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how traffic danger destroys child mobility in Montreal Transport and Environment

Wales' Lee Waters on how to push back on road-building proposals Amanwy

"centres Copenhagen's experience but offers fairly general advice on urban cycling, drawing on examples from cities around the world" Copenhagenize [my review]

the cycling industry needs diversity and a much broader reach Cycling Industry News

"Imagine if you wrote a business plan and you said, right, there is a market of 100%.... we could sell to a wonderful big fat market. What we’re going to do, is we’re going to target 2% of it."

challenging states: decarbonising aviation Reiview of International Political Economy

French in Ontario: a perspective on minority language rights Grind

new UK transport minister backs local authorities to put in 20mph speed limits, cycle lanes and low traffic neighbourhoods Bloomberg

cycling transforms the lives of Indian schoolgirls BBC

some 130 short essays treating quite narrow topics, offering a "pointillist" rendering of French history France in the World [my review]

a controlled study of astrology Clearer Thinking

Göttingen's great mathematicians Conversation

Pascal's other wager was on public transport Long Now

cities are fighting back against noise pollution Bloomberg

30+ more LTNs coming in London; 100 out of 120 of the previous ones have been made permanent Standard

cars have pushed children off streets, killing community connections Atlantic

"restoring a culture of street play will require society to make much more far-reaching, permanent changes to the built environment"

the exchange of labour in the world economy is grossly unequal Nature

"Southern wages are 87–95% lower than Northern wages for work of equal skill. While Southern workers contribute 90% of [world] labour, they receive only 21% of global income."

a tipping point in the the Atlantic Overturning Circulation? Oceanography

the etymology of "path" Danny Bate

you can't get pregnant from eating squid (but you can get inseminated) Squid a Day

Bangladesh locks down viiolently as protests continue Al Jazeera

a post-apocalypse novel told from the point of view of one of the zombies It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over [my review]

how noise pollution harms children BBC

a German documentary on the British class system ARD

Welsh 20mph default speed limit: 32% reduction in injuries, 20% reduction in insurance claims, maybe £20 million saving for NHS

and that NHS saving is just from road casualties, without broader public health gains from more active travel and lower air pollution

money, wealth, value: the United States and Europe are equally poor Palladium Magazine

ChatGPT is bullshit, but is it soft bullshit or hard bullshit? Ethics and Information Technology

adapting a Dutch cycle street for Vienna: Argentinierstrasse Dutch Cycling

mothers cycling with children: a problematic practice in the UK ITP

will even Los Angeles rethink its approach to traffic killings? LA Times

origami explains single-celled predator's "neck" extension New Scientist

the Liberal Democrat manifesto is good on flying, but has little on active travel Hedgehog Cycling

the European Parliament's far-right groups are fragmented and divided Encompass

white gloves are not necessarily a good idea when handling rare books Unbound

Brussels' "Good Move" has been a good move Brussels Times

one of the few Conservative successes: GOV.UK and the Government Digital Service James O'Malley

what interventions increase active travel? Advances in Transport Policy and Planning

"policy makers and planners should stop designing or funding interventions that only address behavioural or social aspects of active travel. Instead, environmental and infrastructure changes are required to make walking, cycling and wheeling feel safer and more pleasant. These should include road space reallocation."

an update on the search for Planet 9 PopSci

Wendy Doniger's _The Hindus: An Alternative History_ and Fred W. Clothey's _Religion in India: A Historical Introduction_ - a review my review

the design history of Vienna's social housing Bloomberg

"this work suggests that cycle commuting is causally related to reduced mental ill-health" International Journal of Epidemiology

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