Gil Penalosa
penalosag.bsky.social
Gil Penalosa
@penalosag.bsky.social
Founder 8 80 Cities, #Cities4Everyone. Worked in 350+ cities. Make Healthy Living = The Easy Choice • Children • Olders • Keynote speaker • Top 100 urbanist (13)
Sometimes you need to swallow a frog, to get a united country. #CanadaStrong.

Prime Minister Mark Carney, with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, in Calgary, Alta., sign sweeping energy deal, pledge new pipeline to West Coast.

Premier Smith “a new relationship grounded in good faith.”
tgam.ca/43STOAI
November 27, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Reposted by Gil Penalosa
Want to see the power of mass transit? Watch this one!
Look at the efficiency of Bus Rapid Transit next to the waste of personal vehicles.

🇨🇴 The TransMilenio in Bogotá has 2.4 million daily riders
🇮🇩 The TransJakarta in Jakarta has 1 million riders

Just imagine if all of them decided to buy a car!
January 16, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Thanks, Councillor @CraigCassar:
"Cities for Everyone" is an excellent bi-weekly webinar series by famed Canadian Urbanist Gil Penalosa, creator of 8 80 Cities."
FREE • People can watch the 99 presentations, 30 min each, includes one page of key points:
gpenalosa.ca/webinar/
November 27, 2025 at 7:17 PM
FREE video, presents Ilana Altman, CEO:
THE BENTWAY
Unlocking Unexpected Public Spaces

Watch & share: from horrible under-highway area to magnificent 4-season lively PLACE.
Get ideas to create Public Places in your city.
#Cities4Everyone The Webinar
bit.ly/3KrHAII
November 27, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Cities should subsidize bikeshare much more, almost have a symbolic payment.
People using bikeshares are lowering health costs as they improve their physical, mental, and social health.
Also riders improve quality of air, lower noise, decrease congestion, good for econ. dev. City champions.
E-BIKESHARE FOR THE WEALTHY?

• Bikes + expensive than bus/subway
• E-bikes: often over 300% higher $$ than public transit
• 6 cities do over 83% of all trips
• NYC's Citi Bike increased $$ by 20% to $15.59 for 30 min.
• 60hrs rent = buy $2,000 e-bike
bit.ly/4ahFIwH
November 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
E-BIKESHARE FOR THE WEALTHY?

• Bikes + expensive than bus/subway
• E-bikes: often over 300% higher $$ than public transit
• 6 cities do over 83% of all trips
• NYC's Citi Bike increased $$ by 20% to $15.59 for 30 min.
• 60hrs rent = buy $2,000 e-bike
bit.ly/4ahFIwH
November 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Good news: Australia bans Social Media for all under 16 years old.
Good intentions are not enough.
Governments at all levels must make healthy living the easy choice, through policy, infrastructure, and programs.
Everywhere. Banning social media is long overdue.
November 25, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Amazing presentation on THE BENTWAY!! By CEO, Ilana Altman. Over 300 connected live!
From horrible under elevated hwy to People Place. Video available in 2 days.

FREE - Next:
Dec. 9: #100th
Well+Being: Good Intentions are NOT Enough • Guest & host: Gil Penalosa
Register & share: bit.ly/3J49wSs
November 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
2/2 20 years ago... 8 80 Cities
Thanks to Amanda O'Rourke, who's been staff, director, now superb executive director, for 19 years, a true partner in the process.
#Grateful to Camila Uriona and all current and past staff, and board directors.
Much appreciation to many supporters, all doing good.
November 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
20 years ago I created the Toronto based non-profit org, Walk & Bike for Life, and spoke about 8 80 Cities.
We changed the name to 8 80 Cities, talk & do about walking and cycling FOR LIFE, equity.
Amazing ride. I've worked in over 350 cities. I hope to have contributed, I've done my very best.
November 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM
You can have an URBAN FOREST.
One in every neighborhood. Everywhere. The size of a tennis court!

How? Delightful conversation, my friend Dr. Nadina Galle, Internet of Nature, with Adrian Wong of SUGi.
Plant absurdly dense, “untidy” forests grow fastest.

Enjoy, doing good.
bit.ly/4a60Ohp
November 23, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Partnerships happen when leaders find common ground: trust, respect, solidarity.

