First time trying the new cycleway on Oldham Rd. Seems pretty good on the whole. Pavements are a bit narrow (to accommodate car parking I’m guessing) and it should have forgiving splayed kerbs. Lights appear to default green for going straight?

When people are asked why they don't cycle, top of the list is safety. Openstreetmap is essentially Wikipedia for maps and has a cycling overlay to show cycling infrastructure. Start checking if your nearest bit is on the map, and eventually you can map disaster areas too!

Urban parks should be a neighborhood amenity, not a destination for the car. They belong in the heart of where people live, numerous, accessible by foot, and safe from motor traffic. We shouldn't be paving half the park just to store the cars people used to get there.

Another round of cheap, durable, and useful bike racks installed at schools across Chicago 🚲 Pictured here at: - Ginsburg Elementary - Stowe Elementary - Brentano Math & Science Academy - Pulaski School

'Post-apocalyptic' drivers' mood after Covid pandemic 'fuelled road crash increase' www.scotsman.com/news/transpo...

Oh no! 😢

Things cars ruined #187 School start times. Our district voted to end school bus programs and shift the burden to parents and private cars. An outcome of this is schools have staggered their start times to accommodate the high traffic when dropping off kids. How it impacts non-car users 🧵

Caution: Professionally bankrupt engineering.

Incredibly, not one of these milestones scores as a “win” using the traffic engineering metrics that quietly dictate city planning. Urban planning prof Jonathan Levine and I have one paper detailing why and another explaining why it has to change for any vision of abundance to succeed. Links below.

I think today is gonna be a good day. I have an elderly couple coming to collect a tandem that I recently converted to an E bike. They haven’t been riding and traveling as much as they used to, so I built them something that will carry them over the Alps and back into cycling together.

Nice little reminder, and some good points there 👇 In addition, we’d like to see a stronger LTN for the Polwarth / Harrison area, to put the council in a better negotiating position

That's the way to do it, #Edinburgh (with no TRO sub-committee).

It's over.

Safe streets aren't smooth, they have friction. This design uses curbs, bollards, and pavement color differentiation to create visual friction. It forces the driver to slow down and engage with their surroundings. No sign can do the work of proper design.

Devastating.

You can build good mobility infrastructure, but the destructiveness of car culture still threatens. Which is why full pedestrianization is always best practice.

“Give way” … one bus equals 80 cars and 80 people (on the back of all the city buses in Baku).

Avoid purchasing new cars and even better, try to arrange your life so you do not *require* a car to live a fulfilling life.

I learned how to bike this year on a borrowed bike, bought myself a bike, then did a 7 mile loop by the bay with my friends this past weekend. Learning to ride a bike is by far my biggest accomplishment of 2025. Looking forward to commuting by bike in 2026!

Definitely think a different narrative could broaden support for change. It is odd really that a car-dependent society which requires state licensing, surveillance/policing, endless massive government investment & restricts freedom to use alternatives has such ardent defenders on the right.

🎵🎵 Riding in a winter wonderland 🎵🎵

Families are already riding safely on Memorial Drive’s new protected bike and scoot lane, and Propel ATL helped make it happen. In October, Jessica and her kids cut the ribbon on this two-way lane. youtu.be/Ssf_hJMwJD8 (Video: AS3 Storytelling)

Highways have no place in modern cities. It's time we replace the West Side Highway in Manhattan

Excellent: Evidence creates evidence based policy for Auckland Transport to make a trial cycleway permanent in Central Auckland Nice work and hope to see more Bicycle Network's Artificial Intelligence Road Surveys (AIRS) to provide the data and evidence needed to make informed decisions

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.

My most enjoyable bike memory of 2025 was watching my wife continue to bike through her pregnancy. She said it helped her both physically and mentally as things progressed. Here we were headed to dinner.

If you haven't done the Dundee St/Fountainbridge consultation yet (consultationhub.edinburgh.gov.uk/sfc/dundee-s..., closes 2026-01-12), don't leave it too late as there are twenty-odd plan segments to consider and lots of narrow/right-angled/toy-town cycling structures to request de-Picardifying

Tonight's Torchlight Procession got Edinburgh's #Hogmanay off to a flying and fiery start (eyebrows can grow back, right?) 🔥 Photo album > andycatlin.myportfolio.com/torchlight-p...

