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Biden administration proposing regulations making air travel easier for people using wheelchairs | The Hill
https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/4497378-biden-administration-regulations-wheelchairs-travel/

Biden administration proposing regulations making air travel easier for people using wheelchairs
The Biden administration is proposing regulations to make air travel easier for people who use wheelchairs. The proposed rule from the Department of Transportation (DOT) would make the “mishandling” of assistive devices including wheelchairs “an automatic violation of the Air Carrier Access Act,” which would allow the department to “to more easily penalize airlines and…

Why?
Just... why?
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/nomade-i-all-in-one-daily-travel-hoodie--2
(I mean, you could just, you know, carry a back pack or something, but there are some that want to rattle while they walk I suppose.…

I wrote a post about a Tiny Travel Humidifier I've been testing out...
➡️ https://rasterweb.net/raster/2024/03/26/tiny-travel-humidifier/

Tiny Travel Humidifier
I recently got this Tiny Travel Humidifier, and I'm calling it that because those are three of the words included in the 25+ word product name listed on Amazon. The reason I got this is because I'm doing a lot of traveling for work and staying in hotels for multiple nights and since I use [...]

This article on the environmental cost vs ££ cost of train travel rather than EV travel caught my eye https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/feb/27/train-travel-generates-less-carbon-than-battery-ev-says-rail-gr…

Filmmaker from Israeli Occupation receives death threats after criticizing apartheid: Israeli Occupation journalist and filmmaker Yuval Abraham has faced death threats and has altered his travel plans following his acceptance speech at the Berlin International Film Festival.
https://en.royanews.tv/news/49698/2024<…

Filmmaker from Israeli Occupation receives death threats after criticizing apartheid
Filmmaker from Israeli Occupation receives death ....

Back on the CO2 travel kick... equivalent of the day:
A 40km crossing on a BC Ferry from Nanaimo to Vancouver produces the same CO2 per passenger (5kg) as an 1800km high speed train journey from London, UK to Valencia, Spain.
We need to completely rethink travel in Canada but our political leaders are transportation cowards.
Source:
Train:

The Rick Steves guide to life
When he’s not traveling around Europe, writing about Europe or running his multimillion dollar European tour company,
the prolific TV host and author likes to squeeze in some local activism.
The roundabout routine is his push to block off Edmonds’s very American Main Street for pedestrians.
If you squint at it, you can see what Steves sees:
this would be the perfect place for a lively town square.

The Rick Steves guide to life
Travel mogul. Philanthropist. Legal weed champion. The real Rick Steves is so much more complex than who you see on TV.

Secretary Blinken's Travel to Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Israel (United States Department of State)
https://www.state.gov/secretary-blinkens-travel-to-saudi-arabia-2/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240429/p1#a240429p1

This article on the environmental cost vs ££ cost of train travel rather than EV travel caught my eye https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/feb/27/train-travel-generates-less-carbon-than-battery-ev-says-rail-gr…

From Mammoth to Tahoe, powerful blizzard could sock Sierra with up to 12 feet of snow
Forecasters urged people to take advantage of calm weather through Wednesday to prepare ahead of the incoming storm. They warned travel is expected to be nearly impossible from about 4 a.m. Thursday through Sunday morning. “If you attempt to travel, be prepared for whiteout conditions & extended road closures. Bring extra food, water, & warm clothing,” the National Weather Service office in Sa…

From Mammoth to Tahoe, powerful blizzard could sock California
A powerful storm taking aim at California starting Thursday could bring the strongest blizzard of the winter for the Sierra Nevada.