Oliver Moore

Inbox: a press release about the “best” and “worst” US cities in which to drive

Awkward reality: the so-called best are generally cities where people don’t want to live while the worst are some of the most desirable places in the country. Go figure

Some great stuff in Venice, including this gate/entrance I chanced upon

FWIW, antI-fascist sentiment remains widely apparent in the city

Scarpa also contributed to the setting for the replacement monument, which sits at water’s edge and is partially covered as the tide rises and falls

Some things never change. A 50s-era monument to the anti-fascist partisan women of Venice was blown up four years later by neo-fascists wanting to rewrite history. Only the base, by Carlo Scarpa, survived

No patio tables no problem. Crowd spills out of a wine bar, spreading along the canal to enjoy a convivial drink and snack — and no chaos ensued. Someone should tell Toronto city council

The ultimate luxury? Off-canal parking in central Venice

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For some reason, reminded of this
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I left twitter cause it became a nazi cesspool. This place seemed a good alternative. But if it nose-dives that’s it for me. Hard as it may be to remember, there was a time before social media. We *can* all just stop

Venice could’ve built a faux-old train station but, admirably, resisted. Of course, this is from the fascist era so has its own baggage

There may not be a rail journey’s final five minutes that is more anticipatory than rolling across the causeway toward Santa Lucia

Narrator’s voice: no they won’t

Peak oblivious tourist may be sitting at a patio table in Piazza Maggiore and moaning loudly about how hard it was to find parking nearby

The fact that cross-border traffic from Canada is down by only one-third is a gd mystery. Not exaggerating to say that it’s possible I will never again go to the US

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The Julian Alps, in the north of the country, pretty stunning as well

Speed limits in Slovenia are bonkers. A winding two-lane country road: 130km/hr. A poorly surfaced two-lane road without even a centre line: 90km/hr. Same for a narrow twisty road in the Alps. Real speeds somewhat self-limiting, but as always, most likely way to die on hols is a traffic collision

I mean, the NYT could just tell us he‘s acting illegally, source it to a bunch of experts in international law and be done with it. No need to be coy

Hot take: instead of being a click-tease, find out the answer to the question and make it the headline

For decades European cities have been full of practical scooters and small sport-bikes. But there’s always that one guy with a hog

Maybe

If I ran a transit agency in a country that fought alongside Germany in the war but now leans heavily on the story that they were victims of the Nazis, maybe I wouldn’t go with a stylised lighting bolt as logo. But that’s just me

Not shown by Bruegel, the apoplectic home-owner raging at the community consultation about the shadow that will be cast on his backyard

That said, the foot soldiers aren’t very bolshy. Pretty much no one jaywalks

Vienna says, welcome to the war on cars. #carfreeday

I am Antifa. Anyone else?

Hot take: the city, which already has differential rates for parking permits, could make them cheaper for people in denser developments to incent the behaviour city hall says it wants

What’s particularly galling about this case is that it may well that a permit exclusion was raised during consultations, but if it wasn’t put in place it’s hardly fair to change the terms on the new residents after they have started to move in

Weird how there’s a solution other than reserving *public* curb parking for house owners and it’s staring the councillor right in the face: “the city charges very little for on-street parking”

Nothing says *I’m not one of those jerks* like pretending to be from a country your fashy leader keeps threatening to take over