Australia, India, and Canada, new Technology & Innovation Partnership.
Prime ministers of India, Narendra Modi, Australia, Anthony Albanese, and Canada Mark Carney.
Step by step, creating / strengthening a new world.
November 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Reposted by Gil Penalosa
FREE webinar Tues. few spaces available:

THE BENTWAY
Unlocking Unexpected Public Spaces.
Presents: Ilana Altman, CEO
From under-highway horror, to space for well-being.
#Cities4Everyone. Tues. Nov. 25 11am EST / 4pm UTC
FREE Register & share:
bit.ly/43kFT67
November 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
FREE webinar Tues. few spaces available:

THE BENTWAY
Unlocking Unexpected Public Spaces.
Presents: Ilana Altman, CEO
From under-highway horror, to space for well-being.
#Cities4Everyone. Tues. Nov. 25 11am EST / 4pm UTC
FREE Register & share:
bit.ly/43kFT67
November 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
"If we educate children very well, they will go home and educate their parents." Jaime Lerner, RIP. Great former mayor of Curitiba

Children • Play • Nature
The power of giving well.
15:1 For every $1 in grants ChildrenAndNature.org awarded, Communities leveraged over $15.
November 21, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Even if we had $$ to buy hundreds of fighter jets, they would NOT make Canada safer.

Only a well educated, healthy, equitable pop. will keep enemies away.
Let's invest in World's Best Peace & Negotiation Center that will help all, and be supported.
Credibility. Integrity. Smart.
November 20, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Great alliance led by #CitiesforBetterHealth, in collaboration with UNICEF, C-40, 8 80 Cities, Gehl, others... many community groups in multiple cities.

Healthy eating and physical activity should be a Human Right.
Good intentions are not enough;
Cities must make Healthy Living be the Easy Choice.
November 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Copenhagenize should stick to doing what got them famous: sharing cute photos of people riding bicycles in Copenhagen, mostly women.

Global Bike-Friendly Cities? Wrong!!!
Bogota is not in top 50!
• It has more daily riders than CPH's pop.
• Sunday's Ciclovia over ONE million.
November 20, 2025 at 2:34 PM
From LIFE AFTER CARS:

• Name an issue affecting society right now, and there’s a good bet it is caused or at least exacerbated by society’s overreliance on cars
• Our climate and our own health can no longer withstand the assault of the automobile.
bit.ly/485tCUB
November 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The New Face of Family Caregiving
63 million family caregivers in USA

• 29% are Sandwich Generation: care for aging parents & children
• 11% care for someone with dementia
• 89% care for relatives
• Average care recipient age 70
By Amy Goyer, Am. Soc. Aging
bit.ly/43EJLza
November 19, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Agree 100%:
"In difficult and turbulent times, one needs to choose one's friends carefully. Sweden and Canada choose each other as friends, allies, and partners."
Swedish Dep. PM Ebba Busch

Superb Canadian Industry Minister Mélanie Joly: "F-35 jets proposal doesn’t deliver enough jobs for workers"
November 19, 2025 at 10:51 PM
FREE this Tues:
Unlocking Unexpected Public Spaces
THE BENTWAY, Presents Ilana Altman, CEO

Spectacular change from under-highway horror to space for well-being.
Invited to my webinar #Cities4Everyone.
Tues. Nov. 25 11am EST / 4pmUTC
FREE Register & share:
bit.ly/43kFT67
November 19, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Reposted by Gil Penalosa
Watch FREE & share video from this week's #Cities4Everyone The Webinar:
PEDESTRIAN SAFETY CRISIS presents Angie Schmitt
bit.ly/3LD8Zb1

FREE, Nov. 25 at 11am EST:
THE BENTWAY, presents the amazing cultural programmer, Ilana Altman, CEO.
Register bit.ly/43kFT67
November 13, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Mamdani could make NYC's walking, cycling, & public transit bus: SAFE, convenient, and fast.

Janette Sadik-Khan: 'There’s absolutely no reason the city can’t achieve the plan for more people- and transit-friendly streets. Ambitious, not impossible.’
Planetizen bit.ly/43zk17c
November 17, 2025 at 8:44 PM
95% of Utah residents will have a paved bike trail within one mile/1.6 Km.

Utah Unveils 'Ambitious' 3,100-mile (5000Km) Bike Network.
Proves cycling is NOT a 'left or right' politically.
It's just the right thing to do.
(Utah is x-republican).
Planetizen: bit.ly/3K4z2r4
November 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM