Very interesting results here: "Riding to school: How bicycles are changing education for girls in rural Africa" brook.gs/3nV0nx5 via The Brookings Institution

Bonjour SNCF Voyages Italia Léo, SNCF Connect ne semble pas montrer de TGVs entre Paris GdL et Turin/Milan la periode 29 Octobre-1 Novembre, est-ce que c'est parce que l'horaire n'a pas ete encore finalise ou parce qu'il n'y aura surement aucun service ces jours-la? Merci bcp

Ten things twitter folks know about Covid that people on the streets don't.

Summary of 107 academic studies about e-bikes: 🔷 Use of e-bikes "is associated with lower energy and emissions." 🔷 E-bike riding "is a form of moderate to vigorous intensity physical activity." 🔷 E-bikes "can cause a significant modal shift." doi.org/10.1016/j.tran…

This a very important thread about American pick-up trucks, their regulation, and the danger they posed

The three groups most frequently invoked to defend automobile hegemony, the poor, the disabled and children, also happen to be the three groups most directly and substantively harmed—as in endangered, sickened, encumbered, immiserated and killed—by it.

Seven original 1970s skateparks that show why these urban treasures should be protected theconversation.com/seven-original… via The Conversation

Consultant Cardiologist, Dr Rae Duncan (Dr Rae Duncan), was interviewed today on BBC’s Sunday Show. In this thread 🧵, I’ve pulled out some of the key highlights. Kudos to Martin Geissler (martin geissler) who had clearly done his homework in advance & asked excellent questions. 1/

very interesting new paper on the way active travel to school is often framed in School Travel Plans: something indeed good, but simply a rather non-urgent optional matter of personal choice... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Your king avoids crowds because of the health risk, your prime minister takes private planes and helicopters wherever he goes, your MPs breathe filtered air in parliament, your pop stars make all around them mask. And yet, England, you think it's just a cold. 🤔

Eighty years of traffic engineering mindset says If a driver hits something, it’s the fault of the thing being hit. Sidewalks/bike lanes are treated as crash recovery zones. Our streets are a giant trolly problem where they always decide it’s better to sacrifice the pedestrians.

If you're wondering why we need School Streets then look no further than this video This could have been your kids school. Ask your local councillor if they'll install a School Street to protect your child

The murder of Giacomo Matteotti – reinvestigating Italy’s most infamous cold case theconversation.com/the-murder-of-… via The Conversation

⚠️I would like to share a very very serious concern about whooping cough. ⚠️Professor Paul Hunter of the University of East has said that there was a surge "expected based on usual seasonal patterns" this year. 🧵About those usual seasonal patterns:

All absolutely totally flipping normal in England at the moment as hospitals start declaring critical incidents due to 'severe and sustained pressure' IN JUNE. 🚨THIS HAPPENS WHENEVER THERE'S A COVID WAVE🚨

Just look at the appalling dangerous driving children in Birmingham encounter on their way to & from school every day. Shockingly this is happening at a zebra crossing in Tysley where a 3 year old girl was killed in 2021. Better Streets for Birmingham is no longer on X

My paper "Measuring social benefits of media coverage: how coverage of climate change affects behaviour" has been published in The Economic Journal. I show that consuming environmentally oriented newspaper coverage leads to environmentally friendly travel decisions. doi.org/10.1093/ej/uea…

Andrew Gwynne MP These are the things Dr Taylor and I see repeatedly in our clinics. We have a first hand “in the trenches” view of what’s really happening. For most (but certainly not all) people it’s not the index infection we are primarily worried about, it’s everything that comes 1/

everything you wanted to know about short-mid-long tail #cargobikes albertomzanni.wordpress.com/2024/10/06/the…

My latest piece for the Independent SAGE s*bstack series on how "Just the flu" has been such a damaging theme throughout the pandemic... Pls retweet to stop the algorithm suppression on the link! open.substack.com/pub/independen…