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electric cars now last as long as petrol and diesel cars - and their reliability is improving more rapidly New Scientist

infrastructure costs: how Britain compares with peers BCG

fifty years ago: the first red cycling path in the Netherlands Karen Romme

Claes Tingvall and Sweden's shift to Vision Zero BBC

"officials were no longer allowed to design roads for idealised drivers who never became distracted or exceeded the speed limit. They had to make roads for real people who made mistakes."

Utrecht is making all roads without separate cycling infrastructure 30km/hr (18mph) Utrecht

an update on what's happening in the Russia-Ukraine war Stefan Korshak

elementary explanations of a hundred mathematical results Theorems of the 21st Century [my review]

the use of oracles in understanding computational complexity Quanta

can't find good evidence for rape on 7 October, so execute Palestinians for stealing avocados instead? Electronic Intifada

the Dutch are using zero-emission zones to shift urban freight ZAG

using Machine Learning in climate modelling Real Climate

"can we distinguish between real advances and vaporware?"

high-quality social housing from Spain Dwell

how a local government reorgnisation might affect Oxfordshire Oxford Clarion

the problems with US healthcare are broader than insurance BIG

short stories about gay students from Batak Christian backgrounds, and their mothers Happy Stories, Mostly [my review]

62% of Copenhagen residents now cycle to work or school LA Times

climate change and insurance in the US - a looming disaster Volts

from political divergence to possible futures Korea: A New History of South and North [my review]

one-upping the 15-minute city: Denmark's 5-minute city Guardian

Zionism's injustice encapsulated in one Bedouin village 972 Magazine

if Iceland were to join the EU, Norway might follow RUV

should older drivers have to retake tests? different Australian rules ABC

yokochō alleyways, zakkyo buildings, undertrack infills, ankyo streets + dense low-rise neighbourhoods Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City [my review]

the possibilities of Trump's tariffs ExplainTrade

"The world of trade is about to become significantly less predictable because the world's largest economy has just elected a man who fundamentally does not believe in the desirability of rules that constrain him to ensure that predictability."

the UK's environmental movement needs to focus on transport - again Guardian

the Kidlington roundabout: an active travel success story Oxford Blog

how much does bus franchising costs? FreeWheeling

"our obsession with public v private is a distraction from the more important work of making services better"

Children see streets differently IPPR

"children and young people are often most at risk from car dominance, as they are especially vulnerable to road violence, pollution and the erosion of public space, and this is all the more true for children in marginalised and disadvantaged communities"

a 1.6% hit to GDP from the impacts of road traffic on local communities in Britain Transportation Research Part A

"the negative effects of motorised road traffic on the travel and walking behaviour of local residents in Great Britain and the cost of the wider negative impacts on local economic activity, external effects of motorised transport, social exclusion, neighbourhood social capital, self-rated health, and subjective wellbeing"

a horrifying study of a US school shooting in which ten-year-olds and their teachers turned out to be better trained, more disciplined and braver than the police ProPublica

Russia's economy is reaching its limits Foreign Policy

open letter about the AMOC from climate scientists to the Nordic Council of Ministers Icelandic Met Office [PDF]

self-driving cars are coming, and will destroy our cities Not Just Bikes [video]

a vehicle massacre in Zhuhai highlights China's broader problems Moly

"every time you see a major incident in China, whether it's a truck driving into a train or wildfires or terroristic attacks like these, there’s a good chance there is precisely 35 people dead"

controversy over turning off some Oxfordshire streetlights overnight Oxford Clarion

100,000 Chinese students join "critical mass" ride for dumplings Guardian

How Cars Destroy Nature and What We Can Do About It Traffication [my review]

"ecologist Paul Donald looks at noise, air and light pollution among other harms, and at the effects on populations and species and ecosystems, not just on individual animals"

a trillion dollar rescue package for China's local governments Guardian

there are two Aldis, which have divided up Germany and the world Brilliant Maps

food delivery companies pushing workers onto illegal unregistered electric motorbikes is a problem - not cycling Guardian

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