The World's Dumbest Bike Lane Law Just Passed in Canada
#transportation #bikes #environment #climate #urbanism #stupidity
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=KgFCQ7jEZxI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgFCQ7jEZxI
#urbanism
James Kunstler: How bad architecture wrecked cities - TED
#society #urbanism #environment
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Q1ZeXnmDZMQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1ZeXnmDZMQ
How Self-Driving Cars will Destroy Cities (and what to do about it) - Not Just Bikes
#politics #urbanism #transportation
Say no to cars. Say no particularly to self-driving cars.
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=040ejWnFkj0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=040ejWnFkj0
How Self-Driving Cars will Destroy Cities (and what to do about it) - Not Just Bikes
#politics #urbanism #transportation
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=040ejWnFkj0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=040ejWnFkj0
Unlike #cyberpunk which relies on future tech, and #steampunk which is stories centered around tech we used to think might work, #solarpunk is based mostly on tech we have right now, that those in power refuse to quickly implement as they are beholden to those who wish to make the world a cyberpunk hellscape.
Because of this, solarpunk as an artistic genre is only a tiny part of what it means to be solarpunk as we can if we put the effort in actually LIVE solarpunk.
Living solarpunk involves us to do the following:
1. Build and learn how to maintain a sustainable community
2. #Urbanism through political advocacy and increasing our own use of #publictransit and #micro-mobility devices.
3. Waste/energy/ #consumption reduction( #degrowth )
4. #DIY / #upcycling
5. Urban #gardening and #food forestry
6. #Righttorepair
7. Community cooking/sharing/bulk investment
8. Community #freecycling
9. Digital freedom. Using #FOSS based server social media, clouds storage and software to reduce costs and advertising
10. Create Solarpunk art and telling the story of a future that could be as opposed to the #doomer mindset that causes us stress
This is what my new youtube/peertube channel will be about and I have around 8 scripts written up already, but I have to make sure I'm not forgetting anything, not forgetting explanations and reasons for things and make sure I'm making them as simple as easy to understand.
Once I complete explaining point number one, this will become a collaborative channel, with many people involved just like how solarpunk has to be. We can't do all of these things on our own, the only way to make this work is if we are all involved and connected to ensure no one slips through the cracks.
Trouvez l'erreur...
Réjean Leroux 2024
Photo du 26 mai — #mywork, #myphoto, #photo, #photographie, #photography, #foto #amateur, #couleur, #gimp, #Montréal, #architecture, #histoire, #laval, #urbanism
It just struck me that the whole reason that induced demand always ends up at congested roads, is basic supply and demand: the less something costs, the more people will buy it. Demand grows until supply can't handle the demand and the price goes up. But a trip by car, when you already have a car and the road is already there, seems to cost nothing. Nothing, except time. So demand will go up, and the road will fill up, until the only meaningful personal cost, which is time, gets too high. And that happens when congestion slows your travel time to an unreasonable (frustrating and anger inducing) degree.
There are two possible solutions: one is to add another cost: make everything toll roads. The other is alternative modes of transportation, because then roads won't fill up until they're fully congested, they fill up until car travel time takes longer than the alternatives. Which happens way before congestion (if those alternatives are actually good and not themselves frustrating and anger inducing). And that's why even car travel in Netherland is so much better than in the US.
I knew this was the case of course, but now I really grok the economic logic behind it. And that's why more lanes on their own, without alternatives, can never solve congestion. It's a logical impossibility.
#traffic #urbanism #NotJustBikes @Not Just Bikes 🇳🇱
Why Is Everything So Ugly? | Issue 44 | n+1 | The Editors
#environment #architecture #design #urbanism
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-44/the-intellectual-situation/why-is-everything-so-ugly/
Metro
© Réjean Leroux 2023
photo du 02 juillet — #mywork, #myphoto, #photo, #photographie, #photography, #foto #amateur, #couleur, #gimp, #Montreal, #Montréal, #transport, #metro, #urbanisme, #design, #urbanism
Hier, dans l'est, rue Ontario
(non-non, ce n'est pas dans une ruelle...)
