🩹🚶♀️ DTLA Sidewalk Rescue 🚶♂️🩹
Tues, Sept 30: our “street nurses” hit the streets, placing giant bandages on cracks + bumps to spotlight the need for real fixes—accessibility, funding & lasting care.
📍 Press conf + walking tours
👉 https://t.co/iGUIvuMod3
#SidewalkSolutions
Can't tell if this is a BBC item or a Monty Python skit!
1976: BIG JIM's Big BOOZY Bike Trip to Braemar | Nationwide | Weird and ... https://t.co/bORszWLABZ via @YouTube#BBC#comedy#Scotland
@ursusamericana@PchazzzSF@the_transit_guy Exactly. People uniting is the only leverage we have against the corporate power of the wealthy elite.
People seemed to understand this better when it was a king instead of a CEO.
Comparing mobility alternatives to the car makes us use the wrong yardstick. It leads to suboptimal (and boring) innovations and makes us forget about existing (and exciting) solutions.
(📊 by Dr. Elliot Fishman of Institute for Sensible Transport🇦🇺)
If a pill💊 delivered all these benefits of cycling, it would be hailed as the greatest medical breakthrough in history — but because it’s a bike, we tend to ignore it.
One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen was filled with cars until a 2 year pilot project in 1962. The opposition argued “no cars means no business” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.
The city of @PalmDesertGov is doing it right.
Imagine how many in LA would choose to bike instead of drive for many of their trips if our infrastructure looked like this.
When riding a bike, sometimes you find beauty, colour, and nature in unexpected places.
Cycling under the rail viaduct in Girona is a lovely treat to the senses, with colourful art, climbing vines, and the chance to take things at your own pace away from the busy nearby streets.