Safety, responsibility, lawfulness, sustainability, courtesy, respect for life and health /I'm trying to get back into Twitter after a health break/
Apache Junction, AZ
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Ethical Driving / People Keep Crashing retweeted
The problems that cars present are endless, and we should be aggressively phasing them out of our cities.
Don’t get distracted by the tech: trains and bikes are the future!
Driving is not just an air pollution and climate change problem — turns out, it just might be the largest contributor of microplastics in California coastal waters bit.ly/2pnWqWT
Ethical Driving / People Keep Crashing retweeted
But Berkeley banned plastic straws.
"Rainfall washes more than 7 trillion microplastics, much of it tire particles, into San Francisco Bay each year — 300x greater than microfibers/beads from polyester clothes, beauty products, and other plastics." latimes.com/environment/stor…
Ethical Driving / People Keep Crashing retweeted
When Houston banned red light cameras in 2010, fatal crashes at intersections jumped 30% and total crashes jumped 116%.
Now that Texas, one of the most dangerous states in the country, has banned them, we should expect to see more dead people.
usa.streetsblog.org/2019/06/…
Ethical Driving / People Keep Crashing retweeted
You know what accessibility issue I want to read more about - time.
Our expectations of how long it takes to process info/directions, to move, to make decisions, to complete tasks.
Thoughts about this Disability Twitter?
Ethical Driving / People Keep Crashing retweeted
#SafeRoads #Driving #Pedestrian-#Human Lives in our hands every time we drive #automobile, #car, #SUV, #truck. As we defend their #HumanRights, #Dignity, also #Respect them on the #ROAD - End #RoadViolence @AAAnews @Safe_Roads @end_dd @FIA @EthicalDriving @TATKylla @DrivingTweets
Ethical Driving / People Keep Crashing retweeted
People who live near high quality bike and pedestrian infrastructure are twice as likely to meet recommended daily exercise levels, a new study finds.
More interesting, the study showed the availability bike facility itself *caused* the increase.
usa.streetsblog.org/2019/03/…
Ethical Driving / People Keep Crashing retweeted
There’s a unified problem: sprawl, which makes driving cheap & housing expensive. @NatGeo breaks down the bulk of the world—and esp. CA’s—housing issues. Get out of our damn cars, support mass transit connected to job centers, build more housing. on.natgeo.com/2OoOXz7
Ethical Driving / People Keep Crashing retweeted
To help counter misinformation, we created a website that provides clear, evidence-based answers to questions about #vaccinesafety and other commonly asked questions about health and science: ow.ly/HpJp30nXKR3 #BasedOnScience
Ethical Driving / People Keep Crashing retweeted
As you are a writer, you should know that ZERO accidents are caused by DUI, road rage, speeding and tailgating.
Those are all negligent or criminal acts that predictably result in crashes.
Please use #crashnotaccident as is suggested by @APStylebook
IMHO, a technology doesn't have to be faultless in order to be better, even (especially?) when it's a matter of life/death. How many accidents are caused by #DUI , road rage, speeding, tailgating, etc.? All significantly reduced with AVs. @mrinalini101 and @runseanrun , thots?
Ethical Driving / People Keep Crashing retweeted
Why would a police department in 2019 have an "Accident Reconstruction Team"?
Do they only do "accidents". What if it's a road rage, vehicular homicide? Not to mention drunk, drugged crashes.
None of these are "accidents".
Please change to #crashnotaccident
Ethical Driving / People Keep Crashing retweeted
On @DukeU killing light rail in Durham: @indyweek: "one wealthy institution decided that its needs matter more than everyone else’s." indyweek.com/news/northcarol…
Ethical Driving / People Keep Crashing retweeted
Right now the IRS provides a tax break for car commuters and transit commuters, but not for cyclists.
But a new bill from @repblumenauer @AyannaPressley and @VernBuchanan would let bike commuters write off up to $53 per month. usa.streetsblog.org/2019/03/…
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Europe already has per-capita traffic fatality rates that are as low as a quarter of the U.S.'s.
The gap will only widen -- affecting average life expectancy -- as Europe embraces progressive traffic safety reforms and the U.S. ignores them.
This is sort of a big deal: Europe will require all new cars to be equipped with tech that will automatically prevent them from speeding.
The legislation is expected to save ~15,000 lives in 15 years. usa.streetsblog.org/2019/03/…
Ethical Driving / People Keep Crashing retweeted
Environmental law, criminal law, tort law, contract law, vehicle regulations, land use law, tax law: they all have hidden subsidies for driving.
Law professor @greg_shill lists them. usa.streetsblog.org/2019/03/…
Ethical Driving / People Keep Crashing retweeted
All the ways driving is legally privileged in America: A list by law professor @greg_shill usa.streetsblog.org/2019/03/…
Ethical Driving / People Keep Crashing retweeted
Two-thirds of all bankruptcies in the United States of America are because of medical issues. That is unacceptable, and it has got to change.
With @RepJayapal's Medicare for All Act of 2019, every woman, man, and child in this country is guaranteed coverage as a right.
Ethical Driving / People Keep Crashing retweeted
"Improved transit access in urban neighborhoods resulted in a drop in poverty of nearly 12.3% and a growth of employment in Cuyahoga County of 3%." crainscleveland.com/transpor…
Ethical Driving / People Keep Crashing retweeted
"The automobile has dissolved the living tissue of the city. Its appetite for space is absolutely insatiable; moving & parked, it devours urban land, leaving buildings as mere islands of habitable space in a sea of dangerous & ugly traffic."
—James Marston Fitch, NY Times, 1960.
Ethical Driving / People Keep Crashing retweeted
This is sort of a big deal: Europe will require all new cars to be equipped with tech that will automatically prevent them from speeding.
The legislation is expected to save ~15,000 lives in 15 years. usa.streetsblog.org/2019/03/…
Ethical Driving / People Keep Crashing retweeted
10,000 Americans are killed annually in speeding-related crashes. We have the technology to stop all that. But we don't take advantage.
Meanwhile in Europe ... usa.streetsblog.org/2019/03/…