City Life

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/788654

Source: https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/exclusive-bc-rental-crisis-puts-100000-households-at-risk-homeless. This is an automatic repost from Reddit by a bot created by @[email protected]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ

www.politico.eu/article/europe…

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/631577

A great read+great magazine.

AI Generated TL;DR (tldrthis.com):

Cycling is the most sustainable form of transportation, but the bicycle is becoming increasingly damaging to the environment.
Before the 1980s, most bicycle components were interchangeable between frames of different brands and generations.
An academic study on circularity in the bike manufacturing industry observes a significant increase in defective components compared to unassisted bicycles and concludes that “the great dynamics of the market due to regular innovations, product renewals, and the lack of spare parts for older models make the long-term use by customers much more difficult than for conventional bicycles.”
However, a recent study calculated the lifecycle emissions of a carbon fiber electric cargo cycle to be 80 gCO2 per kilometer – only half those of an electric van (158 gCO2/km).
The decreasing sustainability of bikes is not a technological problem, and it’s not unique to bicycles.
However, shared bicycles are unlikely to become more sustainable than private bicycles because they always require rebalancing and a high-tech infrastructure to make the service work.

Crosspost from [email protected] - I found this very interesting that traffic wasn't really adversely affected!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-wsFZFcC-o

Traffic sucks... the solution might not be what you think though.

and table of contents:

00:00 Intro

02:12 It Takes Too Long

05:37 Travel Is Too Unpredictable

07:43 The Experience Of Traffic is Terrible

09:30 Watershed Analogy

10:13 What Do We Do?

Interesting story about urban shade. Early in the article are some interesting history tidbits like

You might imagine that transit planners call the shots — strategically placing shelters outside grocery stores and doctors’ offices on high-frequency routes, according to community need — but Los Angeles, like many cities, has outsourced the job. The first thousand shelters were installed in the 1980s by billboard companies in exchange for the right to sell ad space, and they tended to show up in wealthy areas where ad revenue surpassed maintenance costs. 2

Game changer just dropped!

They're planning to fill the underpass to support some temporary narrow center lanes. Then they'll build the outer lanes proper before digging out the underpass and completing the inner lanes proper.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do94u0oNfjw

Traffic violence is a preventable public health crisis, experts said during a road safety webinar. Federal funding will help, but cities also must cultivate a “culture of safety,” one mayor said.

We're taking the bus, as there's no highway to Hel.

Electric bikes make it possible to easily travel around town for less than a penny per day — literally.