Also, with all respect, the entry to Heaven is underneath a major station, in a tunnel. Moving to Charing Cross and expecting a quiet Saturday night is… unusual!

The top banner of Bluesky for Mobile (and a banner warning saying nothing but ‘Forbidden’ Do I sense that Bluesky’s been vibecoding? Turn your global success story into Win11 today with Claude AI!

@bsky.app, what’s up with this? Trying to out-shittify Microsoft?

The monitoring shall continue

These menacing Zelenskiy/ Magyar mugshot posters aren’t even for the election, but for a referendum that occurred a week or so ago to ‘prevent the financing of Ukraine’. Kind of impressive how Orbán has so effectively corrupted election law to double Fidesz advertising.

Grass has been touched

Kirchstetterngasse under construction near Brunnenmarkt.

I worry I get a bit negative about Vienna. So here’s some #wienliebe, provided by the dedicated hardworking team at @wien.gv.at: I think they’re midway through unsealing and greening one of those streets near the Brunnenmarkt! This will look great with trees and play space.

Madách Imre tér in Budapest. The sun falls against the top of the grand brick building. Trees in planters frame the footpath under the grand arch. Behind the arch, modern construction is visible.

Ultimately, Vienna is a great city in spite of its outdated approach to transit and infrastructure, which sucks, because well-planned infra can revolutionise a place. Take a look at this nice square along the Károly boulevard in Budapest. Cars used to drive here. Isn’t this a better place now?

Nobody wants to hang out along Gürtel. People barely tolerate Ring. The places which make Vienna a great city are the courtyards, the hiking trails through vineyards, the spectacular Donauinsel. Nobody is dropping a #wienliebe for the Lobautunnel.

Why, instead of advocating for universal Tempo 30 like @gruene.at, @guertelliebe.at, and others, has @spoewien.bsky.social, @spoe.at, and much of @parlament.gv.at decided to blow €6bn on a new car-only motorway? Where is the zeal to expand the Vienna tram network to Lower Austria?

Why do so many people choose to use the very central, very densely built up Gürtel as a bypass? Because, tragically, @wien.gv.at is happy to allow the infestation of Vienna with car-only roads, without the simple traffic fixes which would decrease traffic tenfold.

Granted, there are many vans, lorries, taxis, and so on- but there are also at least double as many private cars, usually single-occupied, often with numberplates from other regions or even from other countries.

The interior of the Vienna Airport Lines bus, looking through the front window to a sea of traffic. Endless cars, vans, lorries, mostly with non-Viennese numberplates.

Take a look. Surprise surprise, the answer is, as always, traffic.
Unfortunately, the Gürtel ring road is built on holy ground, and so @wien.gv.at is unable to allow even the suggestion of a dedicated bus- and taxi-lane the whole way round Gürtel. So my journey to the airport takes an hour longer.

Today, I’m off on holiday, and for the first time ever, I’m taking the airport bus during the working day. We’ve been on the bus for an hour at this point and haven’t even reached the motorway. Why is this?

Usually, I choose to take the Vienna Airport Bus, which, for just €11, should get me from the West station to the airport in just over 30 minutes. This seems like a fair deal to me, and to quite a few other people - the airport bus runs through the night, so you can rely on it.

Well, that’s not true. Despite @wien.gv.at having the best public transit in the world, thanks to the hard work of @spoewien.bsky.social and Wiener Linien it takes about an hour to get to the airport by ÖV - first a tram, then an irregular city bus, then a train.

You might think that, because I have a Klimaticket (~€60/mo for unlimited public transit (ÖV) use in Austria), I’d never pay for transit in Austria.
I live in Vienna, which boasts buses, trams, city rental cars, U-bahn, S-bahn, heavy rail, intercity rail, and 30 different colours of bike path. (🧵)

That’s a great point. I saw that some of the team behind this design suggested it could serve as a model for other Viennese boulevards with side roads, like Gürtel.
Are there any early plans to revitalise Gürtel in the future? I live near it and it is such an unpleasant space currently!

Absurd situation caused by consistent negligence from @lpdwien.bsky.social. Every resident in this city has stories of reckless drivers, unenforced red light running, endless car horns, illegal parking, drivers who are actively hostile to the law. With (almost no) consequence from our absent police.

It’s a great start towards #wienliebe but I’m really concerned that only the side streets are being improved. Considering that traffic volumes are only expected to decrease in Vienna, does @wien.gv.at have a plan to reduce the number of lanes?
Additionally, why introduce a new colour for bike paths?

Praterstraße at its intersection with Aspernbrückengasse, in the 2nd District of Vienna. The photo is taken at night, looking towards the Donaukanal along a newly renovated street. Three distinct parts of a bike lane are visible: in the foreground, a half-cobble half-asphalt paint-covered two-way bike path, followed by an unpainted section, followed by a one-way red painted bike lane. In

My favourite example of this is here at Praterstraße in 2. Bz; @martinblum.bsky.social, as perhaps the most knowledgeable Viennese active mobility enthusiast on Bluesky, what do you think was the intended purpose of three different coloured (very new) bike paths in the space of 10 metres?

It’s a great start. Quick question: Vienna has bike lanes in green, blue, red (including the beautiful Austrian Red Argentinierstraße), black, white, unpainted, and all possible textures under the sun. Why did @wien.gv.at decide to bring in a new barely visible beige cycle lane?

And one final thing: @wien.gv.at bike lanes now have yet another colour (and yet another shade of paint that MA28 have to buy): we’ve already got:
- Blue
- Green
- Unpainted
- White
- Red
- Brick
- Cobblestone
- Asphalt
- Hexagonal concrete blocks
- Gravel
and now, debuting for some reason:
- Beige!

It’s a start, and it’s great that @wien.gv.at is finally getting around to improving a street that is not only massively over capacity for pedestrians and bikes, but this is… too little, too late. Where is the ambition from @spoewien.bsky.social? Do they want to make a Viennese Hidalgo?

The urban highway which runs along the Donaukanal and completely destroys any waterfront development? Not even considered in this project.

As many have pointed out, including to @wien.gv.at in the early consultation phase, some of the most problematic areas- including places where pedestrians and cyclists have died- will remain unchanged. No improvement comes to Kärntner Ring Außerseite. The mess at Volkstheater / Parlement? Unchanged.

And yet… @wien.gv.at is not removing a single driving lane from Ring itself. Only one side road is even being renovated!
Most galling of all: in some spots (I.e. Schottenring 30, by the Wiener Städtische building) the pedestrian space will actually decrease!

Amazing opportunity for all women in radiology! Don’t miss out on this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!

#medsky #radiology #leadership

How would a municipality of, say, 5000 people compare to the wildly fractured left-right scene in some of France’s bigger cities?

Really interesting to see how this multiplural approach leads to such wild results (from a British perspective, anyway). I assume that this alliance-making and breaking only gets stronger when the municipalities get smaller (and national parties stop being so relevant)?

I tried to research Life of Toni. I wasn’t able to find anything about them! They certainly don’t have any international reach, nor any noticeable presence here in Austria (I can’t find any info about them at all).