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World Bike Forward @urbanupgradeglobal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Urban bikers, even when just running errands, recording on bike apps can help planners know where to put protected lanes, anonymized. Set those rides to private to not junk up your followers. Academic data analysts: here's a program in the same vein. press.strava.com/artic…

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World Bike Forward @urbanupgradeglobal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As NYC spreads busways (not just bus lanes) to 34th Street in Manhattan, East Tremont in the Bronx, etc., this is how they work youtu.be/9U4N7OkT-g8?...

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How Do NYC's Busways Work?

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World Bike Forward @urbanupgradeglobal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Brazil is not exactly bike-friendly, but there are glimmers of change here and there. This sign on a rest-stop service station and restaurant outside São Paulo is aimed at sport riders: "Cyclists welcome! Available for free use: patches for tire tubes, air pumps, tool kits."

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World Bike Forward @urbanupgradeglobal.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Amazing stuff going on in Paris, in the 13th year of its bicycling transformation. This first map shows bike lanes built just since 2021, generally protected. Does not include local extensions under a neighborhood program.

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World Bike Forward @urbanupgradeglobal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Cars are now used within Paris for just 9% of total trips, less than bikes and far less than public transit. If you visit Paris, don't mess up the stats.

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World Bike Forward @urbanupgradeglobal.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

In Copenhagen, nearly half of work and school commutes are by bike and most of the rest on foot or by transit. But in the 1970s it was becoming a car town. A freeway was to be built right through the core. No one had the benefit of hindsight then to see what that sort of thing does to downtowns.

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World Bike Forward @urbanupgradeglobal.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

London has added about 340 km of bike lanes in the past decade. Total car traffic there is still below the level of 2019, before Covid and remote work rearranged travel patterns. But bike travel is up 43%, to 1.5 million trips a day.

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World Bike Forward @urbanupgradeglobal.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

After seeing London bike trips reach 1.5 million/day & the air scrubbed clean by car limits, UK govt. launches third national investment plan for walking and cycling. $6bn in ten years. National safe-routes-to-school program. Goal to drop child crash deaths by 70%. www.gov.uk/government/p...

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Active Travel – Active England: the third cycling and walking investment strategy (CWIS3)

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World Bike Forward @urbanupgradeglobal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Getting into the shoulder season with less summer heat in Europe and the wine harvest. This cycle track crosses the heart of Burgundy. If Pommard, Montrachet, and Meursault mean anything to you, you get it. Amenities include trailside cafés serving French food, known locally as food.

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World Bike Forward @urbanupgradeglobal.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Adapting cities to the new light-electric mobility is a worldwide issue. E-motos are too efficient and cheap to let them be driven off the roads by cars, but too fast to mix with bicycles on the bike lane, much less with people on sidewalks.

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World Bike Forward @urbanupgradeglobal.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I'm a fan of developing countries that develop. Been traveling for decades to the western backlands of the state of Bahia, Brazil to visit family. Never seen transportation conditions as good as last week, both there and in the coastal capital Salvador.

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World Bike Forward @urbanupgradeglobal.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Can't remember why we let these overrun our cities

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World Bike Forward @urbanupgradeglobal.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

New NJ/NY Meadowlands? Less parking, more train connections, more action, more green. rpa.org/work/reports...

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World Bike Forward @urbanupgradeglobal.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Love these all-electric buses in São Paulo, hundreds of them. So much quieter than diesel, with no urban air pollution. And this being Brazil, they're running on wind, sunshine, and river power.

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World Bike Forward @urbanupgradeglobal.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This interview-while-riding is about AOC's views on transportation and freedom, but one other detail caught my eye. She and the journalist wait patiently at a light next to two cars, each maybe two tons. When they start up again nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/07/24/f...

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Biking With AOC in Her Queens District - Streetsblog New York City

Streetsblog went on a bike ride with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez around East Elmhurst and Jackson Heights. Here's what we discussed.

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World Bike Forward @urbanupgradeglobal.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Not sure this transmits the tranquility the prefecture is hoping for. São Paulo "arrest meter" listing the feats of the police lately empowered with more camera tech. Starts with "Escapees Captured" totaling 3,323. (OK, it's more like "warrants served," but still.)

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World Bike Forward @urbanupgradeglobal.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

World's most-liveable cities as usual are in Scandinavia and German-speaking Europe. Second best are in Australia, New Zealand, Japan US continues to trail Canadian cities, with only Honolulu close. Worst of all is Damascus.

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World Bike Forward @urbanupgradeglobal.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

The World Cup is on without the Italians, but they did host the Bike Messenger World Championship this year

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 30/06/2026

A Japanese fan broke down crying after his country's elimination, but a group of Brazilians fans went to console him and Mexican fans made him soar. You gotta love the World Cup! ❤️🌎⚽️ Video: RÉCORD

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World Bike Forward @urbanupgradeglobal.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Name this city. Bottom sign: no bike riding. Top sign: no walking your bike. Hint: applies to almost the whole city.

