La rue du commandant René-Mouchotte réaménagée et végétalisée pour toutes et tous Votre quartier se transforme ! Le réaménagement de la rue du Commandant René-Mouchotte a commencé en janvier 2025. Il s'inscrit dans le prolongement de la forêt urbaine de la place de Catalogne, dont ...

Page de la rue sur le site de la mairie www.paris.fr/pages/la-rue...

Before (2011) / After (2026) Rue du Commandant Mouchotte, Paris 14. Photo 2011 by G. Vellut on Flickr. A change finished a few weeks ago. Lining up with rows of trees at an unknown focal length is tricky, here the result is not perfect, but I think the core of the before / after is there ;)

The US Spends More Time and Money Building Transit Than Most Countries. Inefficient Community Engagement May Help Explain Why. Public participation remains essential, and policymakers can take steps to ensure engagement processes reflect the entire community’s needs without increasin…

Transit construction costs in the US keep rising, and projects keep taking longer and longer to build.

One possible explanation? Ineffective, inefficient community engagement processes, we argue @urbaninstitute.bsky.social ⏬

Des rames doubles sur la ligne B : comment ça marche ? YouTube video by SYTRAL Mobilités

👀 Les coulisses des Unités Multiples, ces rames doubles que vous pouvez croiser sur la ligne B

Direction les ateliers du métro à la Poudrette, où les équipes TCL s’occupent des rames MPL16 au quotidien ⤵️

Avant / Après la végétalisation des voies centrales de la Rue du Commandant René Mouchotte dans le 14ème arrondissement de Paris. Un chantier terminé il y a quelques jours.

Avant / Après Rue des Lavandières Sainte-Opportune dans Paris Centre. Vu l’attitude des passants, on voit qu’en 1970, des singes tenus en laisse dans la rue surprenaient, ça devait déjà être une vision ramenant aux années 1930. Ah et puis il y avait plein d'autos aussi, mais la c'était banal ;)

Paris was also much grittier back then!

Before (1970) / After (2026) Rue des Archives in Paris Centre. In 1970 you could park your car just in front of the exit of the school, gradually over time, parking was moved to the street, then removed, trees were planted, a barrier was added. And now you can see sometimes lots of bikes parked here

Looks like Waymos are now driving past stopped school buses in Nashville, as well as in Austin and Atlanta.

This has been happening for months, and it's been generating a ton of bad publicity. Waymo doesn't seem to know how to fix it.

Avant / Après Rue des Hospitalières Saint Gervais dans Paris Centre. Même s'il y avait une voiture garée la fois où je suis passé prendre la photo, en 2026 la rue est très piétonne, loin de la rue parking de 1970.

Before (2017) / After (2026) the school street Rue Pierre Bullet, in the 10th arrondissement of Paris. The school street, closed with a barrier, was made in 2025. Note that the bikes parked on the railings are now on the outside of the railings since the risk of a car damaging them is now low ;)

Before (1970) / After (2026) Quai de l'Oise in the 19th arrondissement of Paris. In both cases, the railway bridge in the background is not used for passenger transport. Around 1970, I think it was still in use to serve the industrial buildings of the time (such as the white one in the background).

Avant / Après Rue Aubriot dans Paris Centre. Le photographe de 1970 a immortalisé l'agent posant une contravention sur la voiture garée à cheval sur le trottoir. Depuis, il y a des potelets pour empêcher. Et surtout la zone est devenue plutôt piétonne même s'il reste une circulation auto résiduelle.

So you're also partly French? Awesome Rachelle!

Getting to be a superpower be feeling the stones in the war

“It is very easy to criticize the US,” he said. “Even America’s allies are at odds with Trump and Washington these days — but sooner or later, China needs to go beyond the position of critic, and get some real diplomatic skin in the game.”
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Interesting little factoid. Individual tax refunds in the US are currently around $36bn above last year's level.

Since the start of March, the rise in gasoline prices has probably taken around $31bn off real household disposable income. So the war has basically neutralised the fiscal stimulus.

While the proposal is quite well thought out and hits on some key points. I think the obsession with optimizing to light metro to address cost concerns is misses the mark. Copenhagen didn't have lower costs because of light metros, they better manage their projects and N Americans don't because...

Le printemps pousse son nez !

100 former US lawmakers have become foreign lobbyists Many of them use their access to Washington to work for authoritarian states that want to influence our foreign policy

Exactly 100 members of Congress have become lobbyists for foreign governments since the year 2000, according to @quincyinst.bsky.social.

The top countries they've gone to work for include Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Kazakhstan, Libya, Qatar, Russia, and China.

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In 1994 the road is filled with motor vehicles with a lorry blocking cyclists. Today there is a dedicated cycle lane which a mother and young child are using

Vijzelstraat, Amsterdam in 1994 and today

Before (2025) / After (2026) the change of Place du Colonel Fabien, in the 10th and 19th arrondissements of Paris. Before, it was a roundabout with parked cars, now it is a horse shoe with no car parking spots, with two protected bike lanes on the inside and the outside.

Here you go. I think neoliberalism can be defined quite precisely, but, alas, is frequently used all too sloppily. open.substack.com/pub/sankaran...

Et un peu de végétation en prime. Merci de montrer d'autres villes que Paris !

Avant / Après le réaménagement très récent de la Rue Gambetta à Biarritz. Ce n'est pas une piétonisation mais rien que la suppression du stationnement fait de l'effet.

Quelques jours après la fin des ZFE, et alors qu'on a pu lire récemment une députée écologiste parler de pollution record à Paris, un graphique qui rappelle qu'en fait depuis quelques jours au moins on est dans un air le moins pollué à Paris depuis longtemps, d'après www.aqi.in/dashboard/fr...

SNCF, the French railway operator, will operate domestic high-speed trains in Italy beginning in 2027 on Naples–Turin/Venice routes. It will compete with Trenitalia, the Italian operator, & Italo, a private operator.

High-speed service in Europe is increasingly subject to this sort of competition.

Confidential Metrolinx report reveals why UP Express had to be suddenly shut down for a day in March The UP Express was shut down for nearly 11 hours on March 5 for what the provincial transit agency said was “unexpected track work.”

It's becoming increasingly hard to avoid the conclusion that there is something quite broken in the culture at Metrolinx -- www.thestar.com/news/gta/con...

The DC city government is having to consider major funding cuts to core programs like parental leave assistance.

Meanwhile the Trump administration is focus on building arches

Cities like Copenhagen, Turin, Rome, Paris, Lille, Brescia, Honolulu, Rennes, Toulouse, Lausanne, Vancouver, Montreal, etc., have all built automated light metros…

Seattle could do the same, to great effect!