Happy Birthday, young man. #Steve #71

MacBook makes a ton of sense to me.

The best bike plan starts with a better car plan.

Dutch cities don’t just graft bike lanes onto busy streets. They practice “ontvlechten”—untangling cycling and driving at a structural level by restricting car speed, volume, and access.

Fewer conflicts. Calmer streets. Networks that actually work.

Cycling like the Dutch would slash the world’s carbon footprint If everybody cycled like the Dutch, we could offset the UK or Australia’s entire carbon footprint.

“Dutch people cycle an average of 2.6km each per day. If this pattern was replicated worldwide, annual carbon emissions would drop by 686 million tonnes.

This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.” @euronews.com

Wunderschei!

@kytkosaurus.bsky.social

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Die Forderung nach einer E-Bike-Helmpflicht wurde immer wieder damit argumentiert, dass im Vorjahr bereits 9.800 Personen nach einem #eBike Unfall im Spital behandelt wurden und diese Zahl um 10% höher war als 2023. Wir haben uns die Daten angesehen - mit überraschendem Ergebnis. #Thread 1/7

Rakouskej VCÖ zanalyzoval data z nemocnic, týkající se úrazů hlavy. Došli k zajímavýmu výsledku - 93% cyklo-úrazů se vůbec netýká hlavy. Počty úrazů hlavy navíc od roku 2022 klesají.

Nejčastěji končí v nemocnici s úrazem hlavy pasažér auta, nikoliv cyklista.

Je čas na povinnou helmu v autech 😁

To říká Mikael Colville Andersen od roku 2019

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Copenhagenize + Building the cycling city

11 years in, CarPlay is the Apple Car in plain sight.

Lächerlich.

🚨📚 Great books on cars, active mobility and liveable cities now 50% off at @islandpress.bsky.social. Including my favorite ones like

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Building the cycling city
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Traffic calming the Dutch way

👍🏻 sending greetings

You’ll be fine in his hood 😄

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Got a reply? If not, I’d ping M on instagram. Responded almost immediately a few weeks ago. Enjoy!

CPH. Mikael is back in da town, too.

Long time ago I developed this EDEKA in Berlin-Moabit with zero parking.

The board insisted on a 🅿️ garage, which was always empty and has now been converted into offices*.

My guiding principle: No need for a secure 🅿️ space in front of your apartment, no need for a 🅿️ space in front of the grocery.

* choose vehicles (many options available right away)

Design vehicles to fit the streets rather than streets designed to fit the vehicles.

Photos of a brightly-lit, underground bike parking facility with 1,000 spaces beneath the Amare concert hall in The Hague.

Photos of a brightly-lit, underground bike parking facility with 1,000 spaces beneath the Amare concert hall in The Hague.

Photos of a brightly-lit, underground bike parking facility with 1,000 spaces beneath the Amare concert hall in The Hague.

Photos of a brightly-lit, underground bike parking facility with 1,000 spaces beneath the Amare concert hall in The Hague.

Recognizing bicycle parking as a critical component of any infrastructure network, The Hague’s Amare concert hall has opened 1,000 guarded and sheltered spaces—intended not just for ticket holders visiting the largest cultural building in the Netherlands, but anyone visiting the city’s busy centre.🧵

Další objev v Řecku? 🤣

Key skill set: change management

Surprise guest Matúš Vallo, mayor of Bratislava: “One of the main tasks of us mayors is to make people, our citizens, believe that change is possible.”

Top photo: Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal in Amsterdam around 1982 — a wide street lined with parked cars, a taxi, and a tram. A narrow painted bike lane runs alongside moving traffic. Bottom photo: The same street today — no cars, trees along the sidewalk, and people cycling comfortably in a dedicated lane next to tram tracks. The atmosphere is calm, sunny, and pedestrian-friendly.

Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal, Amsterdam in 1982 and today.
Once a car-dominated street with just a painted bike lane squeezed beside parked cars, it’s now completely transformed. No car parking, no through traffic - just trams and people cycling safely towards Centraal Station

The other short-term change is around taxation. Currently many EU countries tax electricity like they tax alcohol and tobacco. This made sense 30 years ago when we burned lots of coal. It doesn't make sense with a grid that is 73% clean and getting cleaner by the week.

Like the circulatory system delivers oxygen and nutrients throughout the human body, Amsterdam’s 1,300 km network of bike paths, lanes and streets delivers half a million daily cyclists—the lifeblood of the city—to their work, school and everywhere in between. From the “Amsterdam in Motion” exhibit.

To zní jako tip!