James Szypula
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From hometown NYC, to new home on the Old Tokaido (since 2006), automobile use should be discouraged - #DissuadeDriving #CarsAreDumb #CarsAreDeadly Tozen U.
Yokohama-shi Kanagawa-ku
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Converting car lanes on wider roadways into protected cycle tracks, will not only add charm and character to roads presently devoid of both, but, most importantly, they will serve as the major arteries from which a cohesive network of bike lanes can grow.
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The newly elected mayor of Tokyo’s Suginami ward, Satoko Kishimoto, BIKES TO WORK.
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A reporter (Japanese woman) asked Koike “Do you think a woman would be able handle Mori’s job?”
Koike responded “only in Japan would someone ask a question like that.” Awesome.
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Throughout the rich world, the young are falling out of love with cars
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Be a hero. Ditch the car. Go by bike and save the world.
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1896 Detroit color coded map of road surfaces for bicyclists
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Every city around the world should have an official memorial to traffic accident victims like they do in Budapest, Hungary
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"A man on foot or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorist can in a hundred miles.” - Edward Abbey
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Add ¥5000 if you fail to notify the company - so if you are hit by a truck don’t forget to call in to let them know you won’t be in to work that day.
GABA says they need to do this to cover administrative costs - phone calls to clients etc. LOL
Not only is GABA/NOVA now unloading it’s consumption tax burden onto instructors through the invoice system, they are now forcing instructors to pay “handling fees” of ¥1500 for every reallocated lesson(lessons canceled due to illness/bereavement etc).
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Red liquid was smeared on vehicles at the Belgian Motor Show and nearly 150 climate change protest heroes were arrested.
【逮捕】展示車に血に見立てた液、モーターショーで気候変動訴える団体が抗議 ベルギー
赤い液体を展示車に塗り付け、周囲に横たわって死んだふりなどをしたとして150人近くを逮捕した。
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Cyclists Spend 40% More In London's Shops Than Motorists
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Today a friend told me his bike was stolen. Of course I told him I’d keep an eye out for it - and hey guess what? - I actually found it tonight.
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Electric cars won't save us, says new UK parliamentary report; get a bike instead
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“Think of an e-bike as a replacement for a car, not a manually powered bike, and suddenly it seems cheap. It seems easy. It seems green. Parking is a piece of cake. And unlike a car, it never gets stuck in traffic.”
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“A bicycle way that is not safe for an eight-year-old is not a bicycle way.” - Enrique Penalosa
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Direct action that is right and just - I teared up a little.
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Riding a bike through Minato Mirai in Yokohama is awful - and just keeps getting worse and worse
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“Bicycles running side by side are often seen as "illegal," but the unfairness of a private car with only one occupant taking up the width of two or more bicycles is a problem that people don’t even notice.”
並んで走る自転車は「違法だ」と目を付けられやすいが、1人しか乗っていない自家用車が常に自転車2台分以上の幅を取っている不公正さは意識から抜け落ちがち問題。
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What’s with these people who modify their cars and motorcycles to actually maximize the amount of noise emitted? How immature can you be?
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Bicycle Helmets Not Designed For Impacts From Cars, Stresses Leading Maker Giro
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Start of the Cycle Messenger World Championship
#CMWC2023
Delivery Race final today in Yokohama
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“...despite the widespread excitement about the prospects for self-driving cars and air taxis, the future of mobility in old and crowded cities is likely to be powered by human muscle.”
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Nagoya Sakae, Sakuradori bicycle lane.
Waste of tax money.
It's used as a parking space for cars on a daily basis, and the blue paint peels off.Bicycles have to take the risk of riding in the car lane. We need to install poles and fences to prevent cars from entering first.
名古屋栄、桜通の自転車レーン。
税金の無駄遣い。
日常的におクルマ様の駐車スペースとして利用されて青い塗装は剥げるわ自転車は危険を犯して第二車線走らないといけないわで税金の無駄遣いでしかない。先におクルマ様乗り入れ防止のポールや柵を設置しないと。
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The best part of going to IKEA is hauling the stuff home.
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You want me to drive? The thing that kills 1.4 million people a year?
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Retweet to scare an American
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It’s is absolutely insane that these streets in Kawagoe aren’t car-free on the weekends.
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I often see this elderly gentleman out for rides across Yokohama on his bicycle. He has trouble walking but he seems to ride everyday.
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Bought this beast back in 2010 - best investment I’ve ever made.
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US pedestrian deaths are soaring. Is it time to ban right turns on red lights?
