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Next Stop: Shopping in Cork

Three women wait at the traffic lights on Grand Parade. They’ve all been shopping in NEXT.

It’s odd what Lightroom sometimes does to a photo when you correct for lens distortion. 🙂

Apertureƒ/4CameraILCE-7M3Focal length16mmISO160Shutter speed1/500s

Pedestrians and fossil fuel powered motorists

A motorist ran a red light in Adelaide's west and killed a pedestrian he had had his jail sentence suspended.
abc.net.au/news/2024-08-26/ele

A truck driver avoids jail after running red light and hitting School students. He was ordered to do 240 hours of community service over nine months. One student sustained multiple injuries, including a traumatic brain injury.
abc.net.au/news/2024-08-26/tru
#pedestrians #PedestrianCrossing #Motorists #cars #trucks #crash #harm #violence #mobilityDesign #australia #GettingAwayWithIt #law

ABC News · Fatal crash driver Elemer Dobak avoids jail for pedestrian crossing crash that killed Joan McCaskillBy Bethanie Alderson

Nineteen-ninety-something: DfT says to stop relying on PV2 for deciding whether to install pedestrian crossings/what form they should take.

Fast-forward to 2024, and in a meeting I hear someone say “we should now move away from using PV2.”

I shit you not. There are times when it seems like some people have somehow just missed the last two decades. 🙄 😔

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The video transitions projected on these panels are something like this sequence, at the Bean & Leaf Café on #GrandParade in #CorkCity: vimeo.com/811283274
This one shows a #LongExposure of the place, transitioning into a speeded-up timelapse, composite frame motion trails, a moving heatmap of the successive #pedestrian and #vehicle phases of the #PedestrianCrossing, and into a final motion intensity map of the place.