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Bikeshare Shouldn’t Kick Tourists to the Curb
Barcelona’s bikeshare program excludes non-Spanish visitors. Other cities charge tourists much higher fees to rent two-wheelers. Which policy makes more sense?
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This is a very good essay by a zoning attorney in Baltimore. I’m especially glad that it highlights a little remarked-upon dynamic in our discretionary, exception-based land use permitting system: it deprives voters of the feedback necessary to adequately judge the effectiveness of regulations.

The very first thing the Prime Minister does is use the household budget metaphor. A metaphor - this report into BBC coverage - said could be "easily misleading." Why is the government trying to mislead the country?

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Bikeshare Shouldn’t Kick Tourists to the Curb
Barcelona’s bikeshare program excludes non-Spanish visitors. Other cities charge tourists much higher fees to rent two-wheelers. Which policy makes more sense?

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Transit violence rising across Canada — in some cities, by nearly 300%
Exclusive CBC News/IJF data shows crime rates still well above pre-pandemic levels




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Montreal's New Rail Line Is the Future - Macleans.ca
Canada has forgotten how to build fast, cheap transit. A new megaproject has the fix.

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Philly wants to set its own speed limits, and other highlights of the city’s new Vision Zero report
Vision Zero report shows that traffic deaths in Philadelphia remain elevated compared to the five years before the coronavirus pandemic.


The River Market is losing its neighborhood bike shop at the end of the year. :/ Cycling is still too much of a drive-to-ride culture in this city, and the neighborhood is still car centric and Amazon-supplied. I had high hopes but this is a bummer.


It's been common knowledge for years that "Drill, baby, drill" is a political soundbite with no meaningful connection to the market forces that actually determine oil companies' drilling decisions.
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She’s on a Mission to Make the World More Bike-Friendly


@davidzipper.bsky.social on Europe's turn against urbanism (i.e. the rise of Motorists for Themselves, a Czech party, and Meloni's allies rallying against "useless bike lanes"): "it's not just North America that's facing a real backlash right now; it feels like it's happening in Europe too."