#motorways — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #motorways, aggregated by home.social.
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What's The Deal With "THAT" CONCRETE Section of the M25 MOTORWAY?
Oh god, I hate driving on that bit. Well, I hate driving on all bits of the M25 to be fair, but that bit in particular is 'orrible.
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Achieving meaningful lives within planetary boundaries?
"Renewables are already much cheaper than fossil fuels. Alas, fossil fuels are up to three times as profitable. Thus capital forces governments to link electricity prices to the price of the most expensive liquified natural gas, not of cheap solar energy. Similarly, building and maintaining motorways is many times more lucrative for private contractors, car manufacturers and oil companies than a modern network of superfast, safe public railways. So capitalists continue to push our governments to subsidise fossil fuels and road building, even while the world burns."
"...Capital uses every tool at its disposal – debt, sanctions, coups and even outright military invasion to keep southern economies subordinate."
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We can move beyond the capitalist model and save the climate – here are the first three steps, Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/commentisfree/2026/feb/12/capitalist-model-climate-growth-capitalism-species-humanity
#FossilFuels #biodiversity #Roads #MobilityDesign #motorways #climate #DeliberativeDemocracy #DemocraticBacksliding #autogolpe #SelfCoup #governance
Image: Houses and landscapes destroyed for every wider roads to provide a conveyor belt for combustion vehicles, Coffs Harbour -
https://www.europesays.com/uk/730287/ Digital education resource launched from Marcus Rashford Wall of Hope #archive #Britain #citizen #Community #Council #councillor #CountyCouncillors #Education #EmergencyPlanning #England #enviroment #fire #GreatBritain #leisure #libraries #library #LocalAuthority #LocalGovernment #Manchester #Motorways #News #ParishCouncils #PublicRecord #RecordOffice #RoadSafety #Services #SocialServices #Tourism #tourist #Transport #UK #UnitedKingdom
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Another of J.D.M. Harvey’s drawings of an unbuilt section of the West Cross Route, this time passing Olympia. It was produced as part of Husband & Co’s consulting engineer’s report to the Greater London Council in May 1970. #GLC #Municipal #Motorways
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Another of J.D.M. Harvey’s drawings of an unbuilt section of the West Cross Route, this time passing Olympia. It was produced as part of Husband & Co’s consulting engineer’s report to the Greater London Council in May 1970. #GLC #Municipal #Motorways
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Another of J.D.M. Harvey’s drawings of an unbuilt section of the West Cross Route, this time passing Olympia. It was produced as part of Husband & Co’s consulting engineer’s report to the Greater London Council in May 1970. #GLC #Municipal #Motorways
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Another of J.D.M. Harvey’s drawings of an unbuilt section of the West Cross Route, this time passing Olympia. It was produced as part of Husband & Co’s consulting engineer’s report to the Greater London Council in May 1970. #GLC #Municipal #Motorways
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Today is the anniversary of the start of a 70mph (112 km/h) maximum #speed limit on #motorways (and any roads otherwise not restricted by a speed limit) in the #UK - starting in 1965 and being fully implemented in 1967.
Previous to that, the max speed limit was unrestricted (as fast as your car would go!) and all my motoring books from early 1960s mention this (but do still suggest driving to an appropriate speed for the road conditions).
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@anon_opin/115709057852684278
Whilst this is partly true - for instance Crossrail / Elizabeth line was debated when I was a teenager, and only completed when I was the other side of 50, this also happen with #motorways / highways - there is no #motorway in the whole of #Suffolk and any plans to expand the A14 highway or deal with the bottleneck of the Orwell Bridge in #Ipswich get regularly rejected - its not even "value for the taxpayer" but also a suprising consensus of rich #NIMBY types who live in the rural areas and #Green activists who are unsurprisingly opposed to more road building - they do have a point as I can remember #M25 being built and soon getting gridlocked - but Suffolk does need *something* to cope with peak time traffic to/from the busy port at #Felixstowe
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There's a standout article in #ThePress by Charlie Mitchell detailing how in the 1960s Christchurch city, NZ, came within a whisker of having a major motorway built through the middle of Hagley Park. That's the big park in the core of the city. The majority of local politicians were all for the motorway and it was only stopped by a coincidental administrative change in the way parks were managed that was backed by a national government decision.
Christchurch's mayor in the late 1960s, Ron Guthrey, was an ardent motorway supporter. The Press article notes how, in his inaugural speech as mayor, "he floated the idea of allowing cars to drive through the Botanic Gardens". At the next election he became the first sitting Christchurch mayor to be defeated in nearly half a century.
I see some parallels here with our current self-described "petrol head" mayor who wants to dig up a central city cycleway.
In the 1960s, opposition to the motorway was led by conservative councillor Peter Skellerup. “Surely the cult of the motor-car is not so strong that we carve through our oldest and most beloved reserve,” he said in 1963. “You can't land an aeroplane in the city… surely the car should be restricted from certain places.” "Skellerup, running to reclaim his seat, won more votes than any other council candidate in New Zealand’s history."
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/431998/ Didsbury Park volunteers celebrate 50,000 hours of work #000HoursOfWork #archive #Britain #citizen #Community #Council #councillor #CountyCouncillors #DidsburyParkVolunteersCelebrate50 #Education #EmergencyPlanning #England #enviroment #fire #GreatBritain #leisure #libraries #library #LocalAuthority #LocalGovernment #Manchester #Motorways #News #ParishCouncils #PublicRecord #RecordOffice #RoadSafety #Services #SocialServices #Tourism #tourist #Transport #UK #UnitedKingdom
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I dare to doubt this. I don't drive through Germany much but when I do, most parts of the "unlimited" speed #motorways I drive on have a #speed #limit of 100kph. So I believe the unlimited speed autobahns are just a myth. 😂
#CarbonReduction #Emissions #autobahn