Someone rode to this pharmacy despite there being no secure parking. Fear of bike theft is one of the biggest barriers to people making ordinary trips like this; especially by ebike. There’s technically a lamppost, but it doesn’t work for many locks, so the bike has ended up left outside unsecured.

this morning, someone *intentionally* almost hit me with their car to make a point they almost killed me. to make a point.

Another bridge, another £80m needed to fix it. Tell me again that providing space for cycling is expensive. www.mylondon.news/news/east-lo...

New study! We tested a system that gave hyper-local air quality alerts to deter domestic wood burning at high-risk times. It worked extremely well for people who engaged, but just as interesting was how reluctant most people were even to consider the issue link.springer.com/article/10.1...

If you do nothing more than observe the size of the average American commuter vehicle, it becomes really hard to feel sorry for anyone complaining about the price of gas. You don't get to choose to drive oversized, overpowered geometry and have all of society subsidize the fuel it requires to move.

Without a test ride, without even seeing this bike in person we took a leap. We sold a car and bought this e-cargo bike. And it changed our life. Happy 5th birthday 'Mike the Bike' www.forourkids.ca/family_ebike...

Petrol costs are spiralling and the tubes are on strike. Do yourself a favour, and get on a bike 🚲🚲

Stolen by a bike lane, was it?

From Australia: "New research has found public transport fares have not been a decisive factor in pushing people to shift from car to public transport." "Better public transport access, coverage, reliability, and travel time have a greater impact than price in changing long-term commuting habits."

Cycling in Graz (“Austria’s cycling capital") is general good. Infrastructure is not up to Dutch standards, but here’s my top 5 things other cities could do. Number 5: make roads one way, except for cycling.

@chionwurah.bsky.social hi, you see the car in the background blocking the path. You can vote to allow councils to ban pavement parking. Hope you vote to allow councils the freedom to do this.

I don’t think we talk nearly enough about the fact that corporations like Amazon, don’t pay a single cent to maintain the roads they use, the transportation system they use, the courts they use, they pay nothing for the infrastructure that is absolutely critical to their business. WE Pay for

Oh so the BBC does know the difference between an electric motorbike and an ebike. Next time they deliberately mislabel it, they don’t have an excuse.

Ask your local supermarket if they could put in a bike rack and … “We don’t own the parking lot, you’ll have to speak to the property manager” Weird because they have the power to make changes when their priority customers have special needs.

One of the downsides of living in Wales is I can't get involved in this @livingstreets.bsky.social campaign to address pavement parking. But for those of you in England, perhaps take a look? act.livingstreets.org.uk/page/189938/...

Riese and Muller leaving the US market. This is a big loss for the cargo bike community in the US. Why? Trump's tariffs. www.r-m.de/en-us/press/...

Just a reminder, he's been at this for decades.

It's happening! 📢 On Tuesday, MPs will consider an amendment to enable local leaders to ban pavement parking in their area. We need you to help us get this amendment on to the Bill. Ask your MP to agree to Amendment 265 when it's considered on Tuesday: https://bitly.livingstreets.org.uk/4tMU2Uq

Walking back from the coffee shop this morning, I saw a near miss (less than 10cm) between a gig worker on a bike and a pedestrian. It was a green light for pedestrians, but the only person who was nearly hit was the idiot who had full size headphones. Now let me be clear; it was the rider's fault.

Can we finally agree that burning wood for energy is a terrible idea and won't be carbon neutral, let alone carbon negative, in our lifetimes? BECCS using wood certainly shouldn't qualify as CO₂ removal (CDR).

<Insert shocked Pikachu face>

Reddit posts like this just make me ever more sure that riding a bike on the carriageway in traffic for several lessons should be a mandatory part of getting a driving licence. It isn't a skill issue; it's an empathy and lack of experience problem.

School drop-off. Thursday: kids out with the traffic wardens, with nice signs asking parents not to park dangerously. Friday: parents parking on the pavement outside school.

The perfect illustration of why these types of initiatives are a waste of time. We did several school ‘speedwatch’ days etc. & as soon as you leave more cars are speeding. Pointless. All roads in a whole area outside schools should be fully filtered school streets.

