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Morten Kabell

@mortenkabell.bsky.social
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Green urbanist. 2014-17 Mayor in Copenhagen (Mobility, Climate & Urban Dev.) 2018-20 CEO Copenhagenize & European Cyclists Fed. 🏳️‍🌈🐻 Born at 326 ppm

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Morten Kabell @mortenkabell.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Med Landbrug og Fødevarer (“skyerne ser mørke ud for dansk landbrug og danske fødevarevirksomheder”) og Berlingske (“Jeg spår denne regering en kort levetid … Enhedslisten trækker notorisk i en skadelig retning…”) vil jeg glæde mig til at se det nye regeringsgrundlag… #danmark
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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
“…disabled people are actually less likely to drive than nondisabled people and more likely to get around by walking and rolling and taking transit. Car-heavy cities are also disproportionately dangerous for disabled folks…”— @nondriver.bsky.social Don’t use accessibility “as a political football.”
motherjones.com
Do car-free zones hurt disabled people? We asked experts.
City planners and advocates are seeing "accessibility used as a political football."
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath Some costs aren’t costs.
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One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss
Copenhagen, the bicycle-friendliest place on the planet, publishes a biannual Bicycle Account, and buried in its pages is a rather astonishing fact.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
In cities, street space is a really scarce (and under-valued) commodity. Increasing vehicle size costs everyone. And vehicle weight determines your impact on the wear-and-tear of cities. So this kind of public policy is really just common sense.
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Peder Hvelplund @pederhvelplund.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Afskaf brugerbetaling på tandbehandling og receptpligtig medicin. Adgang til behandling skal sikres af sygesikringskortet - ikke dankortet. Det klare budskab fra pressemødet i @enhedslisten.bsky.social #dkpol www.dr.dk/nyheder/poli...
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LIVE: Seneste nyt fra dansk politik
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Don’t forget, for many years #Uber insisted loudly that it would reduce traffic in cities. Instead, Uber drivers cruise without passengers 40% of the time. Uber and Lyft no longer claim they reduce traffic. They now admit they increase congestion. So much for “making cities better…” Via @wsj.com
wsj.com
The Ride-Hail Utopia That Got Stuck in Traffic
Uber and Lyft said they would ease congestion. Instead they made it worse.
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Morten Kabell @mortenkabell.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Igen rammer Politikens Lars Dahlager københavnsk politik spot on #kbhpol #københavn
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Never forget, when you’re being asked to prove that safe bike-lanes or pedestrian crossings across currently unsafe conditions are ‘needed,’ it's hard to justify a bridge by the number of people swimming across a raging river. #TheTruthAboutTraffic
People on bikes in a protected bike-lane in downtown Vancouver.
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Thomas Højlt @thoejlt.eurosky.social · 28/03/2025
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
“Believe it or not, electric bikes offer more exercise than pedal bikes on average. That might sound strange, but the science is clear.” Why e-bikes give more exercise than “acoustic” bikes. (but both are excellent for better cities, and both are a LOT cheaper than cars, especially after tariffs!)
electrek.co
Why electric bikes actually give more exercise than pedal bikes
Believe it or not, electric bikes offer more exercise than pedal bikes on average. That fact might sound strange (and...
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
A typical European car is parked 92% of the time. It spends 1/5th of its driving time looking for parking. Its 5 seats only move 1.5 people. 86% of its fuel never reaches the wheels, and most of the energy that does, moves the car, not the people. Sound efficient? HT @ellenmacarthurfdn.bsky.social
Graphics fill of statistics on the efficiency or in efficiency of cars
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
I fear there is deep truth here.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Copenhagen in the winter. Get the point?
