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to raise awareness around the dangers, inefficiencies and injustice that can come from car dependence.
to allow a place to discuss and promote more healthy transport methods and ways of living.

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A driver ran into a ghost bike memorial, and it’s a sad and awful metaphor (cyclingmagazine.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This happened last year, but it's a reminder that "stray bullets" (i.e. moving vehicles) are still a danger to everyone.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

that "stray bullets" (i.e. moving vehicles) are still a danger to everyone.

I don't like this expression.

Bullets have relatively low force, that's why kevlar vests are so effective; the stop penetration and spread the force out. Pretty much the only thing you can do when mis-massed against a car is deflection angles; which relies at least partly on the car's design.
Bullets ~~are always~~ should only be fired with intent to kill something. A stray bullet still meets its primordial purpose of killing someone; just not the intended target. The intent of a car is to transport, the fact that it is the primary killer of people aged 1-54 is a perversion of its own intent and a disgrace to transport.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Bullets are always should only be fired with intent to kill something. A stray bullet still meets its primordial purpose of killing someone; just not the intended target. The intent of a car is to transport, the fact that it is the primary killer of people aged 1-54 is a perversion of its own intent and a disgrace to transport.

Touché.