In the woman's first driving test, in July 2023, the assessor noted she breached the road rules multiple times including by continuously driving in a bike lane, failing to give way, braking to a near stop in a 70km/h zone and obstructing other vehicles and driving at 38km/h in a 60 km/h zone.

The decision noted the assessor had intervened when the woman started to turn in front of approaching vehicles without sufficient time or distance, and when she failed to give way as she moved off from a kerb.

She still thought she was hard done by and appealed?

Good on them, I assume it was years of LNP attrition that it had gotten this bad ? But happy to be corrected if my assumption was incorrect ?

I am suprised at the number of young families in my tiny regional village here in NE Tassie. The primary school even expanded and built a new extension just 10 months ago.

Lol, wtf ? :)

Transport Minister Eric Abetz says there had been an "overwhelmingly negative" reaction from businesses on the street and shoppers who use existing parking spaces which would have been affected by the trial.

Good on the local goverment for going ahead anyway, and this bit

Every time they do an improvement or make it safer there is more and more people riding," she said.

Ismail Mohammad pushes a buggy down the centre of a narrow road in east Bristol. His two sons stay close as vehicles could come from either direction at any moment. “There are cars [parked] on the pavement. We have to go on the road,” says Mohammad as he hurries to the boys’ primary school in Easton. “It’s dangerous because cars sometimes come fast through here.”

What in tarnation ? What a sorry state of affairs. Good luck to the council !

Bryher has little sympathy for drivers who claim they must park on pavements on narrow roads. “You need to park somewhere else instead … there are enough [spaces] for every­one to park in the city,” he says. “It’s just that you might have to park further away and you might have to consider whether you need a car.

Indeed

"This should be the final nail in the coffin for the false narrative that LNG was somehow a climate solution”

Andrew King, a lecturer in climate science at the University of Melbourne, said there was "evidence to suggest climate change is intensifying those kind of extreme rain events".

"With larger cities and larger urban areas, we'd expect to see more incidents like these floods affecting more people," he said.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13929272

So, what's the take away here ? make it so expensive to live people choose cycling and we get better cities ?

So, what's the take away here ? make it so expensive to live people choose cycling and we get better cities ?

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13842896

Humanity’s rapacious consumption is more than Earth and its climate can handle, which is driving an ecological crisis.