“Dutch people cycle an average of 2.6km each per day. If this pattern was replicated worldwide, annual carbon emissions would drop by 686 million tonnes. This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.” @euronews.com

Die Forderung nach einer E-Bike-Helmpflicht wurde immer wieder damit argumentiert, dass im Vorjahr bereits 9.800 Personen nach einem #eBike Unfall im Spital behandelt wurden und diese Zahl um 10% höher war als 2023. Wir haben uns die Daten angesehen - mit überraschendem Ergebnis. #Thread 1/7

Rakouskej VCÖ zanalyzoval data z nemocnic, týkající se úrazů hlavy. Došli k zajímavýmu výsledku - 93% cyklo-úrazů se vůbec netýká hlavy. Počty úrazů hlavy navíc od roku 2022 klesají. Nejčastěji končí v nemocnici s úrazem hlavy pasažér auta, nikoliv cyklista. Je čas na povinnou helmu v autech 😁

11 years in, CarPlay is the Apple Car in plain sight.

🚨📚 Great books on cars, active mobility and liveable cities now 50% off at @islandpress.bsky.social. Including my favorite ones like Copenhagenize Building the cycling city Killed by a traffic engineer Soft city Cities for people Movement Roads were not built for cars and a few more. Go go go.

Traffic calming the Dutch way

Long time ago I developed this EDEKA in Berlin-Moabit with zero parking. The board insisted on a 🅿️ garage, which was always empty and has now been converted into offices*. My guiding principle: No need for a secure 🅿️ space in front of your apartment, no need for a 🅿️ space in front of the grocery.

Design vehicles to fit the streets rather than streets designed to fit the vehicles.

Recognizing bicycle parking as a critical component of any infrastructure network, The Hague’s Amare concert hall has opened 1,000 guarded and sheltered spaces—intended not just for ticket holders visiting the largest cultural building in the Netherlands, but anyone visiting the city’s busy centre.🧵

Surprise guest Matúš Vallo, mayor of Bratislava: “One of the main tasks of us mayors is to make people, our citizens, believe that change is possible.”

Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal, Amsterdam in 1982 and today. Once a car-dominated street with just a painted bike lane squeezed beside parked cars, it’s now completely transformed. No car parking, no through traffic - just trams and people cycling safely towards Centraal Station

The other short-term change is around taxation. Currently many EU countries tax electricity like they tax alcohol and tobacco. This made sense 30 years ago when we burned lots of coal. It doesn't make sense with a grid that is 73% clean and getting cleaner by the week.

Like the circulatory system delivers oxygen and nutrients throughout the human body, Amsterdam’s 1,300 km network of bike paths, lanes and streets delivers half a million daily cyclists—the lifeblood of the city—to their work, school and everywhere in between. From the “Amsterdam in Motion” exhibit.

The more time has passed since this infamous day nine years ago, the more I'm convinced we need a "broken windows" approach to oligarch criminality. Failing to prosecute this obvious scam led directly to Musk buying the election, the horrors of DOGE, and countless other terrible outcomes.

On #AI: When in doubt, doubt.

Fantastische combinatie (@bencoates1 book & @asymco’s good old Ex Machina: The Critical Path podcast on corporations, canals and the hidden forces behind one of the most interesting countries in the world - the Netherlands 🇳🇱)

Looking at Vorarlberg Architecture is always like looking into a really achievable what - if - future. So distinct to what we see in our because - this - and - that - reality. Foto Museum Bezau, Innauer Matt Architekten, dominic-kummer.com

Praha není město, ale shluk městeček, vesnic a sídlišť. Jediná část, která se městu blíží jsou Vinohrady-Žižkov-Vršovice. Všechno ostatní je rozdrobené a vzájemně izolované. (Černé tečky na mapě jsou hustota osídlení)

Ultimate Dutch holiday accessory: a separate tent to store your bike in

There needs to be a national public awareness program around how horribly all the best-selling Elon Musk genius worship sycophant shit has aged. Thanks to @ragingspirit.bsky.social for doing his part with this thread.

I ride my e-bakfiets 10-20km every day. *Every single journey* is one which I would otherwise have to do by car.

New research shows ULEZ & London's improvements in air quality have "contributed to better physical health, which in turn has led to reduced sick leave and enhanced mental well-being." ULEZ is good for health, the environment & the economy 💚 airqualitynews.com/local-govern...

Everyone should watch this! It's a delightful & joyous celebration of how we're transforming London into a cycling city. Brilliant to see ... but there's much more hard work to do. #LondonLovesCycling 🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲 www.youtube.com/watch?v=OunB...

Bike traffic on this one street in Paris went from 30k to 80k before Covid, then 120k during Covid, now 162k. 5x or 6x in 10 years. If you build it they will come.

Paris cycling numbers double in one year thanks to massive investment and it’s not stopping. A visionary urban policy lead by @annehidalgo.bsky.social 💫🫶🏻🙏🏻 momentummag.com/paris-cyclin...

Today's #HydrogenSoufflé comes to you from Germany. Nov 2024, "Daimler receives €235m of taxpayer money to produce and test 100 liquid-hydrogen trucks." Today "Daimler postpones liquid-hydrogen truck production to early 2030s due to 'sluggish expansion' of H2" www.hydrogeninsight.com/transport/da...

