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Cathy Tuttle @cathytuttle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

𝙒𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙬𝙚 𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙚 𝙙𝙤𝙣'𝙩 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙬𝙖𝙞𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙪𝙩𝙚 ~ Anne Frank Dutch PM @robjetten.bsky.social speaks eloquently at the UN on International War Crimes, Gaza, Sudan, Africa, Human Rights, authoritarianism, the Middle Powers, climate change.

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Volledige toespraak premier Rob Jetten bij de Algemene Vergadering van de Verenigde Naties 2026

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Cathy Tuttle @cathytuttle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

School Streets are transformational! Great School Streets make me so happy & ready to believe again in a livable future. Want to feel happy too? Share this clip about NYC's 34th Ave from @streetfilms.bsky.social Yes to streets as places of joy & fun! Yes! to places to hang out with your friends❤️

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How School Streets on 34th Ave Make Arrival & Dismissal Safe for Kids in NYC (Documentary Segment)

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Cathy Tuttle @cathytuttle.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Enthusiastic Deputy Mayor of Ghent, @filipwatteeuw.bsky.social, was the visionary behind Gent's circulation plan. With a 6-year term and just €6 million, he implemented a circulation plan focused on people rather than cars. He got it done + has been re-elected 2x since. Here's his story at #CRBAM26

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Cathy Tuttle @cathytuttle.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The start of the Dutch Cycle Messenger Championships! About 100 contestants on either fixies or human-powered cargo bikes racing to pick up their trip manifests and start the 3-hour race.

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Cathy Tuttle @cathytuttle.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Dutch Cycle Messenger Championships this weekend in Utrecht Sunday Sept 20 Kids Race 10:30AM Main Race 1-4PM Atoomweg 1, just across yellow bridge behind the Douwe Egberts factory Sat Sept 19 5PM Alleycat from Café Boot 122 at De Nijverheid see u there? ❤️📦🚲 cargo bike @cargobikefest.bsky.social

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Open Dutch Cycle Messenger Championships return to Utrecht - International Cargo Bike Festival

On Sunday 20 September 2026, cycle messengers from the Netherlands and beyond will gather at Lage Weide in Utrecht for the Open Dutch Cycle Messenger Championships (ODMC). Ten years after Utrecht last...

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Cathy Tuttle @cathytuttle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Save the date! International Cargo Bike Festival in Utrecht! Mon 12th October Tues 13th October 10.00-17.00 Daily Beatrixgebouw, Jaarbeursplein 6 Right next to the Central train station Test ride bikes, great speakers, my favorite bike people! cargobikefestival.com @cargobikefest.bsky.social #ICBF

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Cathy Tuttle - International Cargo Bike Festival

Cathy Tuttle lives in Utrecht. The subject of her lively original watercolors are the people she meets daily in Utrecht, on their bikes, living full, connected, joyful lives at every age. She sells po...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/03/2026

WELKER: Should Americans be bracing for the price of oil to go over $200 a barrel? CHRIS WRIGHT: So Iran calls us the 'great Satan.' I don't think we are the great Satan. In fact, clearly, we're not. WELKER: So that's a no? WRIGHT: It's a, uh, I would pay no attention to what Iran says, but ...

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Cathy Tuttle @cathytuttle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Simply removing most cars from many central downtown streets in Ghent, Belgium has dramatically transformed and improved the city. Pro tip: Any city anywhere can decide to do this. #belgium #bike #cargobike #urbanism

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Cathy Tuttle @cathytuttle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The rich and powerful have sunk trillions into concrete, steel & fossil fuels that benefit them, not us. Our lives and our bodies are on the line. Car culture kills & maims millions of us every year, especially our children & people who are poor or old or disabled. We must win this #WARonWALKING

Two people walking in a street in the Rainier Valley of Seattle. Cars are parked on the street. One of the people is carrying groceries, the other looks like a teen coming home from school. There are no sidewalks, but wide roads and a collection of oddly placed wooden and metal poles.

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Cathy Tuttle @cathytuttle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Wishing you all a sweet new year.

A red apple in the foreground on a tree with many apples in the background on trees behind it.

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Cathy Tuttle @cathytuttle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Paris is a city that's been WINNING the WAR ON WALKING. In the past decade city leaders built 300+ School Streets, launched a 15-minute city and reclaimed their downtown waterfront. It's a place people can enjoy an evening outside on what used to be a car freeway. This is what every city deserves.

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Cathy Tuttle @cathytuttle.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Biking builds trust. Great bike streets build friendships. In another city, this cluster of middle-aged guys might each be driving their own SUV to the pub or the grocery store. On bikes in #Utrecht NL these guys can relax, talk, and get to know each other.

6 men in a group biking along a street with red asphalt that indicates it is a fietsstraat, a bicycle-priority street.

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Cathy Tuttle @cathytuttle.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I make clay pigeons.

A cluster of small clay birds before they are glazed to look more like pigeons. I distribute them as found art in cities I visit.

