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One of my favorite things about France is the incredible biking infrastructure.
It truly feels like you can go anywhere via bike. We went from town to town around a 25 mile trip around the lake and it was blissful, beautiful, and I could get used to this.
Bonus video of Zooey biking Annecy!
It truly feels like you can go anywhere via bike. We went from town to town around a 25 mile trip around the lake and it was blissful, beautiful, and I could get used to this.
Bonus video of Zooey biking Annecy!
July 19, 2025 at 10:18 AM
One of my favorite things about France is the incredible biking infrastructure.
It truly feels like you can go anywhere via bike. We went from town to town around a 25 mile trip around the lake and it was blissful, beautiful, and I could get used to this.
Bonus video of Zooey biking Annecy!
It truly feels like you can go anywhere via bike. We went from town to town around a 25 mile trip around the lake and it was blissful, beautiful, and I could get used to this.
Bonus video of Zooey biking Annecy!
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Take a peek inside this office-to-residential conversion: columbusunderground.com/first-look-c...
First Look: Continental Tower - Columbus Underground
The office-to-residential conversion of the former Continental Centre at 150 E. Gay St. is nearly complete. Now known as Continental Tower, the 26-story building holds 409 apartments, a residential lo...
columbusunderground.com
July 14, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Take a peek inside this office-to-residential conversion: columbusunderground.com/first-look-c...
Our next monthly meeting is on Wednesday, April 16 from 6:30pm to 7:30pm at the Main Library! See you there!
April 10, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Our next monthly meeting is on Wednesday, April 16 from 6:30pm to 7:30pm at the Main Library! See you there!
ODOT should stop the 1-475 expansion and build a boulevard instead www.cnu.org/publicsquare...
Stop the freeway expansion, build a boulevard
The West Toledo Expressway destroyed 900 buildings, mostly homes, in 1972 and accelerated a decline that continues to this day. Now, Ohio Department of Transportation wants to expand the highway. Inst...
www.cnu.org
February 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
ODOT should stop the 1-475 expansion and build a boulevard instead www.cnu.org/publicsquare...
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The achievements of Strong Towns members in 2024 prove that everyday actions can create extraordinary results.
We'd love to share what's ahead in 2025. Join us for State of Strong Towns at 4pm Eastern on our YouTube channel! #StrongTowns2025 www.youtube.com/strongtowns
We'd love to share what's ahead in 2025. Join us for State of Strong Towns at 4pm Eastern on our YouTube channel! #StrongTowns2025 www.youtube.com/strongtowns
January 30, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The achievements of Strong Towns members in 2024 prove that everyday actions can create extraordinary results.
We'd love to share what's ahead in 2025. Join us for State of Strong Towns at 4pm Eastern on our YouTube channel! #StrongTowns2025 www.youtube.com/strongtowns
We'd love to share what's ahead in 2025. Join us for State of Strong Towns at 4pm Eastern on our YouTube channel! #StrongTowns2025 www.youtube.com/strongtowns
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If you are upset over the loss of DEI prove it. Start by shopping at diverse small businesses and by supporting diverse indie writers , artists etc. Support is more than words.
January 25, 2025 at 8:33 PM
If you are upset over the loss of DEI prove it. Start by shopping at diverse small businesses and by supporting diverse indie writers , artists etc. Support is more than words.
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My latest, about the state of the American sprawl debate, for @currentaffairs.bsky.social www.currentaffairs.org/news/in-spra...
In Sprawl We Trust
How did the US become filled with sprawl? Simplistic debates about "centralized planning" versus "the free market" belie the truth: that a strong coalition of private and public interests helped creat...
www.currentaffairs.org
January 27, 2025 at 1:45 PM
My latest, about the state of the American sprawl debate, for @currentaffairs.bsky.social www.currentaffairs.org/news/in-spra...
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My favorite fact about the NYC subway is that there are way more daily riders (about 4 million) than the number of people who fly in the US out of all airports every day (~2.5 million). The scale is hard to get a grasp on.
Max capacity passengers per hour:
* Boring Co’s Vegas Loop: 4,500
* NYC subway 6 train: 105,000
* Boring Co’s Vegas Loop: 4,500
* NYC subway 6 train: 105,000
January 27, 2025 at 2:20 PM
My favorite fact about the NYC subway is that there are way more daily riders (about 4 million) than the number of people who fly in the US out of all airports every day (~2.5 million). The scale is hard to get a grasp on.
