POV: You need a new garden fence & live in a country with mountains of no longer useable bikes. What do you do? Weld 10 old bikes to a metal bar and spraypaint everything the same color. Photo from Rotterdam, NL by my BikeFlip colleague Boris @coolbikeart1.bsky.social

This has always been a Bluesky-first campaign. But as of today, we will no longer be using Twitter. At all. And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.

A busy fietsstraat this evening, a bike priority street in central Utrecht. A few cars and delivery vans, many many people on bikes and walking to stores, even an in-line skater & someone pushing a full trolley of beer bottle crates. Car-lite city life is the best for businesses AND for people.

Happy 7th night of Hanukkah, Dutch style.

I was working on an ice cream bike this week. What a great present for a small child! bikeflip.nl

↗️Christopher Anderson has been nominated in the category of best framing in a photograph in the #TrumpPortraitPageant Below a work in progress based on a painting of hell by Bosch.

I was intrigued by Christopher Anderson's Vanity Fair portrait of Leavitt, Vance, Rubio, Wiles, Scavino, Blair, and Miller: leaders/enablers of autocracy, responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths from USAID cuts, and many more to come. I couldn't decide which circle they belong in. Thoughts?

What do you think of our new holiday tree at BikeFlip in Utrecht? bikeflip.nl

Happy first night of Hannukah, to those who celebrate. An idea for a present, for those who like to build.

Every city has its Main Street. Streets with active shoppers, lots of stores, delivery vans, buses, maybe some housing above the retail level. Instead of making your Main Street just another four lane car street, how taking a car lane and creating a place that invites people, young & old? #Utrecht

NEW/LISTEN! Been REALLY looking forward to this one — my interview with Jason from #NotJustBikes IS LIVE on many podcast platforms plus YouTube! We cover a LOT of really important ground on how to ACTUALLY ACHIEVE BETTER CITIES IN REAL PRACTICE! I’m looking forward to your thoughts and comments!

A very small group of billionaires and trillionaires with a lot of power has decided our future will be digital and post-human. And then, we have cities: bright, rainbow-colored dots of humanity, creativity, industry, and culture. I vote for cities.

Every city has its Main Street. Streets with active shoppers, lots of stores, delivery vans, buses, maybe some housing above the retail level. Instead of making your Main Street just another four lane car street, how taking a car lane and creating a place that invites people, young & old? #Utrecht

A very small group of billionaires and trillionaires with a lot of power has decided our future will be digital and post-human. And then, we have cities: bright, rainbow-colored dots of humanity, creativity, industry, and culture. I vote for cities.

Bluesky has felt sleepy for a while now. I want to encourage everyone to post more. Text is fine, but you know what? People enjoy damn near any picture of something neat. Food, your bike, a cat, whatever. Also, liking is nice, but reposting is what actually helps exposure.

Utrecht has made space not just for bikes, but for trees. Trees are prioritized, given space, and maintained by the municipality, not just in parks, but along every road that is developed. A resilient city prepares for the future on a warming planet.

Utrecht has made space not just for bikes, but for trees. Trees are prioritized, given space, and maintained by the municipality, not just in parks, but along every road that is developed. A resilient city prepares for the future on a warming planet.

My hyper-local Saturday news from Utrecht: 📌 Neighbors are celebrating a wedding. 📌 Teens put fireworks into the trash bin. 📌 People are bringing home bargains from holiday sales. 📌 I fixed the brakes on a 14" bike at BikeFlip What's your local news today?

Imagine learning how to bike - and learning to bike for transportation - as an adult. The 10 women in Fietsmeesters where I volunteer graduated this week. All can balance on a bike. Most have successfully ridden with a teacher in traffic. Excellent work! New classes start in Utrecht in the spring

Imagine learning how to bike - and learning to bike for transportation - as an adult. The 10 women in Fietsmeesters where I volunteer graduated this week. All can balance on a bike. Most have successfully ridden with a teacher in traffic. Excellent work! New classes start in Utrecht in the spring

𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝗱𝗲 𝗕𝗶𝗸𝗲𝗟𝗼𝘂𝗱𝗣𝗗𝗫 𝗶𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗴𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴? Bike Buddies Bike Lane Sweepers Bike Bill Lawsuit Bike Policy Rides Bike Tech Nights Bike Bus Support Bike Corkers Bike Mini-Grants Bike Advocacy Bike Research Bike Safe Streets Bike Slack Channels 𝗦𝗲𝗲 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗲? 𝗝𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝘂𝘀! 𝗗𝗼𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗲! 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗸 𝘆𝗼𝘂!

Happy December 2025! We made it!

Happy December 2025! We made it!

I just realized the Mayors of both Seattle and Portland are Mayor K Wilson. @mayorkwilson.bsky.social @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social Maybe they can save money and share stationary.

Bike infrastructure — arguably the best streets in the world for biking — is the main reason I relocated to Utrecht. After years of working on safe streets advocacy in the US, I wanted to live in a place without forced car dependency. It's what the whole world needs now!

