I've not heard of it before but now it's on my want-to-read list after reading the summary. Thanks!

A better use of $20M would be an investment in public transit and bicycle infrastructure. Public EV chargers. Literally anything that would actually HELP people reduce car dependence, rather than just telling them to do it.

Wish WE had come up with that one! #UrbanTruth

Excited to have a solid 2 hours today to work on bikes in my garage. 💅

Going to finish that kids bike with new brake cable housing and new grips, clean up Sparkles' old bike, and maybe take some fresh photos of my road bike for sale.

Imagine being an Australian. Motherfuckers have enough sunlight hours to power the whole world and we mine brown coal.

It's a helluva way to get to San Diego.

How did parents work fulltime from the office and handle school drop off/pick up before Covid?!

How do you juggle a 9-5 plus commute when your kid operates 8:30-3?

The issue is just budget. We only thought we'd be paying a few hundred dollar bucks for one fix today, but the plumber found multiple issues that are rather urgent. Repairs this year, upgrades next year.

No heat pump this year, but we ARE getting a whole lot of maintenance done on all of our aging hardware. 😱

So glad to finally be in a position to plan like this, and to improve parts of our home rather than just maintain.

Next year, the tentative plan is to get a new heating/aircon unit that doesn't need gas. Last piece of the puzzle will be switching to an induction stove, and then we'll see if our rooftop solar collects enough juice to justify a home battery.

Hoping to get a quote today on a heat pump for our water system. Trouble is, our house wasn't designed with enough space for a tank where the current gas heater is. We need to get a smaller grey water tank and relocate its pump in order to make room for a hot water tank.

Having 3 speeds and bigger wheels opens a new radius of available destinations. 🥳

Two bikes parked against a hoop: On the left is my gunmetal grey neighbourhood cruiser. On the right is my kiddo's new rig. A purple Liv with teal accents, purple 24" rims, and bright blue tyres. This new bike sports all the custom trimmings from her last bike including the bink Cool Cat bell, handlebar bag, fenders, and floral valve caps.

Sparklefists leveled up!

You sonofabitch, I'm in!

Image of massed group of bicycle and micro-mobility riders heading north on a road somewhere in Melbourne, Victoria. Text: Save the date: next naarm Melbourne Critical Mass - Friday 24 April 2026, follow for more details. https://criticalmass.melbourne/

Save the date: next naarm Melbourne Critical Mass - Friday 24 April 2026, follow for more details. criticalmass.melbourne

Whoa, that's beyond huge!

Astronaut in space suit surrounded by his beautiful family, including their dog

Astronaut Victor Glover, pilot of the #ArtemisII, and his family. They must be so friggin proud..

www.nasa.gov/learning-res...

The hardest part of riding a bike to the train station during school drop-off hour is resisting the urge to smile so hard it hurts as I breeze past 50 stopped cars.

It's been really nice to change up my commute this week and travel by e-bus.

Tomorrow, I think it'll be fun to trip-chain and go multimodal. School drop off by bike and then ride to the train station.

The hardest part will be picking music for the kids.

The Death and Life of Great American Cities A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the…

Looks fascinating! I'll have to keep an eye out for a translated ebook or something.

I need to finish this next: www.goodreads.com/book/show/30...

Hardcover copy of LIFE AFTER CARS by Goodyear, Gordon, and Naparstek

I picked a light book with heavy impact.

Definitely not! I just wanted to pack light. 😄

The hardest part of riding the bus to work is deciding which book to take with me.

The Age: Wellington Street wars: The plan dividing Collingwood and Clifton Hill Rachael Dexter April 1, 2026 — 11:30am A proposal to transform a 1.1-kilometre stretch of a major inner-city road into a “bicycle street” blocked to most cars has triggered intense community uprisings among residents of Collingwood and Clifton Hill. Yarra City Council will vote in May on whether to press ahead with plans to place “modal filters” such as garden beds and concrete curbs along Wellington Street to block vehicles from driving the full length between Johnston Street in Collingwood and Queens Parade in Clifton Hill.

Such a misleading title about Wellington Street “bicycle street” plan as Abbotsford, Carlton, Clifton Hill, Collingwood, Richmond et al had modal filters installed decades ago. Political opportunism has uncanny ability to make nice things miserable /1 archive.is/Of8c3

Heck yes, I caught the electric bus going both ways today!

A lot more people still chose to drive. The freeway is bumper to bumper.

First day of free transit in Victoria so I chose to take the bus and do some reading. So did a lot of other people. We're almost at standing room!

I went to a belated Galentine's night that included a blind book swap and shared plates. I got there by bicycle because a) fuel crisis and b) no transit home after 9pm on a weekend. 😡

My backpack held the book, a dozen scones, jam, whipped cream, + 2 cans of coke.

It IS possible without a car.

Aerial image of the western suburban industrial area with a light map overlay showing main roads and railway lines.

There’s at least 60,000 jobs in Laverton/Truganina industrial area.

It’s barely served by PT. Folks with a 15 min drive to work would face a 75+ min PT journey.

This is a scenario repeated over and over across Melbourne’s suburban industrial areas.

Free PT won’t get these folks out of cars.