Times are hard. We still have hundreds of federally-sanctioned, armed, masked thugs rampaging through our cities abducting, injuring and killing people. Plus our president who was so concerned with fraud and efficiency just launched a war with Iran that’s costing us a billion dollars per day. So here are some cartoons to cheer you up (or depress you more).
This is for all you cyclists out there who forget to work your other muscles. Don’t end up like this:
This one is for deferred street maintenance, a continued focus on car-oriented street design, and giant blunt-front vehicles that have increased pedestrian and cyclist deaths. So far this year, people killed by car drivers in Saint Paul outnumber other homicides four to one.
This one is for the “Black PR Firms” that create fake astro-turf groups or crank out influence campaigns and conspiracy theories like “QAnon” or “The 15-Minute City” to promote or smear politicians, products and projects:
This one is for Tesla’s robotaxis, whose crash rate is four to eight times higher than human drivers …and Waymo robotaxis whose crash rate is over double human drivers and whose breakdowns and technical problems are becoming huge drains on public resources. It’s something I’ve opined about before but it’s even worse now and may be coming to Minnesota.
This is how humans must look to other life forms:
Maybe the earth will somehow get rid of all these cars.
This one is for Bill Lindeke, who did a bicycle tour of “Noteworthy Parking Lots of Minneapolis” that included parking lots featured in movies like “Fargo”:
And this one is for the explosion of remote-work jobs that have completely upended urban and transportation planning models. For over a hundred years, these models focused on getting folks to and from work and designing streets, roads, public transit, and even zoning around the idea of commuting to and from jobs:
That’s all I got for ya. Keep smiling and fight the power!