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Want to make transit better? We need people at the table who rely on it and care deeply about making it work better for our communities. Sign in PRO for HB 1418 (PTBA Governing Board Members)
app.leg.wa.gov/csi/House?se...
app.leg.wa.gov/csi/House?se...
Anna Zivarts, a local mobility advocate for nondrivers, recently published an op-ed on @theurbanist.org for the legislation. cc: @nondriver.bsky.social www.theurbanist.org/2025/01/11/o...
Op-Ed: Washington State Should Allow Riders to Serve on Transit Boards - The Urbanist
# Transit advocates are gearing up to pass House Bill 2191, which would allow Public Transit Benefit Authority boards across the state to create voting seats for transit riders. The bill came up just ...
www.theurbanist.org
January 27, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Want to make transit better? We need people at the table who rely on it and care deeply about making it work better for our communities. Sign in PRO for HB 1418 (PTBA Governing Board Members)
app.leg.wa.gov/csi/House?se...
app.leg.wa.gov/csi/House?se...
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Adding to this list: who had been organizing BLM bail outs since before covid? Organizing against police militarization (Cop City) / inhumane jails?
January 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Adding to this list: who had been organizing BLM bail outs since before covid? Organizing against police militarization (Cop City) / inhumane jails?
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January 26, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Please send a quick email TODAY to [email protected] urging them to fully fund the Spirit Trail. This is a huge gap in the North Van cycling network, leaving no safe way for car-free families like mine to get to Deep Cove, Cates Park, and other parts of the region. You don't need to be a DNV resident!
TAKE ACTION! The @nvandistrict.bsky.social may cut the Spirit Trail extension budget from $20M to $15M, ending it at Parkgate instead of reaching Deep Cove. In 2023, DNV committed to this long-planned and much-needed project. 1/
January 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Please send a quick email TODAY to [email protected] urging them to fully fund the Spirit Trail. This is a huge gap in the North Van cycling network, leaving no safe way for car-free families like mine to get to Deep Cove, Cates Park, and other parts of the region. You don't need to be a DNV resident!
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I'm *so* excited to be working on a project this year to explore how rural communities can help deliver cycling and walking paths near them. So many people want safe active paths, but so much is stacked against them. I want to learn how communities defy the status quo, so others can learn from them.
People Power: Unlocking demand for rural walking and cycling routes - FIT
A campaign to help communities build local footpaths across the UK.
integratedtransport.org.uk
January 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I'm *so* excited to be working on a project this year to explore how rural communities can help deliver cycling and walking paths near them. So many people want safe active paths, but so much is stacked against them. I want to learn how communities defy the status quo, so others can learn from them.
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It’s Holocaust Remembrance Day-80 years. www.cnn.com/2025/01/27/w...
In pictures: The liberation of Auschwitz | CNN
The Soviet Army liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland on January 27, 1945.
www.cnn.com
January 27, 2025 at 2:44 PM
It’s Holocaust Remembrance Day-80 years. www.cnn.com/2025/01/27/w...
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On this day, 100 yrs ago, cars were given priority over pedestrians in the streets of the US.
It began Jan. 24, 1925, when the 1st "jaywalker" was arrested in Los Angeles.
Until then, it had been a city of walkers, with an extensive street railway network.
Victim shaming started right away...
🚶♂️🧵
It began Jan. 24, 1925, when the 1st "jaywalker" was arrested in Los Angeles.
Until then, it had been a city of walkers, with an extensive street railway network.
Victim shaming started right away...
🚶♂️🧵
January 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM
On this day, 100 yrs ago, cars were given priority over pedestrians in the streets of the US.
It began Jan. 24, 1925, when the 1st "jaywalker" was arrested in Los Angeles.
Until then, it had been a city of walkers, with an extensive street railway network.
Victim shaming started right away...
🚶♂️🧵
It began Jan. 24, 1925, when the 1st "jaywalker" was arrested in Los Angeles.
Until then, it had been a city of walkers, with an extensive street railway network.
Victim shaming started right away...
🚶♂️🧵
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If you want to support climate activism, here's something simple you can do RIGHT NOW.
Follow the people in this starter pack, and amplify their voices by sharing their messages regularly!
go.bsky.app/Nn28kF3
Follow the people in this starter pack, and amplify their voices by sharing their messages regularly!
go.bsky.app/Nn28kF3
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
Not by Gandhi but still very appropriate in these times.
