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import { Aspect } from "@/components/aspect";

export default async function Page() {
return <Aspect base="advocating" />;
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# 🚥 Towards Zero Traffic Deaths

When I moved from Rio de Janeiro to São Paulo, one of the biggest improvements
on my quality of life was becoming car-free. I still used a car here and there,
to visit in-laws or traveling to the country, but swapping out driving and
maintaining a car to a mix of subway and cycling day-to-day was game changing.
That's not the norm in São Paulo, but it was a privilege I obtained that became
a key factor in enjoying the city.

Fast forward a few years; the new urbanist movement around 15-minute cities
growing stronger; climate crisis ever looming and active transportation policy
becoming more widely sought-after; I move to Vancouver. If my overall experience
as city dweller improved in almost every axis after moving to São Paulo except
perhaps for "beach time", the same gains repeat tenfold here plus getting
beaches back - on summers at least.

Like any big city, Vancouver is a complex amalgamation of forward and backward
policies, culture and infrastructure. On the one hand, I'm as confident as ever
that I can live a complete urban life without owning a car due to the decent
amount of cycling infrastructure around [MetroCore][], plus the amount of
public-transit-accessible adventures - from turquoise lake hikes to snowboarding
mountaintops. On the other hand, progress is sometimes slow, sometimes
non-existent, as waves of car-centrism ebb and flow more or less in synchrony
with conservatism majorities on the wheels of the public sphere.

[MetroCore]: https://thedva.ca/defining-vancouvers-metrocore/

Rio, São Paulo, and Vancouver can and should and do more to make car dependency
a thing of the past, so becoming car-free becomes not a privilege of the few,
but a feasible choice for anyone. Owning a car should be a matter of personal
preference as much as its color, not a condition for getting access to work or
leisure.

## Getting Involved

The biggest barrier to more people cycling on big cities has always been safety.
This is for good reason: in Vancouver as of 2023, about 100 people die in
traffic every year while trying to get from point A to point B. It's no wonder
people wish to have as much metal around them as possible while on the road,
consequently the SUV trends makes it even less safe for those trying to get
around, specially those on any other less protected transportation device:
bicycles, skateboards, rollers, or just walking on two legs.

That's where [Vision Zero][] comes in.

[Vision Zero]: https://visionzerovancouver.ca

### Average Crash Counts Sheet

[Data][].

[Data]: https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/icbc/viz/LowerMainlandCrashes/LMDashboard

[Sheet][].

[Sheet]: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SfDWFnNJ8LMxAu23wIKsCXdV_tzdYV_GczR5nSh4l2E

### Crash Count iOS Shortcut

[Shortcut][].

[Shortcut]: https://routinehub.co/shortcut/17369/
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export default function Page() {
return <Content />;
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import { Aspect } from "@/components/aspect";

export default async function Page() {
return <Aspect base="thinking" />;
return <Aspect base="cooking" />;
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export default async function Page() {
return <Aspect base="cooking" />;
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<ul>
<li>Husband,</li>
<li>
<a href="cooking">🥘 Personal Chef</a>,
<a href="cooking">🥘 Cook</a>,
</li>
<li>
<a href="brewing">Resident Barista</a>,
<a href="brewing">☕ Barista</a>,
</li>
<li>
<a href="running">👟 Street Runner</a>,
<a href="running">👟 Runner</a>,
</li>
<li>
<a href="hiking">🏕️ Outdoors Explorer</a>,
<a href="hiking">🏕️ Explorer</a>,
</li>
<li>
<a href="thinking">🧠 Opinionated Human</a>.
<a href="advocating">📢 Advocate</a>.
</li>
</ul>
<h2>me elsewhere</h2>
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