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Many people talking about how gasoline prices at the pump have already jumped. But what should really terrify Republicans is RBOB — the futures price on wholesale gasoline. This is up 75 cents a gallon since its low earlier this year.

pretty *cool* analysis of pavement temperature changes following school street installations in Paris, via @marcelmoran.com journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Before (2021) / After (2026) Rue François de Neufchâteau in the 11th arrondissement of Paris. The street was pedestrianized around 2024 and is not in Streetview anymore, so the only "before" photo you can have now from it is from the nearby street. So in a way Streetview is quite car-centric.

Avant / Après Rue Stendhal dans le 20ème arrondissement de Paris. La protection au pied de l'arbre a subi les outrages de la circulation, mais l'arbre a assez poussé en quelques années pour héberger un nid.

Avant / Après la toute nouvelle rue aux écoles Rue de la Réunion dans le 20ème arrondissement de Paris. L'image la plus récente sur Streetview date d'une élection précédente :)

One Street, Two Countries: Cycling the Nieuwstraat/Neustraße This post is especially for those who are intrigued by unusual borders. I cycled up and down a single street that lies in two countries: Germany and the Netherlands. The road existed long before the border was drawn on a map, which explains why there is hardly any visible difference between the two sides. People speak a very similar dialect, and family ties and other close connections span the border.

I cycled a street that lies in two countries — German cycle paths on one side, Dutch on the other. A border once marked by barbed wire is now deliberately invisible. A new post, with two videos.

Carte des lignes En Covoit'

3 nouvelles lignes En Covoit’ arrivent au printemps ! 🚗👥

👉 Connexions renforcées entre l’Ain et la Métropole @grandlyon.bsky.social

🚏 Arrêts complémentaires au réseau TCL, gares TER et parcs-relais

💶 Incitation financière pour les conducteurs, trajets gratuits pour les passagers abonnés TCL

YouTube video by SYTRAL Mobilités Derniers préparatifs avant la mise en service du TB12

🚎 Demain, la ligne TB12 entre en service entre Part-Dieu et Kimmerling-Genêts

Une nouvelle liaison pour renforcer les connexions dans l’Est de la Métropole @grandlyon.bsky.social

Les coulisses des essais, dans notre émission Mobiles diffusée sur BFM Lyon ⤵️

Before (2022) / After (2026) Boulevard de Charonne in the 20th arrondissement of Paris. There is ongoing work like this at many, many crossings across Paris. To give you a sense of the scale of these changes, it already feels too big to try to keep track of it, "even for me" ;)

TIL that the current measles outbreak is centered around a Russian- and Ukrainian-speaking evangelical community with a charter school with a 21% vaccination rate

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It was pretty cool to make this with @metrovancouverorg.bsky.social. If you’ve ever wondered how we actually know our sewage is treated and safe in this region, this video breaks it down! www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLza...

Le Plateau Nord attend une solution structurante depuis trop longtemps.

Notre proposition est claire : un tramway reliant Lyon et les communes de Caluire & Rillieux au réseau TCL. avec un potentiel de 40 000 voyageurs par jour.

Avant / Après la piétonnisation de la contre-allée Place du Louvre devant l'église Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois, dans Paris Centre.

Avant / Après la toute récente piétonnisation et végétalisation de l'Avenue Debidour dans le 19ème arrondissement de Paris. L'ancienne impasse parking est devenue une place piétonne avec une douzaine d'arbres. Il faudra sans doute deux ans encore avant que le changement devienne plus photogénique.

Avant / Après la piétonnisation et la végétalisation de la Rue de Gravelle dans le 12ème arrondissement de Paris

On Street View, you can see the four stages of transformation of Rue de Vaugirard in the 15th arrondissement of Paris: from parking spaces to a "tactical bike lane" during the height of the COVID crisis, with temporary yellow bollards, then with permanent bollards, and finally a small curb.

Avant / Après la végétalisation de quelques places de stationnement Rue de Monceau dans le 8ème arrondissement de Paris. La place près du passage piéton a été de plus remplacée par un parking vélo pour augmenter la sécurité de la traversée piétonne.

Insane

In Utrecht, the city centre isn’t dominated by motor traffic - it’s shaped around people.

You see families riding side-by-side, conversations happening in the street, cafés spilling outdoors.

When cars are restricted, streets come alive: quieter, safer, more welcoming, and better for everyone.

FIFA will "monitor developments" in Iran following the outbreak of military action by the United States -- the co-hosts of this summer's men's World Cup -- against the Middle Eastern nation, which has qualified for the tournament and is due to play its group games in the U.S. President Donald Trump, who was given the FIFA Peace Prize by FIFA president Gianni Infantino in December, announced the commencement of missile strikes on Iran on Saturday, calling the mission a "major combat operation."

FIFA closing monitoring the situation.
The situation: Their peace prize winner just bombed one of the countries he will host at the World Cup this summer

It's getting to be you can't even profit off war deaths on the insider trading app anymore

Google Maps image of Toronto, showing relatively few highways

Google Maps image of Houston, showing a lot of highways

Toronto’s Highway 401 is enormous but it also has quite a bit fewer highways through/around downtown than Houston or many other US cities. Images are same scale.

That stub on the left side was planned to extend downtown (Spadina Expressway) but it was cancelled.

No need for a bail out then.

Unlikely.

Hopefully Dubai will never recover.

Vélo à Paris — Wikipédia

L'article Wikipédia sur le vélo à Paris est complètement daté ! Tellement que les graphiques ne s'affichent plus correctement. @emmanuelspv.bsky.social fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A9...

The last years looks like a real takeoff.

You worked in the West Bank?!

La sanction est bienvenue mais trop tard par définition. Interdire les deux roues trop bruyants serait bien plus efficace.

In 2025, there were 1.5m daily cycle journeys in London, equivalent to nearly half of daily Tube journeys.

Evidence shows that London-wide, cycling infrastructure is effective in reducing risk exposure:  Protected cycling infrastructure reduces injury risk to people cycling by 40-65%.  Around 33% of all cycling in London occurs on Cycleways, but only 15% of cycle casualties.  76% of people cycling feel safe on Cycleways compared to 40% feeling safe on other roads.  70% of Cycleway users felt safer after the introduction of the Cycleway.

Road safety factors are more likely to be attributed to the driver of (recorded in 2024) the other vehicle than people cycling, with three of top five factors relating to behaviour of other drivers. • People cycling undertaking an illegal turn and/or not complying with traffic lights is a factor in only 3.7% of all collisions resulting in a cycling fatal or serious injury (same prevalence as drivers undertaking illegal turns and/or not complying with traffic lights).

A 2023 analysis showed that in the 2016-22 period, we saw a greater reduction in risk in boroughs where the Cycleway network expanded the most. Conversely, risk increased most in boroughs with no or limited investment in Cycleways.

Some interesting London cycling stats in this TfL FOI, if that's your thing tfl.gov.uk/corporate/tr...