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The Utrecht morning rush hour in the snow did not disappoint!
January 5, 2026 at 7:26 AM
The Utrecht morning rush hour in the snow did not disappoint!
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"But we have winter" is not an excuse.
People aren't held back by weather when they're enabled by infrastructure and city design.
People aren't held back by weather when they're enabled by infrastructure and city design.
The Utrecht morning rush hour in the snow did not disappoint!
January 5, 2026 at 1:42 PM
"But we have winter" is not an excuse.
People aren't held back by weather when they're enabled by infrastructure and city design.
People aren't held back by weather when they're enabled by infrastructure and city design.
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CBC doesn't have to carry the orange madman live all the time. Why does this liar need to take up all the world's oxygen? Edit and give us what is relevant, nobody needs the inane ramblings of this horrible human being. #cdnpoli
December 29, 2025 at 9:04 PM
CBC doesn't have to carry the orange madman live all the time. Why does this liar need to take up all the world's oxygen? Edit and give us what is relevant, nobody needs the inane ramblings of this horrible human being. #cdnpoli
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"City doing one more study - hopeful this one will conclude that doing nothing about the car-centric status quo is the best way forward."
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December 29, 2025 at 1:50 PM
"City doing one more study - hopeful this one will conclude that doing nothing about the car-centric status quo is the best way forward."
creativebyrovelo.com/therovelorecord
creativebyrovelo.com/therovelorecord
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When infrastructure design details are rigid enough to give consequences rather than forgiveness to motorists, only then will we see a shift from recklessness to attentiveness behind the wheel.
The bollard hasn’t moved a single inch. Total domination.
#WorldBollardAssociation
#WorldBollardAssociation
December 28, 2025 at 3:02 PM
When infrastructure design details are rigid enough to give consequences rather than forgiveness to motorists, only then will we see a shift from recklessness to attentiveness behind the wheel.
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9️⃣ Paris’ hostile streets are finding a new life as Mayor Anne Hidalgo has swiftly transformed it from a city for passing through to a city for passing time. Such bold steps include 1,000 kilometres of cycling routes, 300 school streets, removing 70,000 car parking spaces, and planting 145,000 trees.
December 28, 2025 at 11:24 AM
9️⃣ Paris’ hostile streets are finding a new life as Mayor Anne Hidalgo has swiftly transformed it from a city for passing through to a city for passing time. Such bold steps include 1,000 kilometres of cycling routes, 300 school streets, removing 70,000 car parking spaces, and planting 145,000 trees.
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6️⃣ Under Mayor Valérie Plante, Montréal rolled out the continent’s most ambitious car-free program, pedestrianising nine kilometres along 11 commercial arteries each summer with a $12-million investment, helping 2,100 entrepreneurs thrive, while also delivering 191 kilometres of protected bike lanes.
December 28, 2025 at 11:18 AM
6️⃣ Under Mayor Valérie Plante, Montréal rolled out the continent’s most ambitious car-free program, pedestrianising nine kilometres along 11 commercial arteries each summer with a $12-million investment, helping 2,100 entrepreneurs thrive, while also delivering 191 kilometres of protected bike lanes.
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4️⃣ Under Mobility Minister Elke van den Brandt, Brussels has started a shift from a car-choked city of corridors to a salon city. A new circulation plan and 30 km/h speed limit have cut car traffic by 30%, increased cycling by 36%, reduced crashes by 22%, and halved both traffic fatalities and noise.
December 28, 2025 at 11:11 AM
4️⃣ Under Mobility Minister Elke van den Brandt, Brussels has started a shift from a car-choked city of corridors to a salon city. A new circulation plan and 30 km/h speed limit have cut car traffic by 30%, increased cycling by 36%, reduced crashes by 22%, and halved both traffic fatalities and noise.
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2️⃣ In Bogotá, Mayor Claudia López tackled the hidden burden of unpaid care work (the daily unpaid tasks of running a household) by creating neighbourhood “Care Blocks”—community assets that also helped shift travel habits—boosting walking and cycling by 6% and reducing car trips by 15% in four years.
December 28, 2025 at 11:07 AM
2️⃣ In Bogotá, Mayor Claudia López tackled the hidden burden of unpaid care work (the daily unpaid tasks of running a household) by creating neighbourhood “Care Blocks”—community assets that also helped shift travel habits—boosting walking and cycling by 6% and reducing car trips by 15% in four years.