Dear Christian Zionists: If the IDF killing babies hasn’t put you off yet, maybe the desecration of your prophet’s icon will. 👇 aje.news/sibvz7

If you think Doug Ford using taxpayer funds to buy his private jet is unrelated to his trying to have jets fly from Toronto's Island Airport, I've got a failed private waterfront spa at Ontario Place, a shuttered Science Centre, and a tunnel under the 401 to sell you. #ONpoli #TOpolo

Uninsured driving isn’t victimless. Offenders are 6–7x more likely to be in a fatal crash, and over half are linked to wider criminality—reflecting risk-taking, disregard for the law, or deception. It pushes up costs for honest drivers. Tackling it protects communities. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Nothing else says pedestrians are third class citizens in the UK than being made to wait at a pelican crossing for so long (because it only changes when there are no cars approaching) that your Apple Watch asks if you finished your walk.

And yet mouth breathers say that people cycling need id plates so they can be identified. It works so well with drivers doesn't it?

They want us to think that Suburban Sprawl is cheap. But the truth is, the costs are FAR too high. #UrbanTruth

3/ Weaponizing tree preservation to prevent infill development is, literally, failing to see the forest for the trees. I have considered myself an environmentalist my whole life. Forest preservation is essential. Urban trees are important, too, and we need to plant more, but infill saves forests.

1/ There is a lot of discussion about trees and infill development here in Victoria, BC. Sometimes replacing one or two single detached houses with a small apartment building requires replacing a few trees. That's unfortunate, and, yet, the alternative is far worse. #yyj

In LA today: I took the kids to school by bike I pick up some Cost Co with the cargo bike I rode to work. It's possible. Not as safe as I'd like, but damn it was a gorgeous day to ride. Spending all that time outside doing light exercise that would've been in a car, sure improves my day!

Men are 2.6x more likely than women to bike to work. Study finds where protected bike lane coverage is higher, women’s cycling rates rise significantly faster than men’s. Where coverage is limited or fragmented, women’s participation drops more sharply. momentummag.com/the-bike-lan...

I feel so seen: "The larger problem is that car dependency makes the costs of cars invisible — you don’t see the health impacts, the social isolation as directly caused by cars. They’re just “how things are.” Which makes it incredibly hard to build political will to change..."

In more "bears shit in the woods" news... "New Research Shows Women Ride More Where Protected Infrastructure Exists"

It costs the City of Ottawa $465/person each year to serve new low-density homes, over & above what it receives from property taxes/fees. On the other hand, high-density infill such as apartment buildings pays for itself plus an extra $606/person each year. Sprawl costs, infill saves. #UrbanTruth

This is a great data visualisation. It clearly shows why policy interventions that support/subsidise driving tend to not just miss an opportunity to reduce inequality, they are likely to entrench inequality, because those in the most deprived areas will derive the least benefit.

Such considerate drivers(!) A private access road this may be, but it doesn't mean you can just dump your cars on the pavement, blocking a pedestrian route.

New: Communities face spiralling fuel prices, exacerbating transport poverty and car dependence - and many need car-free alternatives for short trips. I've spoken to successful greenway campaigners, and produced a toolkit! so others can help assemble low-carbon transport routes in their areas

It doesn’t need to be a conspiracy for a problem to be systemic. The role of a decent prime minister would be to ensure that companies like this stop killing children.

As with so many issues, Labour's approach to #UKCarCulture is to leave the nastiest and most unhinged rhetoric (in this case "war on motorists," "LTNs are a communist plot," etc.) to their Tory and Reform counterparts, while enabling and legitimating it with the same policy orientation.

The Sun have made a pre-tax loss of £31 million? - I'm reading this sipping a delicious glass of schadenfreude, pondering journalism ethics, and listening to Billy youtu.be/mo7CRHkbMnk?...

Maybe the reason why there are so many potholes isn't because the council aren't doing their job, but because so many of you selfish pricks are driving round in 3 ton SUVs

During the 1970s oil crisis, the Netherlands 🇳🇱 realized car dependency was a trap and built world-class bike infrastructure. The US 🇺🇸 just invented "Right on Red" to supposedly save gas and accepted the pedestrian casualties. Two approaches, two very different outcomes. A new NJB video. 👇

The CTA's marketing team woke up and chose violence 😂

They want us to be. THAT’S the conspiracy. #UrbanTruth

In more “the sky is blue” news…

In the middle of a fuel crisis when more people than ever are shopping by bike, why does #Sainsbury’s think it’s appropriate to block more than half the bike parking with gardening stock?

"My experience of driving less has reminded me that when we can, it’s worth questioning our habits and resisting the instinct to do what is most comfortable – because what’s comfortable doesn’t necessarily make us feel happy or free." www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...