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What would it mean to build a city for kids? – The Independent
An interview with St. John’s active transportation advocate Ryan Green
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St-Johns, Newfoundland resident would like safe city streets.
What are safe streets?
If streets are safe for children, they are safe streets.
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Anyway if you wanna add regulatory stuff to cars to reduce traffic deaths start with limiting headlight brightness and vehicle size, particularly hood height.
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Put every car that can’t use a speed limiter today into a volcano.
TheAHayKid@theahaykid.bsky.social
Honestly, my only real argument against your point is that it's just not feasible to retrofit every single vehicle on the road for that. Now, potentially an easier solution: STOP BUILDING STROADS
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one of toronto's new streetcar lines was so incompetently built and horrendously slow in favour of letting an endless parade of suburban cars pass that the mayor's office apparently had to put out a statement on reddit. funniest city in the world
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I try to walk ~8k steps/day here in Tokyo，It’s not only healthy＆enjoyable，but helps me as an urbanist to continuously track how this rapidly evolving city reshapes itself．I like to think of myself as a male Jane Jacobs—except that where her vantage point was a window，mine is the soles of my shoes.
Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social
“Dutch people cycle an average of 2.6km each per day. If this pattern was replicated worldwide, annual carbon emissions would drop by 686 million tonnes. This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.” @euronews.com
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Cities aren’t built for older people – our study shows many can’t walk fast enough to beat a pedestrian crossing share.google/UOfpdafjVByK...
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Cities aren’t built for older people – our study shows many can’t walk fast enough to beat a pedestrian crossing
Many older people with reduced mobility say they feel ‘hurried’, ‘rushed’ and ‘unsafe" when walking around their city.
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All sorts of people and groups (like the fire dept!) will try to block road safety and traffic calming measures.
Here are four ways we can fight back against those who want roads to reman dangerous to pedestrians and cyclists.
www.calbike.org/sunnyvale….
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Four Strategies That Helped the Hollenbeck Project Pass - CalBike
For months, supporters delivered one focused point per council meeting: parking, safety, crash history, design options. By the time of the final hearing, the Council already understood the case for bu...
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"This annual grant provides funding to communities which plan to design, create, and maintain the diverse network of trails, trail systems, and trails experiences used by Massachusetts residents and visitors."
-- great news!
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Town receives $94,000 to improve Minuteman Bikeway at Ed Burns Arena and Ryder Street – Your Arlington
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What a bunch of (using medical language here for precision) peckerhead losers.
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“The path to nowhere”: Ministry of Defence accused of “pettiness” for blocking completion of new cycling and walking route to school – and threatening to fence off 15-metre section if children use it ...
The government department claims the shared-use path could have a “detrimental impact” on local families, though the MOD’s decision to reopen discussions with Fife Council has been hailed as a “return...
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@npr.org story tonight contained a story about a woman who felt she had to give up her baby to adoption because she lives in a place with no transit or walk-ability and her car broke down. Car dependency forced a horrible choice on this woman and many more like her. Car dependency harms families
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New blog by me: Mercer County Executive Dan Benson joined a group last weekend exploring the riverfront redevelopment area in Trenton, and discussing plans to replace Route 29 in the city with an urban boulevard... walkableprinceton.com/202….
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Exploring Trenton Riverfront Redevelopment With ‘Trenton Walks!’
It was sleeting when a group of around 30 people of all ages met outside “Cooper’s Riverview” (map) in Trenton on Sunday morning. The occasion? The 62nd “Trenton Walks!̶…
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“Saving $4.5 billion could mean reducing Sound Transit’s expected deficit by more than 13%, and bringing the cost of the $22.6 billion Ballard Link project by nearly 20%.”
The Urbanist@theurbanist.org
While potential cost savings for a single light rail tunnel in downtown are significant, the idea of delaying Ballard Link even further on top of significant risk factors makes additional consideration by the Sound Transit board unlikely. Story: www.theurbanist.org/2025/12/13/e...
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Several bars walkable from my place. (And a few more not listed!)
Denver Westword@westword.com
This past Thursday we released our Top 50 Bars list, a celebration of the bars we think are doing it right in the Mile High. Which bars are your favorite? Are there any you think got snubbed? See the full list 👇 www.westword.com/food-drink...
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l os angeles’s car culture is why radio (pre-spotify) was so popular. one piece of my sense of humor comes from a hilarious (cancellable by today’s standards) morning radio show. therefore, i’m pro car.
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Why not public transit?
Often overlooked in discussions about disabled people’s use of public transit is the part about getting to and from the bus, subway, trolley, streetcar, Skytrain, or Seabus
Vancouver’s sidewalks are a mess.
mssinenomine.substack.com…. #vanpoli #Translink
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Is HandyDart Accessible? It Depends.
If wheelchair taxis aren't accessible then why not use regular public transit or Handydart?
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There are some good solutions to this that I think are well within reach, without meaningfully reducing the benefits of dockless wheelshare. Things like:
– Lots of marked/painted corrals
– A lot more “no parking” zones
– App-enforced fines for poor parking
– Bulb-outs/daylighting with corrals
Anna Zivarts@nondriver.bsky.social
Dude, we need to do better about shared scooter and bike parking in Seattle. The status quo of 'leave them wherever you like' is dangerous for and disrespectful to disabled pedestrians. Like here at this major rapid ride stop👇
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Behold: @townofviewroyal.bsky.social has one piece of decent bike-friendly infrastructure!
Until you look closely and realize that bikes are arbitrarily prohibited from one of the crossings, meaning you have to cross three times to cross once.
Why.
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Cycling Cities is a new German documentary by bike enthusiast and urbanist Ingwar Perowanowitsch (@ingwarpero.bsky.social) that explores how some of Europe’s most successful cycling-friendly cities have transformed themselves into liveable, people-centred places.
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CYCLING CITIES - Der Film
YouTube video by Ingwar Perowanowitsch
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🙌 Last weekend hundreds of us came together at the Carnival for Change out of love, care and concern for the world we all share.
🌈✌ 💚⛰️ 🐌 🍉 We know that the challenges we face are interconnected.
#climatejustice #peace #freepalestine #climatecrisis #savedennistonplateau #nz #aotearoa
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Merry Christmas! Brought a tree home with my Brompton today!
www.cyclingeu.com/797209/…
Who needs a cargo bike when you can even haul a Christmas tree home using just a Brompton folding bike and a trailer? 😁 by petedogg
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Merry Christmas! Brought a tree home with my Brompton today! - Cycling Europe
Who needs a cargo bike when you can even haul a Christmas tree home using just a Brompton folding bike and a trailer? 😁 by petedogg
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A nice story in the latest Oregon Humanities magazine about Portland freeways for which I was interviewed. oregonhumanities.org/rll/….
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On Tender Systems
An essay by Dawn Marie Knopf about the history of the US highway system, the costs of its creation, and conflicts over freeway expansion in Portland
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A team of UTSA architecture, design & planning faculty analyzed #sanantonio's empty & underused commercial parcels for future resuse as #housing. Their results are now in an exhibit at Central Library.
focusonsanantonio.com/new….
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