This is basically the entire premise behind Dutch design. You don't drive recklessly or distracted when you're afraid &/or unable to do so.

Autonomous vehicles aren’t cutting traffic. They’re likely adding to it, just like Uber & Lyft, because of “deadheading.” “Waymo’s miles driven with a passenger onboard reached around 56% and then plateaued. So about 44% of Waymo’s driven miles are conducted with empty EVs.” Via @arstechnica.com

Here’s a SERIOUS question. What if our property tax system was actually fair, and was based on public costs actually incurred to support housing? What if low density housing had to pay its way, rather than being subsidized by responsible infill housing? What if we stopped incentivizing sprawl?

I want what they have ♥️🚲

Getting people out of cars requires more than just exposed street racks. Cities can easily transform vacant commercial spaces into sheltered, staffed bike parking hubs. Safe parking is exactly what the curious but cautious need to finally start riding.

Multi-use paths are built for community mobility, not a time trial. I know it's popular to pearl clutch over ebike users, but I'd like to ask the sporty male cyclists to consider other places for record setting paces.

Paris air pollution is down 50% after its radical bike-friendly transformation Cars have been banned from more than 100 streets. Tens of thousands of parking spots have been eliminated. Hundreds of miles of bike lanes have been added. And air pollution is plummeting

This video camera study showed that less than 5% of people on bikes broke traffic laws while riding bikes, yet 66% of people did so while driving. And perhaps even more importantly, if you REALLY want even MORE bike-riders to obey laws, build more protected bike infrastructure. Via @carltonreid.com

Here's how you close a cycle lane for roadworks. Close a lane for cars to create a temporary cycle pane, install ramps so people on bikes can exit and re-enter the cycleway. 📍 Upper Thames Street, London

"Rage is excellent fuel. The question is what engine you put it in." #yycbike #yegbike streets.mn/2026/05/29/y...

My family was at dinner tonight and my wife pointed out some cargo bike dads arriving across the street. They didn’t have kids or cargo in their bikes - just some friends riding cargo bikes together to dinner. We love to see it. #ebikesummer

Oddly tucked away, but this is a great article on the BBC.. @chrisboardman.bsky.social saying that people could save lots of money by swapping some trips from cars to cycles. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

E-cargo bikes can help families cut the miles they drive their cars in half. What is holding them back? Safe infrastructure. Check out the study here -> www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @jeromyyyc.bsky.social @natefor8.bsky.social @djkelly.ca

A perfect evening ride with 500+ friends, chatting cargo biking with @calgaryk.bsky.social and bringing bubble joy to all! #yycbike @criticalmassyyc.bsky.social

“Paris has embarked on a grand transformation, planting 155k trees, adding hundreds of kms of bike lanes, pedestrianising 300 school streets and banning cars from the banks of the Seine. Parking has been turned into green space…Fewer parents fear their child being run over when they walk to school.”

Everything on this earth is borrowed. There is no "mine" or "yours." There is only "ours." Even time is borrowed. People kill over a piece of land that belongs only to Mother Earth. All you have is what you came with... and what you will leave with: your spirit. -Native American Proverb-

Lets not do anything about Climate Change it's too difficult, it's not like Solar and Wind are 8x cheaper than Fossil Fuel and only need to be replaced every 40/25 years. Oh wait... The only reason we don't act is to protect the outrageous Fossil Fuel profits.

🚲💙 Ada’s back teaching us about adaptive cycling and tricycles in Part 2 𖨆𐀪𖠋𐀪𐀪 CycleFest 2026 is all about making cycling more welcoming, accessible, and community-focused for Calgary 🚴 📍 June 6 🎟️ FREE #CycleFestYYC #AdaptiveCycling #BikeYYC #YYC #Accessibility

Nearly 2 billion people live in the red area. It is becoming completely uninhabitable. What do the climate deniers, who also hate immigration, think is going to happen?

