footslogger (alison) 🏳️‍🌈🌈

Adventures & tales of the pedestrian life. I tweet about walking (& bus riding & cycling). Car free since 2010. I RT walk/bike/etc tweets

[footslogger (alison) 🏳️‍🌈🌈 @_crosswalking]

Hello!
In case you're wondering what I'm up to on this account, please check out this thread!
https://t.co/iaNu6QZuCK

[Bloomberg CityLab @CityLab]

"Every operator has their breaking point." https://t.co/vvdrgnJZe8

[Campus Climate Network @cclimatenetwork]

The proposal calls on the university to refuse research and sponsorship collaborations with companies which are:

1) Developing new fossil fuel infrastructure.

2) Exploring for new FF reserves.

or

3) Lobbying against science based climate legislation.

[Campus Climate Network @cclimatenetwork]

BREAKING: @Cambridge_Uni to become the first university in the world to hold a democratic vote of academics on a proposal to refuse research funding and other partnerships with companies violating key climate criteria.

Full @nytimes story here 👇🏿

https://t.co/eVvxZmoC58

[Shane Phillips @ShaneDPhillips]

If you list your city hall as a redevelopment site in your housing element, that should be grounds for immediate disincorporation. You don't want a city government anymore? Okay, deal!

[How The West Was Saved @HowTheWestWS]

Every other street in Los Angeles should be car-free with wide sidewalks, rapid shared transit, shade trees, housing, and bike lanes! @StreetsblogCal @streetsforall @StreetsblogLA @StreetsblogUSA @EntitledCycling @bikinginla @TheWarOnCars @KillTheCars

[Qagggy! @Qagggy]

It’s weird that ⁦@wsdot⁩ has decided five feet is the maximum width for a bike lane, even when a ton more space is available.

[aviewoflondres @sw19cam]

Pedestrians, you’re up next! ;)

[Calgary Transit @calgarytransit]

Great news #CTRiders! We’ve selected @transitapp as our official mobility-as-a-service trip planning app! And you’ll automatically be upgraded to Transit Royale, Transit’s subscription service. Download the app today at https://t.co/b9G5qff2Ra.

[Darren Markland @drdagly]

Not all paths are self evident. Not all journeys have a destination. Sometimes it is enough to be lost in the company of good friends.

[Andy Yan | @ayan604.bsky.social @Ayan604]

Vast New Study Shows a Key to Reducing Poverty: More Friendships Between Rich and Poor https://t.co/FJRLBqOxDB

[Bloomberg CityLab @CityLab]

This is the story behind Singapore's very successful affordable housing program.

#citylabarchive https://t.co/gFun5ugz8y

[footslogger (alison) 🏳️‍🌈🌈 @_crosswalking]

There's a guy (currently walking) grumbling that the "no right turn on red" signs for cars at Edmonton's pedestrian scramble intersections are unfair b/c they only really NEED to not turn while the pedestrians are walking.

Uh. Except cars haven't been good at doing that, my guy

[footslogger (alison) 🏳️‍🌈🌈 @_crosswalking]

Why is it always a truck that pulls over and parks in the contra-flow bike lane??

[footslogger (alison) 🏳️‍🌈🌈 @_crosswalking]

The @CityofEdmonton and @takeETSalert are also making it harder to use bus tickets on the LRT.

What are we supposed to do if the ticket stamping machines are broken or missing??

#yegtransit

[Karli Drew ♿️ @KarLeia]

I’m proud (in every sense of the word) of this personal essay I wrote and excited to share it with all of you.

"The inaccessibility of local Pride events somehow makes me feel less queer, like an echo of how I felt before I truly accepted myself.”

https://t.co/ftmN6JRIRm

[Raghu Venugopal MD @raghu_venugopal]

The most powerful prescription I could write as an ER doctor is an apartment for someone homeless.

[DEACTIVATED @thrasherxy]

We are not ready (and by we, I include me) to accept that casual, reliable business or air travel is over. It's not coming back. It is going to take some time to accept. We're only at stage 1 or 2 (denial, anger) or at most 3 (bargaining w airlines on Twitter) of Kübler-Ross

[Sabina Vohra-Miller @SabiVM]

New data: Reinfection was found to substantially increase the risk of death, hospitalization, and adverse health outcomes, making strategies preventing reinfection critical.
Summary 🧵 1/9