The Dutch lead the world in residential bike parking, and it's not by accident. Municipalities have spent 20+ years building programs that put certified, secure bike hangars on residential streets at scale. How the model works, and why cities everywhere are looking to replicate it: buff.ly/EFkQaiX

“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.”

Sydney records hottest June since 1859 as expert warns new high a ‘signature’ of global warming. But it’s fine… We will be just fine when ice caps melt and half of the ecosystem dies. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

As the USA commemorates its semiquincentennial, the question arises: What's the best way to celebrate a country's birthday? Fifty years ago, over 4,000 riders embraced the Spirit of '76 by cycling from sea to shining sea. It was known as Bikecentennial. 🧵

The world is on fire so no, you don’t need to circle around the parking lot for 10 min to find the closest spot. You also don’t need to leave your car on for 30 min and contribute to the same heat you are trying to avoid.

Kids in cars: - Are we there yet? Kids on bikes: - Yeeeeeeeey

This iconic Fabian Todorovic cartoon is still one of the best I’ve seen at illustrating the remarkable amount of space we surrender to cars, leaving little space left for everyone and everything else. The text added later makes the bonus point that many drivers still manage to complain about it.

🛴Latest research on e-scooter safety. Let's go! 🧵🧵🧵 - While normalization of traffic violations was found to increase speeding risk, prevention-oriented strategies outperform enforcement-only policies (Sheykhfard and Ferenchak, 2026)

One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen, was filled with cars until a 2 year pedestrianization pilot project in 1962. The opposition argued “no cars means no business,” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.

Cars kill in more ways than one.

We used to be an interesting country.

E-cycling and e-scooting need new legislation to keep up with tech. However, legislation without the infrastructure is a wish.

Temperatures are well above 30°C, but people keep cycling. Evening rush hour in Utrecht is as busy as usual. It is just that everyone is dressed a little more lightly.

Drove to work. Between the truck riding too close to me and bumper to bumper traffic, the morning is going great. Only downhill from now. A complete opposite to my cycling commutes when I lived in the Netherlands. The commute was the easiest part.

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Who would not want to travel like this? Built in AC and powered by cookies and sun. ☀️ 🚲

Given that we've collectively spent trillions on car infrastructure over the decades, it shouldn't be too much to expect this as a bare minimum for our urban areas.

Dedicated bike infrastructure ✅️✅️✅️ Lush roadside with trees and colorful flowers alongside 💚💚💚

The future of mobility and the only way to support longevity.

There's an indicator species for evaluating the safety of your urban infrastructure, and it's not middle-aged men on bikes. It's women, seniors, and kids feeling safe enough to ride in their everyday clothes.

Speeding through neighborhoods might save you 5 minutes but cost someone a lifetime.

I did e-scooter sharing for one of my trips today. Not only I was required to return it to the designated parking location but my speed was limited to 10mph. If this was how motorists are treated, the rage about loss of freedom would be endless. PS. My ride was great BTW

If you live in a big city and you feel like allergy season just never ends, you might be right. A new study found that trees in cities with brighter lights start producing pollen earlier in the spring and finish later in the fall, which could add up to 130 days per year to the allergy season.

When you eliminate through motor traffic, city streets become calm enough that walking your dog by bike through the city centre feels entirely normal.

Today (June 3rd) is the World Bicycle Day. A friendly reminder that there is a scientific connection between cycling and happiness: 🚲 cycling has a potential to protect and enhance the physical, social and psychological pleasures (Wild and Woodward, 2019) (…)

Getting old means realizing that you don’t want to spend your golden years isolated in your home because the closest grocery store is 2 miles and 5 sidewalk gaps away.

Welcome to the bike club little one 💜

The biggest flex now as a parents is not how big your house is, how fast your car is but whether your kid can roam around the neighborhood free range.

One person in one car = no online rage One person on a one bike = the world is ending Source: Facebook

My dad visiting from Poland yesterday in Orlando.

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Flexible bollards protect vehicle paint jobs, not people's lives.

A tale of two vehicles.

Hey Siri, show me madness.

I scooted to the gym. My commute was as great as the hot yoga class. Sometimes it’s about both: the journey and the destination.

People online: arguing about e-bikes, scooters and bike lanes. Meanwhile in IRL:

An average vehicle is parked 95% of the time. An average e-bike? This is where it gets complicated (in a good way)🚲 — In 2015, people who purchased e-bikes increased cycling trips increased from 0.9 to 1.4 per day, distance from 4.8 km to 10.3 km and (…)

A friend who just bought a cargo bike said this post helped her family make their decision. Sharing again for all you cargo bike curious folks. gooutside.substack.com/p/two-years-...

Per capita CO2 emissions from transport (excluding shipping and aviation).

“The majority of Americans are open to living car-free even after decades of car-centric planning, a new survey finds…A stunning 18% of car-owning U.S. residents indicated that they were ‘strongly interested’ in living car-free, and another 40% said that they were ‘open’ to it.” @usa.streetsblog.org

I spoke with a young person today and she goes: “young people don’t want to drive because we can’t afford it.”

A guy in a truck almost hits me while I was in crosswalk. He smirks and motions that he didn’t see me. I would have been mortified. He wasn’t and that pretty much sums up the pedestrian safety.

Biking connects you to your city. You feel the sun, move your body, and actually experience your neighborhood. Cars do the exact opposite. They wall you off from the world, make streets dangerous, and shrink your entire community down to just point A and point B.

Always remember. One of our banners at Brumble Bikes in Westerly, RI.

The reasons to bike/walk/scoot: - fun - relax - nature - activity - bonding - enjoyment - transportation The reasons to drive: - transportation

There are two types of brains. Bike brain: when you feel joy and safety when you see other road users doing what you do. Car brain: rage.

When $10 gas is on the table, every city should be building streets like NYC.

Are e-bikes and e-scooters problematic in where they belong on the road? Yes. Are 16 year old kids operating a 4,000 pound machine at 75mph slightly more problematic? Also yes.

“Once rare, 7-year car loans are fast becoming the norm. They’re often the only way buyers can afford new rides, with average sale prices surging 28% in 5 years to approach $50k.” Designed-in car dependency, surging car AND gas prices, longer loan periods with more interest. Sound like “freedom?”