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submitted 46 days ago • 49 comments

I just realized that I might have spent more hours browsing Wikipedia than playing online games combined. I am a bit bummed that Wikipedia is not fundraising in Indonesia. I really want to in honour of the Foundation and Iwan Gayo who recently passed away.

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

Same with cycling instead of driving.

submitted 67 days ago • 2 comments

What the actual fuck?

submitted 68 days ago • 5 comments

“We are rightly up in arms when something happens on an airplane and someone could have gotten hurt, and yet we let a full airplane's worth of people die every day in car crashes on our roads.” — Pete Buttigieg (who really needs to join Bluesky) in @usatoday.com #UrbanistShoutOut #VisionZero

submitted 68 days ago • 10 comments

Water fountains are public infrastructure.

submitted 70 days ago • 5 comments

Before and after. #corruption #Tesla #ElonMusk

submitted 70 days ago • 25 comments

Attention Street Design Nerds! One of the most intriguing cities in recent years at reconsidering streets for people instead of just for cars, Oslo Norway, has translated their great Street Design Manual into English and put it on-line. Worth digging into. #Oslo www.oslo.kommune.no/getfile.php/...

submitted 72 days ago • 39 comments

North Carolina’s Atrium Health says it will forgive the debts of 11,500 people — less than a week after NBC News reported that the company has aggressively pursued former patients’ medical debts, placing liens on their homes to collect on bills.

submitted 72 days ago • 469 comments

Another #artwork I didn’t post here yet. I’m sure it’s pretty self explanatory. #supporthumanartists #NoAI

submitted 124 days ago • 15 comments

Remember: Worker strike or Luigi on a bike.

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: Amazon workers in NYC are going on strike right before Christmas—the company's busiest time. The first unionized Amazon warehouse is going to shut down in a historic walkout. Workers plan to hit the company where it hurts to win their first union contract. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI1k...

submitted 72 days ago • 581 comments

Electric vehicle is good. Treating _battery_ electric vehicle as a silver bullet is stupid (and wasteful and dangerous)

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

"It'd be a long term transition" It's actually super easy, barely an inconvenience. As shown anywhere change is committed.

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

“Cycling is fun, healthy & good for the environment. In overcrowded urban centres, the car — including the emission-free e-car — will only be accepted in the future if bikes have enough space in the mobility mix.” — Herbert Diess in 2021. He was CEO of Volkswagen (yes, the car company) until 2022.

submitted 70 days ago • 3 comments

This on Transjakarta corridor entry points.

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

One of the MOST IMPORTANT THINGS your city could do to become more healthy, sustainable, livable, affordable, equitable, successful — stop pretending to “balance” transportation modes, and commit to PRIORITIZING walking/rolling, biking, public transit. HT @dublincycling.bsky.social’s graphic

submitted 71 days ago • 10 comments

Bikes being faster than buses in the central city is pretty much inevitable. But if your buses are slower than walking, there's a problem. Buses should be at least twice the speed of walking even when wait time is taken into account.

submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment

START cordoning tourism streets from cars permanently. STOP slashing bus funding IMPROVE street vendors with licensing and proper hygiene

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

Why widening roads and highways to try to reduce traffic congestion is always futile, and traffic never gets better for very long (it commonly ends up worse). And yet it’s always the official stated reason for spending all that public money on the widening. #InducedDemand ggwash.org/view/97803/w...

submitted 72 days ago • 23 comments

Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

submitted 75 days ago • 25 comments

Foggy morning is the best weather. IDK why most people insist to ruin it by injecting greenhouse gases in it first thing in the morning.

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

Here is an example of crossing in Paris with "daylighting" using bike racks: 1 Right only, because no parked cars on the left 2 On both sides because cars on both sides 3 None, this is a one-way street, cars go away from the crossing 4 Right only, because the approaching cars drive on the right

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

A century ago the roping metaphor was common among people demanding ways to slow drivers down to protect everyone else (left). To them the roper was a brave defender of the public safety. But motordom also used the roping metaphor.

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

What if cities prioritized practical, safe, and sustainable urban transportation infrastructure a s standard over the aggressive, deadly, polluting, and wasteful systems we've normalized?

submitted 76 days ago • 2 comments

2007, Bogota Ciclvoia: @penalosag.bsky.social tells Streetfilms about how "Baywatch" 😀 was the most popular show in Colombia in the late 2000's so they used that as a tool to recruit 100s of volunteers to manage the expansion of their open streets! 😀 A funny funny moment and clever! #ciclovia50

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

Arbitrary parking requirements not only serve as a major financial barrier to producing the housing we need, but prevent us from producing great neighborhoods to live, work and play in. 🖼️ From "Paved Paradise" by @henrygrabar.bsky.social

submitted 77 days ago • 6 comments

Now if you really want to highlight the absurdity of this design, photoshop a couple of three year olds into it.

submitted 76 days ago • 22 comments

one reason kids love the hotel stay for team events so much is that they are typically free to roam around check stuff out and have some independent fun/a little trouble with their friends without parents around - you know the kind of stuff we stole from them in everyday life on their streets.

submitted 76 days ago • 12 comments

Friendly reminder that new neighbourhoods can be charming, pleasant and joyful.

submitted 76 days ago • 7 comments

Land use with gas cars vs. land use with EVs (artist’s rendering).

submitted 83 days ago • 17 comments

When people say things like "what about disabled people?" or "do you expect people to bike to the hospital?" as an argument against building better bike infrastructure, I always think of this particular member of the Chicago biking community. Glad to see her story featured today. 💖

submitted 83 days ago • 3 comments

This is insane: Edmonton Police authorized a 7 month surveillance operation targeting a journalist critical of police and followed his family doing mundane things This covert operation was supposedly necessary to determine who vandalized a statue honouring a literal WW2 Nazi

submitted 84 days ago • 30 comments

Folks, it feels great to be on Bluesky and not immersed in a constant stream of stupidity, hostility and lies, like the other place. So much cognitive burn there just filtering negativity from people I never wanted to hear from in the first place. It's like a detox. Imagine if it stays this way.

submitted 84 days ago • 6 comments

This is called Jevon's Paradox in economics.

submitted 84 days ago • 3 comments

There are many versions of this image out there. The good ones illustrate why “better cars” will never be more than part of the answer, and actually help “lock in” the #CarDependency that’s the REAL problem. They also do a good job showing why status-quo interests want to focus on the vehicles.

submitted 84 days ago • 7 comments

Every year, billions of vehicles worldwide shed an estimated 6 million tonnes of tire fragments. These tiny flakes of plastic, generated by normal driving, account for 28% of microplastics entering the environment globally. Heavy vehicles eg SUVs/EVs especially. theconversation.com/car-tyres-sh...

submitted 84 days ago • 36 comments

As canal workers in Amsterdam fish out great catches of omafiets from the water, Paris residents enjoy bountiful harvests from the bike trees this year. This will surely increase the Europeans' chance of survival for the coming, ever-harsher winter.

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

The fact 15 minute cities got twisted into a conspiracy still blows my mind. Like it's up there with flat earthers, and possibly more prevalent.

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments