What on earth am I looking at here.

I've been avoiding mentioning this in any of my recaps, cuz I don't want to be a 24 hour AI scold, but the amount of AI slop at BIFF this year is disgusting. The intro film that plays before every movie is the shoddiest, ugliest slop that converts the festival logo into gibberish.

China’s comeback as the Kingdom of Bicycles is happening at a momentous scale. In Beijing, 3200 km of infrastructure has been built, with 200 km added each year. It is a spectacular course correction—an admission that cities with more people cycling work better for everybody. youtu.be/gQS97woWcq0

HUGE news out of Toronto: Ontario Court deems Premier Doug Ford’s plan to remove city’s bike lanes unsafe, and unconstitutional: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

20mph is a massive public safety and health win. This is also a huge reduction in NHs and emergency service resources and money saver too. It should be the default in built up areas with exceptions. right across the country

This was such an amazing and unique experience! Mine is the third photo. Thanks so much, Chris! A really nice memory.

Interesting study on potential role of car sharing in cutting emissions in GB. 64 % of journeys are made by a lone driver. ⬆️ average occupancy was a target in the UK’s transport decarb plan (although no policies were put in place to actually achieve it).

So, if you'd like to know, I've been doing YouTube videos and finishing a big collaborative comic with my friend Ben Hutchings. Here is both of those. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxyE...

It’s been a very entertainly bad night for this guy. #auspol

The problem is: they've mistaken correlation for causation. They think their parents and grandparents had a good life *because* of manufacturing jobs. When, in reality, their parents and grandparents had a good life *despite* manufacturing jobs, because of unions, high taxes, and social policies.

Labor intentionally designed the NVES so it didn't tackle the root cause of climbing transport pollution (big cars), and the Coalition is still opposing it because it's 'too strict on big cars'. May as well just actually do real climate policy folks www.theguardian.com/environment/...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

HOT RESEARCH NEWS! Motonormativity ("car brain") is a bias that stops people making rational judgements about driving en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motonor... Our new study shows where this bias comes from AND how it makes people think they're odd for supporting changes to the transport system 🧵

AI boosters in higher ed are so embarrassing - deskilling yourself, for what? Eroding the value of education, for what? Pandering to the interests of the bosses and the billionaires, for what? Accelerating climate change, for what?

I’m shocked and very saddened to hear Donald Shoup has passed. It is SERIOUSLY so hard to overstate the incredible legacy of his work on parking policy! He was also so uniquely excellent at public impact and change-making in such a challenging area, and also such a kind and generous colleague.

Overheard on the bus today: “It’s too expensive to park the car in town and now the kids have free bus passes, it’s just as easy to take the bus.” Policy in action.

Co-op rail services in the UK - absolutely fascinating to see this develop www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Join me in a Merry Xmas Let’s REplay of Undertale! youtu.be/xt2AfDmVe3s?...

Fantastic little video from @australiainstitute.org.au about the potential for cycling in Australia. A 10% federal fund for active transport infrastructure would be a game changer. youtu.be/iCw0wPb-h6w?...

My new blind Let’s Play is out, we’re playing Subnautica! I’m enjoying it SO much, this game is everything I hoped it would be. Please do come along for the adventure! youtube.com/playlist?lis...

It's unbelievable that even when they're parked, motor vehicles are so dangerous to people on bicycles. One of the best cyclists in the world, Olympic champion Remco Evenepoel, was on a training ride and got doored by a parked van, and suffered fractures to his rib, shoulder blade, and hand.

92% of young women want to ride a bike, but participation is 4 times lower than men of the same age. Released today, our research found that young women experience unique barriers to riding a bike, and are actively looking for programs to overcome them. www.monash.edu/medicine/sph...

Curious if any planning/urbanists here have any more suggestions.

Hey Rebecca, why don’t you ride a bike? My local bike lane:

Bravo Cardiff. Absolutely the right thing to do. Local parking reforms have a big role to play in reducing the number of large cars on our roads with all the benefits this brings - for safety, climate, air quality, space in our crowded public realm and, as mentioned here, road maintenance

It’s a Xmas Wonderland here in Moonee Ponds

Transportation Justice and Equity Starter Pack. go.bsky.app/AUVTxJ8

Bluesky is complete now that @niallharbison.bsky.social is here. I was regularly checking because the very best and most important thing in my social media day is seeing his incredible uplifting work with Thai street dogs.

