Good Blocks

🚲 Fan account of human-powered transport in car-towns and local-driven community improvement groups. 🇨🇦

[Cathy Tuttle supports Good Trouble @CathyTuttle]

Car-free city centers like #Utrecht make no sense economically.

[Good Blocks @good_blocks]

The best street safety changes start as tiny experiments.

https://t.co/asIaaa2Bs3

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

Jeffrey Leary, a cyclist, was fed up with cars parking in the Fountain St. bike lane in Providence. He bought 72 plungers for $1 each and made his own barrier in protest. After its proven success, the city installed permanent flex post barriers. So... who needs plungers?

[Jagmeet Singh @theJagmeetSingh]

I don't think it should ever be okay — that in Canada Loblaws earned $520 million in Q4 profits while Canadians turned to food banks in record numbers. 

Today - CEOs like Galen Weston have been summoned to Parliament – they’ll be forced to answer for it.

[Good Blocks @good_blocks]

@LEGO_Group 🫴

[Jeff Novich 🚴 @jeffnovich]

If you get a car, you never want neighbors to get a car too. There is no infectious enthusiasm. They'll "take your spot" & cause traffic.

The opposite is true of biking. You want *everyone* around you to get one. I love seeing parents on bikes & want the streets flooded by them.

[Charles Montgomery @charlesincities]

Welcome to my very scary 15-minute city!

[Good Blocks @good_blocks]

Great one from @techwontsaveus!

https://t.co/iGuayZM0GH

[Domonic @domwhiting]

You just can’t hate this...

[Faten Aggad @fatenaggad]

🧵 The re-writing of recent history by global north activists on the COP27 and its outcome is (to put it mildly) nauseating! It makes one question their independence and how much they're in touch with Global South voices they claim to care about. So to reclaim the space:

[Good Blocks @good_blocks]

So... Active Transport/Bike Advocacy/Strong Towns/Community Advocates Twitter.

Are we on @mastodon yet?

My personal while I build up the Good Blocks feed: https://t.co/GvITlrY7TC

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

If only we had taxed the rich maybe none of this would have happened

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

It’s REALLY important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally AGAINST downtown bike-lanes, later became one of their most vigourous supporters, because of EVIDENCE that bike-lanes are better for downtown business than any street parking they replace.

[Ali = Alison Stewart 🚲😎 @AlisonVStewart]

With ridership up 36% from 2019 @BikeShareTO is proof that when you can get someone to try biking they keep coming back because it is fun, convenient, affordable & fast. It also supports demand & need for safe & connected bike infrastructure. #BikeTO 🙏🏼🤩

[Brandon Johnson @Brandon4Chicago]

I bike. My 14-year-old bikes independently. We ride for recreation. Other Chicagoans ride for transit. The problem for all of us is that our biking infrastructure is treated not as a public accommodation, but a whim or special project from one mayoral administration to the next.

[Dr Charlie Gardner (also on the blue place) @CharlieJGardner]

Deep into a planetary emergency and - a bit like death - it's still taboo in many situations to talk about the greatest threat we've ever faced

Fuck that though. I'm not going to sit back and let everything be destroyed because bringing it up might make some people uncomfortable

[Ontario Active School Travel @OntarioAST]

🧠 Curious to discover how certain programs and policies can encourage active school travel in your community?

Join the webinar series, held by @TCATonline and @grncommunities every Friday from November 18 until December 2 to learn more!⤵️
https://t.co/hex1QDd7Lo

[Kevin Montgomery @kemosite]

I wonder whether anti-maskers are also anti-winter tires.

[eBike Gillian @BikeGillian]

Listening to @fakedansavage on @TheWarOnCars - which is awesome - but re ebikes

Dan, if riding a bike is like sex, e-assist is the lube

It's better with the lube. Buy that ebike. It'll change your life

https://t.co/tV92uxat3H