Traffic violence is everywhere and appears in all kinds of shapes. As ordinary harm, constantly normalising inconveniences to those not driving. As slow violence, always raising the threshold for outrage. And as a brutal, deadly blow, masked as "accident". It hurts all the time to see it everywhere.

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Det sker inte bara i USA

Exactly, it's public space after all. The narrative needs to be changed. It's completely absurd to restrict everyone else, not rarely to the point of making free movement impossible. And it's appalling that this is considered normal.

The Swedish government commissioned the Transport Agency to investigate how a regulation for overtaking of cyclists by motor vehicles can be introduced. Good news - now we'll provide them with data and help them understand the importance of a full lane change. www.statskontoret.se/Statsliggare...

Why, if I now have to press this beg button, does the light not change immediately? Why this period of making me wait, right where cars blast through, threatening me and splashing me? If we absolutely have to grant cars a guaranteed green time, why not insert it _after_ pedestrian/bike green?

There was this jogger on the rural road in the dusk, without reflective apparel or hiviz, and it was no problem at all, because my speed allowed me to see him well in advance and give him space and I could even say hi, as I was riding a bike. A normal encounter for human-sized mobility.

"Use bicycle bell!" Lund's solution to their own horrendous planning. Four lanes for cars. Cyclists surely sort out who'll get the first try to not get stuck in the fence with their handlebars. Pedestrians are expected to dissolve. In which way exactly does the bicycle bell help here?

Vi ville undersöka frågan systematiskt, men har hittills fått avslag två gånger. Tycker ni att det är viktigt att ta fram information om detta som underlag för möjliga framtida beslut?

Det tål att sägas igen. Omkörningar av cyklande ska ske med ett helt filbyte. Det borde vara en självklarhet att man gör allt för att inte skrämma och hota andra människor som befinner sig i ens närhet. Det är varken coolt eller starkt att utnyttja makt.

Snacka om att förvränga ett budskap - If och vi (VTI) gjorde en enkätundersökning och publicerar ett första resultat under rubriken "Så många bilister erkänner osäkra omkörningar av cyklister": via.tt.se/pressmeddela... Vad tycker då Carup är en bra rubriksättning? -->

Conclusions from our recently published paper: "The take-home lesson is that the problem of drivers failing to check for cyclists in a turn situation is confirmed by several studies with various methods, suggesting it is a global concern given the current design of traffic infrastructure. ...

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One almost wonders which transport mode has an engine. One of a thousand examples where bikes cover more altitude than cars. And often there are steep ramps. But hey, we're cycling for exercise, right?

I so wish that tyre and engine noise would be heard inside instead of outside of the vehicle. It's gruelling and mind-numbing to ride on a "perfectly safe" bike path next to a road full of cars.

"Road safety is a shared responsibility!" I do my part by choosing a vehicle that does not kill others*. What's your contribution? *Yes, there is the odd case where the other party got killed in a collision with a bike. On a system level, the point is still valid.

Not quite sure. It's rare to see cars share space instead of dominating it. The non-car user mass would have to be really big compared to the car volume if cars are to behave subdued enough to consider it sharing. I have my suspicions.

On Saturday I learnt by experience what an impact at 30 kph means for the body. I assure you, it's not pleasant. It appears cynical to think that this is an acceptable speed to hit people with cars.

Let's hope and actively work for a change. It's not on for a country like Sweden, with its pride in "Vision Zero" and equality, to obstruct and ignore a transport mode that does not endanger others and enables equality.

Bikes on trains in Sweden, episode 443981: Going from Linköping to Emmaboda over the weekend, around 250 km. Without bike: 1 change. With bike: 4 changes. Obviously no guarantee to get the bike onto the train. Already 4 bikes on the platform. Taking an earlier option just in case of failure.

Otroligt äckligt att Sveriges mäktigaste politiker ger sig på Greta på det sätt de gör.

Yes, and this isn't something where a "compromise" is going to make sense: "You can keep your unjustified privilege as long as you only hurt us less than a lot."

How cynical is this world where one can kill children with cars and this is accepted as normal ("nothing wrong"), but where the killed child's parents get charged for letting their kids be "unsupervised" in public space?

"Vad som anses vara brott mot rikets säkerhet förändras över tid. Enligt somliga är exempelvis klimataktivism ett sådant. Enligt andra är granskande journalistik det. Saker som händer i andra länder kan också hända i Sverige, vi är inte immuna mot fascism." www.vk.se/2025-05-26/m...

Bikes on trains in Sweden, episode 443765. Two more wanted to get on. Would have been easy any other time. This time conductor refused on a whim, saying max one more. Next train cancelled. One hour to next train after that. Sustainable travel in Sweden, just forget it.

It shows how deeply rooted carbrain is in our society when even the left side of the political spectrum considers it "necessary" to make public transport users instead private car users pay.

To follow up on this - had written a proposal to the annual meeting to take away the free parking for cars. The steering group opposed that, and the annual meeting voted against it. Unfortunately I could not be present at the meeting. Very disappointed by Friskis & Svettis Linköping!

