This reopens that old question: What would Jesus drive?
And the answer is simple if He wants to avoid parking charges: Jesus would come to church on a bicycle. Christ on a bike.
cars are nice in some ways, but we should be so much madder about this
cars are expensive to buy, insure, maintain, and fuel
cars are not accessible to all people, and many lose the ability to drive with age, injury, or illness
cars are massive polluters via emissions and tire/brake particulate
a car is not a symbol of freedom; it's a symbol of your government's dereliction of duty to provide basic infrastructure that produces a social good (which most comparable countries have in spades) bc it's not really a government, but rather the functional sockpuppet of a greedy, reckless industry
anyway this is what designing society around one mode of transit reduces people to
it's bizarre, it's senseless, and it's not necessary - we could just make other forms of transportation safe and viable, which would increase choice, accessibility, and would insulate us from shocks to the oil market
Obviously many people work beyond 65, but can we just admire the irony of Farage saying Green voters don't work (yes, he really did) when the only demographic who are now not statically more likely to be Green than Reform are predominantly retired.
1953. It would appear that absolutely NOTHING has changed
Wow, the new series of Star Trek leaves a lot to be desired
Nothing as dangerous to democracy as a white, female plumber.
It's amazing how car blind uk society is. Replace e- bike and e-scooter with car in this article and you won't even get close to the scale of that problem.
Parked cars clutter every road snd footway, and destroy every verge they come across.
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Good to see low standards of driving in the UK being maintained. Actually, blocking ASLs and driving/parking on pavements is probably on the test by now 🤷
I’m totally here for a radical overhaul of driving culture.
It is weirdly, so normal that people in vehicles feel it is acceptable to drive fast close to people walking or cycling along a road.
Do they have any idea how threatening their behaviour is?
Is this even satire?
An infographic from Our World in Data titled "Global land use for food production" uses a series of stacked horizontal bar charts to visualize the distribution of Earth's surface and the disproportionate land requirements of livestock. The first bar shows Earth's surface is 71% ocean and 29% land (141 million km²); the land surface is then broken down into 76% habitable land, 10% glaciers, and 14% barren land. Of the habitable land, 45% (48 million km²) is used for agriculture, while 38% is forests and 13% is shrubland. The agricultural land bar reveals a major disparity: 80% (38 million km²) is dedicated to livestock (meat, dairy, and textiles) including grazing land and cropland for feed, while only 16% is used for crops for direct human consumption and 4% for non-food crops. Finally, two smaller bars at the bottom contrast this land use with nutritional output, showing that while livestock uses 80% of agricultural land, it only provides 17% of global calories and 38% of global protein, whereas plant-based foods provide 83% of calories and 62% of protein.
80% of agricultural land is used for livestock (and textiles), yet this huge land use provides only 17% of our calories and 38% of our protein.
16% of the land used for crops provides 83% of our calories and 62% of our protein. It's past time we rethink what we eat.
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A message from your ZX Spectrum.
I have told a few MPs this. I genuinely feel a lot of adults hate the existence and needs of young people. Then they act surprised/bewildered that these kids are anxious/depressed.
All the evidence is that #ActiveTravel interventions, whether #SchoolStreets, safe infrastructure or #LowTrafficNeighbourhoods have significant public health benefits.
But so often they seem to be siloed as a “Highways” measure @triciaayr.bsky.social
(Some exceptions, obviously. But most newspaper owners these days are clearly not in it for the money)
It’s bad that the newspaper sector increasingly needs to be funded by philanthropy, a bit like think tanks.
It’s doubly bad because that kind of philanthropic funding has been drifting towards the authoritarian right.
My brother was amazed when I told him something similar. I also pointed out how inefficient cars are by saying that I could power my entire house for a day with the energy he used to drive 32 miles (assuming a generous 4m/kWh)
Paul Mitchell, who lives in Salisbury Road, inside the scheme, told the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) that restrictions had made his journeys longer. He said previously, when he wanted to travel south out of the neighbourhood, he’d been able to take a short route via Ham Park Road onto Upton Lane. But barriers along Ham Park Road mean he now has to take a longer, more circuitous route by first travelling north onto the busy Romford Road.
But Sarah, who lives in York Road, said the scheme had improved the area. She told the LDRS: “The difference is just phenomenal in terms of the number of cars that rat-run through the LTN, the air quality and just the feeling of safety crossing the road. “My daughter went to Park Primary many years ago. It was so dangerous taking her to school in the morning, whereas now it just seems totally transformed, the whole area.”
And this is the whole debate in a nutshell. The idea that one person’s entitlement to the shortest possible car route in every direction is more important than the quality of life of the whole neighbourhood, and even the ability of kids to safely walk to school.
Driverless cars, hey? Since the dawn of motoring it has always been possible, for a fee, to be taken somewhere in a car without having to drive it.
The technology is called “taxi cabs”.
(Try getting a robot taxi to help a disabled/infirm passenger from their front door to inside the cab.)
Police leadership must do more to recognise this is core to our mission. Saving life, tackling crime, and increasing public confidence. We make our communities safer when we deny active criminals use of the road. Embed the ethos of ‘Not every driver is a criminal but every criminal is a driver’.
We currently accept the deaths of children and adults caused by people driving cars all the time. The road death statistics bear that out, as does the hysterical screeching from certain people every time a single road safety measure is suggested.
A reminder that in 2023 Tory MP Iain Duncan Smith supported Ulez camera destroyers.
Rachel Reeves: "It is not right that people who don't go to university bear the cost for others to." I don't use local leisure centres and I don't drive, so will I be made exempt for taxation that pays for all that stuff? Or is it only education we'll be going after
Labour keeps talking about saving the high street without naming the real problem. Car dependency. You cannot fix town centres while planning everything around driving. The internet is permanent. Retail only survives where footfall is dense, local, frequent, and cheap to access.
It’s time to ban social media for the over-60s, restrict their screen-time and implement upper-limit age verification.
