David Zipper / is on Nostr

Senior Fellow at the MIT Mobility Initiative and Contributing Writer at Vox, focused on mobility, cities & tech. Words in  CityLab, Slate, The Atlantic etc. Tweets: David Zipper (npub1zra…080t)   #transportation #cities #innovation #technology #transit #cars #cycling #trafficsafety

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/DavidZipper
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Last Notes

2024-07-08 13:48:33

In just 18 minutes, Minnesota received 10,000 applications for e-bike rebates. The website crashed.
This happens pretty much every time a state or city offers e-bike rebates for the first time.
https://www.startribune.com/minnesota-e-bike-rebate-program-fills-up-in-minutes-after-shaky-initial-rollout/600377923/?refresh=true
#minnesota #bike
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2024-07-07 11:45:03

As of today, speed limiters are required in the EU.
All new cars sold in the EU and in Northern Ireland must have a range of technical safety features... The most notable of these is intelligent speed assistance – or colloquially, a speed limiter.”
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jul/05/hard-to-argue-against-mandatory-speed-limiters-come-to-the-eu-and-ni
#europeanunion #cars
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2024-06-19 12:28:02

In Austria, the government now confiscates and sells cars driven by reckless speeders.
Austria's transportation chief: “If you use your car as a weapon, your speed could kill people… You deserve to lose your car.”
Me, in Bloomberg CityLab
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-19/austria-aims-to-curb-crashes-with-crackdown-on-super-speeders?srnd=all
#austria #highways
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2024-06-04 12:33:45

In case you were wondering
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a60983144/study-loud-exhaust-psychotic/
#cars #cities #psychology
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2024-05-15 13:10:35

Here’s an idea for better cities: Make owners of big SUVs & pickups pay more to park.
That's what Montreal now does -- and it's the first North American city to try it.
In Bloomberg CityLab, I explored a groundbreaking way to fight back against car bloat.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-05-15/in-montreal-suv-drivers-must-pay-hefty-new-fees-to-park?srnd=citylab-transportation
#montreal #cars #cities
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2024-05-08 12:44:37

As I told Canada's CBC News:
"'We are so used to subsidizing cars, treating streets as car parking, we don't even recognize what we've lost in doing so.' [Zipper] suggested using spaces once occupied by cars for bike lanes, gardens or cafés."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/car-free-streets-montreal-vancouver-toronto-seasonal-permanent-1.7193687
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2024-04-17 01:22:55

Been a while since I've seen a book cover go this hard
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2024-03-31 13:38:53

As I told NBC News:
“If we’re serious about reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, we have to be serious about reducing transportation emissions, and in order to do that we have to address the main source of those emissions, which come from cars and trucks on highways."
“And to that extent, we need to rethink how much we want to expand highways.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/countries-spurn-cars-us-continues-embrace-highways-rcna145681
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