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gander22h@diasp.org
Adam Hunt

Here is an update on the attempts to car-proof our new Shopper Drug Mart under #construction in #Ottawa. The posts have now all been decoratively finished with these nice plastic covers. That just hides the fact that they are steel posts embedded in concrete and also filled with concrete and designed to keep idiots who can't drive from hitting the plate glass windows.

#car #cars #automobiles #carculture

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jaywink@jasonrobinson.me
Jason Robinson 🐍 đŸ»

‘Motonormativity’: Britons more accepting of driving-related risk

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/17/motonormativity-britons-more-accepting-driving-related-risk

"In one example 75% of people agreed with the statement: “People shouldn’t smoke in highly populated areas where other people have to breathe in the cigarette fumes.” But when just two words were changed – “people shouldn’t drive in highly populated areas where other people have to breathe in the car fumes” – only 17% agreed.

Similarly, while only 37% of people thought the police needed to take action if someone left their “belongings” in the street and they were stolen, with the word changed to “car” it rose to 87%.

In another question, 61% of people agreed that risk was “a natural part of driving”, whereas just 31% agreed when “driving” was changed to “working”."

"Allowance made for dangers that would not be accepted in other parts of life". The car has been made king in our society. More important than human life.

#motonormativity #carculture #society #cities

sascha@loma.ml
Sascha 😎 🏮

Stadt | Die Autogerechte Stadt

Wie in nahezu allen StĂ€dten hat man auch in Heidelberg der Stadt seit ca. Mitte des letzten Jahrhunderts die PrĂ€gung des Autos aufgedrĂŒckt. Sicher in vielen StĂ€dten wird inzwischen gegengesteuert, in manchen mehr, in manchen weniger. Doch man bemerkt an so vielen Kleinigkeiten das wir noch viel zu viel 'Stadt fĂŒr Autos' und viel zu wenig 'Stadt fĂŒr Menschen' haben.

Dieses Bild ist in der Plöck auf Höhe der Galeria (OSM) entstanden. Hier hat man damals um es den Autofahrern die in die Parkdecks der Galeria wollen möglichst bequem zu machen den Fußweg inkl. Höhenunterschied auf die Seite gedrĂ€ngt um einen Abbiegestreifen zu schaffen, anstatt denn in der Plöck ohnehin extrem bescheiden schmalen Fußweg einfach durchzuziehen und dem Bauherrn zu ĂŒberlassen wie er das Problem löst. Sprich einmal wieder wurde der FußgĂ€nger zu Gunsten des Autos bei Seite gedrĂ€ngt. Und solche Beispiele findet man in Heidelberg, aber auch in allen möglichen anderen StĂ€dten wenn man mit offenen Augen durch die Stadt lĂ€uft ĂŒberall.

#Stadt #Augerechte-Stadt #Carculture #Autozentriert #Auto #Fußweg #Heidelberg #Plöck #2024-06-17 @Heidelberg @Verkehr @Stadt Heidelberg

Blick in die Plöck bei der Galeria, in Heidelberg

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