it has cars yes but the opening looked like this (teehee clickbait)

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The highway in question is cratered with potholes due to shoddy, cut-rate roadwork that disintegrates at the first sign of inclement weather.

The worst part? There's a train between those same two cities, but the state of the railways in this country is beyond the pale, ironically because the government is pretending to invest in shiny new roads that...are cratered with potholes and disintegrate at the first sign of inclement weather.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/32163462

Advocates call the CTC a rubber stamp for highway widening. The body didn't do anything to dispel that notion yesterday.

And I thought Americans were carbrained, holy shit.

(To be fair, he's not wrong in that this is intended to keep the auto companies and the government nice and fat -- but the obvious response to this is to agitate for better public transit, not railing against an environmentally sound policy.)

The article in question.

3 buses plying in quick succession. No, this is not a scene from a responsible "developed" country. This is from suburban Uttar Pradesh, the largest and the most populous region in India: a "developing" country. Public transport is the only option for a large number of people, so it is run and at very low ticket prices.

Do you know what taxi works when it rains?

The bicycle taxi.

Somehow, one of the world's overvalued companies can't figure out what already knows.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-01-25/traffic-deaths-surpass-homicides-in-los-angeles

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But the morning of June 18 was different. He was struck from behind on 32nd Avenue in Golden by a car and went tumbling over it, taking out a side mirror on the way. He didn't wake up until he was in a hospital.

More than a month after a devastating fire in the hourly parking garage at Jacksonville International Airport, the BMW X3 believed to have sparked that fire has been removed from the garage.

A spokesperson with the Jacksonville Aviation Authority confirmed that a photo shared with News4JAX showing a fire-damaged vehicle being lowered by crane onto a tow truck is the BMW in question.

About 1,200 cars were parked in the garage at the time the fire started.

Nearly 50 cars were damaged, and hundreds of them had to be left there initially until drivers were contacted and told they could safely retrieve their vehicles.

JAA officials estimated earlier this month that it could cost at least $38 million to repair the damage and those repairs could take at least 18 months. The third floor, where the fire started on May 16, and the fourth floor of the southern portion of the garage were the most damaged, with part of the area collapsing.

Alt link https://srslywrong.com/podcast/ep-338-were-joining-the-war-on-cars/