Lots of people biking in the snow in winter in central Copenhagen in a protected bike-lane wearing warm clothing.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
“The survey revealed that traders who drive to their business estimated much higher customer car use (29%) than traders that use other modes of transport (between 10% and 19%).” The actual car use was 7%. Yet another survey showing again that retailers constantly overestimate customer car-use.
rifs-potsdam.de
Shoppers’ Mobility Habits: Retailers Overestimate Car Use
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
“It's amazing how pollution has dropped in #Paris in 15 years. @annehidalgo.bsky.social has filled the city with bike-lanes & not only has she reduced pollution by 40% but she’s also been re-elected.” Trading car space for green space, bike space, kid space…trading pollution for people. Good trade.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
READ THIS! You don’t just improve city life by removing something bad (cars). You do it by putting wonderful things for people where the cars used to be! Read #Oslo’s “Car-Free” Livability Program (it’s not really car-free, but there are a lot fewer of them): www.oslo.kommune.no/getfile.php/...
Title page of Oslo Car-Free Livability ProgramGraphic of “Active City Life Zone”Graphic of “city life measures”Overall map
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
You laugh, but this is Elon Musk’s plan for public transit.
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Leo Murray @crisortunity.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Merry Christmas everyone #TreesByBike
Christmas tree on the back of my tern GSD
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
“A startling statistic emerged in Paris last month: during the morning and evening rush hours, on representative main thoroughfares crisscrossing the French capital, there are now more bicycles than cars – almost half as many again, in fact.” Leadership. #Paris www.theguardian.com/cities/2023/...
theguardian.com
Bollards and ‘superblocks’: how Europe’s cities are turning on the car
In Paris, Barcelona and Brussels, authorities are adopting varied approaches to the task of reducing congestion and pollution
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
“A city’s creativity doesn’t depend on cars. That’s the 20th century. We’re in the 21st.” - Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo @annehidalgo.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/8fba...
ft.com
Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo: ‘A city’s creativity doesn’t depend on cars. That’s the 20th century’
Accused of desecrating the French capital, the politician wants more bikes, green spaces and social housing
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Morten Kabell @mortenkabell.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Jeg tror ikke, at @kristianmadsen.bsky.social er en stor fan af Pernille R-T’s københavnerstrategi 😂
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Urban Cycling Institute @urbancyclinginstitute.org · 22/11/2024
The failure of #Tesla #autopilot is further proof that we don’t need more driverless cars. We need more car-less drivers. Do we agree, @aoc.bsky.social?
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Kristian Madsen @kristianmadsen.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Jeg kæmper forgæves med at forstå strategien med, at beskrive det som 'tæt på umuligt' at opnå valg. Hvem gider at stemme på Æslet fra Peter Plys? "Nu skal vi fortælle københavnerne, hvordan vi vil styrke velfærden, forbedre folkeskolen og skabe en mangfoldig by!" www.berlingske.dk/politik/inte...
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Intern måling sender chokbølger gennem Socialdemokratiet: Overborgmesterposten bliver »tæt på umulig«
Læs mere her.
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Hans Redder @hansersej.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Med et år til kommunalvalg er S godt i gang med at tale forventningerne helt ned under gulvbrædderne i København. Analyse👇 nyheder.tv2.dk/politik/2024... #dkpol
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Er S ved at forberede sig på århundredets nederlag i København?
ANALYSE: Med et år til kommunalvalg er S i gang med at tale forventningerne ned under gulvbrædderne.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
RESEARCH: People Walking Spend More In U.K. Shops Than Motorists. For the record, people on bikes & riding transit do too. No surprise here, study after study has concluded this & it’s really just common sense. But I still welcome every bit of evidence we can share. www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...
forbes.com
People Walking Spend More In U.K. Shops Than Motorists, Finds ‘Pedestrian Pound’ Research
The third iteration of The Pedestrian Pound shows that people on foot spend more money than people arriving by car.
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
"By 2030, Paris will have removed 60,000 parking spaces and replaced them with trees."
bloomberg.com
Paris to Replace Parking Spaces With Trees
The city’s new climate plan promises to drop speed limits, repurpose traffic lanes, remove 60,000 parking spots and create urban “oases” to combat extreme heat.
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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
People only say a space is an echo chamber when left wing thought dominates
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