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"When you take a step back and think about traffic violence in New York City, you start to understand that this is a systemic issue that is incentivized by the policies that we have in place with regard to the design of our streets and what kind of vehicles we allow to be on our roads." -Mamdani

Graphic full of stats on vehicle inefficiencies.

A typical European car is parked 92% of the time. It spends 1/5th of its driving time looking for parking. Its 5 seats only move 1.5 people. 86% of its fuel never reaches the wheels, and most of the energy that does, moves the car, not the people.

Sound efficient?

HT @ellenmacarthurfdn.bsky.social

Three hockey dads with three hockey trucks.

Halifax has removed the final hurdle to development in some areas — and neighbours are fighting back | CBC News A wealthy Halifax neighbourhood with tree-lined streets and grand homes on the Northwest Arm has become one of the latest battlegrounds in the city’s push to build more housing.

If these rich assholes want to keep their covenant, the city should slap a "pay through the nose for single family home density downtown" area rate on downtown's mansion district.

When Bikes Outnumber Cars: What Scotland’s Cycling Surge Can Teach North America Scotland’s largest city reached a milestone that would make any transportation planner in Portland, or Montreal do a double take.

“In May 2025, Scotland’s largest city [Glasgow] reached a milestone that would make any transportation planner in Portland or Montreal do a double take: during the morning rush hour, there were more bicycles than cars traveling along Victoria Road, a major artery…” Via @momentummag.bsky.social

A Necessary Antidote • Guhyapati The Dharma changes as it encounters the contexts of different cultures. How do we guard against a Dharma that serves late capitalism? And instead, serve the arising of Dharma that serves collective li...

The Dharma changes as it encounters the contexts of different cultures. How do we guard against a Dharma that serves late capitalism? And instead, serve the arising of Dharma that serves collective liberation? Explore this with Guhyapati in "A Necessary Antidote": oneearthsangha.org/articles/a-n...

New paper is out tomorrow, grab it at Alantic News or @kingsbookstore.bsky.social.

Cover by @acbzw.bsky.social on last week's HalifACT update.

On the back @landofsticks.bsky.social writes about Police and Snow clearing.

*stares in Halifax*

Peeps say "big cars are safer"
Some not #funfacts
No, they're not

Cars kill us
99% deaths due to cars
Bigger cars kill more peeps
Big cars kill more of us not in a vehicle
~34% road deaths pedestrians & cyclists
ANCAP red rating ought not be approved for Aus roads
Like Mitsubishi Triton, other utes

It’s common sense to proactively address/mitigate climate change.

It’s common sense to reduce pollution, emissions and particulates in cities.

It’s common sense to proactively cool cities, quiet cities, clean cities.

It’s common sense to move more people in less space and with lower public costs.

Bill Gates cannot be trusted.

Instead of trying to green cars so much why don't we just invest in trains. city trains. under ground trains. above ground trains. trains between cities. trains between countries. TRAINS

THE PEOPLE CRAVE TRAINS

‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30

As the single most important news story this year, I can't wait to see the detailed and central coverage this will get in every media outlet we have

Guillermo del Toro quote "...think about wealth for me for example. A wealthy man that has enough..."

"not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite somebody to beer..."

"...you're rich. If you have, whatever-"

"- yachts and planes and islands and you STILL need more? You're not rich."

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

Closing Central Madrid To Cars Resulted In 9.5% Boost To Retail Spending, Finds Bank Analysis City of Madrid significantly boosted the takings of its shops and restaurants last Christmas by banning cars from the CBD, finds an analysis by Spain's second largest bank.

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY.

There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.

Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

Can someone please tell Carney?? VIA Rail is a public service and should have its own rail line and high frequency, some high speed, passenger rail service across the country. Should be one of his top priority nation-building projects.

There are more square feet of parking per car than there is square foot of housing per human.

I know I’ve said this more than once, and I know it’s really obvious, but taking the train between cities in Europe is just fantastic. So easy.

One of the dumbest mistakes North America ever made, and continues to make, is doing so relatively little with trains. Train networks are nation-building.

French media calls out PP

Entire video:
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Heaven forbid we make a downtown fit for the thousands of people who take transit, walk or bike around it.
Might entice cruise ship passengers into it too.

Sounds far more impactful than targeting bike lanes

Conservatives are always complaining and finger pointing but have not once come up with real logic or solutions to anything!

Remember this when people quote collision data and say that "speed isn't a factor" so reducing the speed limit won't positively affect road safety. It's always a factor, despite what the police write in their incident report.

Yellow sticker on glass door that says "official festival venue. Nocturne: Ground. October 16-19 2025. Kjipuktuk/Halifax"

This #Saturday! Visit the #museum for free and until late - we're open until midnight.

Plus we're hosting multiple projects AND an art party! Come visit, #Halifax and #NovaScotia

Pierre Poilievre says he wants to “restore merit.” He needed to be handed arguably the safest, most impossible to lose conservative seat in all of Canada after losing his own seat.

Seems like the opposite of merit. #Poilievre

(oh, and he still refuses to complete a check for a security clearance)

YouTube video by Evan Edinger How I View the US After 13 Years Living in Europe

WATCH: Do you have to move away from the United States in order to get a clear picture of the United States? @evanedinger.bsky.social covers the reasons he couldn’t move back to the U.S. from Europe now. Hint: #3 is about walkable cities & car dependency, but all are worth seriously thinking about.

Sanity says: “if there is a risk that the AMOC is weakening and heading towards a tipping point, we need to act on that (just like with other major risks). This is not an issue where we can afford to wait until we are certain, or pretend it’s just an academic discussion without major consequences.”