Benoît Chamontin ✌️❤️🇨🇦

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FR - ENG De la mobilité, du sport, de la politique et bien d'autres choses de la vie Fier Marseillais à Montréal 💙 / Gestionnaire @ Logement et Infrastructure Canada / 🌈

Chart Showing That Global Warming Has Sped Up in Recent Years when comparing 2010 - 2026 earth's temperature to 1850-1900 avergae. The recent warming trend is on a steeper trajectory, but still withing the range of decades-old projections. Source: Berkeley Earth Note: Observed temperature is through May 2026. Projected temperatures rely on CMIP3 model 5th to 95th percentile trends.
Stamped REM passport held inside the new Des Sources station in Montreal
Summerskill assessed the visibility of children of average European height standing in a central position at the front of two well-known high-bonneted vehicles, the RAM TRX and the Land Rover Defender, and one regular car, the VW Golf. Illustration shows the three situations with a kid in front of each car. The RAM TRX was chosen as one of highest-fronted light duty vehicles sold in Europe. RAMs are not type approved for the European market, but are registered under Individual Vehicle Approvals (an approval route which is often problematic, and due to be tightened, at least in the EU). The leading edge of the RAM TRX’s bonnet is close to 130 cm high and an elevated area nearer the windscreen also contributes to obscuration by raising the line of vision above the bonnet edge, as shown below. At 115 cm, the Land Rover Defender is understood to have the highest bonnet of European-made models. On the other hand, the VW Golf, with a bonnet height of 75 cm, is intended to act as a proxy for other vehicles with bonnet heights of 60 to 75 cm, which follow best practice in the design of vehicle fronts, according to the literature. Other vehicles with bonnet heights of 60 to 75 cm include the Audi A1, BMW 4 Series, Hyundai Ioniq, Kia Ceed, Mercedes Benz CLA, Opel / Vauxhall Astra, Porsche Taycan, Seat Leon, Skoda Fabia, Tesla Model 3 and Tesla Model Y. Seated behind the steering wheel of a RAM TRX pick-up truck, a driver of average European adult height cannot see children of average height standing in front aged up to, and including, nine years old. Average height drivers in Land Rover Defenders cannot see children aged up to four-and-half standing in front.
Illustration showing the difference between a higher bonnet and a lower bonnet car collision with a pedestrian. High bonnets strike pedestrians higher up in the body, often hitting vital organs near the core, before knocking them forward and down, with a higher risk of driving over them. On the other hand, low and sloping bonnets tend to hit pedestrians’ legs, giving them greater chances of landing on the bonnet and / or being deflected.
The respective figures for average bonnet height rise from 2010 to 2024 in the six countries shown in the graph below are as follows: France (77.3 to 84.3 cm), Germany (76.5 to 82.3 cm), Italy (76.3 to 84.7 cm), Poland (77.0 to 82.6 cm), Spain (77.5 to 83.8 cm), and the UK (76.9 to 83.7 cm).
Chart titled "How drivers' reaction times slow" This chart shows the percentage increase in distracted drivers' response times. An undristracted driver typically reacts in 1 second. Drink Drive Limit : 12% Using Cannabis : 21% Hands-free Phone : 27% Android Auto (Voice) : 30% Texting : 35% Apple CarPlay (Voice) : 36% Hand-held Phone : 48% Android Auto (Touch) : 53% Apple CarPlay (Touch) : 57% Source : IAM RoadSmart
Figure from the Global Risks Report 2025 published by World Economic Forum showing the global risks ranked by severity over the short (2 years) and long term (10 years). Risks categories : Economic, Environmental, Geopolitical, Societal and Technological. Top 10 on short term (2 years) : 1) Misinformation and disinformation 2) Extreme weather events 3) State-based armed conflict 4) Societal polarization 5) Cyber espionage and warfare 6) Pollution 7) Inequality 8) Involuntary migration or displacement 9) Geoeconomic confrontation 10) Erosion of human rights and / or civic freedoms Top 10 on long term (10 years) : 1) Extreme weather events 2) Biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse 3) Critical change to Earth systems 4) Natural resource shortages 5) Misinformation and disinformation 6) Adverse outcomes of AI technologies 7) Inequality 8) Societal polarization 9) Cyber espionage and warfare 10) Pollution
Tableau qui met de l'avant le suivi des évolutions du Boulevard périphérique et des quartiers de la Ceinture verte entre Octobre/Novembre 2023 et Octobre/Novembre 2024. Plusieurs critère sont dans le tableau : trafic horaire moyen de jour, vitesse moyenne de jour, votesse moyenne de nuit, heures de congestion, accidents, bruit, qualité de l'air avec Dioxyde dazote et Particules (PM10). Tous les critères sont positifs avec une baisse constatée au niveau du traffic, de la congestion, du bruit et une meilleure qualité de l'air.
Table showing the evolution of the Boulevard périphérique and Green Belt neighborhoods between October/November 2023 and October/November 2024. Several criteria are included in the table: average hourly daytime traffic, average daytime speed, average nighttime speed, hours of congestion, accidents, noise, air quality with Nitrogen Dioxide and Particulate Matter (PM10). All criteria are positive, with a reduction in traffic, congestion, noise and improved air quality.