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Cathy Tuttle @cathytuttle.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

#BirdOfTheDay theme is #Pigeons Pigeons used to flock to Venice. Now they're just an occasional tourist.

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Cathy Tuttle @cathytuttle.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

By definition, cities are places for people. The best cities are walking cities. The WAR ON WALKING is anti-city, and an attack on our future life on earth.

Two women walking with a bicycle between them.

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Cathy Tuttle @cathytuttle.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

By definition, cities are places for people. The best cities are walking cities. The WAR ON WALKING is anti-city, and an attack on our future life on earth.

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Cathy Tuttle @cathytuttle.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds." Wendell Berry 1934-2026

Bike path next to farm and meadow polders just north of Utrecht, Netherlands.

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Cathy Tuttle @cathytuttle.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Hetty asked me to design the cover of her 80th birthday photo album. She wanted me to paint her first ride she ever took with her husband, sitting in front of him on his bike because she didn't have the balance to sit behind him on a bike. www.cathytuttle.nl/store/p/w3sr...

painting of Hetty's first imagined ride with her husband 60 years ago in the polders of the Netherlands. https://www.cathytuttle.nl/store/p/w3srafoz36g9e9tnuedphmpqtkseuh-jalzf-lrex2-gwkht-d5fz2-wc2s8

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Cathy Tuttle @cathytuttle.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

In his first long English-language interview, 39-year-old Dutch Prime Minister @robjetten.bsky.social speaks @ tolerance, trust, work-life balance, rights for women, black, gay, trans people, human rights, climate action, and delivering basic human needs. The future of The Netherlands looks bright.

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Prime Minster Rob Jetten on coming out, his partner Nico Keenan, and combatting the far right

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Prime Minster Rob Jetten on coming out, his partner Nico Keenan, and combatting the far right

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BikeLoudPDX @bikeloudpdx.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Bike infrastructure gets a tiny fraction of all transportation space and money. This is true in Portland as well as other US cities. Of the 68 paved lanes between I-405 and the Willamette, 6 are dedicated to transit, 4 to bikes, 58 to cars.

what streets are car streets? Infographic from the Downtown Portland Car Master Plan. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RdhkiIkd-zUETgTbDcpx3mFeHifFkuWF/view

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Cathy Tuttle @cathytuttle.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

DOLLY is the third most popular family cargo bike in the Netherlands, after Urban Arrow and Bakfiets.nl.

The word DOLLY on the side of a DOLLY cargo bike

A DOLLY cargo bike locked up to a bench in a park-like setting (it's actually the bike parking area of an Utrecht hospital).

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Cathy Tuttle @cathytuttle.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton ran the Imagination Library, a foundation that has mailed over 300 million free books to young children since 1995. A life well lived. imaginationlibrary.com

Home page of the Imagination Library with a picture of Dolly Parton

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Cathy Tuttle @cathytuttle.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Cities aren't loud. Cars are loud. Your city doesn't have too much traffic. Your city has too many cars. #Utrecht rush hour 🚲❤️ Steden maken geen lawaai. Auto's maken lawaai. Er is niet te veel verkeer in jouw stad. Er zijn te veel auto's in jouw stad. #Utrecht spits 🚲❤️

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Cathy Tuttle @cathytuttle.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Cities (and streets and sidewalks) for people, and other living things. Original video by Moscow photographer Alena Malodushnaya on Instagram: www.instagram.com/p/DcLv5Ors6oB/

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Cathy Tuttle @cathytuttle.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Morning rush hour. Safe routes to school. Streets designed for people to fully live their lives. Not a city (or a country) at war with its own people. ❤️ #cargobike #Utrecht

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Not every pedestrian street will work year-round, at least not yet. Some need to be strengthened/revitalized first. The street has to already be reasonably successful as a sustainable summer people-magnet. Vancouver’s Granville Street isn’t ready yet. Seattle’s Pike Place IS ready to be year-round.

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Cathy Tuttle @cathytuttle.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

This mashup from @brenttoderian.bsky.social + @katharinehayhoe.com makes sense. Cities have always been resilient, diverse, amalgamations of humanity, where proximity breeds creativity & tolerance. We need that creativity & tolerance on hyperdrive to demand an achievable climate future.

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Cathy Tuttle @cathytuttle.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Climate Reality Melting asphalt, twisting tracks, cracking concrete. The planet's roads & rails were engineered for a climate that no longer exists. Dear governments, factor that into your externalities as we continue to grab for & blow through fossil fuels. EVs won't save us. But bicycles might.

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As Europe Gets Hotter, Its Transportation Systems Struggle to Cope (Gift Article)

The continent’s railways and roads “were engineered for a climate that no longer exists,” one expert said.

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As Europe Gets Hotter, Its Transportation Systems Struggle to Cope (Gift Article)

The continent’s railways and roads “were engineered for a climate that no longer exists,” one expert said.

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Cathy Tuttle @cathytuttle.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Anyone have some good bike eclipse photos? The Netherlands did not get a full eclipse but it was a fun event!

