We are excited to announce that the Ministry of Transport and Logistics and the Ministry of Urban and Infrastructure officially adopted the Ethiopia Urban Street Design Manual during the Ethio Green Mobility 2024 Symposium.

Popular demands such as this one – to “gear them down” (mechanically limit vehicles’ maximum speed) –alarmed insiders in motordom. In response, they organized to shift blame from fast driving to careless walking.

I gave this TED talk warning Silicon Valley of the profound threat of it posed to democracy nearly 6 years ago. It provoked a lawsuit that caused me years of pain. The UK government did nothing to contain the threat. And here we are.

The 80-year project to make this country completely car-dependent is complete, and now that you're trapped, you need to spend an average of $737 a month for your own economic and social mobility.

De Tweede Kamer gaat het burgerinitiatief 'Publiek, toegankelijk en gratis OV' in behandeling nemen - een historische overwinning. Erik Verhoef werpt zijn licht op de zaak: bnr.nl/podcast/bnr-mo… #BNR

New York City just implemented the most effective climate policy ever undertaken in the US, and it didn’t cost a penny. No costly new technology, no utopian dreams of electric cars or fusion, no giant tubes sucking carbon from air: Just, charging drivers the cost of driving.

Really excited to share our reflections from the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and how they could inspire an Olympic Games in Cape Town. Download and read linkedin.com/pulse/what-cap…

What a world. Capitalism "externalizes" costs to the point where the costs are "externalized" into our own bodies.

🚨BREAKING🚨: #Paris🇫🇷 votes for people oriented streets. 🗳️ Referendum to pedestrianize another 500 streets. 🤸Turning another 10.000 🚗 parking spots into spaces for green🌳, play🛝 and leisure🏖️. 🙋 66% in favour, 34% against. ℹ️ Low turnout of 4% indicates low resistance.

𝗣𝗹𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗜𝗴𝗻𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 (𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘮): when people mistakenly believe that their own private opinions differ from the majority's, leading them to conform to car dependency'. Great talk with Active Towns : youtube.com/watch?v=S4arpO…

In a landmark moment for Africa and Europe, UCT and Sciences Po – a public university in Paris – have joined forces to launch a prestigious, internationally recognised dual-degree programme: bit.ly/3E5FIlJ. #UCTCollaboration

Solidarity with trans women after today’s Supreme Court ruling. The rollback of LGBT rights — especially trans rights — is global, bankrolled by billionaires and the far-right. Trans rights are human rights. We must defend the Equality Act and its protections for trans people.

Journalists, politicians, genocide deniers and genocide 'don't carers'—I don’t know you, but I cannot bear to look into the eyes of another Palestinian child starved, orphaned, or left limbless, in Gaza. Not even in a photograph. May Palestinians forgive us.

These are the four pieces for which I won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. All published in 2024. Blessings to the souls of 31 members of my family who were killed in one air strike in 2023. Blessings to the souls of my four first cousins, two of whom were killed with their

From #Gaza, the cries of parents rise to heaven ever more intensely as they clutch the lifeless bodies of their children, searching for food and shelter from bombs. I renew my appeal to leaders: cease fire, release all hostages, and fully respect international humanitarian law!

Setting up "aid distribution points" and then massacring people who come to obtain food is sincerely one of the most evil things I have ever seen.

Paris 2019 v. Today: I don’t think people realize how immense @annehidalgo’s legacy will be.

How can cities deal with 'bikelash' and resistance to changing streets? Next April I'll lead the Urban Cycling Institute's new leadership program in Amsterdam. Spaces are limited! More info: urbancyclinginstitute.org/engaging-commu… Urban Cycling Institute 🚲 

We broke down the logic of Israel’s policy of starvation, its architecture, and aims, showing how engineered starvation (and its supposed mitigation) is used as a tool to break Palestinian society.

To my fellow Europeans, 450ml EU citizens : The EU, which had already disgraced itself by entering the Association agreement with Apartheid Israel years ago, is now refusing to suspend it. This is the final piece of evidence that the EU is consciously supporting Israel’s