Oh amazing!! Thankyou for sharing this! A really nice pick-me-up to see ♥️

Tough to do in four with a lifetime of game playing but I’m happy with these.

Is Muji using AI art? Super gross if so. Also gross: This woman’s backwards arm has a huge vein trench in it.

Look how few cars there are driving on this road We should definitely draw broad conclusions about how much people like cars from this one photo of a partially completed road network.

Here is a starter pack for transportation / mobility researchers if you want to follow academic research news or find your old network from Twitter. I'm still adding more so recommendations are very welcome! go.bsky.app/33kwFxs #transport #mobility

Love this map! It shows the grades of the streets in order to help pedestrians and cyclists plan their routes (from Queenstown, New Zealand).

Interesting debrief of Barcelona's shot at public-interest data regimes, free software and a peoples' digital agenda—by @kinokofry.bsky.social et alia. Moving a bureaucracy means skill, contacts and strategy. And even that might not be enough! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

quick PSA to delete your tweets 1) in twitter settings, go to "download an archive of your data". In a day, come back to that page, download the zip, inside is "tweetheaders.js". 2) install "tampermonkey" browser addon, install the TweeXer script below, upload the "tweetheaders.js" file. done!

I’ve started a feed but I haven’t turned it into a starter pack yet! bsky.app/profile/did:...

I’m really hoping to see some good lists of Australian urbanists, urban researchers, and transport folk! Do let me know if you know of any.

✨ Yahaha!

I now have nearly 30 episodes of my blind Let’s Play of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom and I must say, I’m proud of how it’s going and a lot of the edits/humour I’ve gotten comfortable with. Check it out if this is your kind of thing! youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Deciding a need a fun, relaxing hobby that is nothing to do with urban planning, I’ve started a gaming channel for my Let’s Plays: Rebecca’s Pixel Quest! (Sponsored by my two cats, Pixel & Quest) I’m playing Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom atm if you’d like to join me youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Come join the provocative discussions about who shapes collective mobility futures & public interests at our Festival of Urbanism event: 'The Publicness of Transport' Oct 17th 4:30-5:30pm! At University of Sydney Camperdown www.festivalofurbanism.com/events/fou20...

I’m SO thrilled to see this paper finally published after a long road! “Proposing an ethics of care: Tracing Victoria's transport planning history” by Crystal Legacy, myself, Ian Woodcock & James Whitten published in Geographical Research Open access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our Open Access article, "Smart Barcelona: the gap between inspiring rhetoric and lackluster implementation in transformative approaches" is out in Planning Practice & Research! We explore the radical Smart Barcelona agenda & highlight key implementation gaps. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Our latest Transforming Infrastructure Governance podcast ep with James Murphy & Crystal Legacy on the politics of infrastructure governance and the East-West Link road project in Vic. Hosted by Dallas Rogers and the City Road pod. on.soundcloud.com/9hZUB

“Urban Transport as a Social Construct” - the first of our Urban Studies journal calls for conceptual advances in urban studies is out! If you’re working on #transportstudies and all things #urbanmobility take a peek and get in touch! 🚨 www.urbanstudiesonline.com/callforpapers/

Look at HOW MUCH of the footpath becomes blocked by these huge oversized vehicles & their enormous overhanging fronts, whether you’ve technically designated “parking” & “pedestrian” areas. In this case, easily half! Anyone in a wheelchair would not have been able to get by here.

Quoted in this Age article on the MCG, Taylor Swift & how we needn’t have oceans of parking to have a good time w tens of thousands of people - I hope the buzz gets more people thinking about how we can do away with more parking in many more places! www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

I was pleased to speak about parking policy and its links to housing affordability and how we can do better in this article on the Canadian context, including learning lessons from Japan’s striking parking policies t.co/APG5fyJzZm