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Half of business owners on this Toronto street estimated that more than 25% of their customers arrived by car.

In fact, it was 4%.

And the % of customers who who walked or cycled? 72%.

Retailers routinely overestimate the # of “car customers.” Via @carltonreid.com www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...

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The Biggest Myth About the YIMBY Movement There’s nothing centrist or conservative about the push to lower housing costs.

“People who claim to be progressives but resist efforts to solve the housing problem are hurting their own stated values—and risking their descent into political irrelevance.”

Plus to massively expand ICE: bsky.app/profile/jaco...

Getting Ahead of It: JD Vance Almost Definitely Didn’t Kill the Pope Let’s make one thing very clear: So far, there is almost no proof that JD Vance is directly responsible for the death of Pope Francis. All we know ...

"It should be noted that there is a relatively low chance that spending just ten minutes in a room with Vice President Vance is enough to cause someone to die—out of either a feeling of deep disappointment in humanity or, as online forums describe it, 'too much cringe.'"

We need a short, catchy phrase to apply to every roadwork project that drives home home heavily subsidized car travel is.

This is nowhere more evident than when reading the transcript of the debate. 😕

Goose-chase meme asking who will build the robots that will build the iPhone

WHYYYYY

I’d like to see the annual registration fees for cars determined by weight and miles driven. Pay for the road you use!

Last week I spoke at the Good Roads conference in Toronto about car bloat – what it is, why it’s a problem, and what we can do about it.

Here are a few key lessons. 🧵

Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities Active travel can help tackle the climate crisis earlier than electric vehicles – even if you swap the car for a bike for just one trip a day.

"Emissions from cycling can be more than 30x lower for each trip than driving a fossil fuel car, and about 10x lower than driving an electric one."

Let me guess - middle school? 😉

Let me tell you about Porter, who I refer to as “tiny”, and is now 85lbs. But in fairness, she was a tiny puppy, especially next to her big sister Aschen (left in photo, 105lbs)

You think that absent unfair barriers to trade *every* trading partner would import exactly as much in American goods as it exports to America?

What fucking gibbering insanity could possibly lead you to that conclusion?

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
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The emails are good, but it's also worth noting *Dudek admitted publicly that he was retaliating against Janet Mills.* in an interview with the New York Times!

“Adding car lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity.” — Lewis Mumford, 1955 Spread the word.

It’s still a goal of mine to help make this the most famous, well-known and UNDERSTOOD quote about cities in history.

Please share it as much as you can.

beige poster with blue type in a baseball shirt style Orange type Don't wanna go far for stuff 15 minute cities no big conspiracy just lazy

rebranding the 15 min city.

You think that’s bad, wait until you see the murder rate of quaint English country towns and villages

A photo of a green sticky note with handwritten text reading "Humbly observe where people in your community struggle."

A graphic featuring the 4 steps to the Public Investment Process for a Strong Town.

“Humbly observe where people in the community struggle.” That’s the first step of the public investment process for a strong town.

Would love to see a not-for-profit health insurance company

#Denver we can win this! Submit your bike lane obstructions!

Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief.

Unbelievable gargantuan fuckup. Waltz and Hegseth must resign or be fired, at a minimum. These Fox News posers will get our service members killed and probably already inspired a new gen of revenge suicide bombers. We’re all at risk w these fuckups in charge. 🎁🔗:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief.

Read for yourself: Here are the attack plans that Trump advisers shared on Signal. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know

Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know

Congratulations!

Cars don't belong in cities, says Top Gear's James May TV star has idea for Hammersmith bridge - and calls anti-cycling council ‘tw*ts’

James May: “Obviously I’ve spent a lot of time over the years writing about cars and making TV about them, and I love cars, but I do think in my bones they don’t really belong in towns.”

“It amazes me that people go to the shops a mile away in the car.”

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If you were mad at Hillary for mishandling classified information, this is next level apoplectic

Wales’s 20mph speed limit has cut road deaths. Why is there still even a debate? Research suggests the scheme may be more popular than thought, with consultations dominated by a loud minority

“the most successful road safety intervention in modern times”