Mathias Langmarker
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When they claim car culture is "rugged American individualism" and you remind them that free roads, subsidized gas, and mandated parking is actually just socialism for cars.
November 28, 2025 at 8:49 PM
When they claim car culture is "rugged American individualism" and you remind them that free roads, subsidized gas, and mandated parking is actually just socialism for cars.
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Meanwhile people like Will Stancil will post about how suburbs are “proven consumer preference”.
Yes - the heavily subsidized is the preferred, but fiscally unsustainable, option. I like free beer too.
If people had to absorb the actual costs…
Yes - the heavily subsidized is the preferred, but fiscally unsustainable, option. I like free beer too.
If people had to absorb the actual costs…
November 22, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Meanwhile people like Will Stancil will post about how suburbs are “proven consumer preference”.
Yes - the heavily subsidized is the preferred, but fiscally unsustainable, option. I like free beer too.
If people had to absorb the actual costs…
Yes - the heavily subsidized is the preferred, but fiscally unsustainable, option. I like free beer too.
If people had to absorb the actual costs…
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om vi låter privatbilismen bära sina egna kostnader (utsläpp av gaser och partiklar, vägar, slitage, mark, parkering, sjukvård, polis, ohälsa, osv) så kan vi nog sänka både statlig, regional och kommunal skatt.
November 22, 2025 at 8:44 AM
om vi låter privatbilismen bära sina egna kostnader (utsläpp av gaser och partiklar, vägar, slitage, mark, parkering, sjukvård, polis, ohälsa, osv) så kan vi nog sänka både statlig, regional och kommunal skatt.
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If no oil is extracted within your city limits, every gas pump pumps money out of your regional economy.
Bicycles and pedestrians keep the money circulating.
Bicycles and pedestrians keep the money circulating.
November 20, 2025 at 5:42 PM
If no oil is extracted within your city limits, every gas pump pumps money out of your regional economy.
Bicycles and pedestrians keep the money circulating.
Bicycles and pedestrians keep the money circulating.
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Even though it’s been quite a while since the last time (thankfully), every so often, something triggers a reminder of 1 of the 4 times I’ve been hit by a driver while biking or walking and the feeling never really goes away, you know?
November 20, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Even though it’s been quite a while since the last time (thankfully), every so often, something triggers a reminder of 1 of the 4 times I’ve been hit by a driver while biking or walking and the feeling never really goes away, you know?
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And how much Transportation is hidden in the other categories? What portion of Housing costs is the garage under your apartment building? What portion of Food is the sea of parking surrounding the supermarket? What portion of Healthcare is car-related injury and respiratory disease?
Transportation costs are the second largest burden on American family budgets (17%), after housing (33%)!
To address the affordability crisis, we must create cities with abundant housing of all types (subsidized, social, coop, market rate) and make walking, biking, and taking transit convenient.
To address the affordability crisis, we must create cities with abundant housing of all types (subsidized, social, coop, market rate) and make walking, biking, and taking transit convenient.
November 14, 2025 at 6:35 PM
And how much Transportation is hidden in the other categories? What portion of Housing costs is the garage under your apartment building? What portion of Food is the sea of parking surrounding the supermarket? What portion of Healthcare is car-related injury and respiratory disease?
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![4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiby6can6k76yzfmv2czxs4pu2l7zie7bqbrpswi7h3ifmiadkuqvu@jpeg)
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My ebike is speed and power regulated from the factory because law makers see it as a potential danger to people in cities.
October 3, 2025 at 1:13 AM
My ebike is speed and power regulated from the factory because law makers see it as a potential danger to people in cities.
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I never want to see another human trot across a crosswalk, hurry their stroller/kids/mobility device or rush a senior resident through an intersection or any road. It’s ridiculous, like we’ve been gifted some incredible act of patience and kindness from our auto overlords.
October 2, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I never want to see another human trot across a crosswalk, hurry their stroller/kids/mobility device or rush a senior resident through an intersection or any road. It’s ridiculous, like we’ve been gifted some incredible act of patience and kindness from our auto overlords.
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So it turns out, if there were any doubt, that the war on cars is being perpetuated by… er… other cars.
“Expanding the average car length from 5 meters (16.4 ft) to 5.5 meters (18 ft) decreases street parking spots by 9.3%, while an additional expansion to 6m (19.7 ft) causes a further loss of 7%…the growing share of larger vehicles has caused many on-street parking spots to effectively disappear.”
