#cardependency is the opposite of #freedom
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We recently shared the high societal cost of collisions, but the cost of congestion is also significant. This 2012 report outlines them clearly, but our elected officials continue to ignore the obvious & most cost-effective alternatives in favour of #CarDependency cutaactu.ca/wp-content/u...
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Photo of a highway with a section of road conspicuously missing, with the text: "WE'RE NOT SEEING DRIVERS USING THE NEW BRIDGE WE BUILT." And then "CONNECTED NETWORKS ARE JUST AS IMPORTANT FOR PEOPLE ON BIKES AS THEY ARE FOR THOSE DRIVING CARS."
Out for a bike ride around Lake Merritt on a beautiful day in Oakland today, I *very* slowly approached a group of three elderly women walking toward me on the shared mixed-use path section, so they could safely pass while I waited for space.
(Yes, there are […]
[Original post on social.lol]
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The post isn’t about whether the object is useful. The post is about the consequences of dependency on the object. #CarDependency
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Not all edge-growth is car-dependent suburban sprawl. But far too much of it is.
It doesn’t need to be. #CarDependency #Sprawl
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Amazing that the recommendations start … from the driveway. Whatever your mobility, reaction time, eyesight, you are expected to drive. #cardependency
My top consideration for the condo to age in was no need for a car in a 15-minute city.
@brenttoderian.bsky.social @carlosmorenofr.bsky.social
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Driving is a sedentary activity. Spending more more on entrenching #carDependency will lead to worse health outcomes for New Zealanders.
Transport policy is health policy.
youtu.be/0RjuKZk_2FU?...
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#RoadViolence #RoadSafety #CarDependency #ActiveMobility #SustainableTravel #Criminology #UrbanStudies
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Yesterday some people first learned that Waymos use remote workers.
This is evidence against the theory that we're close to having private AVs. Thus, it is unlikely that AVs will significantly increase #cardependency or VMT. Good news for everyone who wants cities to have this tool for #safestreets
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Freeway filled with slowly crawling cars
It still amazes me that we’ve basically let ourselves be manipulated into buying, and even defending, that THIS is what “freedom” looks like.
Dependency is never freedom. Freedom is having real choices. #cardependency
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A Citroen C15 van
I often hear Americans & rich brits justify buying oversized, polluting vehicles by claiming they need them because they live in the "countryside".
I call bullshit, Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15⬇
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Flight dependence: Between carbon lock-in and social inequalities in air travel
While there has been a decades-long preference for #car #travel, which has led to #CarDependency among many people, a similar development may be emerging in air travel. The consequences would be dramatic—even more […]
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Illustration: Christmas Convoy by Cathy Wilcox via The Age
#cardependency
Cathy Wilcox: Christmas Convoy, via The Age
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So you’d have five hundred wheelchairs criss-crossing the town centre, smashing into cars? Seth Meyer, Business.’ ‘Good point. For one, I’d love a town without cars. Is that possible? Is it desirable? Can our town cope with five hundred patients in wheelchairs? What does it take to make it happen? How do we make sure that patients, grannies and kids aren’t shut away but part of the everyday chaos? These are exactly the questions we’ll explore. I said earlier that Design should be at the centre of all our considerations. However, Health & Care provides us with an important starting point. Health is something we all need, and we’ll create a town where people can heal. And once we’ve figured out what we need to heal, and what it takes to remain healthy, then we figure out how to finance our approach.’
An old ragged tree stump which looks just a little like an old castle with towers.
DAY 6, COMMUNITY
prelude, quoting book 1, beginning
‘I’d love a town without cars. Is that possible? Is it desirable? Can our town cope with five hundred patients in wheelchairs? What does it take to make it happen?’
#OurFuture #urbanism #photography #booksky #etbs #cardependency #cityplanning
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Paper out!"Understanding angles of change to reduce #car dependency in rural areas: Evidence from #Switzerland" Which shows that improving #publictransport #infrastructure, inc. longer operating hours+frequency, could reduce #cardependency
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Air for flat tires! Bicycles repair station in my park in Berlin. An initiative to encourage more people to go by bicycle. Great!
#cardependency #cleanAir #Berlin #cycling #ClimateAction #twowheels #urbanism
@brenttoderian.bsky.social
@davidho.bsky.social
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County-level Census data (2017-2021) shows car dependency from 7.6% to 99.6%.
2024: 69.2% drive alone. Cars up 0.4%. Remote work down to 13.3%.
45% of Americans have no transit access.
#UnitedStates #CarDependency
vividmaps.com/car-dependen...
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Streaky lines of trees and a town in the background.
Photo taken during sunset
while travelling in a train.
Travelling by train could be full of opportunities: chatting, singing, dancing, debating, learning together, sharing meals & drinks, and taking cool photos.