I had emergency surgery on my heart in 2023. I haven't been exercising much because I have poor blood flow and I feel dizzy and sick when I try. I recently bought an ebike and it has been life changing! Riding my bike is great for getting my heart rate up, and I can rest when I need to. 🚴‍♀️

"Are you on a bike tour?" No man, I'm just a Bike Person running errands.

What an amazing thread. Bikes are freedom. Bikes are joy.

Netherlands last July with friends including their 4yo and 18mo daughters. It was a delightfully easy and enjoyable to explore some of the country.

Because the fossil fuel industry talking point of "We're just little humble neutral suppliers meeting the demand asked of us" is making a comeback, please consider the words of a senior exec at one of America's largest gas suppliers:

The problems feel big. The days are short; the nights are long. It’s easy to despair. But despair is a gift to the powerful. It keeps you quiet, keeps you small. In 2026, let’s turn despair into DETERMINATION. If we all do a little, we can achieve a lot. It always seems impossible until it’s done.

After 2.5 years joining by child seat/cargo bike my youngest finally got to ride her own bike in the bike bus to school. She was beyond thrilled at her accomplishment. In the first month of kindergarten no less!

One of the key things we should aim for as a nation is more independence for older children. Conspicuous and safe cycle networks enable that independence.

The Elephant House has opened again on George IV Bridge after closing due to fire damage four years ago

Although it may sometimes seem that things never change, here is 34th Ave in Queens before/after protected #bikenyc lane segment. We rode thru once with a group ride on a Sunday am. Today, as you see, it is much safer.

“Climate-related disasters caused severe economic harm in 2025, with the 10 most costly responsible for damage exceeding €100 billion.” The true costs are MUCH higher & rising fast. They want us to think we can’t afford to change to address the #ClimateCrisis. The truth is we can’t afford NOT to.

The Picardy Place motorway-style gyratory needs to be redesigned as a simple crossroads at Broughton St, by pedestrianising the arm outside the Omni* This would allow space for seating requested by the eateries, proper bike lanes from Broughton, & transform the area back to people-centric

Total side point but what is it cyclists are supposed to do from Broughton St to Leith? We did it wrongly once and swore off trying again

The US is literally threatening the EU. Says we can’t have nuclear weapons unless in far-right countries. People they don’t like are threatened with frozen bank accounts, revoked credit cards, blocked services from Amazon, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI. We need to realize Russia isn’t the only foe.

The outrageous sanctioning of EU lawmakers and citizens in order to pressure democratically-elected European governments to change their laws shows just how intent the US government is on controlling Europeans' lives. We must go into 2026 with eyes open.

This week the Cuckoo Trail in East Sussex takes the crown as our Route of the Week! 👑 The 10-mile largely traffic-free route takes you from Heathfield to Polegate, passing through a mixture of broadleaf woodland, open grassland and pastures.

Bike lane with low traffic is often considered unnecessary and underutilized. Car lane with low traffic is considered luxurious.

Let's hope they do a good job of this, because the cycle lanes to the north, and much of the city centre, are a bit of a state. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🚲 edi.bike | issue 125 | 29th Dec '25 Bid to scrap city traffic order sub-committee fails; French onion sellers, Cargo bike wheelies, events, infrastructure, route closures & more: https://buttondown.com/edi.bike/archive/edibike-issue-125-29th-dec-25/ #bikeSky #edinburgh

Anyone know if Holyrood Park road closures, for the New Year’s Day Triathlon event on Thursday, apply to cyclists and pedestrians? Closures commence from 7am till 5pm *Includes the High Road* www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-plac... @spokes.org.uk ?

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).

Let me be explicit. If you hear anyone say replacing fossil fuels with renewables is going to be expensive, they're either misinformed, uninformed, or lying to you. Even leaving out the massive economic costs of #climate changes caused by burning fossil fuels, #renewables are cheaper now.