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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

"The pedestrian/cyclist just came out of nowhere!" Babe, if you were doing 30mph, 30 seconds ago you were a quarter of a mile away - if anyone came out of nowhere, it's you.

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World Bike Forward @urbanupgradeglobal.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

New York, LA, SF, Miami could all use more of this. Secure bike parking at Milan subway station. Ride to the station, lock up, cross the city, come back hours later, bike not stolen, ride home.

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World Bike Forward @urbanupgradeglobal.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Less bus noise, CO2 emission, and diesel smoke in the face. São Paulo transit system took delivery of another 500 battery-electric buses all at once this morning. Formed a double line 4 miles long. Total now 1,759. Made in Brazil by Marcopolo, Caio, Mercedes, and VW with BYD and other Chinese firms.

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World Bike Forward @urbanupgradeglobal.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

OK it's just a yogurt ad but the Dutch bike is a nice touch (São Paulo)

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World Bike Forward @urbanupgradeglobal.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Kids learn urban biking early when your city makes it possible (Milan)

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World Bike Forward @urbanupgradeglobal.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Thi study of health risks includes injuries, which in the US mainly come from drinking and then driving. Contrary to popular belief, even one beer increases risk to drivers and others, as reaction time increases and risk aversion drops. This is not only about alcohol, but about car culture.

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World Bike Forward @urbanupgradeglobal.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Efficiency of trains + bike-share in dense cities. In Milan with 1 hour between trains, picked up a lost phone from 2 km away. Took me 20 minutes total. E-bikes by the steps of the station, park at door of destination, then right back to front of station. Compare w/outlying airport + Uber call.

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World Bike Forward @urbanupgradeglobal.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

On sprawl costs: "Residents in Alexandria, Virginia spend an average 26.8% of income on housing while residents of more sprawling Bedford, Virginia, spend 21.6% on average. But when you add energy and transportation costs, the spend in Alexandria totals 43% of income versus 47.9% in Bedford."

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World Bike Forward @urbanupgradeglobal.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

To build a highway across an entire metro area to carry 72,000 people an hour at peak, you'd have to wipe out enough city to fit 32 lanes plus ramps and intersections. The Elizabeth Line does that every day with no emissions, no traffic jams, no crashes, and no surface disruption in central London.

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World Bike Forward @urbanupgradeglobal.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

@governor.ny.gov Now that a few hundred LIRR folks held up a few hundred thousand riders to get their raises and keep earning $200k to move trains like in the 1950s, consider that this train works just fine without a driver or conductor. Which is one reason it comes every three minutes.

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World Bike Forward @urbanupgradeglobal.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Buying a home in America used to cost 2-3X median household income, but now 4-10X. Cities below 5X are either in demand and build aggressively, or are in relative decline. If your city is in demand and not building, it's a problem. You can find yours on this graph live in the reply link.

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World Bike Forward @urbanupgradeglobal.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

New study of 38 cities in Europe that cut speed limits to 30 km/h (19 mph) on many streets, shows safety gains and no impact on congestion or trip times. Better flow (less clumping, fewer stops/slow restarts) compensates for lower top speed. See reply below for another dramatic case not in Europe.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/05/2026

IMO, if you want to protect "the children," you should do something about the two leading causes of death for US children. (Guess which party works relentlessly to prevent any progress on this score.)

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World Bike Forward @urbanupgradeglobal.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

"In March, the first month of the war in the Middle East, more than 344,000 electric vehicles were registered across Europe, over 40 percent more than a year earlier, according to the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/b...

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How Energy Prices Are Driving Demand for Solar Panels and Heat Pumps

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World Bike Forward @urbanupgradeglobal.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

In Malibu for a wedding. Speed limit on Pacific Coast Highway cut to 25 mph for rebuilding from 2025 fires. Multiple signs, radar displays showing actual speeds, pleas to "Slow Down!" So far seen zero people driving under the limit. So next time someone says cyclists don't follow traffic laws...

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World Bike Forward @urbanupgradeglobal.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Just witnessed power of price signals to solve "impossible" traffic. São Paulo has famous jams into intl airport, but now started free-flow-tolling express lanes, no charge on others. People can choose to save time or save money. Taxi took us rush hour from south side SP in 30 mins, usually an hour.

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World Bike Forward @urbanupgradeglobal.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

If São Paulo can get cars off its equivalent of Fifth Avenue every Sunday and holiday, which can't New York do it on Fifth Avenue? @nyc-dot.bsky.social

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