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MARTA stan in Atlanta .
Chronicler of the fractal harms of car culture.
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Thread: Each week I run a simulation of Australia’s main electricity grid using rescaled generation data to show that it can get very close to 100% renewable electricity with 24GW/120GWh of storage (5 hrs at av demand) Results: last week: 95.6% RE last 151 weeks: 98.5% RE (1/4)
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look what the carbrains have taken away from children
Public transportation was essential to children’s independent mobility. Children going to and from school once accounted for a large share of the passengers on American streetcars and city buses. Public service commissions usually required companies to charge lower fares for pupils.
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#bancars today, and yesterday ban driveways cutting through sidewalks at an angle, with the awkwardly angled triangles on the edge. It's at best a tripping hazard for able bodied pedestrians, and even more dangerous for anyone else except drivers.
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amusing that a Mr Watts is adamantly against EVs, but frustrating that the NYT sends a sympathetic reporter to their hometown to report on federal welfare for climate denying Republicans (the bus is fine) A Brand-New Electric Bus, No Charge. (That Was One Problem.) www.nytimes.com/2024/07/09/c...
A Brand-New Electric Bus, No Charge. (That Was One Problem.)www.nytimes.com In tiny Wymore, Neb., a sleek new battery-powered school bus became a Rorschach test for the future.
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76 year old Monica Pearson, who has worked in Atlanta news for 50 years and per wiki lives in a great central neighborhood close to MARTA stations, won't stop driving. More carbrain propaganda from the AJC. www.ajc.com/things-to-do...
Driving loses its charm when faced with Atlanta trafficwww.ajc.com The youthful joy of first getting behind the wheel has been obliterated by today’s aggressive motorists and overcrowded roads.
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thinking about congestion pricing again, and about how democratic hacks on here are denying it's a center right party / pretending it rewards the groups that consistently vote Dem. No Republicans to blame! Unified democratic failure from congress to city hall, and most of all the governor.
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this is why he was my last choice in 2020 and what had me tearing my hair out and screaming endlessly for the last 4 years, but the cake is baked on that
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@dgasser.bsky.social wrote this out, realized he was transparently being a hack by implying only the Blue Dogs prioritize the donor class, and blocked me before he could be corrected. Why log on? Is Biden handing out cookies to people who are nice to him?
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hey Michelle Singletary, I got a tip for helping teenagers save money with regard to buying a car. don't. these kids brains haven't even fully matured, why should they have to be responsible for thousands of pounds of metal just to go about their daily lives www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Advice | Five tips to help your teen buy their first car without overspendingwww.washingtonpost.com You can find a reliable car in your price range, if you manage expections.
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This is my political ideology:
Transit funding = antifascist praxis
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The Biden stans are rallying around his record of helping railroad workers again (lol) and blaming everyone except themselves for not doing research (lmao). Anyway things can always get worse, gift link A 100-Ton Locomotive With No One in the Cab www.nytimes.com/2024/05/27/u...
he's not as bad as trump and i vote accordingly, what else do you want I want better railroads, which entails a better workforce running them, and not having blind faith just because some posters really like Biden
A 100-Ton Locomotive With No One in the Cabwww.nytimes.com Railroad unions are raising safety concerns about the growing use of remote-controlled trains after a rash of fatal accidents.
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Joe Biden, welcome as commander in chief to #thewaroncars
Okay, folks, who is putting together the list of the funniest crimes that Biden should be committing between now and election day to highlight the absurdity of today's immunity ruling? Not the stuff like assassinations. Just stuff to make a point.
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The reason the NYT is publishing this piece is because your calls are working. Keep it up! Call Hochul and tell her that the MTA has already lost $2.5 million since yesterday due to her decision to block congestion pricing. It needs to go into effect NOW. ☎️: 518-474-8390
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Democratic hacks are lamentably right that it's too late to nominate anybody else, but it would be a lot more convincing if they hadn't all defended keeping Feinstein's body in a safe Senate seat because otherwise the rich powerful elderly person might get bored
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great video showing how accessible bikes are to people with limited mobility or caregivers, when exclusionary carbrains don't control infrastructure youtu.be/BYVVE0D6In0?...
