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jsliacan.bsky.social @jsliacan.bsky.social · 4d

In this sense, traffic in Sweden is pretty much lawless too. Not even dropped charges, very little enforcement to begin with.

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Huge number of dropped charges at Ontario courts amounts to ‘lawlessness’: NDP

Hundreds of thousands of Highway Traffic Act (HTA) charges that were dropped last year are a sign Ontario’s justice system is failing to live up to its basic functions and puts Ontario on the road to ...

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jsliacan.bsky.social @jsliacan.bsky.social · 4d

Not disputing psychological friction (which, btw, is also created for peds this way). I point out that there are side effects to these methods, and I mentioned one possible consequence. I imagine it'd be hard to show that this is incorrect...

jsliacan.bsky.social @jsliacan.bsky.social · 5d

It also teaches them that they can just drive anywhere they please because it removes the distinction between pavement and road.

American Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 5d

This is what creating "psychological friction" for drivers looks like. The changes in pavement height, color, and texture break a driver's autopilot mode. It sends a clear message that "You are entering a space designed for people. Slow down. Be alert."

Design details do the work that signs can't.

World Bike Forward @urbanupgradeglobal.bsky.social · 5d

Further up the same Stockholm street from the clip below is another traffic-calming device: intersections where cars may cross but the design is a sidewalk with low curb. Drivers tend to inch across, some of them likely not sure if they're really supposed to be there.

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jsliacan.bsky.social @jsliacan.bsky.social · 6d

No street needs*that* car.

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Sundance @sundance.bikesky.social · 10d

Playgrounds are car infrastructure

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12d

RIP Aaron Swartz 🥺

Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 12d

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

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jsliacan.bsky.social @jsliacan.bsky.social · 11d

You know ICE is really hated when everyone in the comments section cheers for the guy on the *bike*.

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It's Hammer Time 🤣😂😆 ICE Melts Under Pressure!!!

YouTube video by The Tony Michaels Podcast

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jsliacan.bsky.social @jsliacan.bsky.social · 12d

Imagine the look of it without the horrendous road unusable for anyone outside of a car and uncrossable for kids. And without the huge grey asphalt areas.

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jsliacan.bsky.social @jsliacan.bsky.social · 12d

Sometimes bikes deliver freedom beyond what car ads can ever promise. Cc @tomflood.bsky.social

WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 13d

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

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jsliacan.bsky.social @jsliacan.bsky.social · 16d

Probably all genuine mishaps. But now they've given the UN staffers ideas. Next time I hope...

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 17d

Secret Service 'investigating UN sabotage' as Donald Trump left furious

Donald Trump's visit to the United Nations HQ was blighted by issues as an esclator broke, a teleprompter stopped working and an audio feed switched out

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jsliacan.bsky.social @jsliacan.bsky.social · 16d

If sponsors pick up on this (it's different for the UCI) then I hope it's for the content of the message, not the technicality that she's not allowed to have it there. There's plenty of reason to act based on her endorsing racist and sexist rhetoric, making the sport less inclusive etc.

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jsliacan.bsky.social @jsliacan.bsky.social · 16d

I stopped going to a nice cafe because it overlooks a bus gate in the center of Uppsala. Every time I looked out the window, chances were I saw more than one private car pass through. I'd prefer looking at e.g. theft, but there's a strong preference for driving related criminality in sweden.

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jsliacan.bsky.social @jsliacan.bsky.social · 18d

The whole thing is quite deranged, but this takes it a whole level up again.

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tigard-stripes.bsky.social @tigard-stripes.bsky.social · 18d

EVs: "still commit cardinal sin of cars which is they are fundamentally private commodities that are existing in public space and they are separating people from the civic fabric." -Ashton Rohmer
on The Brake podcast with @keawilson.bsky.social @usa.streetsblog.org
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Our Streets Look Like War Zones — But What if They Were 'Sites of Peacebuilding'? (Ashton Rohmer)

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 21d

This is amazing.

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jsliacan.bsky.social @jsliacan.bsky.social · 23d

Sweden has had ~50% compliance with speed limits since early 1990s. They'll do anything except face the problem. This is one of those distractions.

jsliacan.bsky.social @jsliacan.bsky.social · 23d

Clever? Bribing drivers not to be criminals... What about non-drivers who never speed, cut lights, etc? And never park wrong, don't pollute, don't require massive infrastructure, don't cost taxpayers in fuel and other subsidies.

Maybe we should also start paying priests not to abuse children.

David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 23d

This was very clever:

After collecting fines from speed cameras, Stockholm ran a lottery where non-speeding drivers could win the money.

www.wired.com/2010/12/swed...

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jsliacan.bsky.social @jsliacan.bsky.social · 26d

Vingegaard said of the Madrid finish cancellation. “I’m really upset about it. Everyone has the right to protest, but only without influencing or endangering our race.”

Someone's struggling with the very idea of a protest.

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Cycling teams could boycott races involving Israel-Premier Tech after Vuelta chaos

World Tour cycling teams could refuse to race against Israel-Premier Tech after pro-Palestine protests forced the cancellation of the Vuelta a España finale

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jsliacan.bsky.social @jsliacan.bsky.social · 26d

They just didn't want to be blamed for your fall, sounds like it'd have been a risk.

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jsliacan.bsky.social @jsliacan.bsky.social · 26d

I'm surprised nobody suggests to revoke the license... Seems reasonable since the goal is for that person to not do it again.

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jsliacan.bsky.social @jsliacan.bsky.social · 26d

This. I often came back feeling violated and angry.

Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 27d

I did a rare road ride today, and it's just so much more mentally exhausting than my normal mixed terrain rides. Two hours straight of being hyper aware of drivers just burns me out compared to the short chunks of road I usually have.

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jsliacan.bsky.social @jsliacan.bsky.social · 26d

A challenge for urbanists and traffic engineers:

Move around your area without a car while insisting on claiming the space you have a right to (no cars on bike paths/pavements, RoW on crossings, etc.). Don't cave. See what happens.

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jsliacan.bsky.social @jsliacan.bsky.social · 26d

Before all the swedes think this could not happen here, the same thing happened to me in a bus gate in Uppsala (by a swedish driver) when I stopped him. Not a baseball bat, but drove his car into me (my bike ended under the car). Then got out and assaulted me. No accountability.

Tomasz Oryński @orynski.eu · 27d

A British driver in Poland assaults cyclist with a baseball bat. Why? He pointed out to him he's going wrong way on one-way street and refused to let him through. Surprise: pepper spray is legal in Poland.

Suddently @cyclingmikey.bsky.social's encounters look a very relaxed in comparision :P

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jsliacan.bsky.social @jsliacan.bsky.social · 29d

I would really like to see these companies sued and gone, but they are in a prisoner dilemma of sorts. So it still seems like legislators and oversight institutions are the ones failing us. Society should never have to trust private companies making the right decisions voluntarily.

Tara Goddard, PhD @drtaragoddard.com · Sep 12

I would love to listen to a podcast episode on this topic. Maybe @thewaroncars.bsky.social ? I could see @gregshill.com being a good potential guest to break down the legal implications for a transpo audience.

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