Serious sounding and looking #caracrash in Edinburgh today, we herd a loud bang and looked outside to see.... #edinburgh

Lunchtime ride around Edinburgh’s new traffic-free (almost), 14km circular cycle route. Taking in the CCWEL, the NEPN & the Leith Walk cycle lanes.🚴☀️

Fietsplain [feets-spleyn]:

When someone who has never visited the Netherlands condescendingly tells a nation that collectively—and safely—cycles 18 billion kilometers each year they’re somehow doing it wrong.

e.g. “That is irresponsible. Those people should be wearing helmets.”

An extremely long thread on visiting Paris by me: someone interested in cycle infrastructure and making public spaces better.

The last decade’s change is so positive and has been huge: what have they done and how have they done it?

I don’t normally get involved in calling out headlines but it’s just getting bonkers.

If this was directed at a gender, race or religion it would be rightly called out as the hate speech it is. Mums, dads, sons and daughters being labelled as killers. It’s just got to stop.

Really disappointing to see Channel 4 Dispatches, formerly (?) one of the UK’s premier documentary series descending to this.

The TfL review of Bus Stop Bypasses has two pages describing each of the 4 collisions between cyclists and pedestrians.

If they had done the same for injuries involving motor vehicles with pedestrians and cyclists then they would have to add 13,200 pages to the report .

13,200!

View of this now infamous scene from a driver’s perspective.

With someone cycling there (narrow lanes, parked cars, junction so close) the only safe action if driving is to hang back.

Latest part of the global movement for healthier cities.

Taylor Swift. #ErasTourParis

On Mother’s Day, a reminder one of the most supportive things our society can do is build infrastructure that relieves them of the role of taxi driver—saving untold time, money and stress.

While cities sit waiting for autonomous cars, they could be designing for autonomous kids.

Beyond the sheer volume of people cycling in 🇳🇱 (which everyone takes as a given) what's amazing is how quality, safe, connected infra enables people of *all* age groups to travel by bike, especially those in older age groups (65+).

Via Mark Wagenbuur
bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2023/01/04/how…

Kids shouldn't necessarily need their parents to get from A to B.

They need safe infrastructure, enabling them to go places independently!

My PhD student, Jinpeng Li, just had his first paper published (along with me, Jinhyun Hong, and Mark Livingston).

He looks at how pro-environmental behaviour exhibited by mothers might affect their children's travel choices.

doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.…

Airlines: 'Air travel activity is going to boom *no matter what*. Forget about taxes, demand is completely inelastic. This is why we need technology and technology only'

Also airlines: 'A 3€ ticket tax will suppress demand so much that it will put the industry in a crisis'

Sterling Heights, MI, joins a list of other Detroit suburbs that will convert dying malls into town centers. Lakeside Mall will be redeveloped into 2,800 new housing units and a town center. Converting dead malls is an easy way to create town centers in the suburbs.

London Loves Cycling. Watch this clip:

Let's have a look at this, I am reminded so often that most people don't necessarily understand what they are looking at with this industry, so it might be quite interesting to dissect.

We call this a Bridge Strike, when you understand a bit more you can see why they happen 🧵

*Significant cough*

The 'opposite' is a double-decker bus with a single door. Any reference to any European island is absolutely coincidental.