The whole "war on cars" whining is really the perfect example of, "When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression."
05.03.2026 23:32
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The whole "war on cars" whining is really the perfect example of, "When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression."
Make people dependent enough, and then.....MAKE IT SHITTY!
Got 1000 photos of your deceased mother? So sad. We'll make you pay to keep them!
God this is good. Thanks for expressing how I feel!!
#makeitshitty
This is awesome. As an organizer in Chicago, I have met and talked to way too many people who push the lie that pedestrian and bike safety is bad - for business and for residents. We need better media to help push against the lies. And Urban Truth seems like just the thing we need.
Never forget, the electric car is here to save the car industry, not the planet.
Read this thread.
Hi everyone.
If every single one of you seeing this post considered clicking “follow” on our new account/movement, @urbantruth.bsky.social, our work would start regularly reaching a BIG audience, and that’s KEY to us having the REAL IMPACT we hope this initiative will have.
Thanks for considering!
There's nothing fiscally conservative about sprawl. There's nothing "small government" about the costs of sprawl.
Imagine the equivalent number of cars and the space they'd need.
Es ist immer so, überall auf der Welt: Einzelhändler sind die lautesten Gegner von autofreien Straßen, weil in der Vorstellung ihrer Autohirne Autokunden ausschließlich mit dem Auto vorfahren und ohne Autos Tumbleweeds durch die Straßen wehen — bis sie sehen, dass sie ohne Autos MEHR Umsatz machen!
Check this out — Canadian urbanist @brenttoderian.bsky.social (who has launched the @urbantruth.bsky.social with @grantennis.bsky.social & fellow Canadian @tomflood.bsky.social) is the guest on @thewaroncars.bsky.social podcast with @sgoodyear.bsky.social! Discussing Vancouver, & better city-making!
Market housing is useful but cannot fill every need. Subsidized housing fills a very specific need in a vulnerable population.
You cannot fix homelessness without it. Yes it means paying taxes. We already pay taxes for police, healthcare and justice.
If you hear a politician claim there really IS a “war on cars” in your city hall (and we don’t mean in an ironic way, like @thewaroncars.bsky.social does it), you have full and enthusiastic permission to steal @brenttoderian.bsky.social’s reply below. #UrbanTruth
Wild that in one week Toronto has gone from parkas and tuques to patio season. And we are HERE FOR IT
What if we decided that people deserved more (and better) space in cities than cars?
WATCH: When I spoke to Downtown Sacramento in 2023, I quoted my friend @jeffspeck.bsky.social, & quoted him again in our Sacramento Downtown Livability Strategy (link in Jeff’s post below).
As this year’s excellent speaker, Jeff kindly returned the favor (sort of)!
GREAT stuff on street design etc
This post is absolutely essential reading.
What was present in many national governments – lies, denial of science, and hatred for humanists – is now coming to our cities. We must say no!
Let's read it and share it widely.
Now more than ever, our cities must uphold the values of humanist urbanism.
Image of a car filled highway in congestion and gridlock, with three cigarette packs in front, one named gas, the second named hybrid, and the third named EV. The main text says “taste the freedom.“ At the bottom is the tagline for the Urban Truth Collective. Car dependency is the opposite of freedom.
Car dependency is a hell of a drug. #UrbanTruth
“Walkable neighbourhoods aren't scary, they’re convenient.”
Timely new info/campaign org started by @grantennis.bsky.social @tomflood.bsky.social and @brenttoderian.bsky.social
I got a great reception in Sacramento this week. It didn't hurt that I was following in the footsteps of @brenttoderian.bsky.social 's Downtown Livability Strategy! Check it out: www.downtownsac.org/wp-content/u...
person biking in a protected bike lane in a city SOMETIMES THE BEST WAY TO REMOVE BARRIERS... IS TO ADD SOME
Barriers.
Sure cracking down on cars saves lives but people in Helsinki will never know all the positive sides of living in a fossil fuel death cult with big boy trucks that go vroom vroom, such as feeling very manly once you've climbed the little step ladder into your big boy truck
“Wait, we’re afraid of walkable distances now?”
“If we don’t build housing to solve homelessness, we don’t really want to solve homelessness.“
“Car dependency isn’t freedom. Mobility freedom comes from mobility choices.”
“Walkable neighbourhoods aren’t scary, they’re convenient.“
This past week’s LAUNCH of the @UrbanTruth.bsky.social went even better than we’d hoped! My colleagues @grantennis.bsky.social @tomflood.bsky.social & I are thrilled with all the buzz & excitement about where things will go from here. And this is just the beginning! Find us on Insta & LinkedIn too.
Investing in design pays dividends: aside from beauty, better designed buildings last longer, are easier to maintain & operate. 70% of the $ of a building is AFTER its built; design costs might be 0.2% of lifecycle value of building; spend smarter, reform #Procurement in public interest #UrbanTruth
We could post something smart and important about artificially low municipal taxes, austerity budgets, and the economic self-destruction of too many cities — or we could just recommend that you READ AND SHARE this really important THREAD below. #UrbanTruth
NEW: “We’ve let the lies be far too successful, and that’s significantly hurt our cities. No more.”
The brand-new @urbantruth.bsky.social has a blunt op-ed in @usa.streetsblog.org written by Canadians @brenttoderian.bsky.social & @tomflood.bsky.social, & American in Paris @grantennis.bsky.social.
An excellent listen!
Cars and car-centric design ruin cities. Walkable and bikeable neighborhoods subsidize suburban sprawl. Build up, not out. 🚶♀️👩🦽🛹🛼🚲🛴🚌🚈🚋🚃
Car puns! Love ‘em!
Refusing to building supportive housing for those who would otherwise be homeless means more people homeless in our streets and parks, AND higher public costs for all of us. It’s as simple as that.
Anderson Cooper: “So it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them?”
Answer: “Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing.” #HousingFirst #UrbanTruth
Making driving work better for all those who have to drive, or don’t want to stop driving and aren’t deterred by the Congestion Charge (which by the way, is legally required to be reinvested into public transit).
Congestion Charge systems make mobility work better for everyone, including drivers.