Bargearse

@ajsadauskas

>But Nicolaou said it was difficult to see how making Sydney a predominantly walking city would benefit businesses such as retailers."

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It’s bemusing to me to see people articulate thier own stupidity so willingly in public. A lack of imagination to easily see how things could be much better by those who hold some sway seems to be the real impedient to making the changes needed.

@fuck_cars @kim_harding

@ajsadauskas
An estimated 11,000 die from exhaust pollution and 20,000 hospitilisaed from cars now , that’s ignoring 1000’s of direct deaths and injuries.

I doubt most people really give a shit about micro plastics from tyres and participates from brakes, they’d ratier 10s of thousands die then ride a bicycle and catch a train.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-24/air-pollution-modelling-university-of-melbourne-traffic/102015778

>Traffic pollution likely causes more than 11,000 premature deaths in Australia a year, new modelling by climate researchers has revealed

>The grave estimate from the study means that death from air pollution in Australia is 10 times more likely than a fatal road accident.

@fuck_cars @jgkoomey

@heatofignition
But it’s impossible to put really good infrastructure in place while cars consume so much space, all that happens is endless complaining from car owners about removal of car parks or one more lane is needed etc

We have all the infrastructure we need to start, we can close many roads to cars and uses buses and bicycles in cities while simultaneously building out even better PT and medium density dwellings to stop toxic urban sprawl add green spaces, business etc on land previously allocated to car parks but that can’t happen becase we get endless complaints from car owners.

Will it be disruptive ? Of course, for a decade or more but then if we don’t, in a decade we’ll still be arguing we should have started a decade ago .

@mondoman712 @ajsadauskas