Solarpunk Travel

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Community for those focused on sustainable travel. Our society's current levels of energy intensive and frequent travel are not compatible with life on a finite planet. We advocate for long-term slow travel to see the world, and low energy local travel to deeply experience your community. Green washing free zone.

related to sustainable travel:

!trains@midwest.social ← open to all train chatter (but note the instance is centered on the midwest USA)
!rail@feddit.uk ← UK Rail and Trains
!ukpublictransport@feddit.uk ← UK public transport

related to travel generally:

!travel@eviltoast.org ← general travel
!main@lemmy.globe.pub ← general travel (this whole instance devoted to travel but note there is an instance-wide no politics rule there)
!traveltips@feddit.uk ← Europe focus

The communities listed above are decentralized. Centralized instances are omitted as they go against the fedi purpose and it’s better to cultivate digital rights in the free world. That means instances that have a disproportionately large population or are centralized on Cloudflare are not listed.

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In Denver, e-bike vouchers run out as fast as Taylor Swift tickets | Eliminates 170,000 vehicle miles traveled per week. (grist.org)

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[–] tunetardis@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago

Thanks for the reply! I live in a city that's maybe 1/5th the population of Denver, but much of what you said still applies.

The city has an active transportation initiative, but it's rather piecemeal with little follow-through where it's needed. For example, they will put in a cycle track along a busy road, which is awesome. But the trouble is to get to it, you need to go through some underpass with no shoulders and hard concrete walls looming on either side that scream cyclist death trap.

Sometimes I think if even one of the city councillors actually tried bike-commuting, things would change in a hurry…