David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells
“What’s interesting isn’t just how polarising the film is, it’s the sheer volume of discourse
Rob@the_baseband
It’s not just that I was almost hit by a driver running a stop sign, or that it was a half-block from my house, or that the driver honked at me after doing it, or that he rolled down his window to yell vague threats at me afterwards…
Toronto City Council Removes Most Minimum Parking Requirements
The parking reform movement has a major new feather in its cap: the Toronto City Council has this week adopted sweeping changes to the parking requirements of the city’s zoning bylaws. www.planetizen.com
@grescoe
STUDY: Drivers of luxury cars found to give pedestrians the right of way 3x less than those driving less expensive vehicles; 4x more likely to cut off other drivers. Call it the “Audi Effect.”
Karen Liebreich
Everyone loves a good scapegoat. When your business is faltering because of Covid, or your shop is losing trade because of the internet, or when you simply can’t turn left outside your house as you have done for the last twenty years to drive to your local shops — blame cyclists. When you’re stuck in traffic and someone sweeps past without a care in the world (and without paying for road tax or insurance) — blame cyclists.
May 21, 2021
Live Event Recording | Urban Age Debates: Cities in the 2020s Localising Transport: towards the 15-minute city or the one-hour metropolis? Hosted by LSE Cities, the Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft and the LSE School of Public Policy For urban transport, the early 2020s are going to be an inflection point hard to overestimate: digital connectivity will increasingly substitute physical access, public transport finance will require new business models, and fiscal recovery packages have the potential to either entrench transport-intense urban development or accelerate progress towards urban patterns based on density and mixed use.
Simon MacMichael Thu, Dec 30, 2021
Extinction Rebellion @ExtinctionR
“It’s the most profound issue in the history of civilisation and it requires a complete transformation of everything we do from top to bottom.” You’re calling for system change @LeoDiCaprio but you’re not going to get it by voting.
Given the scale of threat and the size of the organisations they are fighting, climate activists must move beyond civil disobedience to property destruction and even sabotage, says controversial campaigner Andreas Malm
Environment 27 October 2021
By Rowan Hooper
WHAT is it about Sweden and climate campaigners? It has produced Greta Thunberg, of course, but also Andreas Malm, a writer and human ecologist at Lund University and a long-time climate activist. You might think of him as Greta turned up to 11. His controversial new book, How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to fight in a world on fire, has a deliberately provocative title, but in it he makes the point that escalating environmental protests, from mass civil disobedience to property destruction and even sabotage, look necessary.
Rowan Hooper: Your book isn’t a manual about how to literally …
Cameron Allen December 19 2021
This article is part of the Financial Times free schools access programme. Details/registration here. Students were asked to write on how transport changes for either food or people might help the world to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement.Most people believe the future of transport is electric vehicles. Their uptake has been increasing rapidly and governments are starting to create policies to encourage their use. But they are a cop-out which avoids difficult decisions by governments.
From a political standpoint, EVs are very easy to implement. They require no change in culture, comparatively little investment from central government and use existing road infrastructure. Most importantly, their adoption makes governments seem environmentally friendly.
