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Centre for Society, Technology and Values @uofwaterloo @cstv-uw.bsky.social · 2h

#Transit systems in some major US #cities are in dire straits, due to long-term under-investment and recent increasing tendency to view transit thru a culture war lens, argues @humantransit.bsky.social

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Should We Let Public Transit Die?

Urban-rural hostility is fueling a public transportation crisis in US cities. But demands to abandon bus and train riders ignore the economic and social costs of cutting service.

www.bloomberg.com

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Supaluminal @supaluminal.bsky.social · 11h

Sydney/Newtown people - TfNSW are consulting on extending the Wilson St bike lane to King St. The design isn't perfect, and with a few tweaks can be improved, but overall looks good.

Closes 24 October.

www.transport.nsw.gov.au/projects/cur...

Wilson Street Cycleway

The NSW Government is proposing to provide the missing link in the Wilson Street Cycleway.

www.transport.nsw.gov.au

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Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 11h

Cars account for just 4.3% of journeys in Paris. So motorists may be 'living in fear' (although that sounds unlikely) but the vast majority of Parisians, far from seeing red, are pretty happy with expanded space for pedestrians, cyclists and public transport users

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 12h

Paris sees red as mayor drives cars off the road

Motorists in the French capital live in fear of the tow truck and sky-high parking fines

Paris sees red as mayor drives cars off the road

www.thetimes.com

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Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social · 12h

Well…school finishes and the gates are thrown open! Brilliant, clever work by BVN architects making an entirely permeable public ground plane, courts and playground available after school hours! Green Square Public School and City of Sydney 👏👏👏

Gates of the school open allowing community use after hours

Basketball court being tested by eager locals!

Open after hours sign - explaining shared use arrangements

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AB @ab-aus.bsky.social · 16h

NIMBYs
Conservatives
Motorists.

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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 18h

I find the framing of this study tiresome. Yes, slower streets save cyclists *but* they also create nicer places, more successful local businesses, support childhood freedom - things more people support. As an industry, we must get better at "the sell". www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Switching 50km/h speed limits to 30km/h would protect cyclists while barely affecting commutes, research finds

One expert says a cyclist hit by a car travelling 50km/h has about a one-in-10 chance of surviving, while at 30km/h it is a nine-in-10 chance

www.theguardian.com

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Supaluminal @supaluminal.bsky.social · 1d

You're not allowed to describe a suburb of a major city as a "village"

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Stephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social · 1d

New study from Melbourne finds reducing residential speed limits from 50km/h to 30 km/h on local roads would protect cyclists from danger, make riding less stressful and get more people cycling while not causing traffic delays for cars.

Switching 50km/h speed limits to 30km/h would protect cyclists while barely affecting commutes, research finds

One expert says a cyclist hit by a car travelling 50km/h has about a one-in-ten chance of surviving, while at 30km/h it was a nine-in-ten chance

www.theguardian.com

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American Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 22h

Curb-backed sidewalks are hostile infrastructure and we really need to stop allowing them as acceptable design code.

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Supaluminal @supaluminal.bsky.social · 1d

You're not allowed to describe a suburb of a major city as a "village"

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Supaluminal @supaluminal.bsky.social · 1d

🚨🚨Village alert!🚨🚨

Brighton is definitely one row of shops and a pub, surrounded by fields, right? Not a suburb with a train line into the centre of the city 10km away...

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American Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 1d

With the average new car at $50,000, let's look at the real costs of "freedom":

✅ Decades of debt
✅ Social isolation for every trip
✅ A leading cause of death & injury

Car dependency is a financially and socially crippling system, not a choice.

Forbes @forbes.com · 1d

Prices for new vehicles have risen steadily in the last year as the pace of price increases has sped up in recent months, according to Cox Automotive’s Kelley Blue Book.

