Notices by The War on Cars (thewaroncars@mastodon.social), page 6

"As American cars have bulked up, the number of fatalities for the drivers and passengers inside these rolling fortresses has fallen by 22 per cent. But the number of pedestrians killed has risen by 57 per cent."

https://www.ft.com/content/a75a6623-67f4-41d1-a0ca-cedc9fda4f90

#SUV #SUVs #thewaroncars #bancars

"Accidents and violence are not so different if we look at them not as punishable acts made by bad people, but as preventable harms,” Singer said. “Through this lens, we can actually fix both problems at the same source. The solution to the mass shooting is also the solution to the accidental shooting. The solution to the traffic crash is also the solution to the vehicular terrorist attack.”

https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2023/02/car-weapon-u-haul-new-york-city-accident/

"For example, in a 700-space garage, if each car is four inches wider than its predecessor, that is 233 additional feet in car width—from the goal line to the opponent’s 23 yard line on a football field—that needs to be accommodated."

https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3pyzx/american-cars-are-getting-too-big-for-parking-spaces?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

New episode!

"The High Cost of Free Parking with Donald Shoup."

We talk to the renowned professor about the growing movement to end parking minimums and how to win what he calls "the war on parking subsidies."

Available wherever you get your podcasts.

https://thewaroncars.org/2023/01/17/the-high-cost-of-free-parking-with-donald-shoup/

#shoup #Shoupistas #parking #podcast #TheWarOnCars

Great image from the Turnpike Trap group that's fighting the $10 -billion NJ turnpike widening project through Jersey City currently backed by Governor Murphy.

Even if highway widening worked to alleviate traffic congestion (it doesn't) what happens when all the cars get to the Holland Tunnel, which can't be widened?