Ep 143: Getting Around Car Abuse

In this shorter episode I cover the last of my articles having to do with the war on cars and movements toward a cities for people and not machines. I read about the uselessness of the drivers test in ensuring safe driving; A program to trade your car for a multi year bus pass; a call for civility from a Bike advocate, a study about how only protected lanes improve everyone’s safety, Paris stops a mass garden program for specious reasons but Belgium passes labor reform we can only dream of until we unionize like they do.

Sources

The Driving Tests failure highlights the problem of mass car use.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kvkna/abolish-the-driving-test
Barcelona’s bus pass for your car program.
https://mymodernmet.com/barcelona-car-free-transport/
Drivers as first class citizens over overs
https://tim-courtney.medium.com/open-letter-my-pilot-friend-who-opposes-my-safety-as-a-bicyclist-3c49688d2131
Only protected bike lanes are any good
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2019/05/29/protect-yourself-separated-bike-lanes-means-safer-streets-study-says/
garden plot program ended; but what’s really the problem here?
https://www.domusweb.it/en/sustainable-cities/2022/02/15/in-paris-the-vegetation-permit-didnt-work-out.html
Belgium Labor Reform provides rights and flex time.
https://www.euronews.com/next/2022/02/15/belgium-approves-four-day-week-and-gives-employees-the-right-to-ignore-their-bosses