I wrote this 7 years ago In it I called for cities to better embrace greenery, reflective coatings, water and shading to tackle urban heat. More relevant than ever…. www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/...

THIS!

One of Europe’s great railway secrets! Tickets on this mountain train, through little-known valleys in #Switzerland and #Italy, start at just 31 €. More in my latest HIGH SPEED dispatch: www.highspeed.blog/a-slow-ride-...

Next up, high speed train envy. Made it from Paris to London in two hours. London Climate Action Week 2026. #lcaw2026 #mobility #trains

This is the bridge I was standing on taking pictures of the new high speed train station but this one is about the interesting shadow. #Shadows #Bridges #Barcelona #Photography

More people should take the train also the US should have high speed rail

Commission *accused* of promoting European social media platform Amazing accusation that, @euractiv.com Oh and @eurosky.social & Mastodon are European too! Link via @liabelle.me https://www.euractiv.com/news/commission-accused-of-promoting-european-social-media-platform/

Super interesting court case in France about the right to cooling as well as heating. The court rules that where the building has a reversible heat pump providing heating and A/C then the tenants have a right to compensation if the cooling doesn't work. www.lemonde.fr/argent/artic...

The failure to promote HS2 as an urgent climate emergency solution and proceed accordingly will curse us for decades.

I am finishing Graham Greene's 1938 The Confidential Agent and there is literally nothing about the fundamentals of energy geopolitics and the deafness to appeals about justice THAT HAS CHANGED. 🧵 [corrected thread]

That’s a wrap for the bike-bus ‘25-‘26 Have a great summer everyone, and we’ll look forward to seeing the happy, energised faces again after the break

Fossil fuels and infrastructure are increasingly stranded assets. Invest in renewable energy. 🧪💡🔌☀️💨💧🔋

Can you imagine we attributed every single thing a company's services or products do, to the CEO "FORD CEO JIM FARLEY DRIVES KETAN JOSHI TO THE SHOPS"

It’s the middle of winter in Antarctica and rain is falling on glaciers. It’s supposed to be 20 degrees celsius colder - but it isn’t. And this has been going on for a while. Watch this important video:

One of the benefits of taking the scenic route home is that you meet other people who also enjoy the scenic route. Just had a very nice quick chat with Henk Swarttouw, CEO of the wonderful European Cyclists Federation coming back from the annual @ecf.com annual forum.

Amazing wayfinding at Basel SBB station. Just a giant live video of all the trams and buses outside. So easy. Have never seen this before.

Development next-generation sodium-ion battery cells purpose built for grid-scale storage. news.gm.com/home.detail....

“Not all of us want new cars. Some of us want trains and buses that come every 5 minutes.” - @myvoicemychoice.bsky.social

Nearly 80% of data centers are exposed to extreme climate change related weather events.

London leads by example, matching ambition with action on air pollution, public transport investment & supporting young people. We’ve been recognised with the Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize 2026. This award belongs to the communities, businesses & organisations building a better London for everyone.

Where’s Elon worrying about human birth rates when millions of children are dying from climate change?

It's literally and figuratively a breath of fresh air to be in urban spaces designed for people and without cars.

Bike-lanes don’t cause traffic congestion. Car dependency, dumb land-use sprawl, too many (& bigger) cars being driven too much taking up too much space, highly subsidized driving costs, and not enough choices in how to get around, ALL cause traffic congestion. Think about it. THAT’S common sense.

THIS!!

The UK government should ban social media use by the over 60s. That is the part of the population being radicalised to support mass murder and genocide by social media. If you want to ban people based on age, ban the problematic part of your society: the over 60s incapable of logic and reason.

And the same logic that applies to internal catastrophe engines in cars, the same applies to planes. Batteries don’t need to have the energy density of jet fuel. Jet fuel is incredibly inefficient wasting billions of dollars in fuel on making sound and vibrations. Electric jet engines don’t.

