🚲🚲There is nothing more efficient in the world of machines and animals than a human on a bicycle. The humble bicycle is an amazing machine. www.jstor.org/stable/24923...

Paris Votes to Make 500 More Streets Car-Free www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Congestion pricing is like Brussels sprouts: everyone hates the idea of them—until they actually try them roasted with a little garlic and realize, ‘Wait… this is amazing’.

Thoughtful piece by @adamposen.bsky.social with some of the elements predicted (i.e. rare earth export controls) materializing in recent days.

As #India’s heavy industries strive for carbon neutrality, electrifying through renewable power presents a million-dollar cost-saving opportunity, and also multiple CO-BENEFITS Unroll to know what they are 👇 🧵1/8

Explore key gaps, best practices, and strategic solutions to make #urbanmobility truly inclusive for all. Let's work towards cities where every journey is inclusive! Find out more about accessible cities in #India: A Case of Kochi ➡️ tinyurl.com/48jkevxt #WeChangeTransport #Accessibility #Transport

Remember, Paris wasn’t “always this way.” Not that many years ago, Paris was choking in car traffic. And it wasn’t a safe place to ride a bike for transportation, so not many people tried. This is new. This is a result of deliberate vision, and bold leadership. Cities are a result of choices.

It wasn’t net zero — it was fossil gas that drove up UK electricity prices. Spot on, @pilitaclark.bsky.social! Gas sets the price most of the time. As @dharavyas.bsky.social Energy UK, says: "It’s the volatile cost of fossil fuels and our dependence on them that have driven up energy bills."

The Arrogance of space 🚗 🚲 🚶‍♀️👇 By Karl Jilg

A Citizens’ Assembly of Oxfordshire residents has called for “making the city centre car-free”, turning other existing roads over to buses, cyclists and Blue Badge holders, and housing developments with major facilities in walking distance—each topping 85% support. oxfordclarion.uk/citizens-ass...

1.65 million people is a statistic… "Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True." By @nickkristof.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

🚲🚲 How to Turn Cities Into Biketopias 🚲🚲? Make it Harder to Drive There 👇👇 www.wired.com/story/new-yo...

As expected, public approval of congestion pricing in New York is following the same trajectory it followed in London, Stockholm and everywhere else it was tried. One would hope we could learn a lesson from such things!

After 80 years of transatlantic ties, Europe forges a new alliance

NEW ANALYSIS: Current running costs of heat pumps on standard tariff reach cost parity with gas boilers with average efficiency (SCoP 2.9). BUT: Highly efficient heat pumps + smart tariffs can more than halve heating costs. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"

Don’t worry the formatting of the auto post. Just click the link and learn about some crucial changes that were introduced last year in Germany.

The 2024 Amendment to the Road Traffic Regulations (StVO): A Silent Revolution for Urban Mobility and Climate Protection Introduction The Straßenverkehrs-Ordnung (StVO) is a central legal framework in German traffic law that regulates the behavior of all road users on public streets, paths, and…

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This is the best (and admittedly longest explainer) of the current and coming tariffs 🚛 situation and its impacts on the economy and consumers I’ve read so far 👇👇

“Since 1979, 10 percent of the entire British landmass … has been sold off.“ Worth a read 👇👇

🚸🚸 Unsafe zebra crossings - an explainer 👇👇 HT Roman Barabanov

#Australia home battery plan setting up competing policies to spark a household electrification revolution to slash power bills while cutting greenhouse gas emissions. #auspol #auspol25 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Moving people, not cars 🚲🚲 Just watch this ➡️ Copenhagen 🇩🇰 cycling lane moving 8x more people than the adjacent car lane 👇👇 HT Anders Adamsen

This conversation between @pkrugman.bsky.social and @nathantankus.bsky.social is highly interesting. It goes into the details of the manipulation of federal payment systems and how this may serve goals of creating a patrimonialist form of government👇👇

It’s gut-wrenching to see how Trump and Vance are bullying Zelenskyy. Everyone in Europe needs to watch this video. This is what we’re heading to if we continue to rely on the US. Unbelievable and disgraceful. on.ft.com/3D1wHtD

Trump and Vance ran a televised scam today. What all America saw was a premeditated hoax to justify cutting off aid to Ukraine. Nothing Zelenskyy did was offensive or disrespectful—but that was the line Trump and Vance had clearly decided to use beforehand to justify what they and Putin wanted.

