This piece originally appeared on How Things Work and is reprinted with permission.There is much beauty in America. Yet, on average, America is an ugly country. The median American scene, the one that illustrates the most typical view of the most typical place, would be an exhaust-choked roadway flanked on both sides by fast food restaurants and big box stores. This is what we have done with our purple mountains, majesty, from sea to shining sea. The culprit is the car. More specifically, the culprit is America’s decision to design our cities around the car. Predicting the future is almost impossible, but one…
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U.S. residents are more likely to shrug off the preventable public health impacts of car domination than they are to excuse the dangers of poorly regulated workplaces, lax secondhand smoking policies, and the negative consequences of drinking, a new study finds — and that “windshield bias” isn’t a uniquely American problem, either. In a new paper, Texas A&M researcher Tara Goddard recreated a famous 2023 U.K. study that sought to quantify just how much Britons are affected by “motonormativity,” a term coined by researcher Ian Walker to describe how our collective cultural biases towards car travel shape the way we…
The Biden administration awarded more than $1 billion in grants for 354 traffic safety projects around the country, such as fixing an intersection near a park in Memphis’ historically Black Orange Mound neighborhood. (Route Fifty) Events like Burning Man show that adding more electric vehicle chargers does nothing to prevent congestion, blunting the environmental impact of EVs. (Bloomberg) Recent auto sales show that, at least for now, consumers prefer plug-in hybrids to EVs. (Automotive News) Don’t believe Donald Trump when he promised $2 gas. (News Nation) Shailen Bhatt is resigning this week as head of the Federal Highway Administration. (Detroit…
As recently noted on this site, there were some pedestrian fatality cases earlier this year on Chicago streets reported by other news outlets, and included in our daily Today’s Headlines roundup, but not yet written about here. Streetsblog Chicago cofounder Steven Vance also notified me about other cases of people struck and killed on foot in our city in recent months. They are listed in his Chicago Crash Browser, based on Chicago Police Department data, which can be accessed through his personal blog Steven Can Plan.To help make sure our map and list of 2024 Chicago pedestrian fatality cases is…
A Next City op-ed pushes back on the idea that stepped-up traffic enforcement can save lives, citing police violence against Black and brown drivers and more effective solutions like safer street design. Lyft is getting rid of its dockless bikes and scooters (CNBC) but doubling down on e-bike rentals (Tech Crunch). Dayton, Ohio’s bike share is shutting down. (WHIO7) The U.S. DOT is proposing a rule beefing up accessibility standards for sidewalks, crosswalks and other pedestrian facilities. (Smart Cities Dive) In August, Indianapolis passed a Vision Zero policy. The same month, drivers hit 103 cyclists and pedestrians, killing seven. (WTHR)…
06.09.2024: Baerbock talks to Israeli ministers during Middle East trip Tel Aviv (dpa) – German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock is continuing her Middle East crisis talks in Israel following visits to Saudi Arabia and Jordan. In Tel Aviv she has met with her counterpart Israel Katz and Defence Minister Joav Galant. The talks are likely to revolve around the still faltering efforts to mediate an agreement between Israel and the Islamist Hamas group on a ceasefire and hostage release. Baerbock is also expected to talk about the situation faced by the civilian population in the Gaza Strip and the outbreak of…
Paris (dpa) – At the Stade de France in Paris, long jump world record holder Markus Rehm has scooped his fifth gold medal at the Paralympics. An orthopaedic technician, he lived up to his role as favourite and won his fifth Paralympic gold medal with a jump of 8.13 metres. Rehm, who had carried the Paralympic torch through Paris on the opening night, also increased the number of gold medals to six for the German Disabled Sports Association (DBS). Previously, the 36-year-old athlete, who at the age of 14 had lost his right leg below the knee after a wakeboarding…
Der Dow Jones schloss den Handel am Freitag mit einem Rückgang von 1,01 Prozent bei 40.345,41 Punkten. Der Index verzeichnet eine Marktkapitalisierung von 13,551 Billionen Euro. Zu Beginn des Handelstages stieg der Dow Jones um 0,738 Prozent auf 41.056,33 Punkte, nachdem er am Vortag bei 40.755,75 Punkten lag. Das Tageshoch des Dow Jones lag bei 41.009,39 Punkten, während der niedrigste Stand bei 40.297,33 Punkten erreicht wurde. Seit Jahresbeginn ist der Dow Jones um 2,76 Prozent gesunken. Vor einem Monat lag der Index bei 38.997,66 Punkten, vor drei Monaten bei 38.886,17 Punkten und vor einem Jahr bei 34.443,19 Punkten. Seit Jahresbeginn…
Christian Schlegel hat in seiner 30-jährigen Karriere an den internationalen Börsen als Börsenmakler, Trader, technischer Analyst, Coach und Seminarleiter große Erfahrung gesammelt. Seit 1987 beschäftigt er sich intensiv mit der technischen Analyse und teilt sein Wissen nicht nur auf YouTube, sondern auch auf seiner eigenen Homepage. Zudem ist er als Co-Admin im Facebook Chat DAX Trader aktiv. Die Meinung von Christian Schlegel spiegelt sich in dem obigen Text wider. Die GmbH, für die er tätig ist, übernimmt jedoch keine Verantwortung für die Richtigkeit seiner Aussagen und schließt jegliche Regressansprüche aus. Es ist wichtig zu beachten, dass es sich bei den…
The August jobs report came in weaker than expected, and employment growth by different industries showed a mixed bag for the U.S. economy.The growth was led by leisure and hospitality and health care and social assistance, with each category adding more than 40,000 jobs, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.If private education is included with the health-care group, as some economists do, that category would have grown by 47,000 jobs.Elsewhere in the report, related categories of jobs saw conflicting data. Construction was a bright spot, growing by 34,000 jobs, but manufacturing shed 24,000 jobs. Professional and business…