Gregory's Server“Every $1,300 New York City invested in building bike-lanes in 2015 provided benefits equivalent to one additional year of life at full health over the lifetime of all city residents, according to a new economic assessment.” Bike-lanes are a sound public health investment. Via @Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/article/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/bike-lanes-are-a-sound-public-health-investment-idUSKCN11Z239/
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READ: “Policies to help people walk & cycle such as low-traffic neighbourhoods can create public health benefits as much as 100 times greater than the cost of the schemes, a long-term study has concluded.” AND the benefits continue to grow even higher over time.
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 @BrentToderian But remember: _public_ benefits are undesirable unless there are direct greater benefits to individuals who fall into one of the following categories: conservatives, fascists, libertarians, Tories, Republicans, billionaires, investment bankers, etc. So while the ROI may be substantial, we can’t have these nice things without a fight; facts alone rarely result in changes. @BrentToderian “A startling statistic emerged in Paris last month: during the morning and evening rush hours, on representative main thoroughfares crisscrossing the French capital, there are now more bicycles than cars – almost half as many again, in fact.” #Paris  @BrentToderian my stupid city of Indianapolis prefers to just endlessly wide the roads. Benefits are more and more cars, high noise levels, more accidents, and increase dependency on cars. @BrentToderian For a second I thought the photo was a variant of the Distracted Boyfriend Meme
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@BrentToderian That's inefficient to store just one car in that large garage. They could fit in three more, plus add a car lift to double capacity. The living room also looks like it's in a far corner of the house, and therefore wouldn't be used as often. That's another car storage place too.  @BrentToderian I 100% agree with you on this objectively, but that could be a really cool living room for a car nerd if the car could be kept clean and dry enough! Not nearly as cool as reducing car dependency though, for sure. “Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath
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@mekkaokereke @BrentToderian I’ve been walking to the next room for a couple of decades. It’s true, it makes me quite happy! 👍 @BrentToderian Does not surprise me. There was a short period when my place of work was 15 minutes walk from where I lived, and it was great. A typical European car is parked 92% of the time. It spends 1/5th of its driving time looking for parking. Its 5 seats only move 1.5 people. 86% of its fuel never reaches the wheels, & most of the energy that does, moves the car, not people. Sound efficient? HT @circulareconomy
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@BrentToderian there’s not a way out of climate disaster that doesn’t go via electric mopeds and ebikes and I suspect those things will be financially nonoptional to a lot of people who currently believe they’ll always be able to have a car @BrentToderian no, it doesn’t but you need a good public transport network to reduce reliability on the car. @BrentToderian a typical house sits empty 50% of the time. 80% of its rooms are empty at any given moment. It only contains other people for a fraction of a year. Sounds efficient?! No. Ban houses and force people to live in tents. This is REALLY important. “In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment and counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
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 @BrentToderian My religious parents kicked me out at 18. Without our social security system, I would have literally been without home and money. I was provided with housing, food and other necessities, until I got back on my feet. In some other places it's highly possible I would have ended up either as a being a criminal or having to sell my body or something to survive. Now 25 years later I'm a software developer and am doing fine. @BrentToderian The US has an easy solution here: legalize any drug that is less harmful than what's already legal/regulated (tobacco and alcohol). Set free all inmates convicted of possession of those drugs. Turn a couple prisons into these cheap, small apartments. Clean them up, let them open the doors from the inside. A lot of them have clinics and mental health facilities anyway, just turn them into places that can help people get back into productive society.  @BrentToderian @papakipos Remember this picture every single time you hear someone in your city say "we're not Amsterdam." This was #Amsterdam in the 1970s, via @fietsprofessor. The cities we admire made better choices regarding cars, and are still making them today. Better choices instead of excuses.
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# deepl Erinnern Sie sich jedes Mal an dieses #Bild, wenn Sie jemanden in Ihrer #Stadt sagen hören: Das war #Amsterdam in den 1970er Jahren, via @fietsprofessor. Die #Städte, die wir bewundern, haben bessere #Entscheidungen in Bezug auf #Autos getroffen, und tun dies auch heute noch. #BessereEntscheidungen statt Ausreden Zitat: Bessere Entscheidungen statt Ausreden. #cities #cars #bikes #Holland #Dutch #city" Was ist nun besser: Autos (vorerst innerorts) reduzieren oder elektrifizieren?  One thing we know for SURE — building and widening highways ALWAYS succeeds in helping sell more cars, gas and suburban sprawl; burning more public budgets; and increasing GHG emissions. So if THOSE are your goals, it’s the perfect thing to do. Just don’t expect it to reduce traffic.  @BrentToderian One would hope the amount of money set on fire to learn this lesson would be minimal, but it usually isn't.  If your city couldn’t avoid making a massive city-damaging mistake in the first place, do the next best thing — remove the mistake, and repair your city. Like #Utrecht, Netherlands did with its central area river, then freeway, then river again. (Image via @BicycleDutch) #Dutch #Holland #Netherlands #freeways #cars #bikes #cities
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@BrentToderian wow! I’ve been there and I never would have guessed that was restored  Have you seen this one? Before & after of a brain after a 20 minute walk — illustrates why walking to work, or school, or just to get the intellectual juices flowing, has been strongly linked to better creative & intellectual performance. Just one of MANY benefits of choosing to walk, for you and for society. Design and build walkable cities. #walking #cities #urbanism #WalkableCities #WalkToSchool #WalkToWork #city #cars
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@BrentToderian „Es würde alles besser gehen, wenn man mehr ginge. @BrentToderian Not this again. Stop sharing this image without context and linking to the study https://neurobollocks.wordpress.com/2014/06/21/the-power-of-a-well-chosen-image-eeg-measures-of-brain-activity-and-exercise/ There are already two fake @BrentToderian’s here on Mastodon. Very concerning that every single server can evidently have a fake version of you, with your name, bio and pictures. Is there a verification system here? If so, is it useful? Can fake accounts be reported? If so, does it work? Thanks. Remember this picture every single time you hear someone in your city say "we're not Amsterdam." This was #Amsterdam in the 1970's. The cities we admire made better choices regarding cars, and are still making them today. Better choices instead of excuses.
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@BrentToderian @cycling one of the big names (blue tick pre-musk) in active travel/urban planning has made it over here! |
@BrentToderian @Reuters oh, fantastic. I made jokes a couple years ago about running for mayor on a platform of being the e-bike capital of the world by just giving them away. I guess this is not a joke and I should just do this