Melissa Bruntlett is an urbanist storyteller. This is her story. 𝙊𝙣 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙩 𝙙𝙖𝙮 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙉𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙨, 𝙬𝙚 𝙨𝙖𝙞𝙙, “𝙊𝙆, 𝙠𝙞𝙙𝙨, 𝙞𝙩’𝙨 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙜𝙤.” 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙙. 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙝𝙖𝙙 𝙛𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙣 𝙞𝙣 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙩 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙨𝙖𝙛𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙬𝙖𝙡𝙠 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙚 𝙙𝙞𝙙𝙣’𝙩 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙮 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙛𝙛𝙞𝙘. NYTimes 🎁 article @modacitylife.com

A mile of Utrecht's Amsterdamsestraatweg w 300 businesses, buses, freight & 20K bikes/day was rebuilt last year. It's so good 2.5m bike lanes on both sides of the road 1.8m sidewalks 1.4 million pavers 116 new trees 5 new plazas new lights bus shelters & sewer lines ...58 fewer car parking spots

Beatriz Yordi, Director of Carbon Markets & Clean Energy on plans to distribute a $89 Billion Social Climate Fund to decarbonize - going first to users + countries experiencing transportation poverty. EU defines transport poverty as leveling access, cost, flexibility. #polis25 @polisnetwork.eu

A mile of Utrecht's Amsterdamsestraatweg w 300 businesses, buses, freight & 20K bikes/day was rebuilt last year. It's so good 2.5m bike lanes on both sides of the road 1.8m sidewalks 1.4 million pavers 116 new trees 5 new plazas new lights bus shelters & sewer lines ...58 fewer car parking spots

#DutchStairs LOL These are some of the stairs, and rickety bannister, leading to my doctor's office on the third floor of a former house in Utrecht. Small wonder we're all so healthy, climbing up and down stairs like these everyday!

It's that time of year when Americans set up quaint, walkable Christmas villages in their living rooms, dreaming of living in such a cozy place. ​Meanwhile, they'll show up to city council meetings to fiercely oppose any plan that would actually build that kind of car-lite community in real life.

Biking on narrow cobbled streets toward the main library in downtown Utrecht, past people walking, other bikes and cargo bikes, it's easy to imagine the city of centuries ago, and the city that will be, a century from now. Bikes make sense.

BikeFlip is one of the places I volunteer in Utrecht. We refurbish & lease used children's bikes monthly. A wonderful business! Every Dutch bike, tiny to adult, has a chain guard / kettingcast. Every one is unique. The boxes below are filled w chain guards. As a novice mechanic, they drive me mad.

Cities are the best human habitat. Cities are what most of us are drawn to. Not Mars or bunkers in the desert or some AI-fever dream, but cities, in all their creative concentrated exuberance. Cities are where we can be together, learn from each other, celebrate and build our future life on earth.

I volunteer for the Dutch non-profit De Fietsmeesters, that runs a 10-week program to teach biking skills to adults, mainly women, mostly immigrants. After six weeks, all 10 women in my group can balance. Some have advanced to practice on the road, learning signs & signals. So proud of them all!

I volunteer for the Dutch non-profit De Fietsmeesters, that runs a 10-week program to teach biking skills to adults, mainly women, mostly immigrants. After six weeks, all 10 women in my group can balance. Some have advanced to practice on the road, learning signs & signals. So proud of them all!

Car-free transit activist and community organizer is the new Seattle Mayor! Congratulations Mayor-elect Katie Wilson! @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social

💯 I'm a city planner in my bones. What's more important to viable cities than supporting people: Their access to healthcare, food, housing, and their basic right to flourish in all their diversity? Fossil fuel & AI-oligarchs believe cities can exist without free-thinking people. They are wrong.

💯 I'm a city planner in my bones. What's more important to viable cities than supporting people: Their access to healthcare, food, housing, and their basic right to flourish in all their diversity? Fossil fuel & AI-oligarchs believe cities can exist without free-thinking people. They are wrong.

For me, the mark of a truly functional city government is a smooth bike path, clear of leaves & debris. And housed and fed people of course. #Utrecht Voor mij is het kenmerk van een echt functioneel stad is een glad fietspad, vrij van bladeren en afval. En natuurlijk mensen die er wonen en eten

I post so much about how wonderful life is in Utrecht for people outside of cars that you might think cars don't exist here. They do! But cars are controlled in Utrecht. Here's a long line of cars waiting to get into an underground parking garage for big fall sales at the shopping mall.

When you take a big breath and think about it, it is horrifying how much material we use & then throw away to build mountains of private cars every year. We strip mine the planet, enslave children and adults, and degrade our souls to feed our endless appetite for cars and more cars. We can change.

For me, the mark of a truly functional city government is a smooth bike path, clear of leaves & debris. And housed and fed people of course. #Utrecht Voor mij is het kenmerk van een echt functioneel stad is een glad fietspad, vrij van bladeren en afval. En natuurlijk mensen die er wonen en eten

That's so fun! Future NYC Mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is popping up today in my Cargo Bike Feed on his way to the polls in a box bike. bsky.app/profile/cath...

Mellow autumn day on a bike in Utrecht.

Coffee cargo bike, disability trikes, parked bikes & cars, people walking, biking, talking - ordinary quiet city life made possible by choosing to invest in streets for people, not just the cars they drive. #Utrecht

Coffee cargo bike, disability trikes, parked bikes & cars, people walking, biking, talking - ordinary quiet city life made possible by choosing to invest in streets for people, not just the cars they drive. #Utrecht

On this beautiful fall day it's easy to imagine old Utrecht from centuries ago. The sounds of shoppers, dogs, churchbells, children, bikes. The Havendienst (port service) barge delivering beer to canal-side taverns. It's harder to imagine cars here just a few decades ago.

A global network of urbanists shaping the cities of tomorrow. From sustainability to resilience and fairness, we’re all tackling the same challenges—and we have so much to learn from each other. As climate change and other crises intensify, sharing ideas has never been more urgent.

What's your #FoodStamp or #SNAP story? My single mom fed us on surplus food like oatmeal & block cheese Now the US President holds Americans hostage💔 "Christophe Niyibizi, 67, said he and his wife limit themselves to one full meal each day, in midafternoon, to try and make their food last longer"