Meet the Montreal Mayor Who Declared War on SUVs
Oversized vehicles are devouring street parking spaces in the Canadian city. So one borough’s mayor is fighting back with bigger fees for hefty trucks and SUVs.
www.bloomberg.com
October 1, 2025 at 11:13 PM
So it turns out, if there were any doubt, that the war on cars is being perpetuated by… er… other cars.
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Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY.
There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.
Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.
Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
Closing Central Madrid To Cars Resulted In 9.5% Boost To Retail Spending, Finds Bank Analysis
City of Madrid significantly boosted the takings of its shops and restaurants last Christmas by banning cars from the CBD, finds an analysis by Spain's second largest bank.
www.forbes.com
October 2, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY.
There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.
Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.
Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
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I don’t hate cars. Like most North American males I was raised to think cars are cool, and as a design nerd, few objects are more eye-catching.
I hate surrendering our streets, our cities and our lives to them.
Car dependence isn’t freedom.
Great cartoon by @robcowan.bsky.social #CarDependency
I hate surrendering our streets, our cities and our lives to them.
Car dependence isn’t freedom.
Great cartoon by @robcowan.bsky.social #CarDependency
October 2, 2025 at 1:50 AM
I don’t hate cars. Like most North American males I was raised to think cars are cool, and as a design nerd, few objects are more eye-catching.
I hate surrendering our streets, our cities and our lives to them.
Car dependence isn’t freedom.
Great cartoon by @robcowan.bsky.social #CarDependency
I hate surrendering our streets, our cities and our lives to them.
Car dependence isn’t freedom.
Great cartoon by @robcowan.bsky.social #CarDependency
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This guy is so upset about getting a photo radar ticket years ago for not pausing 3 seconds before he turned right on red (which is a rule I'm guessing exists so drivers don't hit people crossing the street they're turning into) that he's arguing that traffic cameras are basically fascist.
September 26, 2025 at 10:36 PM
This guy is so upset about getting a photo radar ticket years ago for not pausing 3 seconds before he turned right on red (which is a rule I'm guessing exists so drivers don't hit people crossing the street they're turning into) that he's arguing that traffic cameras are basically fascist.
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The amount of drivers who absolutely lose their shit when asked to keep pedestrians safe is infuriating.
You're driving fucking tanks that can obliterate the human body. You should be held to far higher safety standards than currently exist, and you're still whining. Grow the fuck up.
You're driving fucking tanks that can obliterate the human body. You should be held to far higher safety standards than currently exist, and you're still whining. Grow the fuck up.
September 26, 2025 at 10:38 PM
The amount of drivers who absolutely lose their shit when asked to keep pedestrians safe is infuriating.
You're driving fucking tanks that can obliterate the human body. You should be held to far higher safety standards than currently exist, and you're still whining. Grow the fuck up.
You're driving fucking tanks that can obliterate the human body. You should be held to far higher safety standards than currently exist, and you're still whining. Grow the fuck up.
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Any driver who has a problem with traffic cameras wants to put other people in danger without having to suffer any monetary consequences for their recklessness. It's really that simple.
September 26, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Any driver who has a problem with traffic cameras wants to put other people in danger without having to suffer any monetary consequences for their recklessness. It's really that simple.
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As President Trump has now declared Antifa a «terrorist Organisation» it is time to reflect on the most famous Anti-fascist Operation in the history of the US.
a black and white photo of a group of soldiers getting off a boat in the ocean .
ALT: a black and white photo of a group of soldiers getting off a boat in the ocean .
media.tenor.com
September 18, 2025 at 8:53 AM
As President Trump has now declared Antifa a «terrorist Organisation» it is time to reflect on the most famous Anti-fascist Operation in the history of the US.
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Hey, remember when car and oil companies successfully lobbied governments to create car dependent cities and suburbs, and once we became almost completely car dependent, WE became the loudest, angriest champions of unhindered road space for cars, unnaturally cheap gas, and subsidized free parking?
July 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Hey, remember when car and oil companies successfully lobbied governments to create car dependent cities and suburbs, and once we became almost completely car dependent, WE became the loudest, angriest champions of unhindered road space for cars, unnaturally cheap gas, and subsidized free parking?
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15+ years old, but still VERY relevent — and if we had acted 15 years ago, the “better world” we’d be creating would be a LOT better & easier to reach. There are real consequences we’re just starting to see to not heeding this cartoon a lot sooner.
