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Hoboken Mayor Ravi Bhalla on Jordan Peterson: “Being triggered by safe streets and Hoboken’s zero traffic deaths in 7 years is certainly a mood."
NEW EPISODE: Fixing America’s Car Culture with David Zipper. We talk with @npub1vyml...a8a2 -- one of the hardest-working analysts on the transportation scene today -- about the excesses of the auto industry, our road fatality crisis, the absurd way speed limits are determined on American streets, and whether we might ever be able to swap out our bloated SUVs for electric golf carts. Available now! #thewaroncars #transportation #cars image
“Kenny DeForest was one of the funniest and most beloved comics any of us knew. A tragedy. Watch his special on YouTube. It came out three months ago. It’s beautiful. Fuck Cars forever."
Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala: “I am not an antagonist of capitalism, but honestly seeing the parade of supercars in the centre which they then can't park can’t continue." #milan #thewaroncars #italy #cars #pollution #climatechange #transportation
"The highway would bring extreme noise and pollution to the city. Honestly this is going to harm everybody. It's a nonsense project no matter how you look at it." #TheWarOnCars #highways #berlin #cars #CarsRuinCities
Not only did two driverless cars block an ambulance from taking a critically injured person to the hospital before he died, but the victim needed to go to the hospital in the first place after being stuck by the driver of a different car.
"A study published in the Journal of Safety Research last year found that children were eight times more likely to die when struck by an SUV than those struck by a passenger car."