Angus Pollard

Director | Energy Transition, Sustainable Housing & Community Development | Programme & Portfolio Leadership | PMP

[Angus Pollard @Angus_Pollard]

Very cool tool - working on my own GIS skills to one day be able to create this -

[The Aesthetic City @Aesthetic_City]

@NoContextDutch1 This one: a map with all the buildings in the Netherlands and their ages:

https://t.co/8pXEAOBwUy

[Angus Pollard @Angus_Pollard]

@itsrapha83 @archi_tradition Counter argument, a quite recent development in Rotterdam. A fantastic village in the city.

[Qagggy! @Qagggy]

The Dutch are so good at this. When I was in Rotterdam, I visited Tuin van Noord, “Garden of the North,” a former prison converted into housing.

[Adam Tranter @adamtranter]

“Nobody will cycle in bad weather.”

The Netherlands:

[Angus Pollard @Angus_Pollard]

@billythalheimer Love it. Scale with smaller versions inter island within their country. No reason I shouldn’t be able to hop on one tomorrow from Amsterdam to London.

[Angus Pollard @Angus_Pollard]

@stevemouzon Exactly

[Qagggy! @Qagggy]

IDEA: Take a half block and remove cars.

[Gregor 🌹🇪🇺🇦🇹 @salingergregor]

it's actually possible to have trams and Erasmus

[Angus Pollard @Angus_Pollard]

@kleyden7 @Boenau @TT_Fietser But they can be typical! Don’t settle!

[Angus Pollard @Angus_Pollard]

@JFCrisp Very interesting, could you share the link? That one seems to be busted. Thank you

[Angus Pollard @Angus_Pollard]

@Boenau Brisk 2°c/34F in Rotterdam today! Onwards. Plus a slight view of our bike stop lights.

[Angus Pollard @Angus_Pollard]

“The Netherlands has vacant buildings with enough space to house all 377,000 residents of Utrecht, the country's fourth largest city. The empty space is roughly equivalent to 200k standard new apartments”

What’s easier? Building 200,00 new units? Or working on solving vacancy?

[Angus Pollard @Angus_Pollard]

We often hear: build build build! Yes, more supply for housing is a critical piece of the affordability puzzle. Yet, more and more we see that this isn’t simply a supply problem (we didn’t wake up with millions more in demand). It’s a policy issue:

https://t.co/4s6lwxTeuk

[Angus Pollard @Angus_Pollard]

Amazing to see this in action

[Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife]

The Netherlands will invest €1 billion in cycling infrastructure to connect hundreds of thousands of new homes. This will build bike highways and improve bike-train intermodality, enabling residents to access jobs, healthcare, and school without locking them into car dependency.

[Urban Cycling Institute 🚲  @fietsprofessor]

Listen, we cannot just change the dominance of cars on our streets... We are not #Amsterdam, now are we?!!!

'Hold my 🥖 and🍷'
— Anne Hidalgo, Mayor of #Paris

(a collage of incredible before-after pictures by @EmmanuelSPV and others)

[Angus Pollard @Angus_Pollard]

@jasonc_nc @2024dion NC is leading the way in a lot of ways

[Angus Pollard @Angus_Pollard]

@JFCrisp Thank you for sharing.

[Angus Pollard @Angus_Pollard]

@Koantaboo @benjyminty @BrentToderian This image, is not the point of the post though.

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

Here’s something really important for everyone to understand.

If we design our cities for cars only, they fail everyone, including drivers.

If we design our cities with many great CHOICES in how to get around, they work better for everyone, including drivers.

Spread the word.

[Angus Pollard @Angus_Pollard]

@tilde_posting @stargazermellu There are certain cases where it’s really nice to have. Like consistent shuttles. Here’s one near me that was cool to see you might find interesting https://t.co/3KAhDZzppN

[Angus Pollard @Angus_Pollard]

Autumn colors on full display this week as the trees change. From the top of the Euromast in Het Park, Rotterdam 🍁🍂🇳🇱 #Rotterdam #Netherlands