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1️⃣ Under Mayor Ada Colau, Barcelona completely rewrote the rules of urban space: reclaiming a million square metres for pedestrians, tripling its cycle network to 273 kilometres, adding 80 hectares of green space, halving car traffic, and cutting street-level air pollution by 20% in just eight years.
December 28, 2025 at 11:04 AM
1️⃣ Under Mayor Ada Colau, Barcelona completely rewrote the rules of urban space: reclaiming a million square metres for pedestrians, tripling its cycle network to 273 kilometres, adding 80 hectares of green space, halving car traffic, and cutting street-level air pollution by 20% in just eight years.
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The sheer bloody ENTITLEMENT of these people. Nowhere in the article does it mention the fact that the very poor don’t drive; for the vast majority of drivers parking is a tiny percentage of the cost of their habit; or the enormous subsidy that the tax payer pushes their way each year. FUMIN.
‘We’ve seen it decimate areas’: Somerset town’s traders oppose parking charges
Traders on Clevedon’s Hill Road say they fear the proposals could hasten the decline of independent retail as councils across Britain look to raise income by forcing shoppers to pay to park
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The sheer bloody ENTITLEMENT of these people. Nowhere in the article does it mention the fact that the very poor don’t drive; for the vast majority of drivers parking is a tiny percentage of the cost of their habit; or the enormous subsidy that the tax payer pushes their way each year. FUMIN.
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Cars are not freedom.
If the only choice you have to get to work or the shops is the make, model & colour of the car you drive, that’s not freedom. Choice within constraints is not freedom.
Freedom is the ability to be able to opt out of the constraint.
Cars intentionally enforce that constraint.
If the only choice you have to get to work or the shops is the make, model & colour of the car you drive, that’s not freedom. Choice within constraints is not freedom.
Freedom is the ability to be able to opt out of the constraint.
Cars intentionally enforce that constraint.
December 20, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Cars are not freedom.
If the only choice you have to get to work or the shops is the make, model & colour of the car you drive, that’s not freedom. Choice within constraints is not freedom.
Freedom is the ability to be able to opt out of the constraint.
Cars intentionally enforce that constraint.
If the only choice you have to get to work or the shops is the make, model & colour of the car you drive, that’s not freedom. Choice within constraints is not freedom.
Freedom is the ability to be able to opt out of the constraint.
Cars intentionally enforce that constraint.
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“If you describe a threat and give evidence to support why you believe there is a threat, you are not an alarmist in a pejorative sense. You are a realist sounding the alarm.”
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December 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
“If you describe a threat and give evidence to support why you believe there is a threat, you are not an alarmist in a pejorative sense. You are a realist sounding the alarm.”
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Fundamentals
5 steps to making better cities
by @brenttoderian.bsky.social
Step 1: STOP Doing The Wrong Things
Step 2: STOP Doing The Wrong Things “Better”
Step 3: QUIT Trying To Have Your Cake And Eat It, Too
Step 4: STOP Doing The Right Things Badly
& finally:
Step 5: DO The Right Things Well
5 steps to making better cities
by @brenttoderian.bsky.social
Step 1: STOP Doing The Wrong Things
Step 2: STOP Doing The Wrong Things “Better”
Step 3: QUIT Trying To Have Your Cake And Eat It, Too
Step 4: STOP Doing The Right Things Badly
& finally:
Step 5: DO The Right Things Well
As I discussed in the interview, these are the 5 STEPS TO MAKING BETTER CITIES I’ve been using for many years, and eventually wrote about in @fastcompany.com. Too many cities are stuck in Step 2 (doing the wrong things better), and have to really be careful in Step 4 (doing the right things badly).
5 steps to making better cities
Before you can do the right thing, you have to do the right thing badly. And before that, you have to do the wrong thing.
www.fastcompany.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Fundamentals
5 steps to making better cities
by @brenttoderian.bsky.social
Step 1: STOP Doing The Wrong Things
Step 2: STOP Doing The Wrong Things “Better”
Step 3: QUIT Trying To Have Your Cake And Eat It, Too
Step 4: STOP Doing The Right Things Badly
& finally:
Step 5: DO The Right Things Well
5 steps to making better cities
by @brenttoderian.bsky.social
Step 1: STOP Doing The Wrong Things
Step 2: STOP Doing The Wrong Things “Better”
Step 3: QUIT Trying To Have Your Cake And Eat It, Too
Step 4: STOP Doing The Right Things Badly
& finally:
Step 5: DO The Right Things Well
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“road violence is no accident”
This is Jacob Smith who I was lucky enough to collaborate with on the Reframe Road Safety campaign.
