain impossible.
The #car is quite unique in the way that it is a mode of #transport that really quickly becomes worse the more people use it.
Aerial photo of a road next to light rail. There's a traffic jam and a train passing next to it. Numbers have been added to reflect the occupancy in each vehicle. All cars stuck in traffic have either a 1 or a 2 above them. The train has two carriages, each with 145 people in them.
#transport #car

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