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Environmental psychologist: transport, energy, water, buildings @locastproject.bsky.social. Head of Psychology, Swansea University 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿. Trustee, Wheels for Wellbeing. My views Guinness World Record for the fastest bicycle ride across Europe drianwalker.com
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Hey hey, there's a funded PhD place going at the Institute for Transport Studies at Leeds - spread the word phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/2165...

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car-free mobility as anti-poverty tool

submitted 20 hours ago • 5 comments

40% of global shipping moves fossil fuels ⛽🚢 Double trouble: 1. Profits from hauling coal, oil and fossil gas 🛢️🔥 2. Ships run on bunker fuel—the sludge of oil refining 🏭

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Each year we visit new housing developments to find out whether they are properly served by good public transport and designed for walking and cycling. As we plan our next round of visits, we need your help! Use the link to tell us where we should go this year: buff.ly/h7lprDq

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Well said Liz Terry, leader of Reading Borough Council. Link: www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/around/...

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

If crashes causing death and injury with this frequency were happening on any other mode of transport there would be a massive investigation and all journeys by that mode stopped until cause determined and future mitigation in place. 🤷‍♀️

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For the monthly LA Voter Newsletter, I wrote an article about Motonormativity @isabellachu.bsky.social @ianwalker.bsky.social @drtaragoddard.com @bikinginla.bsky.social @streetsforall.org docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Hobbyists flying loud, droning light aircraft round and round and round and round over other people's homes: get in the sea

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Didn't expect to see this in my local churchyard

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Moreton-in-Marsh - a Cotswold village completely ruined by cars

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Cycling on the road can feel like being in the Zimbardo prison experiment: it's an environment where people are given power over others with almost no accountability. In that situation, many show their worst selves

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Very welcome to hear the Transport Secretary using this line: “Enrique Penalosa, a former mayor of Bogota (the capital of Colombia), once said: ‘An advanced city is not one where the poor have to own a car, but one where the rich choose to use public transport’. That’s a vision I believe in.”

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

Our Director is the star interviewee of @activetowns.bsky.social's latest podcast, which is being premiered tomorrow Friday 11th April 🤩. She'll be answering viewers' questions/comments live during the first general public showing at 7pm BST 🥳👍🏻.

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"I think that we need to drive down the cost of motoring..." www.standard.co.uk/news/politic... Absolutely, completely and utterly NO! Because: A. Motorists do NOT pay anything near their external costs" of ghg, noise, and noxious emissions; danger and crashes (not the same thing); ill health 1./

submitted 22 days ago • 10 comments

REMINDER: Pls tune in tmw, Fri, April 11th, at 2 pm EST / 8 pm CET for my chat w/ @isabelleclementmbe.bsky.social, Director of Wheels for Wellbeing, a UK non-profit dedicated to ensuring that anyone can access the physical, emotional, practical, and social benefits of cycling. youtu.be/P-5GloOKOG4

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Question for European transportation policy wonks: What creative transport laws/regs are your favorites? Examples: 🔹 France's weight-based vehicle fees 🔹 Switzerland's ability to confiscate & sell cars owned by super-speeders 🔹 The Dutch law that holds drivers responsible for bike-car crashes

submitted 5 days ago • 23 comments

Sprawl “solves” the housing crisis by turning it into a transportation crisis.

submitted 5 days ago • 20 comments

Storing your private property in a public place has always been incredibly cheap. Unsurprisingly, the AA is taking a stance against clean air.

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

I've just been thinking about these - Bristol has funded changing non-junction lights to green immediately for pedestrians rather than making them wait for cars 1/4 of a mile away (which is what most towns and cities do). Well done to my Bristol Green colleagues like @cllremmaedwards.bsky.social

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

submitted 7 days ago • 870 comments

Climate Terminology Does Not Matter Across tens of thousands of participants in two large-scale experiments, we found that labeling climate change in different ways had no effect on their stated willingness to act. jayvanbavellab.substack.com/p/climate-te... via @dgoldwert.bsky.social

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments

I can help the government predict who's likely to kill, but they won't like the answer www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments