Side-by-side tandems are a game changer for people who, for whatever reason, can no longer cycle independently.

Thanks to the bike and a buddy (often a volunteer) these people can get moving again.

Besides a lot of cycling happiness, this also benefits physical and mental health!

Since last November, we’ve been tracking Labour’s progress delivering its manifesto commitments.

We’re now monitoring the delivery of some 80 pledges.

Here’s what we’ve learned 👇

The UK's only island city and a top 3 modern university for research power, the University of Portsmouth is a great place to study.

Enjoyed visiting Freshers’ Fayre today to welcome students from home and abroad, and to encourage engagement in civic life and in our strong and diverse community.

Wow.

Your daily reminder that spending on active travel infrastructure is not a cost, it's an investment.

IMPORTANT: The Dutch invested €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart govts do math on investing in better mobility.

Let’s be clear — it wastes public money to NOT do it.

#CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com

In 1996, Utrecht NL transformed a 6-lane car street thru the heart of the city into a car-free street that easily carries 40k people on bikes a day plus a LOT of public transit riders — far more people now than ever moved on it in cars. And with so much less pollution/emissions, noise & public cost.

Charing Cross Road, pedestrianised today. Glorious. Because whenever you take cars away, cities get better.

Your regular reminder Delft’s market square was a surface parking lot as recently as 2004.

A razor-thin coalition (19-18 votes) initiated a six-month pilot to help merchants realize cars don’t spend money, people do.

Years later, no one remembers the controversy or regrets the decision. *Sound on*

“While Mayor, I was often asked ‘how have you been able to afford bike-lanes in #Copenhagen?’ I’d reply, ‘how have you been able to NOT afford it? 25 years ago we were a few days away from going bankrupt. So the city invested in the cheapest infrastructure… bicycling.’” — @mortenkabell.bsky.social

What if more of our economic decisions were based on facts like these?

How we plan our cities and suburbs and the infrastructure we choose to invest in are *choices*.
Things can be better.

Approximately 480 commuters in this photo.

200 cars = 240 commuters
4 buses = 240 commuters

I really really wish people would stop anticipating Trump voter buyer’s remorse with such certainty. This administration is their Birkin bag. They may come to see the price they pay as a sacrifice for the feelings it gives them.

To celebrate the first day of autumn, here’s a poem called ‘The Problem of Writing Poems in the Shape of Deciduous Trees’