Looks pretty good to me. If anyone is annoyed at this, they can comfort themselves with the other 99.9999% of UK streets where motor vehicle drivers basically do whatever the fuck they want.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY. There was also a 71% drop in air pollution. Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath 50 reasons for more walkable streets.

It’s weird to me that we count the gutter as part of bike infrastructure width.

As a rule, blowing up gas turbines is wrong. But, hear me out...

Strange how so many will shame people on bikes for not wearing helmets yet don’t have much to say about bike lanes without protection. Via @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social

“When you see the province focusing on more of these symbolic virtue-signalling things like which books belong in libraries, what time the clock should be adjusted to, even the latest stuff about bike lanes, it’s a lack of focus on the priorities that matter.” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Emilie Nicolas on David Parker and Alberta separatist groups: "I think there's a tactical playbook here that is also being borrowed or imitated. And we need to look at the ways in which democracy south of the border is being eroded to be able to at least anticipate what moves could be done next."

A remarkable weekend adventure organized by #yycbike people who the traditional "bike industry" ignores: Folks who ride bikes primarily for transportation. The most wonderful time was had. Thanks for organizing @erininyyc.bsky.social

“They’re too young to ride" Nope. They’re ready to ride, it’s our cities that aren’t ready.

This cat is me after I've been awake for 37 seconds..

Holy cow.

come on kids, get off screens and go outside! get off the road it's for cars don't ride your bike on the sidewalk you'll hurt someone take your headphones off it's dangerous stop being so loud you're disturbing people don't just loiter around go to the park but calm down there's little ones

It’s nice to read that these birds are being nurtured in BC. They will die from non-target poisoning across the prairies this year as the GoC lifted the ban & authorized the emergency use of 2% liquid #strychnine in #Alberta & #Saskatchewan to kill Richardson’s ground squirrels/gophers #cdnpoli

“I’m an avid cyclist but.....” Exactly the problem. We don’t need infrastructure just for avid cyclists, we need it for those new and/or apprehensive riders who are terrified of riding through their cities

Last night at the bus stop an old woman complimented my hair. She took a selfie with me and introduced herself as Triple Crazy Maggie. She told me to work less, where to buy things cheap, and to remember to be like a child. If that’s not a blessing, I don’t know what the fuck is.

When they tell you "cars are freedom", they don't mean financial freedom.

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

Our car-dependent status quo is the result of political choices that have steered decades of financial-, spatial- and design decisions. It is time to repoliticize these decisions and reshape our public spaces.

We need raised crosswalks everywhere. A level crossing prioritizes human movement and accessibility, while the physical rise acts as forced friction, demanding speed compliance from motorists. We must stop relying on signs and start relying on physical design.

"Americans prefer large trucks and SUVs." The reality:

‘Quality of life’ isn’t a big house, luxury goods or a fancy car. It’s being able to cycle your kids on safe streets or run side by side down peaceful roads with your friends. Everyone can & should have this.

Dudes. As a society we taught young women to walk with keys between their fingers in dark parking lots and to carry pepper spray in their purse. So yes. I’m asking you to be responsible for the actions of other men. After all, that’s what you’ve asked of women for centuries. It’s your turn.

I don’t think we talk nearly enough about the fact that corporations like Amazon, don’t pay a single cent to maintain the roads they use, the transportation system they use, the courts they use, they pay nothing for the infrastructure that is absolutely critical to their business. WE Pay for

Shoebills are unfortunately not doing too well in the wild. It has been estimated that there are only between 3,300 - 5,300 adult shoebills left in the world according to IUCN. This is due to wars, habitat loss, poaching and capture for the illegal pet trade. TT: birdkeeperkirsty_

There is no amount of money, oil, or gold that is worth more than having bees, trees, and clean water.

"Companies are more than willing to take Albertan resources for profit, only to avoid the cost of cleaning up their contaminated sites through bankruptcy. This isn’t an anomaly — at this point, it seems to be their business model…not the first case…nor will it be the last” #CapturedRegulator #AbPoli