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Maybe this’ll get us more bike lanes?

Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change. Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.”

Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life.

Common sense.

Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

No women, no safety

Women on bikes are the indicator species of a city’s cycling health.

If you don’t see many of us, it’s not about lack of interest — it’s about safety.

Day 13 of the #carfreechallenge2025

#yegbike

@bikeology.bsky.social

A better world is possible

Sarah Goodyear, left, and Doug Gordon, right, holding copies of Life After Cars and standing in front of a wall with the Penguin Random House logo on it.

Thanks @thesisbooks.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social for hosting us at HQ in Manhattan today. We’re cooking up some fun social media content as we hurtle toward the publication day for “Life After Cars” on October 21st! Preorder your copy and get some fun bonuses:

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Several bikes are parked outside of HCMC’s medical office building

Did you know?

People can & do ride bikes to medical appointments (when it’s safe to do so, when density makes the trips reasonable in length & when there’s places to park bikes).

Forced car dependency isn’t great for any of us.

An image is worth a 1000 words.

Yes, always when presented by Dutch Professor Marco Te Brömmelstroet.
Cities for people is not rocket science.
Change possibilities have to be presented at an elementary level for all elected officials, staff, citizens, to understand.

Today is the 5th anniversary of David Graber's death. And with everything happening in the world, his work is now more relevant than ever before.

Today is the 5th anniversary of David Graber's death.

And with everything happening in the world, his work is now more relevant than ever before.

Watch this.

What smart nations are building.

A screenshot of a Bloomberg UK news article with the headline "INDIA'S BOILING POINT". The accompanying photo shows a crowded hospital ward where a woman uses a hand fan to cool a patient lying in bed. The sub-headline reads, "Millions in the country are confronting a terrifying reality: When sweat can't evaporate, heat kills."

How do we protect millions from the escalating threat of extreme heat?

The answer lies within our cities: from cool roofs and green infrastructure to innovative insurance schemes, they are developing solutions.

On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution.
But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable

"you'll just displace the air pollution to other roads" look on here, even the air quality on the Boulevard Peripherique is vastly improved

An entire industry of b*llshit creation and recycling @nikadubrovsky.bsky.social @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social

Subsidising e-bikes instead of cars could really kick the electric vehicle transition into high gear Electric car discounts are too meagre to help the low-paid and car-dependent.

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I find this so heartening.

It's funny to think that my preference for urban living in areas with dense, mixed-used, walkable neighborhoods, multi-family housing, small businesses, and diversity probably stems from Sesame Street. Like an early education in Jane Jacob's urbanist theories.

Breaking Urbanism’s Culture of Silence on Gaza, the City We’ve All Destroyed Op-ed: Gaza’s people, its culture, its built and natural environment are all being systemically erased. Why won’t our profession say that’s wrong?

Op-ed: Gaza’s people, its culture, its built and natural environment are all being systemically erased. Why won’t our profession say that’s wrong?

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We posted about the silence of the urbanist space multiple times, starting over a year ago:

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Breaking Urbanism’s Culture of Silence on Gaza, the City We’ve All Destroyed Op-ed: Gaza’s people, its culture, its built and natural environment are all being systemically erased. Why won’t our profession say that’s wrong?

The first such article I’ve seen from an urbanist lens and calling out the disturbing silence.

Breaking Urbanism’s Culture of Silence on Gaza, the City We’ve All Destroyed

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Copenhagen has taken bicycle commuting to a whole new level Cycling has been a part of that good life in Copenhagen for decades. In recent years, it has enjoyed yet another unfathomable surge in popularity — taken to the next level thanks to constantly improvi...

“Copenhagen reported that 62% of its residents are now commuting to work or school by bike — an increase from 52% in 2015 & 36% in 2012, when the City Council launched a 14-year-plan to improve the quality, safety & comfort of cycling.”

#Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing to go further each year.

Any city can choose this path.

💔💸

We’re gonna need to rip out a lot more homes and businesses for all the new lanes for all this new induced demand.

Or we could just make frequent, safe transit that even kids can use.

I’m a simple person. I see bikeshare innovation - I repost

Now I’d love if they could do a BikeShare cargo bike that backed in or something.

How Amsterdam became the bicycle capital of the world In the 1960s, Dutch cities were increasingly in thrall to motorists, with the car seen as the transport of the future. It took the intolerable toll of child traffic deaths – and fierce activism – to t...

READ THIS: How Amsterdam became the bicycle capital of the world. In the 1960s, Dutch cities saw cars as the transport of the future. It took the intolerable toll of child traffic deaths — and fierce activism — to turn #Amsterdam into the urban biking nirvana of today.

It took vision & leadership.

A photo of Wellington, New Zealand with masking tape and handwritten-style text that reads “The underlying problem isn’t cash flow. It’s insolvency. And now that it’s time to pay for renewals, the money isn’t there.

This story is all too common: Cities pretend that deferred maintenance is a problem to be solved by borrowing enough money or getting enough federal assistance.

But the underlying problem isn’t cash flow. It’s insolvency.

Did you know transit is 20 times safer than driving a car? Each year, public transportation prevents more than 2,500 injuries related to car accidents. Take Metro!

Cartoon of road jammed with cars between single detached homes in suburban, car-dependent sprawl.

Hey, remember when car and oil companies successfully lobbied governments to create car dependent cities and suburbs, and once we became almost completely car dependent, WE became the loudest, angriest champions of unhindered road space for cars, unnaturally cheap gas, and subsidized free parking?