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Park Street has been on the wane for a while now. These proposals will reverse the trend. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

bonkers www.saferhighways.co.uk/post/build-m...

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

I just walked for an hour in lower Manhattan. I did not hear a single honk, which is not typical. A lot of people have already talked about noise pollution, but another positive is the deshitifaction™ of driving in NYC. Decreasing the misery of driving here makes life better and safer for everyone.

submitted 37 days ago • 3 comments

Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people. Good trade.

submitted 37 days ago • 176 comments

Sort of amazed that I wrote this almost a decade ago.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Once you've seen noticed the "Gormless Gap" you see it everywhere Pedestrian space stolen so that careless motorists don't scratch their cars What unintended consequences might emerge from building a world where people are systematically protected from any consequences when they drive carelessly?

submitted 42 days ago • 34 comments

WATCH & SHARE: We’d all be a lot more effective in explaining how badly we need less stupid transportation if we were even close to this funny. But it’s only funny because it’s true. Via @adamconover.net (this is why he’s in my “changing minds about cities” starter pack) youtu.be/2DS63Kc5PVA?...

submitted 47 days ago • 4 comments

It's really something how well cars enable this civil atrophy

submitted 48 days ago • 4 comments

Never forget, car dependency isn’t freedom. Some might ask “what’s more free than cars?” Choices. Choices are more free than car dependency. It’s not a hard concept. I’m not pitting cars against any other single mode of transport. I’m rejecting design that creates dependency on just one mode.

submitted 59 days ago • 21 comments

Happy Christmas to bollard fans across the world. #WorldBollardAssociation

submitted 60 days ago • 9 comments

youtu.be/TZ5T1sNsANQ?...

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

WHICH BIKE LANE DO WE BLAME FOR THIS TRAFFIC? Banner this morning in Toronto on the Gardiner ExpresswayThe people of Ontario have had enough Premier Ford. 📸 @martinreis.bsky.social

submitted 72 days ago • 46 comments

There has never been nor will there ever be a bigger plot twist than when I found out my partner was putting supposed “dishwasher unsafe” items in the dishwasher after years of telling me not to.

submitted 73 days ago • 9 comments

While the railways fix the future, I’m fixing the present with this pint of fine ale. #railways #ale

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

I'm cautiously optimistic about this. However, first off, let's be clear. The absolute last thing we need is more of the car-dependent, single family detached and semi-detached urban sprawl seen in the picture accompanying the BBC's story. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 77 days ago • 1 comment

Think public transit “doesn’t work” in your city or suburb? If that’s true, it wasn’t a foregone conclusion— it’s because of choices made. Land-use, funding, infrastructure & operational decisions. If u do fundamentals like frequency wrong, it fails. Make good choices. (@humantransit.bsky.social)

submitted 77 days ago • 9 comments

Cars absolutely give access to many things, albeit at a typically underestimated cost, but there’s nothing “free” about NEEDING a car for everything. Car dependency only gives an illusion of choice. If you don’t see that, try this — try CHOOSING to get around in car dependent places without a car.

submitted 78 days ago • 13 comments

Madrid tripled the length of its metro system in just 12 years, faster and cheaper than almost any other city in the world. Left: in 1994 Right: after 2007 Cost per mile: £64–91 million (around 7x cheaper than London's Jubilee & Northern line expansions & 14x cheaper than Toronto's Ontario line)

submitted 79 days ago • 16 comments

1/ Yesterday I spoke at UCL about the transformational benefits of Low Traffic Neighbourhoods. This is what LTNs do: * Halve road injuries. * Eliminate rat-running. * Reduce pollution, even at boundaries. * Reduce street crime. And here's the evidence...👇 www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pla...

submitted 79 days ago • 6 comments

A photo I took on my first visit to Utrecht in 2015 and the same location in 2022 after local politicians rectified the mistake their predecessors made in the 1960s, when a canal was removed for a motorway through the city centre, restoring the heart of the city to its former beauty

submitted 79 days ago • 4 comments

Mandatory speed limiters; 100% 20mph zones on Local Road Transport Network roads; life driving bans for those convicted of dangerous driving; heavy custodial sentences for those who flout bans; 100% Low Traffic Neighbourhood coverage of residential areas; 100% School Streets. Nothing else will do.

submitted 83 days ago • 4 comments

You don’t get to the point where parents can cycle their kids around town in total, laid back safety by ‘solving the world’s big problems first’, you solve the world’s big problems by first ensuring parents can cycle their kids around town in total, laid back safety.

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

All these things are true: Electric vehicles ARE better than ICE vehicles, despite their issues. When vehicles get “better,” too often people buy BIGGER vehicles & drive even more. EV’s still pollute, take too much space, lead to too many deaths etc Fewer cars, less driving is the REAL solution.

submitted 85 days ago • 28 comments

🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲 The world's busiest bike path in Utrecht 🇳🇱 👇👇 🎥 @streetfilms.bsky.social

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

🇫🇷 It's staggering to see how many French cities are so ahead of UK cities when it comes to providing choice to get around. 🚊 #Avignon built a new tram line in less than a decade, fitting it around the impressive medieval city walls. 🚲 And it has excellent quality #ActiveTravel to compliment it /1

submitted 86 days ago • 10 comments

WATCH: If you STILL don’t understand how car-dependent suburbia is HEAVILY SUBSIDIZED by downtown and all the urban parts of your city, watch this EXCELLENT video by #NotJustBikes with Urban3 & @strongtowns.bsky.social. And then PLEASE SHARE it as much as possible. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nw6...

submitted 91 days ago • 23 comments

the thing that fills me with dread is that we're about to find out what policy Haigh stood in the way of such that she needed to be gotten rid of, and it's not likely to be good

submitted 86 days ago • 11 comments

As transport sec Louise Haigh -resolved the industrial dispute on the railways -was proceeding with rail public ownership -spoke clearly on P&O -gave priority to buses & opposed removal of the £2 cap For her approach she attracted hostility from the right. It’s a backward development to lose her

submitted 86 days ago • 18 comments

Good piece by Hannah Dobson on the ramifications of Haigh’s departure #IntegratedTransportStrategy @singletrack-world.bsky.social

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

I hate cycling in London sometimes, because even though I adhere to all the rules -- stop at red lights; indicate; avoid getting on the inside of vans and HGVs -- I'm constantly reminded that some driver in a car could just end it all by being careless

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

Be under no illusions. This conviction has been known about for years. Some very powerful and rich people/companies who stand to lose a lot of money from a people-first transport policy leaked this. That is what we’re fighting against. They will fight dirty. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 86 days ago • 10 comments

Away from what Lou Haigh did or didn’t do, one of the most difficult and more neglected briefs in government has lost a secretary of state who both seemed to get the subject and to believe it’s possibly the most impactful department of all, not just a stepping stone to something bigger.

submitted 86 days ago • 14 comments

The UK government consultation on pavement parking closed nearly four years ago and the results still haven’t been released. Living Streets are calling on the new transport secretary, Louise Haigh, to publish the report now. act.livingstreets.org.uk/page/152893/...

submitted 187 days ago • 0 comments