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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 04/09/2026

I remember, many years ago, I first heard the phrase “climate anxiety” and thought it silly. Now here in Sydney - in the first week of spring - we face temperatures of 33*c and a total fire ban due to “extreme” fire danger… Now I’m anxious! www.nine.com.au/australia-ne...

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Total fire ban declared for millions as unseasonable early heatwave bears down

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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 25/08/2026

As someone who grew up working in a bookshop - but didn’t learn to read until quite late - I’m deeply sad about the passing of Dolly Parton, and so inspired by her literacy legacy. The Dolly Parton Imagination Library for children is incredible, long may it continue! 😢

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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 10/07/2026

Hmm, I have mixed views on this American study. Yes, protected bike lanes are better than painted ones and sharrows. But they’re not the ultimate boss of bike-friendly streets. Amsterdam’s 2nd busiest bike route is a filtered street with minimal cars, not a bike lane at all. bsky.app/profile/thom...

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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 10/07/2026

Insights from a Millennial Gay Man’s timeline: all of us are delirious for Madonna’s Confessions II. The queer lore! The yearning for collective experiences! The filthy base!🪭 But *this* remix makes me want to build a shrine, incant Patrick Cowley’s ghost and GO OFF open.spotify.com/track/5zZQc0...

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I Feel So Free - Peggy Gou Energy Mix

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Iain Roberts @slowbikeiain.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

From 1925: a prediction that, as more people choose to drive to the countryside, cars will end up destroying the very beauty that people go to see.

This is a satirical cartoon titled "Motoring and Our Beautiful Countryside" by W.K. Haselden, published in 1925.It highlights the irony of motorists destroying the very scenic beauty they drive out to see by demanding infrastructure improvements.The panels demonstrate a progression from idyllic country lanes to suburban sprawl, with the final panel depicting a dystopian landscape dominated by wide roads and minimal greenery.

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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 23/06/2026

Having recently been told by a stakeholder I should not canvas the opinions of children because “they don’t pay tax”, I am delighted to see this resource: bsky.app/profile/thet...

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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 21/06/2026

Having friends over for tea, cake and a wee dram to mark the winter solstice, so got my grandmother’s tea set out just for the occasion. So nice! May the rest of the year be good for you.

A green tray, set with bone china tea cups, a teapot, and a tea caddy. In the background, a nice bottle of whiskey awaits...

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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 20/06/2026

26.6°C in New Zealand today. Record-breaking run of 20°C+ consecutive days in Sydney. Tomorrow is mid-winter, the solstice… #ThisIsFine bsky.app/profile/coll...

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

STARTER PACK: There are so many great urbanists on Bluesky from outside North America, and hopefuly many more will join us! Please follow these folks and organizations, and please share. #UrbanistShoutout go.bsky.app/UG85GL8

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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 17/06/2026

If you’re at #VC26 @velo-city-conference.com in Rimini, look our for my friends from @urbancyclinginstitute.org launching their 2027 course calendar today, including this one, led by me: bsky.app/profile/urba...

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Urban Cycling Institute @urbancyclinginstitute.org · 10/06/2026

"Most opposition is coming from a place of emotion, not logic." Sasha Funk shares her key takeaways from our transformative course in Amsterdam Join us next year for the course's 2027 Edition 🗓️ 12–16 April 📍 Amsterdam Sign up for updates: forms.gle/ARjh9mPbFEmV...

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Participation for Better Streets: Why Engagement Matters

Engaging Communities for Changing Streets alumna, Sasha Funk, shares her key takeaways from the course

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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 15/06/2026

I am loving all these World Cup urbanism takes! ⚽️ bsky.app/profile/type...

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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 09/06/2026

Delighted with this write up by one of my students of “Engaging Communities for Changing Streets” in Amsterdam: urbancyclinginstitute.substack.com/p/participat... Registration for 2027 opening soon!

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Participation for Better Streets: Why Engagement Matters

Engaging Communities for Changing Streets alumna, Sasha Funk, shares her key takeaways from the course

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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 14/06/2026

We’re having a warm winter in Sydney and the bike lanes are busy, busy, busy!

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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 14/06/2026

This drone shot of Amsterdam gave me an idea - I'd love a book of aerial cross-sections of city streets from around the world (preferably with a scale so you can compare them.) Pls can someone smarter and with more time than me make this happen?

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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 11/06/2026

Every move you make, Every step you take, I’ll be watching you… 😬 bsky.app/profile/worl...

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Will Norman @willnorman.co.uk · 08/06/2026

Cycling in London is booming - with 1.5m cycle trips every day. So we're expanding London's network of cycleways to keep people safe. Great to see construction underway on permanent bike lanes on Goodsway, Kings Cross, Camden. @camdencouncil.bsky.social TfL 🚲🚲

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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 09/06/2026

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Participation for Better Streets: Why Engagement Matters

Engaging Communities for Changing Streets alumna, Sasha Funk, shares her key takeaways from the course

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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 07/06/2026

Beginning as a pop-up pandemic-era intervention in the summer of 2021, Bristol's bustling Princess Victoria Street emerged as a permanent pedestrian space within four years; offering a compelling case of how such measures can reshape public opinion, local economies, and the future of urban streets.🧵

People walk and sit along a pedestrianised shopping street in the centre of Bristol, featuring terraces, trees, planter boxes, bike parking, and advertising boards.

