E-bike advert banned as it ‘discredits entire car sector’
‘Some images in the reflection of the car are, in our opinion, unbalanced and discredit the entire car sector. The images of factories/chimneys and an accident create a climate of fear so they will have to be adapted.’
https://www.cyclist.co.uk/news/e-bike-advert-banned-as-it-discredits-entire-car-sector
Here's what my city has to say about cars:
"Pedestrians should receive the greatest priority, because they are the most vulnerable and the most space-efficient road user. Conversely, single-occupancy vehicle drivers should be the least prioritized, though safe motor vehicle access should still be provided."
So #BanCars doesn't quite cover the goal. Not sure what better hashtag there is to describe it though.
They give up an unbelievable amount of space to car storage in the French Quarter. #NewOrleans #BanCars
Know what would be really useful? Bike stores should take cars as trade-ins. #cycling #BikeTooter #bancars
SUVs Are Deadlier Than Cars — But on Fast Arterials, Pedestrians Die No Matter What
Tennessee's "117-percent increase in pedestrian deaths between 2009 and 2019 was tightly correlated with an increasing number of crashes on straight, multi-lane roads with speed limits over 35 miles per hour in urban and suburban areas"
#transportation #Tennessee #bancars
Study: Yes, SUVs Are Deadlier Than Cars — But on Fast Arterials, Pedestrians Die No Matter What — Streetsblog USA
Nadine Arslanian Menendez, the wife and co-defendant of recently indicted Sen. Robert Menendez, struck and killed a man while driving in New Jersey in 2018.
The Record and The New York Times, citing police reports and police dash cam video, reported that Nadine Menendez, who was dating the senator at the time, was found by police in the small borough of Bogota to be “not at fault” in the crash in the because the victim, Richard Koop, was #jaywalking.
Menendez’s wife struck and killed a man while driving in 2018, reports indicate
"This is the first major accident involving an e-scooter this year."
Hey WFIU, how many major accidents have involved cars?
#bancars #BloomingtonIN #scooters
@randahl That is good, but not nearly as good as Denmark's efforts to minimize car travel in favor of walking and biking instead. #Denmark #cycling #bancars
Ugh, PBS, this is awful. "Cars are super expensive. Can anything be done?" "Naw." "Are people switching to other modes of transportation?". "Not my daughter for sure!"
Is the era of inexpensive cars over? Why auto prices are on the rise in America
via @timmy : Cars Are the Worst Product Category We Have Ever Reviewed for Privacy
Paris bans rentable electric scooters. My knee-jerk reaction is that they should dedicate some car lanes to them instead, but Paris is doing such a good job already in minimizing car traffic. Not sure what's going on.
Paris is the first European capital to ban rentable electric scooters
Speed limits don't matter
"While crash frequency and severity did correlate with higher speeds, the most statistically reliable trends that emerged had nothing to do with property damage or personal injury. It was enforcement outcomes that were most demonstratively impacted. In other words, when speed limits go up, fewer people get tickets; when they go down, the opposite happens."
#UrbanPlanning #bancars #SpeedLimits
Sticks Not Carrots Needed To Get Drivers Out Of Cars, Say Climate Scientists
“The most effective thing we can do to reduce cars in cities is to use carrots and sticks to reduce car use and increase public transport, walking, and cycling. But carrots alone are not sufficient to overcome the entrenched infrastructure and incentives, which today favors car use.”
#UrbanPlanning #BanCars
Sticks Not Carrots Needed To Get Drivers Out Of Cars, Say Climate Scientists
What Will it Take to Close Cleveland's Market Avenue to Cars for Good?
"In the four years since Market Ave.'s brief identity as a pedestrian street, questions as to how to try again to close the avenue off are resurfacing in earnest, as the support for the avenue's permanent closure grows in its collective intent. But, as in 2019, quagmires continue to arise."
How Auto Debt is Holding Millions of Americans In Custody — Sometimes Literally
"For the average American, a lifetime of car dependency often begins at the auto lender's desk. A whopping 87 percent of new cars and a significant 34.5 percent of used cars are bought with loaned money, bringing our national auto debt total up to $1.56 trillion in the first quarter of 2023."
Gen Z, Millennials 90 Days Past Due on $20 Billion in Auto Loans in 2022
"After an unprecedented borrowing spree, many Gen Z and Millennial drivers are struggling to make payments on their auto loans, pushing serious delinquencies among their age groups to multi-year highs. That’s as overall delinquency rates hit and surpassed pre-pandemic levels."
Gen Z, Millennials 90 Days Past Due on $20 Billion in Auto Loans in 2022 | GetJerry.com
I don't normally link to Reddit but this is spectacular. This guy was going to get out of the parking garage and nothing was going to stop him.
Why the U.S. builds more three-car garages than one-bedroom apartments
Why the U.S. builds more three-car garages than one-bedroom apartments
Little article on Why Cars Are Bad, but it's always nice when one of these slips out into a non-specialized site #UrbanPlanning #BanCars
The Road to Nowhere
@Free_Press Soon to be renamed the Chevy ProMax Electric and sold in a dealership near you! #EV #BanCars
Time to stop worrying about #BanCars and focus on #DeinfluenceCars ?
Eh. The building was probably looking at its phone. #BanCars
Fishburger restaurant in Driving Park damaged after car slams into building
Auto loan debt currently makes up over 9% of all outstanding household debt. Its growth accompanied a rise in total household debt, which stood at $16.51 trillion as of November 2022, an increase of over $2 trillion since the end of 2019. Auto loan debt is the third-largest category of American household debt after mortgage debt ($11.67 trillion) and student loan debt ($1.57 trillion), both of which have also increased steadily since 2011.
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American Debt: Auto Loan Balances Hit $1.6 Trillion in Q3 2023