Not by Gandhi but still very appropriate in these times.
The U.S. is trying to unravel a hacking plot that targeted climate activists
The U.S. claims the hacking was commissioned by a lobbying firm working on behalf of one of the world's biggest oil companies.
www.npr.org
January 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
If you want to support climate activism, here's something simple you can do RIGHT NOW.
Follow the people in this starter pack, and amplify their voices by sharing their messages regularly!
go.bsky.app/Nn28kF3
Follow the people in this starter pack, and amplify their voices by sharing their messages regularly!
go.bsky.app/Nn28kF3
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"About two thirds of Americans are fed up with political polarization and wish people would spend more time listening to one another, according to the nonpartisan organization More in Common, which labeled this group the “exhausted majority.”
Also, on @hankgreen.bsky.social's recommendation, I decided to grab 'High Conflict' and give it a read to try and understand how we've become so extreme in our debate discourse today and what can be done to lower the temperature.
January 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM
"About two thirds of Americans are fed up with political polarization and wish people would spend more time listening to one another, according to the nonpartisan organization More in Common, which labeled this group the “exhausted majority.”
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Topped up our list of walking, wheeling and nature Bluesky-ers list! Please do follow, share and enjoy 😎👟🌳 go.bsky.app/N9dnoZJ
January 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Topped up our list of walking, wheeling and nature Bluesky-ers list! Please do follow, share and enjoy 😎👟🌳 go.bsky.app/N9dnoZJ
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it was great to see mayoral candidate @dewayneforminneapolis.com in attendance at the rethinking 94 presentation last night by @twincitiesdsa.bsky.social, @ourstreetsmn.org and sustain st. paul. such an important issue for candidates to familiarize themselves with! highly recommend attending one
January 24, 2025 at 2:30 PM
it was great to see mayoral candidate @dewayneforminneapolis.com in attendance at the rethinking 94 presentation last night by @twincitiesdsa.bsky.social, @ourstreetsmn.org and sustain st. paul. such an important issue for candidates to familiarize themselves with! highly recommend attending one
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Our cities constantly fail wheelchair users. Here are just some ways:
*No level boarding for transit
*No elevators in metro stops
*Crumbling sidewalks
*No sidewalk
*Trash cans & parked cars on sidewalk (cities so nothing about)
*Unshoveled sidewalks
How does your city fail?
*No level boarding for transit
*No elevators in metro stops
*Crumbling sidewalks
*No sidewalk
*Trash cans & parked cars on sidewalk (cities so nothing about)
*Unshoveled sidewalks
How does your city fail?
Travelling with a wheelchair is still a nightmare in 2025 & nothing much has changed in decades. It's all about profit. Only making train/bus/airlines legally obligated will work.
"Campaigner, Sophie Morgan, wants UK to follow US in legal protections for airline passengers with disabilities"
"Campaigner, Sophie Morgan, wants UK to follow US in legal protections for airline passengers with disabilities"
January 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Our cities constantly fail wheelchair users. Here are just some ways:
*No level boarding for transit
*No elevators in metro stops
*Crumbling sidewalks
*No sidewalk
*Trash cans & parked cars on sidewalk (cities so nothing about)
*Unshoveled sidewalks
How does your city fail?
*No level boarding for transit
*No elevators in metro stops
*Crumbling sidewalks
*No sidewalk
*Trash cans & parked cars on sidewalk (cities so nothing about)
*Unshoveled sidewalks
How does your city fail?
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The Trump circus dominates the news.
But there’s other events happening too - in countries where people are rising up against governments, fighting for democracy & accountability.
These photos are from Serbia & Georgia today. Capital cities brought to a standstill 🇷🇸🇬🇪
(Pls see ALT for more detail)
But there’s other events happening too - in countries where people are rising up against governments, fighting for democracy & accountability.
These photos are from Serbia & Georgia today. Capital cities brought to a standstill 🇷🇸🇬🇪
(Pls see ALT for more detail)
January 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
The Trump circus dominates the news.
But there’s other events happening too - in countries where people are rising up against governments, fighting for democracy & accountability.
These photos are from Serbia & Georgia today. Capital cities brought to a standstill 🇷🇸🇬🇪
(Pls see ALT for more detail)
But there’s other events happening too - in countries where people are rising up against governments, fighting for democracy & accountability.
These photos are from Serbia & Georgia today. Capital cities brought to a standstill 🇷🇸🇬🇪
(Pls see ALT for more detail)