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Matt N

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Matt N @n-ville.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Ontario court strikes down Ford government's plan to remove Toronto bike lanes Judge ruled that the removal of the 3 bike lanes will put 'people at increased risk of harm and death www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Ontario court strikes down Ford government's plan to remove Toronto bike lanes | CBC News
An Ontario court has deemed the province's plan to remove three major Toronto bike lanes unconstitutional.
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Matt N @n-ville.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Top U.N. Court Says Countries Must Act on Climate Change www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/c...
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Top U.N. Court Says Countries Must Act on Climate Change
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14/01/2025
Count the American Medical Association among groups that says positive things about the fight against climate change but then funnels money to politicians who are fighting solutions.
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New Study Highlights Disconnect Between AMA's Stance on Climate Change and Political Contributions | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
A new study finds a disconnect between the American Medical Association's climate advocacy and their political donations.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
“A 5-year study of 263K U.K. commuters, published in the British Medical Journal in 2017, found regular cycling cut the risk of death from any cause by 41%, and the incidence of cancer and heart disease by 45% and 46% respectively. Other large-scale studies have found similar.” Via @CarltonReid.com
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18-Year Study Of 82,297 Adults Finds Cycle Commuting Halves Chance Of Early Death
Billionaires famously want to live longer. They should jump on bicycles, not spacecraft.
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Hayden Clarkin @thetransitguy.com · 07/01/2025
Greenland after it becomes the 51st state:
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SW20ed #Edinburgh @sw20.info · 03/01/2025
Overheard on the bus today: “It’s too expensive to park the car in town and now the kids have free bus passes, it’s just as easy to take the bus.” Policy in action.
Upstairs on a Lothian Bus
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
The combined net worth of America's twelve wealthiest people passed $2 trillion last year. 12 people. $2 trillion. Meanwhile, U.S. homelessness increased 18% in 2024. Our problem isn’t an issue of resources. Our problem is ever-expanding wealth inequality.
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
We build vehicles that weigh 9000 pounds with 1000HP, can go 0-60mph in 3 seconds and market them recklessly. We then ask people to wear construction vests to cross the street. This is all so beyond absurd and it's truly incredible that we've normalized this.
Hummer EV glamour shotPerson walking across a large intersection wearing a construction vest.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 10/12/2024
This has always been my worst fear about climate change: the worse it gets, the more geopolitical chaos it causes; the more geopolitical chaos there is, the harder it is to cooperate to fight climate change. theconversation.com/a-doom-loop-...
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A ‘doom loop’ of climate change and geopolitical instability is beginning
Climate change is driving inflation and instability, which harms climate action. But it’s not too late to escape the doom loop.
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Taras Grescoe 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 04/12/2024
NEW STUDY: Car and truck tires are responsible for *one quarter* of all the microplastics in the environment. www.plasticstoday.com/medical/tire...
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Tire Wear a Major Source of Microplastics, Say Researchers
Imperial College experts warn that even though EVs remove the problem of fuel emissions, society will continue to grapple with tire-wear particles.
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 03/12/2024
Paris reduced the speed limit on its périphérique ring highway from 70 km/h to 50 km/h (44 to 31 mph) in October. The first major impact? A significant reduction in noise in the surrounding areas, particularly at night and on weekends/holidays (orange line). www.bruitparif.fr/l-impact-aco...
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
NEW: Swiss voters have rejected a $5.6 billion plan to expand highways. The plan's proponents claimed it would relieve congestion, but voters realized that wasn't true. www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-po...
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Reactions to 'no' vote on Swiss motorway expansion project
On Sunday, a majority of Swiss voters (52.7%) rejected a CHF5 billion government plan to extend key stretches of the motorway network.
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Taras Grescoe 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 20/11/2024
How one school made a street safer for kids. Not a full on "School Street," where all cars are banned, but a big improvement for health and safety of children. #Tirana, #Albania BEFORE/AFTER:
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Vallery Lancey @isthelaststop.com · 17/11/2024
I’ve been following a lot of climate and environmental scientists/policy experts/communicators, and I’m increasingly offput by the near zero acknowledgements of mass transit and the land rush toward electric cars.
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
3 years ago today did one of my first talks, Reframing and Rehumanizing Road Safety Forever grateful to the incredibly smart @drtcombs.bsky.social at the University of North Carolina for making space for a discussion on communications and the backwards approach that's normalized in the mainstream
Dodge social media post on the left Dominating from every angle with a black pickup truck

on the right my kid in front of a truck with the copy The All-new 2021 Child - Invisible from every angle.
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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Greenhouse gas emissions from the fossil fuels that Canada exports to other countries now far surpassed our country's total domestic emissions. Data reveals a significant gap between domestic and international climate action. www.nationalobserver.com/2024/11/12/n...
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Canada's fossil fuel exported emissions leapt to more than a billion tonnes last year
Newly surfaced federal data on Canada's exported emissions reveals a concerning trend. Despite emission reduction efforts at home, Canada's exported emissions from coal, oil and gas are dramatically c...
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Bryn Davidson - Lanefab @lanefab.com · 15/11/2024
Look how few cars there are driving on this road We should definitely draw broad conclusions about how much people like cars from this one photo of a partially completed road network.
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
what the hell are we doing, seriously. bsky.app/profile/tomf...
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Hackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Eerste van der Helststraat, Amsterdam in 1981 and today
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Cathy Tuttle @cathytuttle.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Do you have 22 minutes? Here's a wealth of info about best urban mobility practices from 120 European cities. Highly recommended proven solutions for new policy leaders + their staffs. #logistics #parking #airquality #congestion #resilience #safety #efficiency #multimodal #smartcity #cars #data
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Matt N @n-ville.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Over and Over, Studies Show Bike Lanes Don’t Cause Congestion Bike infrastructure tends to make vehicle travel faster, improve road safety, and bring more revenue to local businesses. www.planetizen.com/news/2024/10...
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Over and Over, Studies Show Bike Lanes Don’t Cause Congestion
Bike infrastructure tends to make vehicle travel faster, improve road safety, and bring more revenue to local businesses.
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Matt N @n-ville.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
“Robust, efficient transit networks can have an outsized impact on vehicle miles traveled, even by non-transit users.” www.planetizen.com/news/2024/11...
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How Good Transit Benefits Communities Beyond its Users
Robust, efficient transit networks can have an outsized impact on vehicle miles traveled, even by non-transit users.
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