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Ben Fulton

America’s unbeautiful suburban sprawl

"Long stretches of chain stores in single-storey, flat-topped buildings. The cluster of gas stations, with functionally and aesthetically similar convenience stores selling rows and rows of sugary food and drinks...rectangular islands of stuff surrounded by parking lots leading to other little islands of fast food, also surrounded by parking lots, filled with rows and rows of the most enormous pickup trucks"

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The Guardian · What does Maga-land look like? Let me show you America’s unbeautiful suburban sprawlBy Alexander Hurst
#Highways#Sprawl
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Feike

@richlv @EUCommission we have 3 types of public roads:
- #streets,
- #roads,
- #highways.

Streets are to access places and are typically is cities. They've usually #30kmh limits, mixed car/bike traffic and paving stones to signal to drives that caution is necessary.
Outside cities streets are used to access farms or remote places, the surface is tarmac but the street width is small and the speed is #60kmh mixed car/bike traffic.
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Nonilex

’s move effectively ends 3 decades of work at the to try to ease the that burdens & communities, which are frequently located near , , plants & other polluting facilities. Studies have shown that people who live in those have higher rates of , & other problems, compared w/the national average.

#law#EnvironmentalJustice#PublicHealth
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BellingenNSW

Highway expansions and road widening
How America (Australia) Can Break Its Highway Addiction

"After a century of rampant roadbuilding, the U.S. highway network is ubiquitous, dominating the American landscape in bucolic rural settings as well as dense urban ones. Rather than being a tool for mobility, it has become a monument to an auto-centric lifestyle that fouls the air and depletes the public coffers. Neither the country nor the planet can afford to keep expanding it."

"At the federal level, even asking questions about the collective climate impact of highway building appears verboten."
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slate.com/business/2024/08/con
#Sprawl #roads #highways #expansion #cars #automobility #industry #asphalt #Motordom #MobilityDesign #ClimateBreakdown #pollution #NSW #CoffsHarbour #bellingen #GlenifferRoad

The 14-kilometre Coffs Harbour bypass project for $2.2 billion. That's a lot of cycle and footpaths. What active mobility?
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John Arnold

_The Evening Post_, 22 February 1924:
WINTER TRAFFIC OUTLET
GISBORNE–NAPIER HIGHWAY
(BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
GISBORNE, This Day.
The Gisborne–Napier highway, upon which the Public Works Department has been concentrating its energies for the past three years, is now approaching completion, metal having been deposited along its full length. #Gisborne is thus assured of an outlet during the winter season, which it has not hitherto poss[ess]ed. The Department’h [sic] intention is to lay a bitumen surface on the road. The Chamber of Commerce is sending a message to the Hon. J. G. Coates, congratulating him on the completion of the road, and the removal of the isolation of the district.
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/news

Black-and-white photo: Inspection of Road Construction on the Gisborne–Wairoa Highway: Passing a Workers’ Camp. 1924. Description: A downward-looking view from a hillside at a narrow road in the middle of bush. A car is parked at the side of the road, and nearby are temporary huts, possibly one at least with a canvas roof. In the distance another hillside rises up. Citation: Supplement to the Auckland Weekly News, 9 April 1925, p. 52. Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections AWNS-19250409-52-03. https://kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/collection/photos/id/244210
#OnThisDay#OTD#PapersPast
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BellingenNSW

Where is the walking and cycling infrastructure ?
Let's redirect funding from roads to walking and cycling infrastructure.

"Australia spends $714 per person on roads every year – but just 90 cents goes to walking, wheeling and cycling. Unfortunately, that’s how much the Australian government has invested per person annually on walking, wheeling and cycling over the past 20 years."

"As a result of this over-investment in car road-building, Australia has the smallest number of walking trips of 15 comparable countries across Western Europe and North America. Many Australians are dependent on cars because they have no other choice in terms of transport options."

"Road use is inherently dangerous – in Australia last year, more than 1,300 people died on our roads, which is more than 25 people a week."

"The typical Australian household spends 17% of its income on transport – with car ownership making up 92.5% of that figure, compared to 7.5% on public transport."

