the US if Tylenol actually caused autism

Every bus stuck in traffic is a policy failure.

Why your next car should be an electric cargo bike

www.economist.com/europe/2025/... What a ridiculous piece. I've been taking an electric self-driving vehicle to work in Paris for years now. Fewer than 11% of trips are made by cars here, this author heavily misses the point. @dlknowles.bsky.social

The only way to fix housing is to build more. If it is not physically possible, build transit. All other ideas are a distraction at best, including money for first buyers and rent control.

You keep saying this, but this really looks like pre-approval. "Under U.S. law, NHTSA does not pre-approve new technologies or vehicle systems — rather, manufacturers certify that each vehicle meets NHTSA’s rigorous safety standard" techcrunch.com/2025/06/23/t...

Finally some good news, German trains have long outlived their fame and have been lagging for years now. Germany puts rail first in €500bn investment spree - on.ft.com/3FA7nw8 via @FT

It is hard to explain to drivers that most experiences non-drivers have with cars are very negative. To us, they annoy, pollute, threaten and occupy useful space without giving us anything on return. Drivers get the benefits and force upon others the downsides.

London built an entire new road tunnel under the Thames and to pay for it, introduced a modest toll on both it and the pre-existing Blackwall Tunnel. The result is - inevitably - fewer drivers using both tunnels than previously used just one www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...

Paris bike lanes: pretty great!

It didn’t happen overnight, but Paris is forever changed, and now local residents of the French capital are reaping the rewards. Top of list? Cleaner air. A lot cleaner. momentummag.com/paris-proves...

I truly don't mind motorbikes, as long as they are electric and don't go over the city's speed limit of 30km/h. But in this case, you might as well get a bike. There is an extra layer of hell for people who ride combustion bikes loudly at 3 am, though.

If you build, people start using. London shows that the true car of the future is indeed an electric bicycle. www.economist.com/britain/2025...

A sad reality. Walking didn't decline, it was forbidden.

This is the most tragically American thing I’ve ever read www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...

Magnifiée tout au long des Jeux, la place de la Concorde va retrouver son éclat historique ! En préservant sa symétrie d’origine et son patrimoine architectural exceptionnel, le projet lauréat concilie richesse patrimoniale et adaptation écologique. Il fait rimer humilité, audace et ambition.

they know what they did

The answer (in part) = “Dutch drivers pay far more tax if they have a heavier car. The idea is to penalise those vehicles which most contribute to causing the potholes to help pay for the roads.”

The greening of Paris is happening in real-time on Rue de Châteaudun. The new protected bike lanes were completed a few months ago, and now we have trees in time for spring! Merci Mayor Hildago. #paris #urbanism #15minutecity #bikes #trees #climate

Paris invite les Parisiens et les Parisiennes aux urnes, le 23 mars ! Cette fois, les jeunes de 16 à 18 ans résidant à Paris pourront également voter. Pour en savoir plus : www.paris.fr/pages/nouvel...

“A city’s creativity doesn’t depend on cars. That’s the 20th century. We’re in the 21st.” - Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo @annehidalgo.bsky.social.

Morning rush hour in Paris; protected bike lanes, traffic lights for bikes, bike racks, and wide sidewalks for pedestrians. #paris #bikes #cargobikes #15minutecity #urbanism

Before / After, Georges Pompidou Expressway / Parc Rives de Seine. These days, the right-wing opposition in the Paris council wants to make it clear for the 2026 municipal elections that their candidate will not bring cars back after 12 years of explaining the pedestrianization was a big mistake :)

Instead of relegating apartments to car-choked arterials, more people should have a chance to live along pedestrian streets.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/w... Once again American media is missing the forest for the trees. And one commenter puts it neatly: Americans don't do fitness wrong, they do cities wrong.

We did it!

finally saw a cybertruck in person

January 13, 1925

It’s over 1,000km from Berlin to Paris There’s now a direct daytime train between them, that takes 8 hours and costs just €59. Leave at 10am, arrive 6pm. And… it’s just 1% the carbon emissions of the equivalent flight www.euronews.com/travel/2024/...

I wholeheartedly recommend this book. Currently taking a well deserved rest on my shelf.

Almost 25% of drivers stopped by the Parisian police at night were drunk. www.leparisien.fr/paris-75/a-p...

Everyone who bought a Tesla has blame for what Musk does.

Finally this travesty is being shut down for good. Elite projection at the very worst disguised as "transportation alternative", these "flying taxis" are an elite fever dream that can't scale and would make life hell for people outside of them. www.leparisien.fr/info-paris-i...

I am not sure why steam locomotives are associated with Christmas but I am absolutely for it.

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle... Dense cities with local services intermingled with housing. The Guardian calls it revolutionary, the vast majority of humans in history would call it "the way we have always done it".

I messed up, this is Houston in the 1970s. My bad.

Seeing Dresden after allied bombardment in 1945 is gut-wrenching. Only the desperation of war can explain this level of atrocity and destruction.

It's amazing when cities are made for people and infrastructure is at a human scale. SUV owners in the suburbs have pictures like this framed as art or decoration, not knowing they are the reason why they are so rare.

europe wasn’t always pedestrianized

Live video of the former pedestrianized expressway on thé right bank of the Seine, with the Eiffel Tower in the background

Building places people wanna go to rather than just traverse. I want to live in a city that is alive and healthy, not on someone's shortcut.

Cities aren’t crowded. They’re just full of cars.

This is just the beginning. Our children will look at pictures of today like we look at pictures from the 1960's and think: "There were cars everywhere... How did you live like this?". www.theguardian.com/cities/2023/...

Going by car might seem faster, but adding the time it takes for you to work in order to pay for the car, is it still faster?

"The automobile has dissolved the living tissue of the city. Its appetite for space is absolutely insatiable; moving and parked, it devours urban land, leaving buildings as mere islands of habitable space in a sea of dangerous and ugly traffic."

Advisors told Ljubljana’s mayor that pedestrianizing downtown would be political suicide. Eighteen years later, he’s still mayor.

REMINDER: Those choosing to live in subsidized suburbs for a bigger house and yard are NOT also entitled to free-flow car traffic capacity (aka an “easy car commute”) into the city at the expense of the taxes, health, safety (hint: bike-lanes) & quality of life of city-dwellers. HT Ian Lockwood.

Former highway along the Seine River in Paris, now fully pedestrianized America, this could be us but you playin'

We should redesign cities for autonomous kids, not autonomous cars.

Before/After: 1980s/2020s -Remove a lot of car/vehicle access -Install protected bike lanes/infrastructure Super Fcking Great Now! Rue de Rivoli 1st/4th Arrondissement, Paris