#KRITIS Sektor #Transport und #Verkehr

Inside the Explosive Meeting Where Trump Officials Clashed With Elon Musk

"Federal #Aviation Administration’s equipment for tracking #airplanes...Mr. Duffy said the young staff of Mr. Musk’s team was trying to lay off air traffic controllers. What am I supposed to do? Mr. Duffy said. I have multiple #plane #crashes to deal with now, and your people want me to fire air traffic controllers?

The exchange ended with..."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/us/politics/trump-musk-doge-power.html

The driver
"crashed through a safety barrier and boundary fence before flying through the air and smashing onto the house." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-26/car-crashes-onto-roof-of-home-at-port-macquarie/104982730
#cars #flying #speed #roads #crashes #MidNorthCoast #MobilityDesign

https://www.thedrive.com/news/narrower-city-streets-could-actually-be-safer-study

#SpeedKills: “Our study of #city #lanewidths found that contrary to the current thinking, wider lanes in urban areas can lead to a higher number of #crashes and ultimately #fatalities,” said Shima Hamidi, Ph.D., Bloomberg Assistant Professor of American Health and director of the Center for Climate-Smart Transportation at the Bloomberg School.

https://www.publicnewsservice.org/2023-12-14/urban-planning-and-transportation/study-narrower-roads-safer-better-for-environment/a87707-1

Hamidi contended that speed is the main cause of most #crashes, and when streets are more narrow, drivers tend to be more cautious. 

According to the study, there are 1.5 times more crashes on roads when the lane width increases from nine to 12 feet. 

The report includes policy recommendations, like prioritizing street design over driving speed and functionality.

https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2023/narrower-lanes-safer-streets

Exposing #CigaretteScience: The number of #crashes on a street with 12-foot lanes is significantly higher than on streets with narrower lanes. That is the opposite of the general belief and what has been the foundation for street design and lane-width guidelines.

No right turns on red? S.F. lawmakers urge MTA to ban the practice citywide https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sf-traffic-ban-right-turn-on-red-rules-18405065.php

#CrashesArntAccidents: #Transit advocates have long argued this change could help make the city’s streets safer
turn-on-red #crashes accounted for 20% of all pedestrian or bicycle-related injuries.
#DehumanizingTheStreets

#CrashesArntAccidents: “The simple fact of the matter is that #SpeedKills. Higher speed vehicles lead to more serious #pedestrian #crashes. Our vibrant businesses draw people on foot, on #bikes, and on #cars,” President and District 2 Councilmember Nikki Fortunato Bas said.

#20sPlenty #DesignedToFail

https://oaklandside.org/2023/09/25/speed-limits-are-being-lowered-this-week-in-several-dangerous-oakland-corridors/

#Subsidizing the #unsustainable: bigger #crashes, more construction, #concrete, and #realestate for roads and garages to hold more weight at bigger distances, rare #resources to fight over, #oligarchs from Cheney to Tillerson policing the #fossilfuel era from #StandingRock to #Willows.

#walkablecities #visionzero #20splenty

https://www.curbed.com/2023/04/gm-killed-chevy-bolt-small-ev.html

California leads, feds need to follow, for 1.5 by 2030 to address the prolonged #inequity of #airpollution and #crashes: The proposed #regulation comes almost eight months after California set its own, more aggressive standards mandating sales of electric cars. 
Unlike #California’s #mandate, the #EPA standards would not require that #zeroemission #vehicles make up a percentage of sales. Rather, the total fleet that an automaker sells each year would have to comply with an overall #emissions standard, forcing them to produce enough electric vehicles to avoid surpassing it. https://calmatters.org/environment/2023/04/electric-cars-national-standards-epa/

#Oz: Another ridiculous New York Times article. The problem is not the glorification of guns, cops, #violence, car #crashes saved by heroic driving, resource #wars, displacement, #unsustainable #consumption, and deserving #prisons for unworthy criminals, dished up daily for billions by Hollywood. No it’s the safety protocol on the #propaganda set. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/19/arts/rust-shooting-charges-alec-baldwin.html

Scooters are over restricted and the companies are going bankrupt. But in a significant regulatory milestone for increased #VMT, GM’s Cruise got the CA DMV permission to operate driverless taxi rides 24/7 without geofencing or increased #liability for #crashes.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Cruise-poised-to-offer-driverless-taxi-rides-to-17657865.php