I'm glad the city is at least trying to do something. I wish they would focus more on building traffic calming and separate infrastructure for cyclist and pedestrians. Rather than giving cops money and changing the speed limits.

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/11395808

Reasons of women safety and last mile connectivity being lacking have existed perennially. But many RWers online are raging because a foreign news outlet was able to pick apart the lies of projected ridership.

Being an Indian in an urban city, I can at least affirm that it is a failed system in many cities, seemingly just an infrastructure project for companies (and municipalities) to put on their balance sheets/report on.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/58332025

Crossposted from https://lemmy.zip/post/61829695

Crossposted from https://sh.itjust.works/post/57668121

Here's how I'm going without it:

• army backpack from the surplus store $40 NZD (this is a "longpack" it's pretty big) I can't hang my wide brim hat over my back hanging from the string while carrying this pack that's the only downside.

• wind proof balaclava, $50 NZD

• Led Lenser 90 lumen "P3 Core" torch, $48 NZD

Then just get some waterproof gear and multiple pairs of boots or footwear. I generally don't cook where I live because it's a shared kitchen with 10 other people and I also don't trust the hygiene of the washing machine, so I walk to the laundromat or go elsewhere.

Bus and e-scooter works really well. I'm pouring money into these services now and chatting with random boomers at bus stops. EV rental is nice but costs a small fortune even for 2 hours. Avoid as much as possible lol, there's nowhere to park and you risk getting scammed with BULLSHIT parking fines due to license plate recognition cameras being everywhere. Not only fixed ones but built onto parking enforcement vehicles too.

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/43008745

Article about an experiment from Brisbane, Australia.

Crossposted from https://lemmings.world/post/43088608

Sometimes people notice that sitting around in cars isn't particularly productive.

How long till someone gets run over?

The fact that everybody is suing LINX, the main contractor, makes it seem like they are in fact the ones screwing things up, rather than LAX. I just want it finished!

Podcaster interviews Executive Director of MoveLA to talk about existing and future plans of transit in LA.

Hi, I'm working on a collection of resources to make writing solarpunk easier and I'm currently putting together a page about exurbs, basically how they came to be, why they're unsustainable, how they might reshape in the future if supply chains break down.

Solarpunk has a lot of 'fuck cars' elements and I've picked up a lot of that over the years, but as I research this one, I'm realizing I don't have specific examples as close to hand as I did for the other topics. I haven't spent much time in communities dedicated just to these discussions and I'd like to make sure I don't miss any community-favorite articles/essays on stuff like how cars reshaped rural places, the complexities of automobile manufacturing supply chains, and the car-size arms race.

If there's anything you think should be included in that discussion I'd be very happy to add it!

cross-posted from: https://kbin.melroy.org/m/upliftingnews@lemmy.world/t/1372827

We find that nearly one fifth of urban and suburban US car owners express a definite interest in living car-free (18 %), and an additional 40 % are open to the idea. This is in addition to the small share (10 %) of urban and suburban US residents currently living without a car.

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/10230353

Okay, so the job is still sometimes a... real doozy. It's still a demanding retail job, which is fine, but sometimes, it seems that "something" is happening every other day. Drama, interpersonal relationship issues between my co-workers (not with me, I get along with everyone, it seems), and confusion about the task at hand have all happened at some point or another.

That said, I love my job and am transferring to a location that's much closer to me. As I may have said before, it's a church nonprofit thrift store classified as "retail." It's like Goodwill and another Catholic service I know in Florida (this one isn't Catholic, though). I also met another transfem, who seems to be transitioning or just started (relatively recently). She's high up in the business too and well-respected.

Anyway

Thank you all for cheering me up in the lead-up to my new job (which took about 8 to 10 months for me to get after much searching). I want to be an assistant manager or switch to Goodwill BUT, in the meantime, I have this job that gives me a bigger paycheck than the ones I had before, at least.

Thanks to @EmDash and @zeca@lemmy.ml

Also, thank you to @PoY and @davel.

Oh, and @Onno as well as @Maeve and @Nondiegetic.

Anyway, that seems to be everyone that encouraged me in the previous thread and gave me advice.

I'm referring to this thread, by the way:

https://lemmygrad.ml/post/9782130

Not sure what else to say; I've had this job for almost two months so far and I'm halfway through my seventh week. Any other advice is much appreciated, of course. I think my first order of business is basically to just keep saving money, but budgeting is surprisingly difficult, at least so far. I don't know what else I can do when it comes to budgeting and saving money beyond just having more in the bank every two weeks (biweekly payment through Direct Deposit).

Another thing I'm nervous about, however:

I'll have to drive myself to the location that I'm transferring to from now on. I may use Uber or Lyft sometimes, but I need to drive myself there by myself. I can't have someone take me 30 minutes in the direction of the current location I work at. Now that I'm transferring to a location that's nearer by, I will likely drive myself, but it will take 15 minutes to get there, or around that much.

The reason I'm nervous is that, even though I have my driver's license, I heard about an Autistic person from a friend of mine at work that said that one of his Autistic cousins got into a car crash (but had their driver's license) and he couldn't understand that and said that he "can't take care of himself and shouldn't."

Maybe he's not a good friend lol

The point is that it made me nervous; I've driven before. I've driven for about 30 minutes, tops.

I think since we share a car, I forego driving myself and just rely on others, but I have driven here and there.

I transfer to the new location early next week.

What do I do?

Anyway, again, thanks, everyone, this job went better than I thought it would.

If there's anything we should take from Japan, it's treating cars like second class citizens behind transit instead of the other way around. The cute tiny cars are more a side effect of that.

reposting a classic, a little late for the anniversary tho