Even worse if we don’t heed it now. #ClimateCrisis
Even worse if we don’t heed it now. #ClimateCrisis
July 23, 2025 at 5:44 AM
15+ years old, but still VERY relevent — and if we had acted 15 years ago, the “better world” we’d be creating would be a LOT better & easier to reach. There are real consequences we’re just starting to see to not heeding this cartoon a lot sooner.
Even worse if we don’t heed it now. #ClimateCrisis
Even worse if we don’t heed it now. #ClimateCrisis
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It’s always pretty interesting to have some folks try hard to dispute car dependency by describing their conditions that suggest that driving is the obvious choice and other options are non-viable, thereby pretty much describing car dependency, without seeming to get the irony of that.
July 14, 2025 at 11:56 PM
It’s always pretty interesting to have some folks try hard to dispute car dependency by describing their conditions that suggest that driving is the obvious choice and other options are non-viable, thereby pretty much describing car dependency, without seeming to get the irony of that.
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The 2nd item is a staff report back following last year's motion from @ptfry.bsky.social to lower speeds on Vancouver's non-arterial streets, which we helped collaborate on:
visionzerovancouver.ca/2024/04/08/t...
(4/6)
visionzerovancouver.ca/2024/04/08/t...
(4/6)
Take Action: Revisiting and Refreshing Vancouver’s Commitment to Safer Slower Streets
On April 10th, 2024, Vancouver City Council will consider a motion from Councillor Pete Fry to “Revisit and Refresh Vancouver’s Commitment to Safer Slower Streets.” This is a broad Vision …
visionzerovancouver.ca
July 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The 2nd item is a staff report back following last year's motion from @ptfry.bsky.social to lower speeds on Vancouver's non-arterial streets, which we helped collaborate on:
visionzerovancouver.ca/2024/04/08/t...
(4/6)
visionzerovancouver.ca/2024/04/08/t...
(4/6)
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it’s wild to me that the culture war breaks this way.
Which is more macho:
1) get around under the power of your own manly muscles in a machine you can easily build and fix
2) carted around in a luxury armchair stapled to a room sized machine that runs on dinosaur juice and bottomless tax dollars
Which is more macho:
1) get around under the power of your own manly muscles in a machine you can easily build and fix
2) carted around in a luxury armchair stapled to a room sized machine that runs on dinosaur juice and bottomless tax dollars
Here’s a good question — why is riding a bicycle in the city turning into [actually, being deliberately turned into] a culture war?
Read this @momentummag.bsky.social article.
It doesn’t need to be this way. It’s just smarter transportation that makes urban movement easier for EVERYONE.
Read this @momentummag.bsky.social article.
It doesn’t need to be this way. It’s just smarter transportation that makes urban movement easier for EVERYONE.
Why is Riding a Bicycle in the City Turning Into a Culture War
Here are some key reasons why a safety and efficiency issue is turning into a bicycle culture war.
momentummag.com
July 1, 2025 at 5:21 AM
it’s wild to me that the culture war breaks this way.
Which is more macho:
1) get around under the power of your own manly muscles in a machine you can easily build and fix
2) carted around in a luxury armchair stapled to a room sized machine that runs on dinosaur juice and bottomless tax dollars
Which is more macho:
1) get around under the power of your own manly muscles in a machine you can easily build and fix
2) carted around in a luxury armchair stapled to a room sized machine that runs on dinosaur juice and bottomless tax dollars
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Let's be fair. People are still trying to figure out the reason that there's been no American Pope for 1750ish of the 2000 years available.
May 9, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Let's be fair. People are still trying to figure out the reason that there's been no American Pope for 1750ish of the 2000 years available.
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We build aggressive vehicles
We market them recklessly
We celebrate dangerous driving
We design violent streets
We prioritize the driver at all costs
We shame and blame everyone else
Road violence is no accident it’s a direct result of our choices.
We market them recklessly
We celebrate dangerous driving
We design violent streets
We prioritize the driver at all costs
We shame and blame everyone else
Road violence is no accident it’s a direct result of our choices.
May 3, 2025 at 12:43 PM
We build aggressive vehicles
We market them recklessly
We celebrate dangerous driving
We design violent streets
We prioritize the driver at all costs
We shame and blame everyone else
Road violence is no accident it’s a direct result of our choices.
We market them recklessly
We celebrate dangerous driving
We design violent streets
We prioritize the driver at all costs
We shame and blame everyone else
Road violence is no accident it’s a direct result of our choices.