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Thursday morning was cycling to an event on electric trucks and followed one of them. They are so quiet. They are so not stinky. They are great.
If company X gets a robot assistant that saves them 20 minutes of human time while costing me 60 minutes of human time society as a whole is less efficient but since my time does not count it looks like an efficiency gain
And my transit smart card collection
Not to mention my transit map collection
Just from so far in 2026
Happy World Public Transport Day 🚌🚡🚏🚋🚠🚞🚝🚎🛳️🚍🚃🚟🚈🚇
Probably 20% of my camera roll is pictures of various kinds of public transport - here is just a tiny sample.
The internal combustion engine is a big waste of energy. Three quarters of the fuel you buy ends up as heat. With electric cars, that’s about one tenth. You can see the difference with your own eyes in this video.
The German government has decided to react to the fuel price increase with the usual tax cut / #Tankrabatt
This study shows, however, that less than 7% of the total relief provided this way goes to households in need www.springerprofessional.de/analyse-der-...
Okay CTA. This is a good sign.
Vi är på en plats där vi inte längre agerar utifrån visioner och hopp och för ett hållbart samhälle för alla människors bästa. Då blir det så här:
"Jag fattar inte längre bra beslut. Jag fattar nödvändiga beslut.”
(Väldigt läsvärt fö.)
a chart comparing the time for both countries
Don't think Denmark gets credit for doing in 8 years what Norway did in 22 (going from 0% to 80% share of electric vehicle sales)
robbieandrew.github.io/carsales/?la...
My favourite variant of “people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones” is a colloquial (and extremely rare) Swedish phrase that goes kasta inte bäver i trähus. It means “do not throw beavers in wooden houses.”
And of the Festungsbahn funicular of course - 100m up in 30 seconds - it was raining at the bottom, but snowing at the top (am I dreaming or did there used to be a funicular emoji?)
… but I think I have more pictures of the bendy trolleybuses than I have of my siblings 😳
Last weekend I went to Salzburg 🇦🇹 with my sisters and brother - it was utterly delightful…
Offering a free online class titled “how to ignore the thing you don’t like on the internet”
This is an underappreciated part of big, transformative programmes like congestion pricing - showing that government *can* make things better and (re)building trust in - and between - government officials
Stänga Medelhavsmuseet?!? Irene Svenonius har en ny fin roll som överdirektör på Statens Fastighetsverk. Nu kör hon marknadshyra-bulldozer mot de statliga museerna. Stoppa hyreschocken! Vi tog över 11 000 underskrifter till hennes kontor. Skriv under du med » buff.ly/QdcfeVS
Construction site for the new metro line seen from my balcony at home
Plan of Stockholm’s new yellow line metro, opening around 2035
POV when you’ve spent your whole career trying to get better transit built and they build it right outside your house.
So 🥳 but also 🏗️🚧🫨🎧
The first tram test run over the longest bridge in Finland was done today. The 1,2 km Kruunuvuorensilta bridge will connect the island of Laajasalo to Helsinki city centre with
hig frequency public transport routes. The bicycle superhighway and pedestrian route opens this spring, trams run in 2027.
Very important to remember that Paris proper is incredibly urban (almost 70% car free) and its urbanist policies are different from that of the more car owning suburbs, which in say Germany tend to be part of the city proper
Currently on France TV, the new mayor of Paris Grégoire celebrating his victory by biking around on a bike share. He’s now taking an interview while riding.
Merci !
The Bourne Identity (2002) / The Hidalgo Legacy (2026)
Europe spent years debating whether the energy transition was affordable.
Spain quietly answered the question: gas now sets its electricity price in only 7% of hours.
Strategic autonomy doesn’t arrive via summit communiqués. It’s built in advance — in wind farms, solar parks, and grid investment