Shadows cast by my bike riding home after the apogee

Using a handmade box to watch the eclipse next to the Werkspoorkathedraal

People sharing a single set of eclipse glasses to watch with their bikes nearby

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Cathy Tuttle @cathytuttle.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I made a Cargo Bikes Feed on Bluesky that's always fun to follow. 📦🚲❤️ bsky.app/profile/did:... Here's one of my favorite posts of the day:

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Cathy Tuttle @cathytuttle.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Successful climate action is SO attractive! From 2015 to 2022 China spent $145M to make Tianjin's streets safer, greener, accessible. Evaluations found 100s of 1000s (70% of all trips) of people chose active/public transport. 𝗧𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗷𝗶𝗻'𝘀 𝗸𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘆: 𝘀𝘂𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗲 𝗷𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘆𝘀

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Japanese officials have coined an entirely new word to signify the dangerous heat of #ClimateChange. It's "kokushobi," which means "cruel heat day." This coinage is but a drop of the coming shower of cultural changes that climate change will force upon us. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/w...

The term got its first use on Tuesday, when three cities in central Japan recorded 40-degree temperatures, a first for the country this year. Officials urged people to stay indoors, use air-conditioning
and drink water. There were signs that many people had heeded the warnings, as popular sites such as Osaka Castle and Kyoto's Kiyomizu Temple
saw smaller crowds than usual on Tuesday. "Numbers are difficult to understand because people perceive them differently. By giving it the name 'cruel heat day,' people will understand it better just by hearing it, and they'll feel that today is dangerous," said Taro Kawasato, the assistant director of the Japan
Meteorological Agency's climate prediction division.

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Cathy Tuttle @cathytuttle.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

If you're involved in the rapid roll-out of bicycle urbanism in YOUR city, @modacitylife.com clear, concise🧵 of how Beijing moved from a bike mode share of 9.5% in 2015 to 30% of all trips by bike now is a must-read. Every local culture, climate, and fossil-lite economy depends on rapid action NOW.

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Cathy Tuttle @cathytuttle.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

"The thing that makes a bike lane “equitable” is that most people can afford a bike even if they can’t afford a car... It turns out the transportation we needed was there all along, just waiting to get better... "E-bikes [are] cutting oil demand by a million barrels a day, probably more than EVs."

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Cathy Tuttle @cathytuttle.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The Dutch have been studying bio-resilient cities for the past decade, protect existing trees in paving projects (often taking car lanes to give #trees more room to grow), and have added 1000s of new trees when improving bike lanes. The result in Utrecht is a cooler, more beautiful city to bike in.

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Dutch Cycling Embassy @dutchcycling.nl · 23/07/2026

The beauty of everyday cycling in the Netherlands. Artist Cathy Tuttle captures these everyday scenes beautifully in a series of watercolour postcards. We love these glimpses of the ordinary, made extraordinary. Explore the full collection: buff.ly/J3L3nOn

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BikeLoudPDX @bikeloudpdx.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Planning for 2100 is not hubris, it's common intergenerational decency. BikeLoudPDX is committed to a future Portland where 25% of all trips can be done by bike (and most of our remaining trips can conveniently be done on transit or by walking). Join us! bikeloudpdx.org/action2/

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Portland established an official goal of 25% of all trips by bike — by 2030. BIKELOUD takes action to ensure this vision is realized. Sign up to volunteer at BikeLoud events: Volunteer ...

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Cathy Tuttle @cathytuttle.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

When cities have safe, comfortable streets to ride bicycles, women choose to ride bicycles. According to @dutchcycling.nl 56% of Dutch bike riders are women. Als steden veilige comfortabele straten bieden om te fietsen, kiezen vrouwen ervoor om te fietsen. 56% van de Nederlandse fietsers is vrouw.

Two women walking along a path with a bike in between them. There are a group of bikes parked on the right side of the photo that I took in Utrecht. The bike they are pushing is the classic oma-fiets or grandma-bike with hefty carrying bags on either side of it for groceries, kid supplies, etc. The women, seen from the back are dressed in long flowing clothing from a Middle Eastern country. Dutch bikes are usually step-through, with good chain guards that make it easier to bike in long flowing clothes.

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Cathy Tuttle @cathytuttle.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Some humans have the hubris to think we can geo-engineer other planets to suit our biological needs, when in fact we're taking the perfect planet, that we've evolved to co-exist with, and literally burning it up with fossil fuels.

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Lior Steinberg @steinberg.nu · 13/07/2026

A traffic jam is a thousand people who were each promised freedom.

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Greg Annandale @gregannandale.com · 13/07/2026

I made an animation which shows the effects of air pollution on pedestrians waiting to cross the road, along with what can be done to reduce its harmful effects: stepback.gregdev.com Thank you to @ianwalker.bsky.social for the inspiration for doing so during a conversation a couple of weeks' back!

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'Step back' - air pollution at pedestrian crossings

Every busy road produces a cloud of pollution you can't see. Where you stand in it matters more than most people might realise.

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