IF YOU BUILD A BIKE LANE THAT DOESN'T CONNECT TO ANOTHER BIKE LANE THEN YOU DIDN'T BUILD A BIKE LANE

New challenge: name an area of UK government policy to which this doesn't apply.

Cycling Linked to Lower Risk of Dementia, Study of Half a Million Finds Getting from A to B on a bicycle more often could reduce risk of dementia, possibly by protecting a part of the brain tied to memory functions, new research finds.

“Compared with non-active travelers, the cyclists had a 19% lower risk of all-cause dementia, a 22% lower risk of Alzheimer's, a 40% lower risk of young-onset dementia (before the age of 65), and a 17% lower risk of late-onset dementia.”

Getting around a bike more often could reduce dementia risk.

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

This is the virtuous cycle that good transportation infrastructure can cultivate: Protected spaces for wheelchairs, bikes, skateboards, etc. -> more people visibly enjoying active transit -> more people deciding to join the fun -> more popular support for further infrastructure investment!

Q: What is the film about? A: The fight to make Rainbow Road less car-centric and more pedestrian-friendly.

What To Know About ‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ theonion.com/what-to-know-about-the-s...

“A street car passenger requires an average of only six square feet of street space; an automobile passenger requires eight times as much.”

three boys are riding bicycles down a street with a no parking sign in the background Alt: three boys are riding bicycles down a street

Spotted on this morning's school run:
* 6 boys cycling 80s-teen-film-style down a suburban street
* 3 teens trying to balance on a single bike
* 2 young kids running and chasing each other down the street

Three, almost-insignificant moments that highlight the value of making space for children.

Beyond motonormative punishment: On road safety as environmental regulation Abstract. Criminology has a blind spot concerning road safety. The field tends to accept that the problem is best left to technical specialists; treats roa

Does law make motonormative assumptions in its response to injury and death on the roads? How might we act differently towards road violence if we step outside of these framings? In this new paper, I set out some answers to these questions.

academic.oup.com/bjc/advance-...

Interesting-looking new article on road safety as a blindspot for criminology doi.org/10.1093/bjc/...

We're so pleased to see this report from @aliceferguson.bsky.social & Tim Gill published.

Huge thanks to Alice, Ingrid and all at @playingout.bsky.social for their incredible work over the years.

We need to rebalance our streets and put children's needs front & centre. #Health #ActiveTravel

“Streets for play, streets for freedom” by @aliceferguson.bsky.social & @timrgill.bsky.social makes the case for a "child lens" on transport policy. Time to prioritise those most impacted yet least considered in planning our streets: Children.

Read more here: playingout.net/take-action/...

That is bonkers. My rule of thumb would be £20K - £50K unless you have serious mitigating factors!

We're always in the process of rebuilding cities for our future. Ideally, we should build places where we thrive.

What helps us to thrive? Enough homes to live in. Trees. Places to meet neighbors. Easy ways to move around.

All great cities begin with streets for people (not the cars they drive).

“Not density OR trees, density AND trees.” “Better cities are climate action.” Via the Urban Truth Collective. Background image of very high density street in Yaletown, in downtown Vancouver. Double row of street trees, plus yard trees, plus trees in the bike lane separator, for a total of five rows of trees along the street edge.

Not density OR trees. Density AND trees.

Better cities are climate action. #UrbanTruth

One of these was a city focused around moving motor traffic past it, one of these a city focused around citizens, health and economic vitality in it.

Hard to know which is which really.

Glad that the left has held Paris today! More of this non-car nonsense please!

A photograph of a freshly washed bee who is feeling particularly proud of his fur.

Bafflingly there are still people out there in the world who think being passionate about nature is “kind of weird”. or “a niche interest”. These people have it all wrong. Nature isn’t some quirky sideline to the main business. It IS the main business.

Here Comes the Self-Driving Traffic Surge Autonomous vehicles from companies like Waymo and Zoox are set to trigger an increase in car usage that clogs urban streets. Cities should prepare now.

As they scale, autonomous vehicles are likely to cause crippling congestion. Two reasons:
1) Their users will take more and longer car trips
2) They often drive around empty

Result: More vehicles on the road, more pollution, and more traffic

Me in @bloomberg.com 🧵

And to them choose not to list his house but instead listing the (pretty awful) car park they built on his gardens is a beautiful, final proverbial fingers in the air really isn't it? Blimey.

A very Edinburgh gothic horror story: the thread about the demolition of Rockville The Merchiston Pagoda; Tottering Towers; Crazy Manor; Sugar Loaf House; the Chinese House; the Strangest House Edinburgh Ever Built. Call it what you like. Rockville is (was) one of the most import…

See @threadinburgh.scot here: threadinburgh.scot/2023/10/31/t...

Mentioned only in passing (the park thing, not the stench) but still!

And to think it was originally private land that was open to all as a park before this happened. Can't believe they listed that horror show - you can smell the godawful stench from the stairwells just from standing outside it. Tear it down - must be life expired soon anyway?

How more trees in cities could have saved 400,000 lives in Europe ‘Expanding greenness’ could save millions of lives, a comprehensive new study finds.

“A new study has calculated that increasing trees and other vegetation in urban areas by 30% could have prevented more than 1/3rd of all global heat-related deaths between 2000 to 2019. In total, 1.16 million lives may have been saved with more greenery during this 20-year period.” Via @euronews.com

My favourite is the WhatsApp tracking of "youths wearing hoodies" because it is "important we watch them just to be safe".

Yes. Teenagers. Who live here.

It's probably Hugo, Oliver and Lottie from Stable Rd you absolute berks. She's onto be Head Girl next year, I suspect your silverware is safe.

Car trap/bus trap - a hole across the road wide enough for car wheels to fall in but allow buses to cross safety Three photos of cars stuck in trap No access except buses sign

Cars getting caught on retractable bollards is funny but I feel like the connoisseur's choice for humorous modal filtering is the bus trap/car trap. It's the fact it didn't even move: there was a hole, they were told not to drive in the hole, they drove in the hole.

Do car-free zones hurt disabled people? We asked experts. City planners and advocates are seeing "accessibility used as a political football."

“…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.”

People are losing the spirit of the Ides of March. It's not about just stabbing. It's about coming together to stab in groups

This is v fun. I did really well on all but one question and I'm now furious with myself over getting one v wrong (I overthought it)

For anyone who doesn't vote because they think they're vote won't count, this one's for you.

@votesolar.bsky.social
@environmentalvoter.bsky.social
@vot-er-org.bsky.social
@lcv.org
@lwvus.bsky.social
@docsforclimate.bsky.social

Blimey. That is one hell of what (i think) we'd call a "Plant Room" - wildly oversized. Although sure the heating engineer doing his annual inspection will be grateful!

The noise around you is affecting your mind. 🧠
A growing body of evidence links environmental noise pollution to serious mental health issues — and the EEA's latest briefing takes a closer look.