In a conversation about transport politics today, the other three agreed wholeheartedly how bizarre it was when a transport politician or planner didn't have a driver's licence. But did anyone of them discuss whether they'd have to be cycling? Scootering? Even walking? (Spoiler: no.)

Sustainable travel in Sweden: Trying to get myself and my bike from Linköping to somewhere outside of Borås. Train takes forever (and they don't really take bikes). Bus (Vy) says on homepage they don't take bikes. Solution: 4 regional trains (4 h trip), then ride 50K. Amazing.

"Är du aktivist, eller?!" Forskare och aktivist, får man vara det? Måste man kanske vara det? Alltså, stå upp för de resultat som forskningen får fram? Tipsar om ett webbinarium på cykelns dag om just denna frågeställning: cykelcentrum.vti.se/larande---ku...

The Swedish National Audit Office (Riksrevisionen) reviewed the work of the Swedish government and several authorities re the goal to improve conditions for cycling. The critique is harsh and well worth reading. We want to see improvements now. www.riksrevisionen.se/download/18....

I really hope this project fails. Luxury/high-end flying, really? And what sort of journalist doesn't even touch on the topic of emissions and ethics in an article about a startup luxury airline? edition.cnn.com/2025/05/09/t...

Vi är 324 samhällsengagerade människor som frågar socialdemokratiska riksdagsledamöter: Hur är det möjligt att ni inte ställer er emot Vandelsutredningen? Att vi inte hör er protestera? Vem står upp när Sverige sakta men säkert glider mot en trumpistisk kurs, där demokratiska värderingar urholkas?

That's a very popular way to use them. Most times it's not a mass killing, but even "punishment passes" are exactly this. In general, every time they threaten to drive through you because you made a mistake or didn't stick to the (car) rules, they're using it as a weapon. It's ubiquitous.

Given that operating dangerous machines like motor vehicles amongst people who never opted in to being exposed to those machines is a privilege, I'd say that any demonstration of not taking this danger seriously should lead to the licence being revoked. Control the danger.

I USA ifrågasätts vetenskapen och forskningens frihet undergrävs medvetet av styrande politiker. Samma tendenser, att bortse från fakta och vetenskapliga rön som inte passar politiken, syns även i Sverige. Men respekten för kunskap är en hörnsten i demokratin, skriver över 1 000 svenska forskare.

Kunde inte ha sagt det bättre än @jeannetteeggers.bsky.social! Vi behöver klimataktivism mer än någonsin.

The host in Lucca, IT, defaulted to thinking that travelling means flying or driving a car. When I took the train and rode my bike. And walked, of course.

In case anyone is interested - on my train trip home from Italy (avoiding flying) I missed the first connection with 1 min. Now on another train that, if on time, will arrive 10 min after my next connection has left. Thanks for nothing, governments that ruin trains benefiting flying and driving.

Spending a few days in the theoretically beautiful city of Lucca, Italy, and all I see is how cars ruin everything. It becomes so blatantly obvious in a place built before they existed to which lengths we go to accommodate them at the cost of everything else.

Overtaking of cyclists on rural roads - we recently got a 2y Vinnova project to assess the situation and look into improvements. It's a collaboration between VTI, Volvo Trucks, Scania, POC, STR, If, KTH, Chalmers, Trafikverket, several Swedish regions, UC Berkeley SafeTrec, University of New Mexico.

"Det finns något perverst i det faktum att så många med fasa betraktar demokratins avskaffande i USA, och samtidigt verkar helt oförmögna att se vad som händer här hemma." Läs @karinp.bsky.social www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/xmE...

Du som är forskare - se nedan och kontakta @jeannetteeggers.bsky.social om du vill vara med och skriva under på en debattartikel som uppmanar politikerna att ta forskningen på allvar.

It makes such a difference to know (well, as much as you can trust drivers to obey no-entry-rules) that you don't have to expect cars, compared to having to expect them at any moment, even though none is coming.

Also, if people adapt their driving as they feel more protected, the risk for those outside of the car increases. So (disregarding the misleading "saving lives" phrasing for now), it may be that the unnecessary killing just gets shifted from customers to non-customers.

Säkrare och tryggare cykling på landsväg? Väg- och transportforskningsinstitutet pekar ut en väg för detta. cykelmagasinet.se/hur-blir-cyk...

Last June I was an official at the Swedish nationals. A driver who disliked my redirecting him drove at me twice within the course of 1.5h, obviously as threat, to then go past me at speed with a very small margin. I reported to the police (had witnesses). They dismissed the charge. I appealed. ->

Bra att @kristerisaksson.bsky.social förtydligar att det går att göra mycket bättre än att lagstifta om 1.5 m vid omkörning av cyklister. Vår studie visade att man ska byta fil helt eller lämna minst 2.5 m och sänka farten för att cyklande ska känna sig trygga (urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=...).

Almost a year ago Sweden signed the European Declaration on Cycling (transport.ec.europa.eu/system/files...). Can anyone point me to all the actions Sweden has kicked off in response? It's not like there aren't any low-hanging fruits ...

AVs are such a "thinking inside the box" moment... it's what a carbrain comes up with when told to be creative. Why don't people just work on something that scales? So much amazing technical skill going into this dead end that helps cement sprawl and transport inefficiency.