If you are wondering how my train ride back to Bonn from Sweden is going, standing on a cold platform in Lund waiting for the majorly delayed train to Hamburg. No one to ask, no one to call. Just not OK. European train travel needs to work better than this!!!

Hamburg central station 7 am on a grey Saturday if you are wondering. I missed my connection due to the delay but there is another train coming soon.

One of the dumbest men in the world is the richest man in the world. One of the dumbest men in the world is the most powerful man in the world. Both Elon and Donald are morons enabled by capitalism. Capitalism destroys science.

Having cycled 28km so far in Paris today, I’m struck by how I’m making split second judgments about whether a fellow cyclist is going to be a danger - based on their bike, what they’re wearing etc. Anyone riding this for example has more money than sense, and that’s powerful, heavy, dangerous

A bit of a contrast. Currently a Frecciarossa 1000 is parked between steam locomotives at the railway museum in Strasshof, Austria. It can be visited this Sunday when the museum is open. @jonworth.eu @ogilvie.org.uk youtu.be/ch78LtdoeXc

'China cancels high-level meetings with EU. China abruptly cancelled two important diplomatic meetings with the EU this month as tensions between the two trading superpowers build over soaring Chinese exports to the bloc.' www.ft.com/content/5903...

China went from ~11% electricity in 2000 to nearly 30% in 2024. Fastest in the Global South by far. Indonesia is the other big mover, up nearly 17 percentage points from a low base, while India added a bit over 8 points. More in Bright Spots: janrosenow.substack.com

108GW new battery storage capacity deployed worldwide in 2025, representing a 40% year-on-year increase. www.solarpowerportal.co.uk/energy-polic...

Good idea ! 💖

I have been saying this for years. If I could depend on public transportation that shows up even every 15 minutes, I would ditch my car!

It doesn't even have to be every 5 minutes. I'd be content with every half hour if the city stopped removing bus station benches & shade.

Exclusive: first govt plan for cycling and walking in England since the Johnson era contains some actual targets - including that 60% of all pupils walk/cycle/wheel to school by 2035. Transport sec Heidi Alexander says a lot of the push is based on public health. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Well done @livingstreets.bsky.social etc.

“Not all of us want new cars. Some of us want trains and buses that come every 5 minutes.” - @myvoicemychoice.bsky.social

This FT piece about how Germany is fixing its railways, and why it has to, is not bad www.ft.com/content/db75... It's one of few such articles where I am not screaming at my screen because they made some error

Thanks Jon! That’s incredibly helpful for future reference. Amazingly though, I won’t need this tonight, as THEY HELD THE TRAIN FOR ME. I’m SO relieved, as there’s a mega train strike across Italy starting 3am on Thursday 11 till the evening of Friday 12, & I did not want to be caught up in it…

Rush hour, Amsterdam-style.

I’m going to file this under “We have concepts of a plan.” Best case scenario: Bullet train space race. #Alberta competes with #Ontario and #Quebec to build Canada’s first high-speed rail. dailyhive.com/calgary/albe...

"On Friday, the government released an executive summary that sees high-speed rail between Edmonton and Calgary, and a train connecting Calgary to the Rocky Mountain resort town of Banff, within 30 years. It also sees trains potentially connecting Edmonton and Calgary to surrounding suburbs."

"[China'a]Gasoline and diesel sales both posted double-digit declines in April as higher crude prices and slowing demand from China’s increasingly electrified vehicle fleet weighed on consumption."

"Gas demand will be lower in 2026 vs 2024, not massively, but a good few % points. "

🤬 Oulx - Modane in a TGV costs a fortune because *THERE ARE NO REGIONAL TRAINS* - you should not need a TGV for this! But this article misses that point altogether Link via @pglux.bsky.social nosalpes.eu/fr/2026/06/0...

Anchor vs Bollard. SNAPPED IT LIKE A TWIG. #WorldBollardAssociation

NYC is the only place I've ever been where someone will confront you about THEIR illegal parking.