February 2025
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some observations about Tokyo: notes on the world's most successful failing society
Persuasion"How a compact metro area of 37 million people manages to feel this relaxed isn't really a mystery: the city declared war on cars, and then won that war."
ring-road severance to cycling in Oxford: Barton Park
Oxford BlogVienna goes big on heat pumps and a heating network
BloombergStoke-on-Trent's schools have been wrecked by 25 years of Private Finance Initiative
BBCa great obituary for Donald Shoup, scourge of free parking
Works in Progress"The way we manage parking is of profound importance to nearly every aspect of our lives. It's also something local planners have a lot of control over."
76% of Munich trips are now by sustainable transport, with car modal share down from 34% to 24%
Vision MobilityArizona's car-free 'Culdesac" neighbourhood has been a success
dwellhow the Dutch use real-time detection to prioritise cycling at signal junctions
Mobycon69% of Britons support better enforcement against excessively noisy vehicles
ITSsynergies between push and pull measures to change transport behaviours: some evidence from Sydney
University of Sydney"Each policy by itself generally has a lower relative elasticity compared to when it is combined with another policy."
a quarter of London's main cycleways have "socially unsafe" sections
StandardUK cities are increasing GDP while reducing traffic
John Sirautwhy northern England is poor
Tom Forth"the concrete action of establishing the UK’s first AI Growth Zone in Oxfordshire (the South) [trumps] the promise of such growth zones benefitting post-industrial towns (the North) and coastal Scotland"
it was Swiss women who stopped the highway expansion project
Urban Cycling Institute"61% of women opposed the expansion, compared to only 44% of men"
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