New Study Shows How Paris Pedaled Its Way to a Cycling Revolution. momentummag.com/new-study-pa...

Here we go again. Trump has told the UK that if we want a UK-US tech deal, we need to buy chlorinated chicken from the US! 🤢🐔 How dare he try to impose poor food standards in Britain. Sign the petition to keep chlorine-washed chicken off our shelves: act.38degrees.org.uk/act/chlorine...

New Study Shows How Paris Pedaled Its Way to a Cycling Revolution. momentummag.com/new-study-pa...

Congestion pricing "has been a striking success. Traffic speeds have increased. Pollution is down. The fee is generating a large amount of revenue for the city’s transit system. And predictions that it would be bad for business have proved completely wrong." Via @pkrugman.bsky.social

"E-bikes and scooters displace 4x as much demand for oil as all of the EVs in the world" And still no plans or incentives from our federal and provincial governments to help people choose bikes instead of cars. Quite the opposite, actually. arstechnica.com/cars/2023/11...

'Todi Umbria,' by contemporary British watercolorist Alan Reed

This would be an astoundingly myopic and insane decision. £2k or so on the cost of a house which would then cut bills by £1300 a year. Not to mention the climate emergency. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

EU carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM). Was very worried it would be watered down or even cancelled. But no!

"Oxford's High Street booming, bucking national trend" And this in a city where we've removed city centre parking and put in a congestion charge. Almost as if it's people who shop, not cars. www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2573227...

In the last two weeks, I've heard about: -mRNA vaccine to treat age-related vision loss -cure for Alzheimer's and a treatment to reverse cognitive damage -Japanese scientists working on a way to regrow teeth I'm in awe. What a time to be alive. 🤩

Well 2025 was a brilliant year for #cycling. I completed 10051 miles by last night. A record + not bad at 72! Obv the safest miles were in #NL but still some gt quiet bits in the UK esp Derbyshire. But to enable more women like me to choose to #cycle it needs proper funding. A few sunsets seen.

I love that the Portland Airport includes a bike assembly area near baggage claim for people traveling with a bicycle and leaving the airport on two wheels, as well as a transit station right at the terminal. It’s a rare delight to have such excellent accommodations for non-car airport travel!

I love seeing photos like this that show kids riding in protected bike lanes because it makes the important point that the best infrastructure enables *anyone* to ride (or roll, because bikes lanes are also great for wheelchairs and other forms of micro-mobility) regardless of skill or ability.

Devastating.

Beavers are just one of the animals we’ve helped bring back to London after centuries. Can’t wait to see what David Attenborough uncovers in his new series Wild London on the BBC on New Year’s Day.

“We are not just building infrastructure — together, we are creating communities: places where parents feel confident letting children travel independently, and where older people can reach local shops with ease. We are building life back into our streets.”

Canada eh! Best Reputations: Canada is #2, USA #48, we beat you AGAIN.. www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-count...

"they're all the same!" is a violently lazy take, & planted by the right as a voter suppression tactic.

This morning I walked home over 35W. There was only ~1 inch of snow on the ground, but plows were already out doing their thing on the highway. Meanwhile, the sidewalk I was on will likely not get cleared for hours or days. We *all* need clear sidewalks in winter. #PlowMPLSsidewalks

READ & WATCH: “A new, Dutch-style roundabout, with its own three-minute video tutorial, is set to open in Hertfordshire next week. Ahead of its opening, County Council have produced an animated video which shows how cars, bicycles & pedestrians should use the new road feature correctly.”

Low-Traffic Neighbourhoods: what the latest evidence tells us": behaviour change. 24% said they walk more, 18% said they visit local shops more frequently, and 17% said they had made more use of public transport. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/65f400...

“Several years later, my wife rides everywhere: to physio, to shopping, to restaurants, to doctor appointments, to the park — everywhere. She tucks her cane into her panniers. That’s important, because walking far still hurts. And cycling keeps us active and moving, which is important as one ages.”

‘There’s no going back’: Iran’s women on why they won’t stop flouting dress code laws

The duality of the cyclist

"A city's priorities become as clear as the spaces they choose to maintain in the winter." Creative developed with @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social

She's been a lightning rod for criticism, but hat/chapeau tip to Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo for her leadership and ideas on ways to make cities more livable.

