Paris cycling numbers double in one year thanks to massive investment and it's not stopping. momentummag.com/paris-cycling-…

These atrocious little green pill boxes - ubiquitous monuments to the absolute indifference of our ‘service providers’ for both public & private space. Either in or out, neither any good Put all services underground!

The U.S. is one of few countries that puts pedestrians in danger even when they have the Walk signal.

Never forget, a 13-year study found protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. @streetsblogUSA usa.streetsblog.org/2019/05/29/pro…

Almost all intersections in urban areas should have these.

After 12 days of decongestion pricing, NYC saw a 51% drop in people getting hurt from car crashes. But full disclosure, there was a 10,000% spike in hurt feelings on social media. 😢

A century of stupidity - streets belong to us all, certainly not to the motor 🚗 - space guzzling, polluting, dangerous to point of being lethal, obsessed with its own rules to exclusion of other valid rights. Including the right to cross streets wherever🚶‍♀️need to go

Los Angeles had a walking culture. Angelenos resisted car culture for decades. This report on day one of the Los Angeles Traffic Ordinance of 1925 ran 100 years ago today.

The Globe and Mail Mark Medley Doug Ford and his Conservatives, who are ripping out bike lanes in the Greater #Toronto Area, under-delivering on transit, and expanding highways throughout #Ontario, are doing precisely the opposite of what #Switzerland has done. The result is transportation misery and chaos.

My article today in Guardian Australia about how Peter Dutton’s use of the Jewish community as political footballs, to spread bigotry, makes all of us less safe. Murdoch can’t force me to stop calling out Dutton and the LNP for fueling racism! theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

A must read from our EO, Sarah Schwartz You can’t silence us from our anti-racism work Mr Murdoch! theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Lively local democracy in Bondi! Spoke at a community meeting better cities, housing & governance curated by Elizabeth Farrelly, Mc’d by Wendy Harmer. I was a late stand-in for Allegra Spender (in Parliament) Hard when, just outside, Bondi Beach beckoned on a steamy Sydney evening…

Not a fan of using mass planting & silly fence-lets to stop pedestrians freely being able to cross streets. Throw away this urban junk, introduce some stepping slabs, & let people cross where they need! WalkSydney (@[email protected]) City of Sydney #publicsydney

Professor Donald Shoup died on February 6th. He has a strong claim on being the scholar who will have had the greatest impact on your day-to-day life by focusing on an impossibly boring problem that was completely neglected before him: where we park our cars. 🧵

Another road in the CBD being converted to space for people instead of cars. You love to see it.

Hot Rails — oz/acc Excellent thread demolishes weak argument that Adelaide cannot support better, higher level public transport. All Australian cities deserve far better PT, with systemic investment, greater coverage, better level of service ..& so higher patronage & density. Stop overfunding roads

Want safer city traffic? Welcome walkers and slow drivers down. Providence proved this 85 years ago. In 1938-40, Rochester attempted to impose pedestrian control downtown. But Rochester's walking majority resisted control.

To their amazement, the visitors found that in Providence, pedestrians roamed the streets at will. Motorists yielded to pedestrians everywhere, and generally obeyed a citywide speed limit of 25 mph.

In 1941 Rochester dropped the pedestrian control provisions of its traffic ordinance. In 1954, however, as segments of its new expressways opened and driving proliferated, Rochester’s city council reinstated the jaywalking ban.