Build it and they will come, no matter the weather or time of year

#cycling #CitiesForPeople #Melbourne #BikeLanes

🚶🚲 Everyone who walks, bikes, skate, or wheels in the US, CLICK THRU and FILL THIS OUT PLEASE!

https://carfree.city/@scott/110722253475210695

#CitiesForPeople #Walking @TheWarOnCars

Effect of bike lanes on business resilience in #LA:
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2205/2205.04536.pdf

#Transit #CitiesForPeople #BikeTooter #LosAngeles
cc @scott maybe of interest

LOVE this piece showcasing artists imagining of #LA without the freeways
https://www.latimes.com/lifestyle/image/story/2023-05-16/artists-reimagine-los-angeles-without-freeways #Transit #CitiesForPeople #LosAngeles

I'd really like it if #LosAngeles & #LongBeach officials could have a serious think about these findings:

https://thecityfix.com/blog/traffic-evaporation-what-really-happens-when-road-space-is-reallocated-from-cars/

#CitiesForPeople

A dedicated route for #cycling on the quays will enable the #Wellington Waterfront to fully realise its potential as a public people space. We've launched a #QuaysPlease campaign. What do you think?
#citiesForPeople
https://www.cyclewellington.org.nz/quays_please

If you attended my pecha kucha at Pedestrianize This! last night, you got the highly abridged version.
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RT @SmetPascal
Talking about the transformation of Brussels from a city for cars to a city for people at the transport conference in Birmingham. Cities around the world are looking to Brussels as an inspiration in their own transformation. Happy to share our experiences!
#CitiesForPeople https://t.co/sujNGwuFpT
https://twitter.com/SmetPascal/status/1651248263545208833

I'd ❤️ to see this place become a viable space for the kinds of organizing [Redacted Avis] supported for #LosAngeles. Can we help make @crosswalksLA's ask a reality?

https://social.coop/@crosswalksLA/110175740467917143

#CitiesForPeople @TheWarOnCars #Walking #California #SoCal #LongBeach #LBC

It's incredible how much space is given to a few people in motor vehicles vs so many more people on foot or wheels. It's a vast inequity.

Nowhere is this more stark than #ShibuyaCrossing; the world's busiest pedestrian crossing with as many as 3,000 people crossing at a time. Compared to around 12 cars fromone direction of the junction in one sequence. #Urbanism #CitiesForPeople

@TheWarOnCars
"Unnecessary driving is the new smoking."

#WarOnCars #CitiesForPeople

Statement at the start of a radio programme:

"Having most of what you need within 15 minutes of your home - but what if the utopian dream can only be achieved through Orwellian means?"

Imagine you know *nothing* about the concept or the debate other than what the above says - does this make you feel positively or negatively about "15-minute cities"?

#urbanism #urbanplanning #citiesforpeople #activetravel #biketooter

🐈 🏭 🚙 "Inhaling Car Fumes Can Change a Brain's Connectivity in Just 2 Hours, Study Finds"

Working on a theory* that the automotor damages & hijacks peoples' brains to make them further surround themselves with cars, similar to cat-lovers and toxoplasmosis

https://www.sciencealert.com/inhaling-car-fumes-can-change-a-brains-connectivity-in-just-2-hours-study-finds

*not a real theory

#Pollution #BanCars #CitiesForPeople

#CarBlindness - Ignoring the true cost of #cars.
'Are the externalities of #driving too hidden, too remote and indirect, or too “someone else’s problem”? Will we look, or will we remain blind to it all?'
#breakCarCulture
#citiesForPeople
https://alex-m-dyer.medium.com/car-blindness-ignoring-the-true-cost-of-cars-52348ab30e90

Why is your city not like #Tokio ?

- no #trafficjams
- lowest air #pollution
- <1/4 the #trafficdeaths compared to the US (2.7 vs 12 per 100.000 inhabitants)
- same average travel speed (18km/h)

The author hides the answer in the last paragraph: “Japanese value the society more than their own comfort”

Also: No on street parking, need to have a personal parking spot to register a vehicle.

https://www.zeit.de/2023/05/japan-verkehrspolitik-staus-unfaelle

#citiesforpeople #urbanism #japan

*cof, cof* #viejoSanJuan *cof, cof*
#PuertoRico #MastodonPR

https://mastodon.online/@BrentToderian/109747708692608875
BrentToderian@mastodon.online - This is important — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY.

There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.

Via @carltonreid in Forbes. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople #cities #cars #streets #urbanism #Spain

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2019/03/08/closing-central-madrid-to-cars-resulted-in-9-5-boost-to-retail-spending-finds-bank-analysis/

Report: Achieving Zero Emissions with More Mobility and Less Mining 🚲 🔋

https://www.climateandcommunity.org/more-mobility-less-mining

#Energy #Lithium #Emissions #ClimateCrisis #Cars #Transportation #CitiesForPeople #Mining

"Last year in Los Angeles, more people were killed by someone driving a car than by someone wielding a gun. The second-largest U.S. city has become the traffic violence capital of the nation... In the seven years since introducing Vision Zero, traffic deaths are up nearly 68% overall. The number of pedestrians killed by drivers has skyrocketed by 80%."

https://www.latimes.com/california/newsletter/2023-01-19/essential-california-2022-traffic-violence-essential-california

#LosAngeles #CitiesForPeople #TrafficViolence #VisionZero

A neighbor put up this DIY traffic safety sign recently. It’s not even visible to motorists. Absolutely can’t stand that this is what we’re reduced to. #California #cities #walking #biking #Infrastructure #CitiesForPeople

A neighbor put up this DIY traffic safety sign recently. It’s not even visible to motorists. Absolutely can’t stand that this is what we’re reduced to. #California #cities #walking #biking #Infrastructure #CitiesForPeople

Congestion is a feature, not a bug.
'Managed strategically, congestion is critical in supporting the transition to safe, sustainable transport.'
#carDependency #citiesForPeople
https://www-dezeen-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.dezeen.com/2023/01/11/congestion-roads-cities-traffic-sustainable-transport-phineas-harper/amp/