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Talking about how cities achieve contentious change with strategic engagement and communications. Consulting and training: strategic-cities.com Sydney | London 🚲🌳🌈 (Personal thoughts from Mark A - often astride a bicycle.)

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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 10/07/2026
Amsterdam’s Weesperzijde filtered riverside bike route runs parallel to a a city main road that has perfect separated cycle tracks. The more popular route? This river route:
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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 10/07/2026
It’s alright, I suppose.
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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 21/06/2026
Good Monday morning!
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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
#showyourstripes - Sydney 😱 showyourstripes.info
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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 18/06/2026
We ❤️ Glebe. #sydney
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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 17/06/2026
I am really looking forward to returning to Amsterdam again next year, to meet a new cohort of participants on “Engaging Communities for Changing Street”!
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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 · 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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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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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 19/05/2026
It’s a cracker! Railings made of the same alloy they use throughout the Opera House, and Indigenous design inlaid in the pavement represents cross-harbour connection. We are so lucky (at last!)
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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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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 03/05/2026
Price of Unleaded 95 continued to drop last week, now just 194.9 a litre at my local garage. 15% more than pre-war price but almost within boundaries of usual price cycles. So what happened to the ‘fuel crisis’? Did we outbid poorer nations? Use less, therefore decreasing demand? Something else?
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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 26/04/2026
It’s nice out.
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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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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 12/04/2026
Interestingly the price of Unleaded 95 is now 232.9, down 15% from the record high of 274.9 just 13 days ago, but still up 61% from the pre-war price of 169.9 a litre.
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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 04/04/2026
(Note the full grown adult male, for scale)
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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 04/04/2026
What fresh hell is this?
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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 03/04/2026
Hello, Earth. NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft’s window, while on his way to the Moon earlier today: www.nasa.gov/image-articl...
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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 02/04/2026
I am *obsessed* with the #Artemis2 livestream from the Orion spacecraft. Mind-blowing visuals of our incredible earth seen from space, just casually relayed via YouTube like it is the most normal thing ever... www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Rwf... #NASA #ArtemisII
A shot from onboard the Artemis spacecraft deep in the blackness of night space. We see the thrusters of the spacecraft, and beside them our earth - seen as a far off crescent like the moon.
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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 02/04/2026
Interesting! Price of Unleaded 95 has now gone down 20c a litre in 3 days (274.9 > 254.9), after the Australian government halved the duty on petrol by 26c a litre. However, still up 50% since the start of the war, and presumably likely to peak again if demand increases?
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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 31/03/2026
I was last in Paris for the 2024 Olympics, and it was hugely inspiring to see how much of the city was on the move by foot, bike and public transport!
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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 29/03/2026
Crikey! Local Unleaded 95 leapt 5c overnight - that’s now a 61% increase since the start of the war in Iran.
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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 28/03/2026
16kg of cat food and kitty litter on the bike? Easy!
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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 23/03/2026
Unleaded 95 at my local garage now $2.66AUD a litre, up 57% since the outbreak of the Iran war, and up 4% in 4 days…
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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 19/03/2026
Day 20 of the war in Iran and Unleaded 95 at my local petrol station is now $2.569AUD a litre - a 51% increase on the pre-war price.
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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 19/03/2026
Can we all just take a moment to admire this photo of my local MP, @kobishettymp.bsky.social who is, quite clearly, a badass.
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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 15/03/2026
Oof, here we go. 95 Unleaded is now $2.459 a litre at my local garage - that’s a 45% increase on the pre-war price. Day 16 of the conflict in Iran, and I don’t see the spectre of a major energy crisis going away…
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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 12/03/2026
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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 12/03/2026
New profile pic, who dis?
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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 02/03/2026
Thinking about how the 1973 oil crisis in the Netherlands led to petrol rationing, driving bans, parties and playdates on freeways, and the opportunity to imagine an alternative future…
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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 28/02/2026
Post a pic you took to bring some zen to your feed bsky.app/profile/rant...
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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 27/02/2026
👆If you like that, you’ll like this👇
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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 27/02/2026
Well helloooo!
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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 27/02/2026
Love the RBG! And they have *this*! 🚂
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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 27/02/2026
Cutest little rubbish truck spotted in Sydney. Scale your vehicles to your city, don’t scale your city to your vehicles!
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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 25/02/2026
I finally had a chance to use the new Sydney Harbour Bridge bike ramp. No more pushing your bike up 55 steep stairs! The views are breathtaking, I was extremely impressed.
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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 21/02/2026
When you're looking for something on Streetview, and spy some unexpected cycle chic... maps.app.goo.gl/aUBYPnECWmVQ... (Berlagebrug, Amsterdam)
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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 18/02/2026
Reflections on seeing “The Normal Heart” at @sydneyoperahouse.bsky.social last night; groundbreaking ‘80s play about outbreak of AIDS in NYC. Beyond the horrors of that epidemic, this is a still-timely battle between different ways to change the world… 1/2
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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 14/02/2026
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” 😍
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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 08/02/2026
Just a reminder! When you subscribe to our newsletter you'll receive our free Amsterdam case study, AND 5% off our Fundamental and Practitioner courses: www.strategic-cities.com/home/#subscr...
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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 07/02/2026
Funky clouds over Sydney tonight.
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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 07/02/2026
OH NO, not a “gloating mob”! 🙄
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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 03/02/2026
I took the train from Brussels to Berlin on midsummer’s eve in 2024, taking my bike and sharing a compartment with 2 Canadians and a Dutch student. Armed with ear plugs and a bottle of wine, we all slept well enough… Cycling in Berlin is fun!
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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 03/02/2026
Bookings for autumn journeys on @europeansleeper.eu are open, with overnight fares Paris <> Berlin, or Amsterdam <> Prague as low as €49.99 available: www.europeansleeper.eu/autumn-trips...
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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 27/01/2026
Leidseplein used to be a bit of a dump - like London’s Leicester Square, but with too many bikes. Now it is delightful, and… lizards! bsky.app/profile/hack...
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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 14/01/2026
Unanticipated consequence of climate change: we all have to look at cars more… www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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