Best Strait of Hormuz strategy now is to transition to wind and solar and mass transit

A middle aged heterosexual couple dressed in casual spring attire pose for a smiling selfie while cycling along a red asphalt bike path in the polders of South Holland, surrounded by waterways, wetlands, and wide open skies.

In the polders of South Holland, joy is found on smooth ribbons of red asphalt, and the freedom to access nature on your own two wheels.

With every silent pedal stroke, the landscape opens up: waterways, wetlands and wide open skies.

More than just a ride, it’s a reset for the mind, body and soul.

How Paris redesigned itself to be a city of bikes—not cars Over the last 12 years, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo fundamentally reshaped the City of Lights. As she leaves office, this is the story of how she reclaimed the city’s public spaces from cars, covered the...

www.fastcompany.com/91509506/how... ‘Last year, voters approved a plan to close another 500 streets to traffic. Thousands of parking spots have been swapped for trees. More than 900 miles of bike lanes’ #environment #climate #nature

Why Local Businesses Shouldn't Worry About Eliminating On-Street Parking Only a tiny fraction of people who parked on a Toronto street actually did any shopping there--and cyclists and pedestrians make more faithful customers.

“most business owners overestimated how many of their customers arrived by car. Not only that, but the visitors themselves overwhelmingly preferred widened bike lanes or sidewalks, even if it meant sacrificing some parking spaces.”

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The social ideology of the motorcar - Uneven Earth by André Gorz The worst thing about cars is that they are like castles or villas by the sea: luxury goods invented for the exclusive pleasure of a very rich minority, and which in conception and natur...

“Since cars have killed the city, we need faster cars to escape on superhighways to suburbs that are even farther away. What an impeccable circular argument: give us more cars so that we can escape the destruction caused by cars.”

Written in 1973, when the destruction was just beginning.

How Paris swapped cars for bikes – and transformed its streets Under outgoing mayor Anne Hidalgo, the French capital added bike lanes, cut traffic and reclaimed public space, but not without resistance

How Paris swapped cars for bikes – and transformed its streets
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Velotric e-bike in the South Tacoma Station bike locker

Since my new commute is door to door transit, minus the mile from my house to get to the Sounder station, I've started using the Bike Lock lockers for my end to end connection.

Can't beat $.05 an hour.

There's a solution for e-bike parking chaos - but it's not problem-free Introducing dedicated parking bays has not completely solved the issue.

The solution is problem free. It's only problematic if you operate from the base assumption that the carriageway is only for private vehicles.

**THAT** is the real problem.

(And yes, bikes and scooters absolutely should be parked on the carriageway; not on footpaths and pavements).

Traffic Analysis Shows Newton Bikeway Project Reduced Car Traffic, Speeding, and Crashes - Streetsblog Massachusetts "Vehicle volumes on the corridor have decreased without evidence of cut throughs on local roads, speeds within the pilot area have reduced, and bicycle activity has increased," according to a City of ...

“Car infrastructure first” has failed—loud, polluted, and dangerous streets are the result. Build people infrastructure (sidewalks, protected lanes, safer crossings, transit priority) and we get calmer traffic and healthier communities. Newton is the latest proof.

And now something positive:

solar and wind energy production in the EU surpasses fossil energy for the first time.

☀️ 💨

#TippingPoint

Source: dr.dk

How This Small City Tripled Its Cycling In Just 11 Years YouTube video by Oh The Urbanity!

Some recognition of the great job the City of Victoria is doing with bikes
#yyj
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Images of creative Dutch biking infrastructure

IMPORTANT: The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart governments do the math on investing in better mobility.

Let’s be clear— it wastes public money to NOT do it.

#CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com

Some of the many reason why the #BikeBus is so amazing & impactful. #Bicycle #Bike #PhysicalActivity

Paris pollution after they added bike lanes and restricted cars

Why e-bikes are more important the EVs Bikes can actually transform cities in the way driverless cars promise

“The big advantage of bikes is that they go directly from where you start to where you finish, when you need to go. The advantage over cars is that they need perhaps 1/10th of the amount of space. Roads that jam up quickly with cars can carry effectively unlimited numbers of people by bicycle.”