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‘I can just glide through traffic’: how e-bikes could answer our commuting problems
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I think what the world needs now - is lots of photos of happy kids riding bicycles.
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It’s become entirely possible for Gaba teachers to receive negative paychecks.
Teachers have been striking since June for a long overdue wage increase(first since 2008), against the QII requirement - and now this. Big strikes upcoming. Support
@Tozen_Union
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Automated bike parking in Kawasaki. TBH I’m afraid to try it.
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Fed up Gaba instructors on strike again today.
Underpaid with no wage increase since 2008 - & no offer to compensate for company shifting tax burden onto instructors with a requirement to register for QII invoice system that will have instructors paying much more in taxes.
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A bit of my commute to work - this is Hakuraku. The road is the old Tsunashima Kaido which becomes Rt 2 and goes all the way up to Shinagawa
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As if missing out on a day’s income wasn’t bad enough(GABA teachers don’t get any sick days) the company just announced a “dispatch fee” fine system(after briefly retracting their similar “handling fees” scheme after SNS outrage). This is just unabashed greed and exploitation -
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91-year-old Villager sentenced to prison for hitting bicyclists with her Mercedes via
@Villages_News
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You can pack so much life into one day when you choose to go by bicycle. Every moment all along the route is so much more sensory rich than driving.
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6AM & 14 yo son wakes up late(understandably) for his team’s game. “Dad, I gotta be at station in 15 minutes!” Put boy and bag of equipment on back of cargo bike(still decorated from last night’s Santa ride) - & away we go. Made it easily. Realize we’ve never missed owning car.
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Are you ever embarrassed that you are still driving?
Are you ever embarrassed that you are still driving a gasoline vehicle?
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We just got some big news. Gaba announced that they will retract the worst of their “handling fees” for canceling due to illness, bereavement, etc.
Solidarity works!
Congratulations Tozen Gaba Workers Union members. Suck it union haters.
#GABA
労働組合 #東ゼン労組
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10 years at least since I’ve last driven a car - and coming up on 2 1/2 since I’ve even been inside one. Happy to be
#carfree
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Cargo bikes reduce CO2e emissions by 95% compared to diesel vans, study finds | GCN
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The case for bicycles' inevitable triumph over cars - CNNMoney
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Mayor Kishimoto, before running for office in Tokyo, was a project coordinator for a not-for-profit international organisation based in Amsterdam.
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Normalize stopping by your local shopping street on the way home from work to pick up stuff for dinner
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I still haven’t see a better bike lane in Japan then the one along rt 16 in Sagamihara.
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Today was a good day. Offered a good long term teaching job starting in April and picked up my first pedicab fare. The ¥1400 for 10 min cycling was just ¥100 less than what Gaba has been paying most instructors per lesson since 2008. Happy to put that black company behind me.
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With a bit of planning you can enjoy this same old time vibe all the way from Yokohama to Shinagawa. Might actually be one of the best 25 km urban bike rides in the world.
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Not only is GABA/NOVA now unloading it’s consumption tax burden onto instructors through the invoice system, they are now forcing instructors to pay “handling fees” of ¥1500 for every reallocated lesson(lessons canceled due to illness/bereavement etc).
GABA, now owned by NOVA, is pushing their independent contractors to join their new invoicing system. However we are hereto argue that GABA workers are employees that should have employment rights. Read about it and our court case from 2019👇👇
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All I know is, since getting the ebike 6 months ago, she hasn’t once talked about the hill and the need for a car.
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Traveling by car six times more expensive for society than by bicycle, study finds
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@susanlovesbrad2
@adamkelsey
@BernieSanders
Me neither. I am 50 and I support Bernie Sanders and democratic socialism.
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89-year-old Japanese man rides bike 600 kilometers to visit his 61-year-old son
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Electric Cars Don't Reduce Congestion But Bicycles Can, Argues U.K. Government-Funded Report via
@forbes
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There was a time when my wife was actually thinking about getting a car because of this hill.
#TernHSD
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Brooklyn Bridge 1883.
Banish the cars, bring back the seats, and pedestrianize it.
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Apparently a Gaba manager attempted some damage control on Reddit - and just poured fuel on the fire.
Add ¥5000 if you fail to notify the company - so if you are hit by a truck don’t forget to call in to let them know you won’t be in to work that day.
GABA says they need to do this to cover administrative costs - phone calls to clients etc. LOL
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@LevineJonathan
@CaseyCho1942
The rich love preaching to the rabble on the dignity of working hard - just so they can remain undignified in that way.
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Got stopped by the cops while biking through Tokyo today. They gave me some helmet propaganda and Valentine’s Day chocolates.
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