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Car ramming attacks: Weaponized cars have a global footprint

"It subconsciously becomes part of the repertoire of options for people to express their anger in some way and they get exposed to it through the vectors of the media and social media."

"Redesigned urban areas could be one of the simplest ways to prevent car ramming attacks. Paille points to separating roads and footpaths as an example. "Things that make it more difficult for a vehicle to access certain spaces…I found that quite interesting in terms of thinking about public space and making sure it is usable by everyday citizens, but also can help their safety. Bollards are one option commonly used in built-up areas…”
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#cars #vehicles #motorists #SUVAttacks #drivers #machines #ramming #VehicleRammingAttacks #violence #anger #rage #RoadRage #AffectTheory #footpaths #pedestrians #safety #CrowdManagement #bollards #crime #PublicSpaces #VehicularHomicide #VehicularManslaughter #CarRamming #WeaponizedCars #society

Every house, footpath, public area needs serious bollards. (Bollards protecting a building from violence in Sawtell, NSW)

Serious bollards against cars, seen in Sawtell, NSW
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If I was a city department of #transportation, and preventing catastrophic collapse of our road network's base layer would triple the bureau's current operating budget while we were utterly failing at #VisionZero or #ClimateAction plans, I might stop doing something expensive and wasteful like pandering to drivers' feelings by letting any car cut through any street in any direction. #ModalFilters #Bollards #BanCars #Portland instagram.com/p/C_YZr-YPNQV/?i

When maintained, asphalt roads should last 25 years on average, meaning we should expect a more or less total rebuild of the road network every 25 years. That’s about 195 lane-miles per year of rebuilding. So what would this cost to actually do? Well, there’s a pretty big range. On the low end it costs about $2M per lane-mile and on really big projects like the 82nd Ave rebuild, we are looking at $5.5M per lane-mile. Here are a range of costs we should expect to pay each year for quality road infrastructure. + $2M per lane-mile = $390M per year « $3M per lane-mile = $585M per year + $4M per lane-mile = $780M per year + $5M per lane-mile = $975M per year
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Being pretty car-lite, spouse ends up driving 100 miles per week, some of which are 10 or 15-mile round trips I would do via electric cargo bike. A lot is errands or activities within 3-5 miles, but some is planned around the car and might go differently if she saw bikes as viable / non-intimidating transportation, and she's especially uncomfortable with the idea of having kids on board, flat-out won't try it on this [paint/missing] infrastructure. #RangeAnxiety #VisionZero #FuckCars #Bollards

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