London Ulez reduced nitrogen dioxide to legal limit, mayor says The mayor of London says the fall in airborne toxins is due to the Ultra low emission zone expansion.

Oh look, a policy worked…

NO2 has reduced to the legal limit for the 1st time ever, something that wasn’t seen as feasible as little as 6 years ago.

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#ULEZ #Pollution #CleanerAir

The ebike is absolute peak urban transportation. I can wear normal clothes, carry plenty of stuff, make it up hills with ease, and I even beat the bus on the way home today.

Highway filled with cars

Wide urban arterial filled with cars

Wide one-way street in a downtown filled with cars

Highway filled with cars

Bike-lanes don’t cause traffic congestion.

Car dependency, foolish land-use sprawl, too many (& bigger) cars driving too much taking up too much space, highly subsidized driving costs, and not enough choices in how to get around, ALL cause traffic congestion.

Think about it. THAT’S common sense.

Ireland has passed a magnificent milestone. For the first time ever, the majority of new cars sold over the past 12 months were electric or hybrid. Pure petrol and diesel cars are increasingly unpopular. We're driving a major sustainability shift for the good of all. 🚗🇮🇪

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Further, steeper, greener: Implications from an electric bicycle mode choice model Electric bicycles are transforming the active mobility landscape, potentially increasing active mode uptake and delivering environmental and health benefits. This study examines electric bicycle mo...

STUDY: “This study examines electric bicycle mode choice and which modes they replace.”

“43.1% of electric bicycle trips & 63.2% of EB mileage would have been undertaken using a car if no e-bike had been available, highlighting their substantial potential to reduce transport-related CO2 emissions.”

Step up for your city! 🌍 Join the EUROPEAN MOBILITY WEEK Steps Challenge from 16–22 Sept. Walk more, feel better, and help cut traffic + emissions.
📲 Download the Walk15 app, find the challenge & choose your city.
Let’s walk the talk! 👟
#EMW25 #Walking #UrbanMobility @eiturbanmobility.eu

Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death A city traffic engineer credits the success to lower speed limits and smarter design.

"Helsinki has not recorded a single traffic fatality in the past 12 months, city and police officials confirmed this week."

This is the direct and predictable result of policy decisions, not random happenstance.

#visionzero #publichealth

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Past New Yorker cover with people inside a gym (that they likely drove to) riding on stationary bikes with a bunch of bikeshare bikes outside the gym mostly unused.

What if we designed cities, and the land-uses, densities, services and infrastructure that make them what they are, so that daily activity and exercise was just an ordinary, “invisible” part of every day life?

It’s actually not that hard. We just have to change our priorities. #HealthyCities

Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change. Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.

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👧🧒 Kids don’t drive — but they breathe the smog, hear the noise, and miss safe places to play.
This #InternationalChildrensDay, let’s rethink our cities.
Clean air, safe streets, green spaces — for them, for all of us.
#GreenCities #MobilityForAll #FutureGeneration @eiturbanmobility.eu

👧🧒 Kids don’t drive — but they breathe the smog, hear the noise, and miss safe places to play.
This #InternationalChildrensDay, let’s rethink our cities.
Clean air, safe streets, green spaces — for them, for all of us.
#GreenCities #MobilityForAll #FutureGeneration @eiturbanmobility.eu

🚲 Celebrate #WorldBicycleDay
Join AutoMat’s ride on June 1 to support urban cycling & safe streets for all — especially kids.
🕑 14:00 Strašnická → Kampus Hybernská
🎉 Program till 21:00
#BikePrague #ActiveMobility #SustainableCities auto-mat.cz/cyklojizda

A powerful reminder of why active mobility matters. 🚶‍♀️🚴‍♂️
Just 30 minutes of walking or cycling a day can boost our health — yet too few people across Europe reach that minimum.
Time to rethink how our cities support daily movement. 💡
#ActiveMobility #HealthyCities #UrbanMobility #Sustainability