15 Sept 2025
#photography #travelling #resist #ThisIsOurWorld #cardependency #rethink
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Just after noon, a journalist reported from the Connections Day, writing: This campaigns valid points are: If you buy your ticket from a person every day, you form a connection. If another person helps you to get your luggage or shopping from the train to the bus, you forge a connection. If actual people announce the next station, they can do so with humour which relates to today’s weather, news, or the full train — and you get a connection between driver, staff and travellers, which is only fair since they are all on the same train. And if you have either bars or snacks trolleys, you have potential connections between travellers and sellers. And if you bring musicians, storytellers or thinkers, then tired travellers might dance, laugh or think together. And as I write this, I hear people shout: ‘But who will pay for all this?’ And here the town project shows just how well prepared they are for experiments. They calculated the costs of fitting trains with digital displays, electronic doors and blinking lights, and included maintenance costs and replacements. Those costs are way higher than, to quote: ‘giving people a job that creates connections.’ And they added: ‘Besides, humans are not made to be efficient. They are made to connect, to live and laugh.’
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Connections Day began on three-hundred and thirty-three trains across the UK. In an unlikely cooperation with British Rail, the campaign took over all tasks which used to be performed by humans.
#trains #connections #transport #AI #FuckAI #cardependency #WeThePeople #resist #OurFuture #travel
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Looking past two seats in a train at trees outside.
CAMPAIGNS FOR OUR FUTURE
recap
day 20
CONNECTIONS DAY
[On trains] ‘giving people a job that creates connections.’
‘Besides, humans are not made to be efficient. They are made to connect, to live and laugh.’
#cfof #resist #trains #transport #travel #cardependency #jobs #photography #nature
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White head of a Dandelion (big), blurred in the background a crossroads with traffic as seen from above.
WILDERNESS
watching the morning traffic.
And I smile a bit, thinking: cities are good for contradictions. Maybe more of those would be good.
And then this flicker of wilder thoughts: What if 🧵
#Berlin #wildflowers #traffic #cardependency #photography #nature #ourFuture #ClimateAction #urbanism
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"How the Guelph Grinch is stealing our bike lanes!" with Mayor Cam Guthrie as the Grinch rolling up a green bike lane as he steals it. Credit: The original version of this comic was made by Theo Moudakis in a Toronto Star editorial cartoon.
Amendment 1 (Councillor Goller) That Council amends the 2026 operating budget by $650,000 to restore funding for snow removal services for on-street bike lanes funded by the property tax levy. Motion fails 6-7. Gibson, Richardson, Guthrie, Billings, Chew, Busutill, Hauser vote against.
And just like that, Guelph bike lanes will no longer be plowed.
An entire mode of transport has been made less accessible and more dangerous as cyclists will be forced to ride in the middle of the road with limited daylight.
#safestreets #cardependency #bikestodon
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And just like that, Guelph bike lanes will no longer be plowed.
An entire mode of transport has been made less accessible and more dangerous as cyclists will be forced to ride in the middle of the road with limited daylight.
#safestreets #cardependency #bikesky
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Long, empty, unpleasant train station at night.
#TRAINS
I don’t like conspiracy theories. But here is one that wouldn’t surprise me: If I was invested in fossil fuels, I’d take every opportunity to make travelling by train miserable & I’d spread rumours about it to make everything sound even worse.
🧵 1/19
#transport #cardependency #photography
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21% of UK employees are commuting more this year and "40% of drivers have no alternative to the car [...] For those living in rural locations the figure increases to 70%."
Only a third said the bus was a viable option for them. Not good news for people & planet :( #commuting #carDependency
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Single detached car-dependent sprawl from the air
Car-dependent suburban sprawl is the most publicly expensive, publicly subsidized, and publicly consequential form of human habitation in human history. #SuburbanSprawl #CarDependency
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sciam article “Roads safer when drunk drivers immediately lose licence to kill”
CBC article “For seniors, losing drivers licence like having ‘arm cut off’”
One of the most subtly insane aspects of the unrelenting car dependency we’ve deliberately built across North America is the incredible reluctance we have to remove the driving privilege, even from those who clearly are a danger to themselves & others, because “people have to drive.” #CarDependency
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A split-screen image with text on the left and a car on the right. The left side has a dark background with white text that reads: “The car isn’t just a vehicle—it’s a cultural artefact of capitalism.” Below this heading is a list of points: Work as a calling → The car enables work, productivity, and purpose Efficiency and rationalization → Cars are designed for speed, control, and optimization Material success as virtue → Car ownership signals achievement and self-reliance Individualism and autonomy → Driving is deeply personal; it’s freedom on four wheels Disenchantment and mechanization → The car is a machine, not a mystery—a symbol of modernity Uniformity and standardization → Roads, rules, and car design reflect bureaucratic order Asceticism and reinvestment → Cars are often bought not for pleasure, but to enable work The right side shows the front of a silver car parked on a road at sunset, with warm orange light in the background and a power pole visible in the distance.
#UrbanPlanning #TransportReform #CarCulture #StrongTowns #ActiveTransport #SustainableCities #UrbanMobility #PublicTransport #WalkableCommunities #CyclingInfrastructure #CityDesign #TransportEquity #ClimateAction #UrbanDesign #StreetDesign #CarDependency #CommunityDevelopment #ValuesBasedMessaging
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