OSM Town Compass @compass

**Jer** @jerzone@techhub.social · 2d

A slice in time slowly being consumed by it. The mechanical, tactile controls we gave up for touch screens?
#radio #antique #vehicles #rust #buttons #dials

Rusty dash of a very old truck (50’s?) with, near as I can make out from left to right
Upper:
* ashtray slot w/hole for lighter
* radio with 3 “knobs” and a peephole view of current frequency
* no idea, rectangle indented plate with small hole
Below that:
* shaft of knob?
* remnant of knob or switch
* slot for key
* empty hole
* another switch or knob remnant

Under dash:
* maybe a pull knob, for choke or vent

A rusty and leafy view of far left/bottom of dash and foot pedal area. The dash area has three wide oval knobs, the kinds of things your hand can get a good purchase on and pull or push with authority. One could be for releasing hood latch but that seems like the age when you just reached under front of hood, felt around then pulled up on hidden latch. They could be for headlights, maybe a choke, perhaps something fancy like timing advance. Any other likely candidates?
Below that, on what’s left of the floorboard, there are two round rubber pedals with concentric “grip” circle texture. Most like clutch on left and brake on right. The gas pedal is missing but we can just make out a hole in the firewall with a cable coming through.

Closeup of the odometer, where a speedometer cable snaking its way up from transmission area to hook to gears that rotate a dial to indicate speed using a dial coming out of the empty hole in the middle and below that it would drive other gears to slowly tick over a series of numbered wheels to track total miles. This may be showing 12193x for mileage, or depending on angle it could be 23204x (‘x’ means I can’t read that dial).

**Benjamin Carr, Ph.D.** @BenjaminHCCarr@hachyderm.io · Apr 28

Apr 28

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. @BenjaminHCCarr@hachyderm.io

Surprise! #London's tax on #polluting #vehicles made everyone much healthier
Two of the most dangerous aspects of vehicle #emissions – nitrogen oxides, which are responsible for #smog formation, and PM2.5, which are tiny particles that irritate the lungs – have dropped by almost a third compared to if #ULEZ hadn’t been implemented, in only the few years that the policy has been in place.
99% of air quality monitors around London have showed a reduction in #pollution!
https://electrek.co/2025/03/15/surprise-taxing-polluting-vehicles-in-london-made-everyone-much-healthier/

Electrek · Mar 15Surprise! London’s tax on polluting vehicles made everyone much healthierBy Jameson Dow

**BellingenNSW** @Bellingen@mastodon.au · Apr 27 *

Apr 27 *

BellingenNSW @Bellingen@mastodon.au

Car ramming attacks: Weaponized cars have a global footprint

"It subconsciously becomes part of the repertoire of options for people to express their anger in some way and they get exposed to it through the vectors of the media and social media."

"Redesigned urban areas could be one of the simplest ways to prevent car ramming attacks. Paille points to separating roads and footpaths as an example. "Things that make it more difficult for a vehicle to access certain spaces…I found that quite interesting in terms of thinking about public space and making sure it is usable by everyday citizens, but also can help their safety. Bollards are one option commonly used in built-up areas…”
https://www.dw.com/en/what-is-behind-the-many-german-car-ramming-attacks/a-71827106
https://theconversation.com/vancouver-suv-attack-exposes-crowd-management-falldowns-and-casts-a-pall-on-canadas-election-255395
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#cars #vehicles #motorists #SUVAttacks #drivers #machines #ramming #VehicleRammingAttacks #violence #anger #rage #RoadRage #AffectTheory #footpaths #pedestrians #safety #CrowdManagement #bollards #crime #PublicSpaces #VehicularHomicide #VehicularManslaughter #CarRamming #WeaponizedCars #society

Every house, footpath, public area needs serious bollards. (Bollards protecting a building from violence in Sawtell, NSW)

Serious bollards against cars, seen in Sawtell, NSW

**fluffy** @fluffy@plush.city · Apr 26

**BellingenNSW** @Bellingen@mastodon.au · Apr 25 *

Apr 25 *

BellingenNSW @Bellingen@mastodon.au

Make Church Street a Clean Air Zone
Low emissions zones are a very quick way to bring down pollution ( NO2 ,PM2.5) and avoid cognitive decline and cancers from combustion traffic.

"Higher emissions from industry and residential combustion, as well as biofuel, coal, and oil and natural gas combustion, were associated with worse language scores."
https://academic.oup.com/biomedgerontology/article/80/5/glaf060/8082041?login=false

Clean air zones
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/driving-in-a-clean-air-zone
#FossilFuels #vehicles #combustion #cars #traffic #polllution #contaminants #regulation #LEZ #ULEZ #cognition #cancer #Bellingen #ChurchStreet #cafes #alfreco #eateries #CleanAir #PublicHealth #health #harm