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#carfree

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Chris Henrick

Fun but rather windy walk along the Great Highway and Ocean Beach today in San Francisco with the husky. Walked over 4 car free miles up and down the whole stretch. So amazing that the city is making this former stretch of highway a public park, and filling it with art and other fun things for people to enjoy.

The Great Highway, welcome to @TheWarOnCars

A white and reddish brown husky dog with her eyes closed on the beach with dark gray sand and a cloudy sky
View of the great highway with a jogger running down it towards the distance. The husky watches the jogger. Cloudy sky with some patches of blue and ice plants growing along the side of the road. No cars
A mural painted in the middle of the road of an orange octopus grappling a building that has a sign that says the cliff house. The husky walks along the edge of the mural. No people or cars in the road. Sand and ice plants along the edge of the road
A view of three wooden chairs crudely carved from big logs. A traffic light is in the middle facing perpendicular to the camera. A row of houses behind a hill of ice plant and a cloudy sky with blue above the clouds
#dogsOfMastodon#husky#carFree
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Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)

I think I spotted where the #LNP got the idea to reduce the fuel excise.

It's a One Nation (#ONP) policy, except they're proposing doing it for longer.

> Halve the fuel excise to 26 cents per liter for 3 years with a review after 12 months, with the option to extend further.

onenation.org.au/reduce-cost-o

Seems a reasonable proposal on the surface… BUT:

1. it'll take a while for it to make a difference to those who don't actually pay a fuel excise (e.g. the #carfree community and the #ev community)
2. you risk putting greater demand on fossil fuels, which given the meagre reserves we have and the impact emissions are having on our #climate, seems like a bad choice

Maybe the fuel excise should be going into projects that improve the green space and help offset some of these emissions?

#AusPol
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mgorny-nyan (he) :autism:🙀🚂🐧

There used to be a Polish comedy series called "Rodzina zastępcza" (roughly, "Foster care"). In one of the episodes, a woman called Alutka suddenly decided to start living a thrifty life. As part of that, she decided to buy everything at sale, if possible — and in order to reach all these sales, she took taxis.

Most people don't have a problem in finding the irony in this. However, they are simultaneously incapable of noticing an irony in their own lifestyle, where on one hand, they go as cheap as possible on groceries and their own health, and on the other run to their cars whenever they'd need to walk 10 minutes.

#CarFree
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nix

Trying to solve going fully #carfree, working on grocery pickup. I think there's a few problems I need to solve:

* Efficient Storage. I have panniers but they don't fit well with the pegs I have (which aren't removable without removing the rear wheel).

* Bike security. A couple of the stops I'm looking at have good spots to park the bike, but others don't.

* Grocery security. If I stop at two places, I want to keep my groceries from the first secure while sitting in my bike.

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Gemma Seymour

As someone who has been living #carfree in #Vermont for over 3.5 years—I am now in my 4th Winter with no car—it's very important to me to have better #bicycle #infrastructure, and I am not alone.

#Brattleboro needs to do much better in this regard. We need to find ways to divert motor vehicle traffic from our downtown. We need protected bicycle paths to replace on-street parking. We need more and better places to park and secure bicycles with weather protection, and we need snow removal. #VTpol

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mgorny-nyan (he) :autism:🙀🚂🐧

#CarBrain mentality makes assuming that everyone ought to own a car, or at least be able to drive one, the new normal. It involves privileges to drivers, and discrimination to everyone else. It means optimizing for private cars, and dismantling the public transport.

However, exclusion of #CarFree people is not the biggest problem — whether they're excluded on financial, medical or ideological basis. The real threat is the pressure to use cars, even when you clearly shouldn't be driving.

And so carbrain mentality wins over reason. Driving a car is a necessity to preserve your lifestyle, you just can't imagine any other way of living. Medical checkups become a joke. Court driving bans pile up. People die. Yet carbrains keep saying: "good drivers often cause accidents too." And never stop to ponder what that really implies.

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