This campaign called out those who design, approve & implement inequitable transportation systems that disproportionately affect youth + BIPOC communities. 1/
This campaign called out those who design, approve & implement inequitable transportation systems that disproportionately affect youth + BIPOC communities. 1/
December 16, 2025 at 4:14 PM
“road violence is no accident”
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In 2025, reckless pedestrians killed zero (0) drivers in Halifax.
Shared responsibility is a crock.
Shared responsibility is a crock.
December 16, 2025 at 12:52 PM
In 2025, reckless pedestrians killed zero (0) drivers in Halifax.
Shared responsibility is a crock.
Shared responsibility is a crock.
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Once again:
I want to live in a safe, interesting city with robust services that are delivered with compassion and generosity.
Please, please just charge me for it and shut up.
I want to live in a safe, interesting city with robust services that are delivered with compassion and generosity.
Please, please just charge me for it and shut up.
Even higher tax bills on Halifax's horizon? City says 2026-27 capital projects could create debt restrictions www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...
Even higher tax bills on Halifax's horizon? City staffer says 2026-27 capital projects could create debt restrictions
Budget committee told debt payments in current year total about $44 million on tax bills. But by 2028, it’ll be up to $89 million.
www.saltwire.com
December 14, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Once again:
I want to live in a safe, interesting city with robust services that are delivered with compassion and generosity.
Please, please just charge me for it and shut up.
I want to live in a safe, interesting city with robust services that are delivered with compassion and generosity.
Please, please just charge me for it and shut up.
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You can cross the entire city on a bike without stopping once.
UNINTERRUPTED CYCLING NETWORK.
In most cities, cycling involves a constant cycle of stop-and-go. You hit a red light, you wait for a turning truck, you yield to pedestrians. It kills the momentum.
Here in Oulu, the experience is completely different. Here’s why👇 1/3
In most cities, cycling involves a constant cycle of stop-and-go. You hit a red light, you wait for a turning truck, you yield to pedestrians. It kills the momentum.
Here in Oulu, the experience is completely different. Here’s why👇 1/3
December 14, 2025 at 8:02 AM
You can cross the entire city on a bike without stopping once.
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“Dutch people cycle an average of 2.6km each per day. If this pattern was replicated worldwide, annual carbon emissions would drop by 686 million tonnes.
This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.” @euronews.com
This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.” @euronews.com
Cycling like the Dutch would slash the world’s carbon footprint
If everybody cycled like the Dutch, we could offset the UK or Australia’s entire carbon footprint.
www.euronews.com
December 13, 2025 at 10:01 PM
“Dutch people cycle an average of 2.6km each per day. If this pattern was replicated worldwide, annual carbon emissions would drop by 686 million tonnes.
This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.” @euronews.com
This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.” @euronews.com
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I'm still trying to understand why we're stuck in this assumption that we need GDP growth at all. What's wrong with stability? You don't need more if your needs are already met.
If continuous growth is some kind of requirement then it feels like we're operating a huge Ponzi scheme.
If continuous growth is some kind of requirement then it feels like we're operating a huge Ponzi scheme.
December 14, 2025 at 12:32 AM
I'm still trying to understand why we're stuck in this assumption that we need GDP growth at all. What's wrong with stability? You don't need more if your needs are already met.
If continuous growth is some kind of requirement then it feels like we're operating a huge Ponzi scheme.
If continuous growth is some kind of requirement then it feels like we're operating a huge Ponzi scheme.
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He's just so ignorant. We must never trust anyone who is pretending he's not.
December 14, 2025 at 1:18 AM
He's just so ignorant. We must never trust anyone who is pretending he's not.
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And he’s tree-spreading too
I can’t believe that in this day and age, people are still wearing fir.
December 14, 2025 at 3:00 AM
And he’s tree-spreading too
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Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
December 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.