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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 02/06/2026

One day we arrived at one of our neighborhood playgrounds & one of my kids’ friends asked if they could get a ride in my bike, so I went around the little sidewalk loop at 3-4mph. They loved it! Now I end up giving rides to kids I don’t even know (w/ parent permission) every time we’re there. 😆

4 kids sit in a cargo bike on a small sidewalk around a playground

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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 02/06/2026

Finally made it to the newly refurbished State Library of NSW, and saw for the first time the resplendent 1988 “OZ?” tapestry by Martin Sharp, which now takes pride of place at the main entrance. A triumph!

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Meredith Glaser @cyclingprofessor.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

😱 Proven causality 😱 Paris cut car space & pollution plummeted. The Airparif data: 📉 -55% Fine particles (PM_{2.5}) 🌬️ -40% Toxic NO_2 exposure 🌱 -35% Traffic CO_2 emissions Paris is prioritizing community over commutes, green spaces over parking, and fresh air over exhaust. 📸 Christoph Najdovski

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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 30/05/2026

Very late night, moon-lit, crisp winter’s eve bike ride home through Sydney. 19min / 5.5km trip, all on quietways and separated cycleways. Just magic!

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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 30/05/2026

Love this list! bsky.app/profile/bren...

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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 30/05/2026

Amazing mode share chart. I’d love to see these for multiple cities, shown side-by-side. bsky.app/profile/jaso...

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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 29/05/2026

Love this! At London’s famous Columbia Rd flower market, cargo bike delivery service @pedalme.bsky.social just made their 100th delivery of plants by bike, including banana plants, olive trees, bamboo, and fab florals customers couldn't carry home. 🪴

A long-tail cargoe bike packed with flowers and plants from the market.

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Laura Laker @lauralaker.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

New from me, in Bloomberg's CityLab: how cycling and walking routes are doing more with less, and helping wildlife, too. Also, an honourable mention to the sub(s) who came up with one of the most joyful headlines to an article, ever www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 20/05/2026

What awful committee came up with “call for walk signal”?! What does it even mean??? bsky.app/profile/usai...

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Baboon on a Call

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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 19/05/2026

Build it and they’ll come indeed… Sydney Harbour Bridge cycleway average bike trips per day double since bike ramp replaced stairs. April 2025: 1,204 p/d. April 2026: 2,410 p/d. bsky.app/profile/urba...

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Save Our Safer Streets - Tower Hamlets @saveoursaferstreets.org · 11/05/2026

The Supreme Court has granted Tower Hamlets Council permission to appeal the ruling that removing Bethnal Green's LTNs was unlawful. We are disappointed, but undeterred. We won at the Court of Appeal and we'll fight this too, but we need your support. www.crowdjustice.com/case/defendi...

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Defending Tower Hamlets LTNs in the Supreme Court

We are a group of Tower Hamlets residents who want to keep and improve the safer streets in Bethnal Green, for all.

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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 05/05/2026

A new visitor to our inner Sydney back yard - a lovely Laughing Kookaburra welcoming me back to Australia.

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

The academic hype around Mobility-as-a-Service has been massively overblown. I once joked that there are more researchers studying MaaS platforms than there are travelers actually using them. doi.org/10.1016/j.tr....

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Very good Private Eye cover this week.

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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 26/04/2026

I sometimes think we over complicate bikes and cycling. I’ve just completed a 44km ride around the ‘waterland’ countryside north of Amsterdam, on a 3-speed, steel, upright clunker. It was slow going, but perfectly fine.

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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 23/04/2026

Rush hour in Amsterdam. (Look out for the double base on a bike, two wheelchairs and a kid)

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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 22/04/2026

We’ve reached halfway for the inaugural “Engaging Communities for Changing Streets” program I am leading at the @urbancyclinginstitute.org in Amsterdam, and I can’t tell you how much fun we are having! 29 leaders, 13 countries, Amsterdam streets = happy chaos and a sense of warm confusion.

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Transportation historian Peter Norton doesn't buy into the robotaxi hullabaloo: "What robot cars are promising is the next generation of car dependency." In @bloomberg.com, my lengthy conversation with @norton.bsky.social

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Why Cities Shouldn’t Fall For the Robotaxi Hype

Transportation historian Peter Norton sees a pattern in the promises that autonomous vehicle companies make as they push self-driving cars into cities.

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Caroline Russell @carolinerussell.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Londoners consistently vote for breathing cleaner air, yet negative online narratives about the clean air zone, have led to the criminal cutting down of cameras in outer London and terrifying use of explosives to blow up a ULEZ camera close to people's homes. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Mayor warns of London 'disinformation blizzard' on social media

Sir Sadiq Khan claims London is being targeted with disinformation portraying it as a city

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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 07/04/2026

WOW! Car traffic on Sydney’s arterial roads down 5%, hire bike trips up 25% last month, and bike trips on key cycleway now 3 x higher than last year: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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Cars make way for bikes as Sydney commuters saddle up to circumvent ‘crazy’ fuel costs

The shock of the oil crisis is playing out on Australian streets, where bike sales are up and cycle lanes are busier

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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 07/04/2026

WOW! Car traffic on Sydney’s arterial roads down 5%, hire bike trips up 25% last month, and bike trips on key cycleway now 3 x higher than last year: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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Cars make way for bikes as Sydney commuters saddle up to circumvent ‘crazy’ fuel costs

The shock of the oil crisis is playing out on Australian streets, where bike sales are up and cycle lanes are busier

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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 06/04/2026

Very interesting new research finds disinformation circulates not as facts which can be balanced with counter-facts, but as compelling narratives with deep cultural resonance. Street changers,take note! bsky.app/profile/alic...

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