"Denmark is switching to Linux, says its Ministry of Digital Affairs, in a move that exchanges Windows and Office 365 for Linux and LibreOffice." No small thing. Denmark is a significant economic player, particularly in Europe. Will we see more of this? www.pcgamer.com/software/ope... #Microsoft

imagine them believing the 10.000 hydrogen cabbies dreams for Paris back in '21 (!) ⚡️⚡️⚡️ #alwaysbecharging x.com/Moreau12More...

I don't cheer when anyone fails or loses their job, but this one was 100% inevitable from the day the service launched in 2015. The only way to keep the hydrogen prices down would be endless subsidies or endless losses for someone, so something had to give.

@lubosbrabec.bsky.social ahoj Luboši, vyklízím knihovnu a mám tu několik kousků Oty Pavla a J. Škvoreckého - vzpomněl jsem si na Tebe. Kdybys je chtěl, ozvi se mi pls.

Imagine how much the municipality of Amsterdam invested in the old days for a couple of plugs! By now there are more than 8000+ public plugs in Amsterdam! (150.000+ in NL! Mostly AC) ⚡️⚡️⚡️ #EVS38 🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱 #alwaysbecharging

In 2023, the average annual cost to own and operate a new vehicle climbed to $12,182. For households with two cars, that’s nearly $25,000 per year. Operating a household fleet burns an awful lot of cash. www.urbanismspeakeasy.com/p/the-automo...

The most successful people don't add new things to their lives... They ruthlessly eliminate what doesn't matter. A lot of things you take on - you shouldn't.

Without these credits Tesla is unprofitable today. They would have been $200 million in the red for Q1. With sales falling ~20%, even these credits can't keep Tesla in business. All those billions in subsidies were for nothing.

I'm actually super fucking mad that the Elon Musk era is gonna end because of narcissist infighting with a former reality TV show host, and not because even a single institution in American life made a serious effort to hold him responsible for a decade plus long crime spree

it's a start

*attenborough voice* like the mighty salmon, elon musk can already sense that his end is near... and so now begins his last great journey, swimming relentlessly upstream to the garbage centrist democrat spawning grounds where his lifecycle began

Tesla sales/profits have been falling for a while, Musk made it clear there's no new low-cost growth strategy a year ago, and Cybertruck shows they have no product chops anymore. After 8 years of hype, a Disney ride on a movie studio lot last year killed the self-driving vibe. All TSLA had was Trump

Does spectacular wealth excuse depravity? Some thoughts on Elon Musk and moral character.

Viele Menschen stehen ja im Stau und ärgern sich über den Stau und merken dabei gar nicht, dass Sie selbst der Stau sind. #Autonation und der Preis dafür: orf.at/stories/3395...

Study on London 20 mph limits shows: - collisions ⬇️ 35% - casualties ⬇️ 36% - fatal/serious injuries ⬇️ 34% - child casualties ⬇️ 46% - child deaths ⬇️ 75% - walkers, cyclists, motorcyclists killed/seriously injured ⬇️ 28% etsc.eu/20mph-limits...

Die Verdreifachung vom #Pendlereuro kostet bis 2029 rund 700 Millionen Euro. Während die 20 Prozent mit niedrigstem Einkommen 20 Millionen Euro erhalten, bekommen die 20% mit dem höchsten Einkommen 250 Millionen Euro, 12 (!) mal so viel. Schon bisher bei Pendelförderungen soziale Schieflage 1/2

Z finanční podpory dojíždění autem do práce těží v Rakousku především lidi s nevyšším příjmem. Horních 20% dostane 12x víc než dolních 20%. Dotujem ten nejhorší způsob dopravy lidem, kteří žádnou podporu nepotřebujou 🤷 Autoland Österreich.

ICCT reporting: Europe crossed the ONE MILLION plugs threshold! (six-fold increase from 2020 to 2025) #alwaysbecharging #MOREPLUGS! "Denmark recorded the fastest growth in DC charging (+104%) and was followed by Belgium (+92%)." full insights: theicct.org/publication/...

Interesting map showing local price differences for ad hoc payment at public EV charging stations in Germany. Some charge 89 or even 94!! cents/kWh (note prices in the article are without 19% VAT) However, as the creators point out, not all the data is not available. (HT @andreasjahn.bsky.social)

"Apple Music tool to import playlists from Spotify and more" Apple Support says currently available in Australia and New Zealand. Start of a global rollout? 9to5mac.com/2025/05/15/a... #Apple

Apple CarPlay How it Started: How it's Going:

Today's #HydrogenSoufflé comes to you from Norway, Sweden, UK, Germany, the Netherlands, and Italy as Statkraft halts all new green #hydrogen projects and tries to find investors for those in development, "particularly those that have already received public funding". oilprice.com/Company-News...

in completely unrelated news, Cybertruck continues its march into the history books as the biggest automotive flop of the 21st Century, with more than 10k units moldering away unsold on parking lots around the country www.arenaev.com/tesla_cybert...