What a Bicycle Shop in Japan is Likeyoutu.be A visit to Japan's Cycle Base Asahi exploring all the different kinds of bikes they sell. Editing: @Q2Japan and Greg Sources: - Cycle Base Asahi https://www.cb-asahi.co.jp/ - Rules for electric bikes in Japan https://www.keishicho.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/kotsu/jikoboshi/electric_mobility/pedal.html - Bicycle helmet law https://www.keishicho.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/kotsu/jikoboshi/bicycle/menu/helmet.html - News article about bicycle helmet law https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/03/31/national/bicycle-helmet-duty-bound/ - How many Japanese wear helmets? https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/04/02/japan/japan-cyclists-helmet-wearing/ - Number of bikes stolen in Tokyo every year https://www.keishicho.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/about_mpd/jokyo_tokei/jokyo/hanzai.files/tokyo.pdf - Number of bikes stolen in Japan every year (p.53) https://www.npa.go.jp/toukei/seianki/R04/r4keihouhantoukeisiryou.pdf - How to register your bike in Japan https://www.tokyobybike.com/2013/11/how-to-register-your-bicycle-in-japan.html?m=1 - Bike theft in the Netherlands https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9931151/ - Number of bikes in the Netherlands https://www.government.nl/topics/bicycles Video Gear I Use 📷 Camera: https://amzn.to/2NEokdl 📷 Drone: https://amzn.to/2GAURv8 📷 Wide Lens: http://amzn.to/2BcJCGJ 📷 Prime Lens: http://amzn.to/2C2LEpt 🎤 Microphone: http://amzn.to/2BJi114 📺 Monitor: http://amzn.to/2E8XzUI 📷 All the rest: https://kit.co/lifewhereimfrom/youtube-filming-gear Connect 🗲Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lifewhereimfrom 🗲Life Where I'm From X Channel: http://bit.ly/ytlwifx 🗲Website: http://www.lifewhereimfrom.com 🗲Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifewhereimfrom 🗲Instagram: https://instagram.com/lifewhereimfrom 🗲Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifewhereimfrom Music by Epidemic Sound https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/bad4aw/
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The prime example of fixing government to help blue collar workers: avoid a price increase caused by Federal patents, by delaying a safety mandate on safer table saws which could otherwise prevent grave injuries to those workers. what are we doing here www.nytimes.com/2024/07/01/m...
The Blue-Collar Democrat Who Wants to Fix the Party’s Other Big Problemwww.nytimes.com Marie Gluesenkamp Perez flipped a rural red district to get to Congress. Now she wants to help her party do more of the same.
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The thing that's telling and exasperating about the centrist "Biden must drop out" calls is that... this was their guy! They act like the left insisted on him! But Biden was the guy they were saying Democrats should instead rally around when it looked like we might pick Bernie!
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it's good to suggest MARTA, but also don't default to driving in the city until a major sporting event plus presidential debate change your plans one evening don't take a rideshare instead of transit during peak congestion don't act like a cop/carbrain www.atlantapd.org/Home/Compone...
www.atlantapd.org
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I am also completely outraged by what this is going to do to accessibility! 23 stations were slated to get ADA upgrades and now that's off the table. Even more enraging when I think about all the bad-faith, concern trolling arguments from congestion pricing opponents about people with disabilities.
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suppose I'll order the book because the author said he tore up the "study" that speeding is safe as long as every driver is going at the same pace. Kinetic energy is real, reaction times are real, it's nonsense repeated by incompetent public officials and selfish drivers. pca.st/episode/9f25...
EPISODE 129: Killed by a Traffic Engineer - The War on Cars exclusive Patreon feedpca.st Thanks for supporting The War on Cars on Patreon. This exclusive feed includes bonus episodes and ad-free versions of our regular episodes.
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Building new housing where an expressway used to be. This is the Inner Loop in #Rochester. A former 4-6 lane highway that became one of the 1st expressway removals in N. America. Just a couple years after it was removed, over 500 units of midrise #housing now sit where the expressway used to be.
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broken society issuing empty promises to use renewable energy to split hydrogen from water to then power trains (at huge conversion costs to a cost obsessed industry) instead of just electrifying rails lol lmao "In terms of electrifying mass transit, buses have been the low hanging fruit."
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so, fewer restrictions on guns? "U.S. Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy declared gun violence a public health crisis Tuesday and called on the nation to address it with the same vigor used to reduce deaths and injuries from tobacco and motor vehicle crashes" www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/...
U.S. surgeon general declares firearm violence a public health crisiswww.washingtonpost.com Vivek H. Murthy called on the nation to address gun violence with the vigor used to reduce deaths and injuries from tobacco and motor vehicle crashes.
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"decades" is a choice "After decades of wielding political, military and economic power across Africa, France is scaling back its presence on the continent as it faces significant resentment in many African countries." www.nytimes.com/2024/06/24/w...
Former Colonies Want France Out. This African Nation Says, Bienvenue!www.nytimes.com France is facing deep anticolonial resentment across Africa, but has found a partner in Rwanda, which is embracing French influence despite years of acrimony.
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Rare cop who does his job well slammed in media for inconveniencing rich people who threaten pedestrians and other drivers