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The researchers conclude that the EU should use its strong bargaining power due to the single market to induce the Chinese government to abandon the most harmful subsidies.
This is their advice? Make the technology for the green transition more expensive rather than enact your own subsidies?
Capitalists are going to burn this planet.
China's road infrastructure is all much newer than most other developed nations. And since it was built later I imagine the materials and civil engineering undergirding them is better.
However, the bill always comes due eventually for reinforced concrete. It's currently coming due in most of the west now from all the freeway building that happened in the 50s.
China still has a long time til they're in the same place, and it will be interesting to see if they learned the lessons of not deferring maintenance.
I assume this increase in men being single has led to increases in male loneliness and subsequently the massive chauvinist backlash and rightward shift that's been happening in S. Korea.
What's needed here is to sell off the lamp posts to a private corporation and then to rent them back from that same company!
As someone who views prison as rehabilitative and not punitive, I could not disagree more.
Whether the road space is dedicated to cars or bikes, it's still dedicated to people.
That accepts the framing that we're designing for cars/bikes/peds. We're not. We're designing for people, whether they're in a car, on a bike, etc.
In that sense it's very much not zero-sum.
It's only a zero sum game if they view driving as an essential and immutable part of themselves, and even then, not really.
Charging adequate prices for street parking, for example, guarantees that you'll always be able to park easily if you need to, a luxury not provided by free parking.
And then, of course, they could always just get out of their cars and immediately start benefitting from the changes.
I honestly thought it was going to be Adams, but I definitely knew it wasn't going to happen.
The average American commutes 20.5 miles each way to work 🙃
did they install it via an electric car?
Damn maybe we shouldn't be giving Israel bombs.
There will always be people who do not act with regard to the safety of others. I would rather those people be on bikes than in cars.
I'm not discussing the morality of this action in a vacuum. I'm discussing it in comparison to the same person behaving equally as unsafely in a car.
And yet had you collided, it's very unlikely that anyone would have died.
Those three scenarios you mentioned are all only dangerous because of cars.
We won't be abandoning the tropics. The people who live there will be. And, based on current prevailing attitudes of temperate democracies, those fleeing the uninhabitable zones will be told to simply pound sand. It will be genocide by omission.
The democracy I live under now keeps ignoring or delaying action on climate change in favor of things that are less important than the comfortable survival of our species. If it's trying to convince me it's worth saving it's doing a bad job.
My ideological concerns are secondary to my ecological concerns.
Panama Metro reports that civil works are now 50% complete on Line 3, the 25km monorail that will run from Albrook to Ciudad del Futuro.
Miles Morales’ apartment has a Cuban flag instead of a Puerto Rican one
Whomst among us
Sounds like Ryan and Gonzalez's effort to circumvent democracy is on ice for now.
We've seen divorces that were more amiable than a battle over a single roadway on the Upper West Side.
Some great displays of carbrain in this article.
>DeSeta also likened one of the groups advocating for the open street, Transportation Alternatives, to the National Rifle Association.
>“TA is a multi-million-dollar not-for-profit lobbying organization. And you know what non-profit lobbyists could be? NRA is a not-for-profit, so, ya know, not-for-profit is a loosey-goosey term,” she said.
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>Like DeSeta, Herb Alter, who lives at 103rd Street and West End Avenue, objected, as many opponents typically do, to the "process" by which decisions were made when he was otherwise engaged. During the pandemic, he said, he and his ill wife decamped to their East Hampton second home — and the first he had heard about the open street was at the local dog run upon his return to the city last year.
Basically, a bunch of 70 year-old rich white people who live in a neighborhood where 73% of people do not own cars are trying to get rid of some intense traffic calming the city did during Covid because they lost 13 parking spaces.
It boggles the mind that there are people who live in Manhattan and choose to own cars without a dedicated place to keep them.