Trump administration ends funding for UN program fighting HIV/Aids

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As Europe pushes to regain industrial competitiveness it faces the choice between 'technology neutrality' Vs 'technological clarity'. Europe will come out stronger the sooner it embraces 'technological clarity'.

Study shows strawberry 🍓 yields in northern climates grown under 70% transparency PV modules ☀️ show a higher fresh weight than the control group. ✅ Adopting agri-PV could facilitate energy self-sufficiency + transform it into a net electricity exporter, generating additional revenue for farmers.👇👇

Also, overall car sales down 2.1 percent!

Great point by @edwardluce.bsky.social on the differences between Trump's first and second term. I agreed with him then and am just as concerned now. www.ft.com/content/8632...

EV sales in Europe: up 38% Tesla sales in Europe: down 45.2% Breathe it in folks, breathe it innnnnnnnnnnnn www.reuters.com/business/aut...

New York's (de)congestion pricing, which charges $9 to drive into Manhattan below 60 St, has reduced traffic, increased ridership, reduced subway crime, and is raising funds to fix the decaying transit system. Rare for a public policy to have this many benefits!

Es braucht nur eine Grafik, um die Migrationsdebatte in Deutschland komplett zu widerlegen: Ein hoher Migrationsanteil führt nicht zu mehr, sondern zu weniger rechtsextremer Wahlneigung. Die AfD wird nicht durch Migration stark, sondern durch geschürte Vorurteile über Migration.

How does urban efficiency look like? 👇👇👇 Just watch 210 people 🚌 🚌 🚌 overtaking 7 people 🚗🚙🚗🚙 Via @metrolosangelesbot.bsky.social

Accidents down 55% and injuries down 51% since nyc congestion pricing (!!!) www.nydailynews.com/2025/02/22/c...

Philly is the latest city to use bus-mounted cameras to automatically ticket cars blocking transit lanes and bus stops. This is one the best transportation technology innovations of the last decade. Every city should be using it.

Tech billionaires demanded Donald Trump use the power of the US government to pressure other countries not to crack down on them. Now Trump is pulling out of a global tax agreement and threatening tariffs against countries that pass digital services taxes targeting multinational tech companies.

NEW | 🇮🇳 India needs $68B annually by 2032 to hit 500 GW renewables goal 💰📈 But risks from project delays, volatile wholesale electricity market prices, penalties for not meeting demand fulfilment ratios, and battery replacement could raise the cost of capital and electricity bills 🚩

#IdeasAtWork Urban Activity Atlas via @uoftcities.bsky.social Using mobile location data, we've created an atlas of the 300 most populated metro regions in the U.S. & Canada, and mapped the parts of each city that people congregate and spend most time in schoolofcities.github.io/urban-activi...

Nobody voted to give a 20-something acolyte of billionaire Elon Musk unfettered access to your IRS tax information or your business’ finances. But here we are. My column on the insane data-privacy crisis DOGE has caused: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

It's annoying how clearly this is going to play out. They gut the FAA. Therefore, the FAA can't do its job well because it was gutted. Therefore, they say "The FAA sucks, we have to privatize it." which is what Project 2025 wants to do. They're manufacturing the crises for their end goal.

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

So you are saying tax cuts are not as targeted as ... targeted measures to boost investment? Who knew! (Change in economic growth and change in private investment per EUR spent, by party platform.) www.wirtschaftsdienst.eu/inhalt/jahr/...