The world’s most important mayoral election begins tomorrow. The election that determines if the remarkable, inspiring Paris transformation into a better city for people instead of a city choked with cars continues or goes backwards. Please #VOTE if you’re eligible. Good luck @egregoire.bsky.social.
Paris Pedals to the Top: how it became Europe’s best for young cyclists.
According to a major new ranking released by the Clean Cities Campaign, the French capital has officially become Europe’s best city for children to walk, cycle, and move around Independently
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- Plus résistante qu'un casque,
- Plus audible qu'une sonnette,
- Plus visible qu'un gilet jaune,
- Plus efficace que n'importe quel assistant à la conduite :
La bien aimée bordure en béton pour séparer la circulation des cyclistes de celle des automobiles ❤️
War in the Middle East and push-backs on the Green Deal from the Right means higher prices and more dependency on oil and gas. Now, more than ever Governments must help hard-pressed households to move to cleaner energy. europeangreens.eu/news/middle-...
It makes zero logical sense to require speed limiters on e-scooters & e-bikes but not SUVs that weigh 100x more.
Useful research here.
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Meanwhile @news.rte.ie tells me that « A three-year-old boy has died after being struck by a car in an underground car park ». Passive voice (no-one’s doing anything, death is just happening) and there’s no human involved, just a vehicle.
Until humans take responsibility #VisionZero is just words.
Iran war a 'wake-up call' on EU fossil fuel dependency, Harris warns The Finance Minister said there has been ‘not enough’ diversification in how Ireland and Europe sources its energy since the war in Ukraine.
Me after having slept through half a dozen alarms: Wow, what a wake-up call this is
Yellow cargo bike with big yellow bucket in back in front of Shell gasoline sign showing gas prices fo 3.48 - 4.49.
Beat rising gas prices with this one weird trick.
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20... there just isn’t a violin small enough
Urban greenway? Cycling on N11 is safer, says some councillors, but officials confirm "no good planning reason" for shortening the route irishcycle.com/2026/03/09/u...
The most important initiative in debunking manipulation, lies and untruths concerning humanist-oriented urban planning and well-being.
Let's all support it.
Each of us can be the target of attacks by conspiracy theorists, and it is together, with the urban truth, that we will face them.
Go ahead!
Stunning result in Germany’s Baden-Württemberg, where Greens' top candidate Cem Özdemir will become the state’s next premier. www.dw.com/en/germany-n...
Suppose it’s simply asking far too much to expect a senior RTÉ business journalist in 2026, as the #climate crisis deepens by the month, to have grasped that continuing to drill for fossils fuels is shooting ourselves in the head, never mind foot?
www.independent.ie/business/iri...
Call for “facts over fear” as councillors set to vote on Cabinteely Greenway
A local group in Dublin has called for "facts over fear" to win out as Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council councillors are due to vote on the Part 8 planning permission for the Cabinteely Greenway tomorrow (Monday). The…
This is freaking insane and one main reason why I keep on in this space - absolutely absurd what we’ve normalized on our streets.
Dalek overload equipped for both extermination and light plumbing. And I understand your new Green MP is also a plumber… COINCIDENCE ????!!!!
WAKE UP SHEEPLE
To motor normative politicians, every little incremental change that gives space to non-drivers feels like a “war on cars.” Privilege is a hell of a drug
Elk probleem schijnt een nagel te zijn als ik alleen maar een martelaar heb. En als ik 20 jaar lang gas CV installeer, zie ik gas CV als een universele solutie.
We haven’t found a way of bringing the magnitude home to people who think of global heating as a slightly higher thermometer reading - and who for much of the year wouldn’t mind that anyway. Many great efforts at finding metaphors that will work but so far none has really caught the imagination.
Thinking of « The Kraken Wakes » by John Wyndham. Ice caps are being melted by presumed alien invaders, most people are complaining about the wet weather. The scientist raises the alarm: sea level 25 mm up one year. Main character: « 25 mm is just a slightly higher mark on a post to most people »
Never forget, the electric car is here to save the car industry, not the planet.
Read this thread.
The whole "war on cars" whining is really the perfect example of, "When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression."
Urban sprawl is bankrupting us. Applies to NZ (and Auckland gets a mention)
"Bicycling has done more to emancipate women than anything else." — Susan B. Anthony, 1896.
Yet today, women only make up 40% of riders. This International Women’s Day, let’s push for ambitious and inclusive cycling policies that make our cities more equitable places for women and girls. #IWD
Not just Stalinist but almost the exact plot of the Matrix. What does « turning us all into barcodes » even mean ? @dorianlynskey.bsky.social @iandunt.bsky.social @originstorypodcast.bsky.social
Confiscation of vehicle and a ban for the driver - or the owner if the driver can’t be identified. There has to be zero tolerance for dumping your vehicle somewhere where it will endanger - or disable - others.
Trump is unlikely to face consequences but lower down the chain of command some people should be feeling quite nervous : « I was only following orders » is not a defence.
A diagram showing how a 2 minute delay to an active travel trip reduces the accessible area from a 15-minute trip by 25%
As I was made to wait 2.5 minutes to cross a road this morning, let's again do the maths simple.ghost.io/lets-do-the-...
The international boycott of ChatGPT has absolutely exploded.
2.5M people have already joined, and this is just the beginning.
Go to quitgpt.org.
Cancel your subscription, delete your account.
And tell at least one person why.
My op-ed: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
To discourage drivers from using it as parking « just for five minutes »? The toy town symbols are a bit unnecessary
