getting around on a bike

Joined July 2020
If roads were designed like cycle lanes.
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Futility Cycle retweeted
A stark message from J. Hansen today at the Int. Court of Justice -"Human-caused climate change is poised to be the greatest injustice in history. The reach of CC is global. The scope of climate change, within the lifetime of a young person today, will be monumental and tragic"
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'We NEED to save the German car industry!' An age-old religious view that supports the status quo of our car dependent society.
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The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart govts do the math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear — it wastes public money to NOT do it. #CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife
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Futility Cycle retweeted
Dutch Bicycle Orchestra playing the William Tell Overture through an arcade in The Hague 📹moris_prasetyo
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I don’t normally get involved in calling out headlines but it’s just getting bonkers. If this was directed at a gender, race or religion it would be rightly called out as the hate speech it is. Mums, dads, sons and daughters being labelled as killers. It’s just got to stop.
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#cycling – at Wales, United Kingdom
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Futility Cycle retweeted
Obviously the car industry would not be happy for city dwellers to use bicycles instead of cars. They'd be losing market share. So why do you think the car industry promoted bicycle helmets in the 70s and 80s? Could it be they wanted us thinking bikes were dangerous?🤔
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Futility Cycle retweeted
"The lanes have been popular with parents of young cyclists — but criticized by sport cyclists" (They buried the lede) With respect to my friends the sport cyclists, stop asking the sport cyclists how to design bike lanes. sandiegouniontribune.com/new…
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If you're only building cycling infrastructure for existing cyclists how can you deliver the huge public health benefits and reduced pressure on health care that results from getting more people making more of their short journeys by bike?
One of my mantras is cycle infrastructure needs to be designed not for cyclists but for people who don’t cycle *yet*.
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Futility Cycle retweeted
What causes congestion? Nope, not bike paths. Too many cars. It’s too many cars that causes congestion. Number of cars has doubled in last 30 years to 41 million. – at Byker, England
Good morning from Institute Road, the Kings Heath M25.
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This is why so many of us do the camera thing. Respect this guy a lot for learning and changing. It's everything.
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Futility Cycle retweeted
With the Tories' climate credentials in disarray, it seems like a good moment to recall this iconic frontpage of the Times from 33 years ago... "Margaret Thatcher called yesterday for a 'giant international effort' to save the Earth from the consequences of global warming"
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Green Councillor reaps what he has sown, in a classic how it started, how it's going 😞
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Today’s cartoon. I’m really not anti-monarchy, but I think some questions need to be asked about our democracy. #Coronation2023 #Coronation
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I suspect it's just confirmation bias. Killed (not wearing a helmet) = avoidable, killed because not wearing a helmet Killed (wearing a helmet) = tragic and unavoidable Survived (not wearing a helmet) = forgotten immediately Survived (wearing a helmet) = helmet saved my life
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