Un conducteur tue volontairement un cycliste avec son SUV. Comment en est-on arrivé là ? youtu.be/dA51xyneLFk
www.leprogres.fr/faits-divers... After an altercation, Parisian SUV driver decides to murder cyclist with his death machine. This happened 10 minutes walking from my workplace, on the route I take every day to work.
Un jeune homme circulant à vélo est décédé mardi, à Paris, après avoir été écrasé par un automobiliste avec lequel il venait d'avoir un différend ...
Is everyone aware that flights are (often much) cheaper than trains in Europe because aviation fuel isn't taxed?
Despite representing just 13% of journeys and being owned by 33% of households, cars take up more than half of the public space in Paris. Which is why Mayor Anne Hidalgo is removing 70,000 of its 140,000 on-street parking spaces, to make the city greener and more people-friendly. 🧵
53 years ago today, in 1971, 6-year-old Simone Langenhoff was hit by a driver and killed while cycling to school in the Netherlands. This, was the spark for the Stop de Kindermoord grassroots campaign that fought back against car-centric cities and eventually revolutionised Dutch streets.
"The bike lanes turned Paris into the most easily traversable of metropoles. With cars squeezed out, the city's air cleared. Kids played on pedestrianized streets. The terraces were more fun than the parking spaces they replaced. Cycling around after Covid, Paris never looked or smelled so good.”
Housing is transportation by another name. The housing crisis is a transportation crisis.
The true measure of the urbanism quality of a city is the number of children you see when you walk its streets.
Reminds me of the "if you say we should ban guns, why shouldn't we ban cars then?". And yes, we should.