There’s no such thing as a green car. What you’re thinking of is a less bad car that we’re at risk of having more of, and driving more, because we’ve been convinced it’s a green car.
Again, see the thread.
Hatred, ignorance, fear, greed, and discrimination are viruses, magnified by suffering, carried in buckets, spilled onto the world.
We cannot eliminate them by actions that magnify hatred, ignorance, fear, greed, discrimination and suffering - only by actions that relieve them.
"I don’t know the moment it happened; it must’ve been a slow realization. ‘My bike is my mobility aid’." Great article from @bikehfxlobby.bsky.social published In Active Travel Studies activetravelstudies.org/article/id/1...
This image shows diagrams of what life looks like with car centric cities vs one that has a multimodal transportation network.
Love this! Cities are inherently for people, not cars. Yet, we allocate so much precious space to the automobile. There's a reason why cities with the best quality of life around the world have fewer cars. More room for greenspace, more housing and less noise.
Credit: @urbancyclinginstitute.org
“…disabled people are actually less likely to drive than nondisabled people and more likely to get around by walking and rolling and taking transit. Car-heavy cities are also disproportionately dangerous for disabled folks…”— @nondriver.bsky.social
Don’t use accessibility “as a political football.”
Compact cargo ebike in front of a CyberTruck in a parking lot
Two electric vehicles that carried one person here
There should be a Bluesky account dedicated to bad bike rack placement and design. Endless content
Overhead shot of snowy intersection with yellow cabs and dotted lines outlining where snow has created space that can be a future bike lane, public plaza and pedestrian refuge.
New BONUS episode: "What Snow Reveals About Cities (Plus More From Our Book Tour.)"
All the snow we've gotten has revealed some truths about what cars do to cities, and what we can learn from it. We also give our thoughts on Miami, Pittsburgh, Toronto and Phoenix!
www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-...
Look at them moving unpredictably, not signalling, not riding in one straight line. If they get hit it's their fault!
terrorizers in training.
Wouldn’t it be amazing if Confederation Creek was opened up and a pathway installed!
What an amazing investment that would be for the people that live and travel by active means in the area.
#Calgary #yycBike
@djkelly.ca
Batman slapping Robin for suggesting that bikes should follow the same rules as cars
Seems to be a lot of confusion on social media lately.
Y’all are out there doing a great job commenting and debating with 🚗 🧠.
Thanks and keep it up!
Calgary is already seeing this play out on our roads, to deadly effect.
17,000km of roads in Calgary means transit is likely not an affordable solution.
Most of the city is single family homes not within walking distance of daily services.
A slow moving transportion catastrophe. #roadsafety
A superhero having to choose between two buttons. One of them is an EB bike that goes 30 miles an hour and one of them is a truck, but aftermarket lifted suspension and giant truck tires. Which one will the city and government regulate and which one will be outlawed?
I know which one I would choose to blame for our dangerous roads…
Text explaining how there isn’t a war on cars, with all the benefits of reallocating street space to move a lot more people with a lot less space and other consequences, including life and death, pollution/emissions, public and personal costs, etc. Providing more choices works better for everyone, including drivers. And more transportation choices support the economic competitiveness of cities, as smart cities know.
I’m not a fan of politicians trying to make people angry for votes by claiming there actually IS a “war on cars” (there isn’t — if anything there’s been a war on every OTHER way of getting around since the 1960s).
A politician just made the claim on LinkedIn. Here’s the reply I posted. #UrbanTruth
entire large wooden desk strapped into a bunch bike with lights on
What I always say to these car enthusiasts is "What if I have to move a desk??"
All these car lanes everywhere are just not practical.
0Thanks to Eric in DC for the great pic! #BunchFam #CargoBike
Sure, it's ugly and wildly overpriced, but at least it puts you and your kidnapping victim at risk for your lives
By 5 PM on Feb 23, 2026, more than 500 people rode past this daily counter on the 5 St SW cycle track in Calgary.
It was -17C to start the day and -10C by 5 PM.
Calgary is a winter bicycling city.
#Calgary #yycBike
You, a person getting back in shape: biking slow because you know it’s not a race and any progress is great.
Me, a recreational transportationist: biking slow because that makes my bike rides last longer and that sounds nice.
Look lady, if you’re arguing for a handful of parking spaces over protected bike lanes, you are in fact against safety, no matter how many times you object to that characterization.
“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.”
“Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath
Some costs aren’t costs.
woman walking bike with baron/desert area behind Local woman who was supposed to meet friends at the bar last night still looking for a place to lock up her bike.
Local woman who was supposed to meet friends at the bar last night still looking for a place to lock up her bike.
Whoever thinks biking in the winter is too cold should try riding an ebike with the motor off 🫠🥵
There will never be enough bicycle subcultures
(Save your kids old bikes, we got work to do)
This is how housing becomes unaffordable.
Suburbia wants car dependency mentality applied to inner city development. Each unit will become $75,000 more expensive for stalls that will be empty b/c ownership is low.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization
Alt: Andrew Friesen on X:
Time to talk about Alberta ICE, & not the good kind you skate on!
The plan the APP separatists released in June calls for the deportation of up to 44,733 Albertans per year
To provide some perspective they want to deport top to 1 in 30 Albertans over 3 years (to Ottawa,LOL)
Big Torque doesn’t want you to know this, but you can just keep tightening until something teaches you a lesson.
#DoYourOwnResearch
