Just in time for the markets, the US and Iran have agreed to halt strikes and are set to meet Tuesday in Doha, Qatar, Axios reports.

I can see why the local chamber of commerce would want to discourage crowds of relaxed people with disposable income ambling past their storefronts

What a waste of space. This could be like 10 parked cars.

For sure. They’ll argue that having an apartment building go in on their block will lower their property values, even though having your land upzoned to allow for way more residential uses clearly raises that land’s value.

"It lowers property values" is a pretty standard NIMBY excuse for anything, since they assume whatever they dont like lowers value. its never true. The only properties you will find with a lower assessment are ones that became vacant land.

5 years ago, B.C. was trapped under a heat dome. Here’s how it all played out. Experts have described the 2021 heat dome as the most deadly weather event in Canadian history, by @courtneydickson.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... via @cbcnews.ca

How deadly bird flu travelled the world before landing on a remote Australian beach. The H5N1 virus has now reached every continent. What does it mean for some of the world’s unique species? by @readfearn.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j... via @australia.theguardian.com

How walkable a neighbourhood in Halifax is is inversely proportional to how extensively it was planned.

“It's entirely possible to build cities for people instead of cars. This square in Malmö was just a parking lot not too long ago.”

We remain forever grateful to everyone who has read the book, shared it, and carried its ideas into their communities. Delft’s story reminds us another way of building cities is possible. Maybe that's why it resonates far beyond the borders of this little city: modacitycreative.com/2026/06/28/t... 🔚

What amazes us is how many of these benefits were never the explicit goal. Safer streets led to independent kids. More space for walking and cycling fostered stronger social connections and a greater sense of community. Unexpected gifts of a city treating cars as guests rather than guests of honour.

To mark the anniversary, we took a stroll through our adopted hometown and reflected on the story that Delft has to tell. It is a story of courage, innovation, and experimentation. Of a city that chose to challenge assumptions about mobility, reclaim space from cars and prioritise human flourishing.

Five years ago today, ‘Curbing Traffic’ was released into the world. What began as an attempt to make sense of our family’s move from Vancouver to Delft became something bigger: a reflection on how the design of our streets quietly shapes our health, happiness, relationships and sense of belonging.🧵

The empty promise of $10 a day child care. A crisis of affordability has morphed into a crisis of availability. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit... via @theglobeandmail.com

Mine went up 30% after wildfires. Only real danger in my place is windows blown in or power causes all food to spoil. Maybe roof of building leaks? But heck, we've had flooding by people leaving taps running! Insurance Co's are funding a hell of a lot of research. I wonder why? They get risk.

It would be hard to analyze given the minimal number of new sets of infrastructure that go up IMO. I'm doing a similar-ish analysis later this year for general road safety and I'm going to forego any large scale comparisons and just focus on individual streets pre/post vs analogue streets.

"Decisions should be based on evidence, not vibes" is the statement underlying, like, 99% of the things I've wanted to argue on behalf of in the last six years or so. I wish it were a more widely accepted idea.

I’d love to see a Halifax specific study on this. Often when they’ve added l bike infrastructure here it’s come with improvements to pedestrian infrastructure, transit stops, and streetscapes. All that stuff combined has probably raised property values if anything, meaning more tax revenue for HRM.

An elected official discussing #VisionZero & #RoadSafety at a meeting while driving is a good example of #motonormativity in action. Driving is so normalised that many people don't even register it as incompatible with joining a virtual meeting. That's why Safe Systems matter! #DistractedDriving

NEW STEWART LEE COLUMN It’s not been a great week for denying climate change. But the global far-right tried anyway! www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

It's a common myth that building bike infra lowers property values, but recent 🇨🇦 research found no negative impact. In some cases, it made neighbourhoods more desirable & accessible. Decisions should be based on evidence, not vibes #UrbanTruth #BikesBuildCommunity link.springer.com/article/10.1...

You know who doesn't dismiss the impacts of climate change? The insurance industry. 14 years of no claims & yet our home insurance premium quote is 21% higher than last year. UK article but applicable elsewhere #ClimateActionNow www.theguardian.com/business/202...

When I ask people who live in Cambridge if they bike around here, they give me a puzzled look and say, "Yes, of course." That's what 30% bike mode share gets you: a whole city of people who think it's completely normal.

