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My friend Jiggy Fetil just posted this on facebook.

It was so good I thought I should share. (Original from 'Movement': blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/prod…) #transport #cycling #traffic #urbanism

Drawing showing two solutions for traffic coming into a city on a highway. Solution 1: make the highway bigger (while city absorption capacity stays the same). 2. Reduce car lanes, add bus and cycle lanes.

Movement

Our dependence on cars is damaging our health - and the planet's. Movement asks radical questions about how we approach the biggest urban problem, reflecting on
blackwells.co.uk
#cycling #transport #urbanism #traffic

"I asked a group of Helsinki officials what role information technology has played in their success reducing crashes in recent years. 'Zero,' replied Palomaki. 'We simply slowed down the cars.'"

Finland also investigates fatal car crashes similarly to how we investigate plane crashes.

From October 2022: bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

h/t @kdorse @robsonfletcher
#cycling #Finland #traffic


How Finland Put Traffic Crashes on Ice

The Nordic nation’s rate of vehicle fatalities is a fraction of the toll in the US, despite a harsh climate and ice-covered streets. Here’s how the Finns do traffic safety. 
David Zipper (Bloomberg)
#cycling #finland #traffic @Robson Fletcher @Kevin Dorse

7 years ago, while trying to get approval to operate in cities all over the world, #Uber insisted that it would actually reduce traffic. Instead, Uber drivers cruise without passengers 40% of the time. Uber & Lyft no longer claim they reduce traffic, & now admit they actually increase congestion.

So much for “making cities better.”

wsj.com/articles/the-ride-hail…

#Cities #transportation #urbanism #cars #ridehailing #ridesharing #traffic

Cartoon illustration of cities and cars

The Ride-Hail Utopia That Got Stuck in Traffic

Uber and Lyft said they would ease congestion. Instead they made it worse.
Eliot Brown (The Wall Street Journal)
#transportation #cars #uber #urbanism #traffic #cities #ridesharing #ridehailing

City governments, urban developers, fossil fuel companies, #road builders and car manufacturers have created a self reinforcing ecosystem, where they all get wealthier by depending on each other. Convincing us of the lie that we do need one more lane. This is the one that will fix everything. This bypass, this new road, this expansion, once we get it done #traffic will be solved. For good.
But it is never true and yet we try again, hoping for the silver bullet in the next lane we build.
Photo of an addicted young man, over the plans for a new spaghetti junction. He says "Bro this is a different highway expansion bro it's a new design it will enhance mobility bro this will fix traffic, I swear bro just one more lane please just build it bro it has a boulevard bro there are managed lanes please"
#road #traffic

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