"A major source of all emissions in Australia are from driving."

"Redirecting funding from the current road budget makes the most sense, because getting more people walking, wheeling and cycling eases pressure on the transport system (think of school holiday traffic). "

"When it comes to transport, the saying goes “we get what we build” – so if we build more roads, we get more people driving. If we build paths, we get more people walking and cycling short journeys and our roads are less congested."
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theconversation.com/australia-

The Australian and NSW governments are funding the $2,200,000,000 ($2.2 billion), 14-kilometre Coffs Harbour bypass project. Cars will save 12 minutes. Imagine the walking and cycling infrastructure...
pacifichighway.nsw.gov.au/site

The ConversationAustralia spends $714 per person on roads every year – but just 90 cents goes to walking, wheeling and cycling
More from The Conversation AU + NZ
#MobilityDesign#cars#roads
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Richard Rathe

Posting this here because it appears to have been removed from the #CDC website?!?! Support #PublicHealth !!

Don’t believe #RFK & #Trump #Lies !!

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MMWR April 2, 1999 (edited for clarity)
These achievements are astounding and should be celebrated! 👏👍💕

Ten Great Public Health Achievements — 1900-1999

#Vaccination resulting in the eradication of smallpox; elimination of poliomyelitis in the Americas; and control of measles, rubella, tetanus, diphtheria, Haemophilus influenzae Type B, and other infectious diseases in the United States and other parts of the world.

Control of Infectious Diseases resulting from #cleanwater and improved sanitation. Infections such as typhoid and cholera, a major cause of #illness and #death early in the 20th century, have been reduced dramatically. In addition, the discovery of antimicrobial therapy has been critical to successful public health efforts to control infections such as tuberculosis and sexually transmitted diseases.

Safer and Healthier #Foods have resulted from decreases in microbial contamination and increases in nutritional content. Identifying essential micronutrients and establishing food-fortification programs have almost eliminated major nutritional deficiency diseases such as rickets, goiter, and pellagra in the United States.

Healthier #Mothers and #Babies have resulted from better hygiene and #nutrition, availability of antibiotics, greater access to health care, and technologic advances in maternal and neonatal medicine. Since 1900, infant mortality has decreased 90%, and maternal mortality has decreased 99%.

#FamilyPlanning has provided health benefits such as smaller family size and longer interval between the birth of children; increased opportunities for preconceptional counseling and screening; fewer infant, child, and maternal deaths; and the use of barrier contraceptives to prevent pregnancy and transmission of human immunodeficiency virus and other STDs.

Control of Risk Factors for #HeartDisease and #Stroke such as #smoking and high blood pressure. Since 1972, death rates for coronary heart disease have decreased 51%.

Recognition of #Tobacco Use as a Health Hazard; since the 1964 Surgeon General's report on the health risks of smoking, the prevalence of smoking among adults has decreased, and millions of smoking-related deaths have been prevented.

Motor-Vehicle Safety improvements have resulted from engineering efforts to make both #vehicles and #highways safer and from successful efforts to change personal behavior (e.g., increased use of safety belts, child safety seats, and motorcycle helmets and decreased drinking and driving).

Safer #Workplaces work-related health problems, such as coal workers' pneumoconiosis (black lung), and silicosis (common at the beginning of the century) have come under better control. Severe injuries and deaths related to mining, manufacturing, construction, and transportation have also decreased. Since 1980, safer workplaces have resulted in a reduction of approximately 40% in the rate of fatal occupational injuries.

#Fluoridation of Drinking Water began in 1945 and in 1999 reaches an estimated 144 million persons in the United States. It safely and inexpensively benefits both children and adults by effectively preventing tooth decay, regardless of socioeconomic status or access to care.

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Brandon Kraft

I updated an older post that I enjoyed writing quite a bit — the history of the IH-35 and 51st Street intersection in Austin. I wrote it when they proposed a roundabout, so I updated it with what they built and the planned work with the IH-35 reconstruction in Central Austin. #atxtraffic #highways

kraft.blog/2015/12/interstate-

https://kraft.blog/sn/104392/

The Journeyman · The History of 51st and I-35
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