How to create urban traffic 101:

I was recently approached by a recruiter about a job opportunity. They have known me for ages (I've both placed and been placed by her over the years), and so she knows my salary. "It's a £10,000 increase on what you're on today". Only, it wasn't.

If you haven’t had a chance to listen to this interview yet, I hope you will. And then please share your thoughts and comments to help grow the conversation. Thanks!

Forced car dependency combined with a cultivated cultural mindset that your self worth is determined by what you drive entraps people in a lifelong cycle of revolving debt. This is not freedom.

The strategic road network is managed by a charity and relies on the goodwill of land owners for access. Some motorways will be muddy and flooded each winter. Also The strategic road network stops randomly at council boundaries and investment is where councils are willing. (UK edition).

This message hits hard.

will never cease to amaze me that china built out it's HSR infra for about a trillion dollars - while the US spends roughly 1.5 trillion a year just on *car ownership*

It’s nice when you find your bike where you left it. Too bad there are no buses after 6.30pm from Newbury to Wash Common. Please sign the e-petition! decisionmaking.westberks.gov.uk/mgEPetitionD...

These are hard to watch sometimes. Luckily he didn't get hurt. The whole situation looks weird from my Dutch perspective. Why is the road so wide near those residential properties? Why is he driving so fast? Why CAN he drive so fast? And also, why isn't there a better place for that kid to cycle?

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Maybe it's time to stop blaming kids for going on screens and staying inside and start blaming ourselves for taking their outdoors away from them in all aspects of their life.

*Content Warning* Dammit kids get off YouTube and go outside and play! When I was your age we were outside the whole day! Outside:

The TUC is right, but it isn’t going to like the real things that need to happen to combat it; ie rapidly - at the speed of Paris - in every major UK city reducing the need for cars. It doesn’t realise it’s partly to blame for these conditions.

PSA: There will likely be thousands of drunk drivers on the roads across the country tonight and for the next few days. The phrase "I'm fine to drive" is a cultural disease. It isn't limited to bad neighborhoods or bad people, it spans every single tax bracket.

Who needs a village when you can have parking lots?

Drivers: “You can’t bike in the winter” Minnesotans: “Hold my hot dish”

Germany shifts over 2 million e-bikes every year. France: over 500,000. Britain? It will be lucky to get to 150,000. Why? Because people need to feel safe to cycle, and that requires serious and sustained government support, which has not been forthcoming. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...

PSA. Please don’t lock your bike like this 😂

"Vandals hacked several portable, electric traffic signs along the streets of Denver one day last week, changing the message to proclaim, 'Cars Ruin Cities.' The same evening, a live recording of 'The War on Cars' podcast was underway at the History Colorado Center near the State Capitol."

Cars are not freedom. If the only choice you have to get to work or the shops is the make, model & colour of the car you drive, that’s not freedom. Choice within constraints is not freedom. Freedom is the ability to be able to opt out of the constraint. Cars intentionally enforce that constraint.

Great example of why bike racks shouldn’t be perpendicular to the carriageway. And yes, it’s a big bike. But even ignoring that, perpendicular bike racks are a danger for visually impaired people. If it was parallel to the carriageway it wouldn’t be an issue, irrespective of it being a bakfiets.

Show of hands if you've ever submitted evidence of a traffic offence to an online portal in England or Wales and been fobbed off with a response like the one in the screenshot I received.

Speed is ALWAYS a factor in crashes. This level of destruction does not happen at safe speeds. This is a given and never an unknown except to the willfully incompetent.

...and an edit button?

The core of this problem is still nowhere near enough bike parking. Great they added 115 new bays but both sides of virtually every street in Islington are still covered in car parking! Be more radical - convert 1/2 car parking on every suitable road to bike parking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I wish I lived in a country where human lives were valued more than "gun rights".

Standard local shop experience. Step 1: I won't order bike lube on Amazon, I'll try the local shop. 2: Walk there on my 30-min lunch break 3: "Back in 5 mins" sign. 4: Wait 10 mins 5: Order on Amazon outside the shop and walk home, unlikely to ever return

Empty Bottle bathroom knows that #everybikeisbeautiful

On the theme of, "American planners regulate the wrong things," we should have much stricter regulations on noise-proofing apartments. It's the sort of issue regulation is meant to handle: it's difficult for most consumer to assess it before making a decision, and it really impacts qualify of life.

I won't defend assholes that behave poorly on any mobility device, but bikes on sidewalks are a symptom of hostile infrastructure design. No one willingly chooses the friction of sidewalk riding when proper, protected, efficient bike lanes exist. Ebikes aren't the problem, it's the infrastructure.

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

“It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them.” — Mayor of Pontevedra, Spain (re-elected 6 times)

We need this attitude in Aoteoroa New Zealand. Only rich people can afford cars. And the old and the young aren't allowed to use them. Towns need to be designed around people and their needs, not around the needs of cars.

The future of transportation isn’t the #Hyperloop* or self-driving cars. It’s the bus, the bike and the elevator. Via @slate.com. AND it’s better land-use & infrastructure decisions, reprioritizing space & budgets, accessible streets, & smart pricing mechanisms. *hyperloop was always a distraction

Just with our school commute, I cycle 14km/day

Something something something… why won’t old people stop driving cars when they’re clearly too old to drive? I wonder why. Until councils grapple with this simple fact, people will keep dying unnecessarily.

It's worth noting, too, with a huge lifted truck like that, there's much greater likelihood of this collision being catastrophically horrible for the pedestrian.

Cargo bikes in renders. 🤌

I can attest that this cup holder is now even better than before. The new clamps are strong and work really well. We have one on the Urban Arrow and the Tern HSD. Pick some up for the holidays! 🎁 Coupon Code: "AMFietser" at checkout.

Fore Lane Cycleway closed again! @squarehighways.bsky.social, would it kill the contractors to at least put up some advanced signage for people using the supposed Cycleway so they can use alternative routes? This seems like really poor planning.

Now, before you say "well actually..." in regards to pavement color differentiation importance, yes I know, I have been teaching the design principles of pavement color differentiation for years, but this paint shit rather than dyed top layer asphalt is getting people hurt and easily chips away.

The LCC's Women's Network report sums up barriers lcc.org.uk/campaigns/wo...

Street parking is tax payer subsidized storage.

So… motorbike police then. Because these aren’t ebikes. They’re emotos. It’s almost like being accurate is a key foundational thing newspapers need to do.

Anybody missing a bicycle?

It's always a good reminder that cycling is a net benefit to society in more ways than one. Bicycle Urbanism by design - Mikael Coleville-Andersen

We're not required to defend CAFE standards. They really are bad and a big part of the reason every car is massive nowadays. Well-meaning regulations can sometimes have unintended consequences.

The Expense.

While this BBC article on ever-bigger SUVs is perfectly good, it's absurd the way there has to be quotes from people who insist they could not get around without a vehicle the size of a Sherman tank. It's just bollocks. I'm one of three kids and we were all ferried around in a Vauxhall Astra estate.