Average U.S. New Car Price Surpasses $50,000—An All-Time High Amid Surging EV Sales

Prices for new vehicles have risen steadily in the last year as the pace of price increases has sped up in recent months, according to Cox Automotive’s Kelley Blue Book.

www.forbes.com

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Better Renting @betterrenting.bsky.social · 1d

Want to volunteer with a cause that helps renters but don't have a ton of time? Join our letters to the editor group & write a quick, <200 word letter to an Australian newspaper about your experiences of renting. We can help as much or as little as you need!

Get started at bit.ly/BR-letters now!

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 1d

All these people in cars would be a traffic jam. Instead, it’s a city.

Broadway in New York City. Photo by me. The street is pedestrianized with a row of bikes on the right and pedestrian activity in the center.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 1d

Average new-vehicle manufacturer’s suggested retail prices hit an all-time high last month, reaching $52k, up 4.2% from last year.

(The best selling vehicle in the U.S. is a ford truck that sells for more than 65k)

All that “freedom” to be stuck in car dependency & traffic sure sounds expensive.

Average U.S. New Car Prices Top $50,000 For The First Time Ever

Prices for new vehicles have risen steadily in the last year as the pace of price increases has sped up in recent months, according to Cox Automotive’s Kelley Blue Book.

www.forbes.com

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Supaluminal @supaluminal.bsky.social · 1d

Estonia is also good for way cheaper standards - I believe as a result of government policy that standards shouldn't be stupidly expensive.

I hate when what is effectively law is locked behind a pay wall, at least this wall is a little lower evs.ee

evs.ee

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Vince Beiser @vincebeiser.bsky.social · 2d

"Forget EVS. Cycling is revolutionising transport." Amen! Check it out @taras-grescoe.com www.economist.com/internationa...

Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport

Pedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war

www.economist.com

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Supaluminal @supaluminal.bsky.social · 2d

It's almost as if density + a solid pipeline of projects can result in ongoing improvements to a city at a reasonable cost! I can't help but think the Parisiens may be onto something here...

Maybe it's time for Australia to start learning from outside of the Anglosphere?

𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 2d

Transit is stuck in a 20th-century paradigm: a mix of city-center-serving subways/metros and commuter rail for the suburbs.

(And too many cities can't even manage this.)

But #Paris is building the first truly 21st-century #transit system.

Nothing to do with hyperloops or maglevs...

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YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 2d

NIMBYism from local councils doesn't just affect private housing — it hurts social housing too.

Restrictive zoning raises land costs, and the risks of local NIMBYs waging war on projects make it more difficult to build social housing where it's most needed.

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 2d

Transit is stuck in a 20th-century paradigm: a mix of city-center-serving subways/metros and commuter rail for the suburbs.

(And too many cities can't even manage this.)

But #Paris is building the first truly 21st-century #transit system.

Nothing to do with hyperloops or maglevs...

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Supaluminal @supaluminal.bsky.social · 2d

And some still wonder why @sydney.yimby.au get worked up about councils blocking housing

Supaluminal @supaluminal.bsky.social · 2d

North Sydney Council tonight decided to seek advice on an interim heritage other to prevent a couple of terraces being replaced with much needed apartments in Neutral Bay - against the advice of their own staff.

🔥💶🔥💶🔥

Apartments that will be delayed while North Sydney Council ignores their internal advice

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Stilgherrian @stilgherrian.com · 2d

The great thing about having a well-established news outlet is that you can just keep recycling the same bullshit for decades.

“Where does western Sydney really start?” www.smh.com.au/national/nsw... ($)

Fuck ’em. Read it at archive.md/8QRSb.

Where does western Sydney really start?

Lakemba? Burwood? Sydney Olympic Park? Or further west, at Parramatta? Vote on where you would draw the line.

www.smh.com.au

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André Brett @drdrehistorian.bsky.social · 3d

Anyway, however you design these questions, we're seeing across the Anglosphere a disturbing degree of hostility to migration. Those of us who know migration is a good thing need to be loud in supporting it. We live at a time when goods cross borders more easily than people. I think that's wrong

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 3d

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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