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

Light in the Evening | Shiro Kasamatsu #Japanese #WoodblockPrint #Ukiyo-e

As Paris keeps showing the world, the moment we stop treating neighborhood streets as exclusively places to move and store cars, and start designing them as places to live, everything changes... cooler blocks, safer streets, cleaner air, stronger community, & real public space.

Yet the public want safer quieter healthier streets where they live and they need to understand the only way to achieve that is to prioritise walking, wheeling and cycling. There is no other option if we want better places to live and visit.

Germany shifts over 2 million e-bikes every year. France: over 500,000. Britain? It will be lucky to get to 150,000. Why? Because people need to feel safe to cycle, and that requires serious and sustained government support, which has not been forthcoming. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...

Victor Horta’s Hôtel Solvay Brussels

LTNs: what the latest evidence tells us: that people living in LTNs reduced the distance they drove by around 6% more than those living outside them. Quieter streets make local journeys feel safer and more appealing on foot or by bike. findingspress.org/article/7547...

If we're going to talk about driving and safe streets at all, it really does need to start with the basic reality that driving is dangerous, period. Even if everybody follows "the rules," there is just a structural risk that cannot be removed, and it has to do with cars themselves.

We're back to Rosamundi's Theory of Wankers. If you're a careless and oblivious pedestrian, you'll be a careless and oblivious public transport user, cyclist, and driver. The risks to others scale with the speed and weight of the mode of transport you use.

72-year old Baroness Neville-Rolfe said: “Scooters and cycles regularly ride on pavements and, because of electrification, they can go at high speeds, up to 70 miles per hour, according to the Sunday Telegraph” Two solutions: 1. Close the Telegraph. 2. Mandatory dementia tests for peers.

It's been a wild year for rovélo creative.Thx to everyone who I've been lucky enough to work with creatively/strategically, those who bought shirts/posters and for all of you who invited me to do talks/interviews etc...been very lucky more to come in '26 including some new partnerships & publishing

These people took issue with me cycling through the @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social on a shared path. When I pointed out that they are asked to keep their dog on a lead I was told to "Go away". I'm trying to get to work, and I'm so tired of having dogs running across my path endangering both of us.

Nothing calms traffic and commands driver attention like design details that can easily deal out consequences for reckless behavior behind the wheel. Plus, boulders are cheap and easily accessible.

Cycling and walking could help deliver almost everything Brits say they want to achieve in 2026 — if we design streets to support them. Getting fitter, losing weight, being healthier, saving money; enabling active travel quietly does all of it. With no gym contracts.

Hat's off to this Architect for this railing shadow

Age of miracles newatlas.com/cancer/frog-...

5 and 8 year old forced off the road again by angry drivers mad at kids walking and cycling home from school down tight residential streets with no useable pavement space. Car culture is toxic.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, bicycles give you the freedom that car ads promise. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/the-joy-o... @tomflood.bsky.social @cyclingactionnz.bsky.social @nzherald.bsky.social

The UK's largest private jet airport wants to increase its flight numbers. This is a huge threat to our climate. The public consultation is open until 17th Oct, so now's the time to say 'No'! action.wearepossible.org/page/136526/...

The core of this problem is still nowhere near enough bike parking. Great they added 115 new bays but both sides of virtually every street in Islington are still covered in car parking! Be more radical - convert 1/2 car parking on every suitable road to bike parking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“The phenomenon is known as induced demand. The result is an endless cycle in which congestion leads to highway expansion, which invites more trips, which brings back traffic…The pattern is so inevitable that economists have dubbed it the iron law of congestion.” #InducedTraffic

Belgium Is Betting Big on Bikes—and Antwerp Is Already Showing How It Can Work. momentummag.com/belgium-is-b...

For children walking or cycling to school, "outside the school" is the least dangerous part of their journey. Children need 20mph limit protection on the whole of their home to school route. 20mph "just outside schools" contemptuously disregards duty of care on child mobility

Just a little sketch from a visit to Southampton in 1998. I wandered around looking for something to draw and settled for a quick seascape of the docks with gulls. A cold wind coming off the water. #art #watercolour #drawing #seagulls