“Copenhagen reported that 62% of its residents are now commuting to work or school by bike — an increase from 52% in 2015 & 36% in 2012, when the City Council launched a 14-year-plan to improve the quality, safety & comfort of cycling.” #Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing even better every year.

Every crisis starts with the most vulnerables. It breaks my heart, that we know for ages what he have to do - but instead we are self-optimizing and not world-optimizing.

Great reminder from the Dashcam group that Morris St is a school zone and kids’ safety should matter more than potential 2 second delays to drivers.

We can't do that here in (insert whatever city U live in) because drivers will be upset.

@calgary.ca here is how we stop the almost weekly loss of pedestrian and cyclist lives. This is what vision zero actually looks like. Slow down traffic speeds, close roads to car traffic, build proper bike lanes, and extend transit options.

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”

I crashed a road safety conference & one of Q&A sessions had a Q about distracted driving. Most panelists gave the usual spiel. But The planners from Guelph pointed out that that kids can be distracting and also that Finland has phones and no deaths. It's solvable, we are just doing it wrong.

Ever think about the fact that city staff wrote a report about how parking fees can be used to meet council's strategic goals but then in the same report recommended keeping parking fee increases low enough that they won't actually help achieve council's strategic goals?

From 1925: a prediction that, as more people choose to drive to the countryside, cars will end up destroying the very beauty that people go to see.

It’s going to be really a thing to watch the same folks who sabotaged action on climate change start to connect to reality. It’s going to be even more of a thing to watch the folks who were right along be told that they have to be nice to the saboteurs while the climate takes its revenge.

Imagine your dream neighbourhood: which destinations are important to you, and what modes would you like to use to get there? Take the Flowers of Proximity survey and join a global dataset envisioning the future! www.flowersofproximity.com #FlowersOfProximity

Record broken for third day running.

We had 20 kids (and an uncounted number of grown-ups) on the bike bus today, our last one for this school year in #BikeHfx. We had bubbles, freezies, stickers, and #BikeJoy all around. As usual, I was too busy soaking it all up to take any photos.

Protect your privacy and stay free: ride a bike.

When we set about developing our course on 'Relational & Human-Centred Approaches to Reduce Bias & Stigma in Healthcare', it felt to me like we should know & do this already. But no, the need is still great, as a recent @bmj.com article suggests #Bias #Stigma 1/3

New @bmj.com piece by me & @martinmckee.bsky.social on the need for the UK's public health institutions to prepare to speak up in the event of a populist government set on undermining our population's health protections. The tea leaves aren't that mysterious. www.bmj.com/content/393/...

This kind of policy is what happens when you put the bureaucrat responsible for alcohol and tobacco regulation in charge of Treaty Relations.

#ICYMI Toronto’s “The Vision Zero Road Safety Plan is a comprehensive action plan focused on reducing traffic-related fatalities and serious injuries on Toronto’s streets” Distracted while Driving via @pbs.org youtu.be/gsHn_AngvbA?...

Yesterday I was speaking at the Curious Cities conference - a truly excellent event looking at how we can rethink urban spaces. All yesterday is recorded here, opening with a good talk from Chris Boardman. I gave a short punchy talk, 1h 5mins in on this recording www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7aP...

The bar for safe driving is much higher than the bar for legal driving and this is a problem baked into the entire system.

This is some real forward-thinking work right here. Over time they can fill in the rest of the roof, leaving just the cross as white space. Much better than making the cross out of panels.

Cambridge! So many bikes!

If a small.child can't safely pedal along a cycle lane, it's not fit for purpose. They should ban those painted line ones; drivers assume the cyclist has their own lane and therefore doesn't need the 1.5m clearance.

Some people in Wakefield have stopped cycling because of dangerous road conditions caused by worsening traffic conditions & inadequate infrastructure. Big city Leeds has a cycle superhighway. Small city Wakefield has a few lines painted on bits of road, a few shared cycle/pedestrian paths then nowt!

⚡ June Critical Mass Ride FRIDAY June 26 ⚡(Tomorrow) 📍Meeting at 6:00pm, and ready to roll out at 6:30pm. Location: Starting at City Hall (Grand Parade Square), ending at the Commons. We will ride on paved city streets. The length of the route is around 7.5km

It's the last Friday of the month!!! #BikeHFX