© Réjean Leroux 2023
02 juillet — #mywork, #myphoto, #photo, #photographie, #photography, #foto #amateur, #couleur, #gimp, #Montreal, #Montréal, #urbanisme, #urbanism, #architecture
45.536286317686866, -73.55051433988399
Hey everyone, I’m #newhere. I’m interested in #comics, #dispora, #funny, #gaming, #tech, #urbanism, and #videogames. I'm also interested in #fediverse, and decided to try out diaspora*. So thanks for the invite, @Welcome Diasporg!
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Never forget, a 13-year study of a dozen cities found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. As for sharrows, it’s safer to NOT have them.
Via @Streetsblog, read article linked below.
#bikelanes #bikes #cities #sharrows #infrastructure #urbanism #cars
#culture #science #politics #left #urbanism #rip
"Thus, the cities of the future, rather than being made out of glass and steel as envisioned by earlier generations of urbanists, are instead largely constructed out of crude brick, straw, recycled plastic, cement blocks, and scrap wood. Instead of cities of light soaring toward heaven, much of the twenty-first-century urban world squats in squalor, surrounded by pollution, excrement, and decay."
"We live in the age of the city. The city is everything to us it consumes us and for that reason we glorify it"
RIP Mike Davis
Un classique... rue St-Denis, quartier Villeray
© Réjean Leroux 2022
22 Septembre — #mywork, #myphoto, #photo, #photographie, #photography, #foto #amateur, #couleur, #gimp, #Montreal, #Montréal, #Villeray, #urbanisme, #urbanism, #urbain, #urban #architecture
Petite série "Maisons et commerces du boulevard des Laurentides" № Fin
Vue sur la Rivière des Prairies, depuis le pont Viau, vers l'Est.
Sur la gauche, c'est Laval: la presqu'île Desnoyers.
On voit aussi une partie du pont Papineau, enjambant la pointe de l'Île de la Visitation.
Sur la rive de Montréal, à droite, on sent déjà que l'automne approche...
Merci de m'avoir accompagné pour cette ballade!
© Réjean Leroux 2022
11 Septembre — #mywork, #myphoto, #photo, #photographie, #photography, #foto #amateur, #couleur, #gimp, #Montreal, #Montréal, #Laval, #Pont-Viau, #urbanisme, #urbanism, #architecture, #rivière-des-prairies, #pont-Viau, #pont-Papineau, #île-de-la-visitation,
Petite série "Maisons et commerces du boulevard des Laurentides" № 7
Car-Wash à la main, boul. des Laurentides
© Réjean Leroux 2022
11 Septembre — #mywork, #myphoto, #photo, #photographie, #photography, #foto #amateur, #couleur, #gimp, #Montreal, #Montréal, #Laval, #Pont-Viau, #urbanisme, #urbanism, #architecture,
Petite série "Maisons et commerces du boulevard des Laurentides" № 6
Place Laval, Chomedey, Laval.
Ici, la Tour 5 compte 14 étage et abrite Revenu-Québec — région Laval. Sur la seconde photo, c'est la facade de la Tour 1, qui fait le coin avec le boul. St-Martin.
"L’allure des plus disparates du bâtit" dont je parlais précédemment se confirme; quoiqu'on soit passé d'un quartier à un autre, il s'agit encore du même boul. des Laurentides...
© Réjean Leroux 2022
11 Septembre — #mywork, #myphoto, #photo, #photographie, #photography, #foto #amateur, #couleur, #gimp, #Montreal, #Montréal, #Laval, #Pont-Viau, #Chomedey, #urbanisme, #urbanism, #architecture
Petite série "Maisons et commerces du boulevard des Laurentides" № 5
GIGUÈRE Sports, Quincaillerie, Plus (notez le "Plus")
J'aurais bien aimé que ce commerce ouvre les dimanches... Je trippais tellement que je n'ai pas pris de photos de l'extérieur... Il faut dire que c'était sur la fin du retour sur Montréal... :-)
(Photo via Info-Rapide[com])
© Réjean Leroux 2022
11 Septembre — #mywork, #myphoto, #photo, #photographie, #photography, #foto #amateur, #couleur, #gimp, #Montreal, #Montréal, #Laval, #Pont-Viau, #urbanisme, #urbanism, #architecture