"Every signal that America no longer considers itself bound by the rules it wrote chips away at that asset. When it goes, the costs hit at home, landing in higher mortgage rates, car loans, credit card rates and a government that can no longer afford its own ambitions."
My favorite thing is when people act as if a car and a bicycle pose the same risk to vulnerable road users
Image contrasting Trump's propoganda with the reality on the ground in Iran
This isn't liberation, this is an ecological disaster
Over the weekend, Tehran was plunged into darkness after US and Israeli strikes on oil depots across the city
Toxic chemicals were unleashed into the atmosphere, polluting the air people breathe and turning the rain acidic
The best part:
Right I know this is shocking, but guess what? The Oxford Congestion Charge is seeing LESS congestion and MORE people taking the bus. Try this one simple trick etc etc.
news.oxfordshire.gov.uk/more-people-...
Another thing to add to the "every leader who shied away from this for political reasons looks quite silly now" pile.
I'll bet the air quality data is stunningly good too...
Bus use in Oxford is up around 8% since the county council introduced a temporary congestion charge, with operators reporting faster journeys, improved services and growing passenger numbers across the city and wider county.
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Mamdani is considering ending free street parking in NYC. This would be another huge boost to NYC residents' quality of life, reducing traffic in ways that would be comparable to congestion pricing. And it would be another step in ending suburban free-riding on NYC.
white text on black City: We unanimously declare a climate emergency! We must make change no matter what the cost, humanity's survival depends on it! Community: Can we put in a protected mobility lane? City: No, we'll lose parking spots
An emergency
So I’m wondering what more it would take for everyone to finally understand that, just like he was famously awful as a businessman, Trump is completely and thoroughly horrible at managing the economy? Other than turning off Fox News, I mean.
Joe Rogan says “people feel betrayed” by Trump's war in Iran: “He ran on no more wars”
Why isn’t Elizabeth Warren the Senate Minority Leader?
Always a good read...
I'm not saying they are the most important things on the list, but this report completely misses transport independence and the design of streets.
Amazing.
Trump appears to be uniting a nation, unafraid of death, in a holy war against its aggressor; an aggressor that has killed hundreds of its children, bombed hospitals & aid centres and poisoned it’s capital city.
Trump has no ability to end this on his own terms. A generation-defining catastrophe.
Imagine visionary collaboration to train migrant workers with skills critical to the energy transition.
Investing in migrants’ human capital as a strategic resource.
The brilliant @helen-dempster.bsky.social @cgdev.org and @irexintl.bsky.social are not just imagining it. They’re building it —>
It’s never too late to learn to ride 🚲
The Lord Mayor of Chester is learning to cycle — supported by @bikeright.co.uk, who deliver Bikeability training in local schools & adult cycle skills sessions.
Great to see cycle training building confidence at every age.
🧊 GEORGIA ICE CAMP
👉 Take a look at plans for an ICE concentration camp at a mega-warehouse in Social Circle, Georgia (gift link) 👀
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How about no? How about drive less? How about stop building towns and cities that force driving? How about we stop subsidising drivers to the tune of £4 to every £1 of tax they pay?
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.
The idea that climate destroying cars deserve 100% of all public space needs to go.
Swedish private equity group takes 42% stake in Yorkshire Water.
Thames Water, Northumbrian Water, Southern Water, South West Water and Wessex Water gutted by PE.
All have criminal convictions, dump sewage in rivers, profiteer. 90% of England's water is foreign owned.
Expect more looting.
I found Hegseth gloating over the death of Iranian sailors shocking and deeply disturbing. This is war being waged by people who seem to think it's a video game.
Reform councillor Graham Eardley has been suspended for behaving so aggressively towards a female volunteer that security had to escort him out. That’s at least 63 Reform councillors gone in ten months – nearly one in ten!
Kidical Mass poster shows kids on bikes and a cargo bike with kids in the box up front, all being ridden along the sea front with a row of large white houses in the distance.
A bit out of my area now but what a wonderful poster @bricycles.org.uk have come up with for their next Kidical Mass bike ride.
BREAKING South Korea's benchmark Kospi index tumbled more than 12% on Wednesday as Middle East turmoil sparked a prolonged sell-off across world markets
The FO is oh so sweet.
kind of crazy that if you have enough money and don't like what you see in the media, you can just buy up every film studio, news station, and social media app and change it
Life After Cars book cover Sarah Goodyear Doug Gordon
"Cars are cars. The problem is cars, and the problem of cars cannot be solved with different cars."
#booksky #cars #infrastructure
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