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Our kids deserve better.

submitted 21 hours ago • 6 comments

NYC subway is freedom. #subtweet

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

"Walking, cycling, and public transit are social engineering"

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Streets are for TB Lightning fans. We still ❤️ you.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Newly rebuilt street in Vienna with a new metro station under construction at the end

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

You see slogans like “future is autonomous” everywhere. While this might be the case, the future has also two wheels and is powered by donuts.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Car traffic contributes to congestion. Bicycle traffic solves congestion. They are not the same.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Well, I could drive to the big box stores and queue into the car park to buy a spade, fork & broom or just cycle... @americanfietser.com

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Now imagine similar disincentives being applied to poor practices of road safety.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Kids are forced to either cycle on the sidewalk or share the road with motorists who think they own it while some houses have 3 car garages for cars used 5% of the time. Make it make sense.

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

Car brain tells you that you are a priority. SUV brain tells you that you are superior on the road. Truck brain (in urban setting) is when all the logic is gone.

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Fewer thoughts and prayers, more protected bike lanes.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

No car? No worries! IKEA Utrecht started a pilot in which customers can rent an electric cargo bike, four-wheeler with storage box or bike trailer to transport their purchases home, without needing a car. If the pilot proves a succes, it will be expanded to the rest of the country. 🚲 📦 👌🏼

submitted 14 days ago • 14 comments

Imagine the impact on road fatalities of telling the motorists “watch for pedestrians” as much as we tell our children “watch for cars.”

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

The worst driver on NYC's streets last year got 563 tickets, almost all of them in Sheepshead Bay. 73 of them were at the same intersection on Ocean Parkway, just south of where another recidivist speeder killed Natasha Saada and her two daughters last month.

submitted 15 days ago • 7 comments

School pick up? No car line. No problem.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Also, the world is better for it! @americanfietser.com

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Japan’s best-selling EV is the Sakura, a kei car with bidirectional charging and 112 miles of range. Its cost: $17k. The Sakura is an ideal urban car, but sclerotic federal regs block Americans from getting one.

submitted 15 days ago • 9 comments

I saw a post the other day with a teen behind a steering wheel with her drivers license and the mom saying “she just got her greatest freedom.” No, she didn’t. She got trapped into thinking that she needs thousands of steel to meet her basic needs.

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

Some good news. Air pollution is a leading cause of illness, death, and poor quality of life, plus bikes and parks are awesome. wapo.st/42LaIRA

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

Some stats from 100 days in on congestion pricing: - Complaints about car-honking are down 70% - The Holland Tunnel has 65% fewer delays at rush hour; time to get thru it is down 48% - 6 million fewer cars - Half as many traffic-related injuries - 1.5 million more visitors to BIDs year over year

submitted 15 days ago • 67 comments

Electric vehicles as a whole displaced about 1.5m barrels of oil a day globally in 2022 (according to Bloomberg). Two-thirds of that was just from electric bikes and mopeds. 🧵 However, as it turns out not all micromobility modes are created equal… www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

One of the very exceptions to the rule that paint is not infrastructure 🚲 🌴

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

“There is no denying that the biggest challenge of our era is the #ClimateEmergency. It will trigger difficult conversations about where investment is focussed & approaches that may need to be taken in areas with limited properties & fewer economic benefits" - Clare Pillman, Chief Executive at NRW

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

‘Tyres are the main source of land-based microplastics entering our oceans, where they absorb and concentrate forever chemicals discharged by our environmentally reckless water and pharmaceutical industries.’ www.theguardian.com/theobserver/...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

A sustainable mobility system is about more than its fuel source. “Greening” just two kilometres of double-wide tramway with sedum or grass removes 10,000 square meters (one-and-a-half football fields) of asphalt; thereby improving rain retention, heat migitation, air quality, and sound absorption.

submitted 17 days ago • 6 comments

Is there an emotional dimension to road safety? Liu et al. (2025) find that built environment e.g. proportion of vegetation, the presence of sidewalks and fences,and points of interest (including educational, health, and commercial establishments) reduce the number of motor vehicle crashes.

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

Last weekend I went to a car show. Someone: “Which one did you drive?” Me: “That one in the shade under the tree.” Someone: “That yellow Porsche?” Me: “No, that e-scooter.” Me again: “I was also the only one on time.” Someone:

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Good weekend to everyone but the bruh who was blocking bike lane and the cyclist could not use it.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

The fundamental law of road traffic is that adding lanes and parking just encourages more driving. The Global Cycling Network breaks down how it works — and what we need to do about it.

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

More autonomous vehicles --> More driving --> More pollution, gridlock, and sprawl New study projecting AV use across Texas: 🔹 "Results showed statewide daily VMT rose 24%" 🔹 "With the widespread use of []AVs], individuals are likely to choose more remote destinations" doi.org/10.1016/j.re...

submitted 19 days ago • 9 comments

A parking lot transforms into a flexible parklet hosting a weekly farmers market in Ottawa, Canada 2015 ➡️ 2021 ➡️ 2024

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

An executive order intended to give coal a boost ignores the reality not only of where energy markets are going, but where they are today.

submitted 21 days ago • 20 comments

Idk who needs to hear this but efficient urban mobility has nothing to do with efficient cars but efficient space allocation.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments