🛍️ "Unlock local return on investments by footfall” - Investing in active mobility drives higher footfall, boosts retail spending, and yields a far higher economic return for local businesses than parking spaces.

🌿 "Build quiet, clean, and thriving neighborhoods" - Human-scale streets deliver cleaner air, lower stress, and healthier populations over a lifetime.

🗽 "Expand transport freedom & personal choice" - Giving people safe, real choices to walk, wheel, cycle, or drive creates true personal freedom, justice, and financial resilience for every household.

👧 "Restore safe independence to our kids” - Human-scale streets gives children back their autonomy, allows them to safely walk, cycle, and play.

🚦 "Maximize space for people, not idle cars" - Street space is limited and valuable. By designing for humans rather than vehicles, we move more people, reduce traffic jams, and make every square meter of our public space work harder for the community.

My favorite quote from a Dutch traffic engineer: if you need a sign, it’s a bad design. Photo: @urbancyclinginstitute

🙀 Did you know that 1 in 5 Europeans experience“forced car ownership"? About half of Europeans are car-dependent. 75% never use public transit. Source: Oeko-Institut

🚗 “We need Ozempic for cars.” Autobesity is making our city streets more deadly and congested than ever. @christianwolmar.bsky.social wrote about "car-spreading" in @theguardian.com l1nq.com/0ium3vf photo: @cleancitiescampaign.org

Instead of efficiency, mobility can also maximize playfulness, calm, joy. Does your city maximize joy on its streets?

😱 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

What if our transportation policies started with the vision that our kids could walk, bike and roll to school on their own from 8 years old. Clearly, our streets would need to change.

🔊Ads for Range Rovers now banned in Amsterdam. Also, ads for flights and any kind of meat. It is now all verboden. shorturl.at/tS5fU

#2 💶 add money: Flemish govt adds €100M on top of €300M for upgrades & missing links. Local bike project fund jumps from €15M to €25M annually to help municipalities build game-changing routes. AND maintenance rises to €1.4B/year by 2029, speeding renewal and safety improvements shorturl.at/hL0xx

THIS is the secret to redefining cycling for your region. Let's learn from Belgium today: #1 - 🎯 a bold target: The new Cycling Master Plan for Flanders sets a bold target: 30% of all trips by bike by 2040 shorturl.at/hL0xx

Paris proves: built it and they will come.

Paris more than tripled bike trips! The #how tells a clear story of political vision but ALSO carrots and sticks. 🥕 180km of protected bike lanes, bike parking, growing Vélib’ network, 300 school streets, pedestrian zones, re-greening 🔧 Low-emission zones, higher fuel prices, reduced car space

‼️ UNBELIEVABLE RESULTS‼️ Hold my baguette while I count the people on bikes! How did Paris increase cycling by 240% in a few short years?

24 change agents from 11 countries will share key insights from 3 weeks in #Amsterdam. 📅 16 July 2025 | 🕑 14:00–16:00 CET 📍 UvA REC Campus, Room C1.04 🌍 Zoom us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... 👉 In person RSVP: forms.gle/ur5dXydkDeai... Online:

New research shows clear relationship between car dependence and (lower) life satisfaction. Researchers suggest: ⬆️ car dependence = ⬇️ transportation options = ⬇️ life choices = ⬇️ life satisfaction ⬆️ car dependence = ⬆️ financial burdens = ⬇️ life choices = ⬇️ life satisfaction shorturl.at/s56Bh

To all those out there who are feeling uncertain, worried, anxious. Refuse to be distracted from enjoying your own important work. Keep on blazing trails, finding that north star. Thank you Sharon for these encouraging words.

When we 'travel together alone', our #mobility contributes to physical, mental, social health problems. When we recapture the value of 'traveling alone together' - surprise! - the humble #bicycle offers a unique potential exposure to diversity. #openaccess www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Pretty last minute, but this season we went for a tree. First time in 14 years. I hate the thought of cutting down trees, but carrying home our precious tree by bike was a joy. #preciouscargo #ecargobike @btwin.bsky.social

"We're not Amsterdam! Our city is huge, so riding bikes doesn't make sense." The common trope. But use this cool mapping tool to compare the size of Amsterdam to your city! maps.amsterdam.nl/hoegroot/

Can a street's name make you feel more included, represented in your city? 8 in 10 streets are named after men in #Amsterdam - but not for long. In the financial district Zuidas, all new streets will be named after women leaders. Other districts are following. shorturl.at/Q8pF8

"Cars should have warning labels like cigarette packets." A fantastic prompt for DALL-E. www.nzz.ch/wirtschaft/d...

"It’s so emotionally captivating to see kids in masses biking with each other...it’s like you’re seeing freedom, independence, joy, the health...everybody’s craving what that imagery represents." New research shows the impact of #bikebus on #kids #health #communities #futures. shorturl.at/Uem6d

#Cycling is 10x more important than #electriccars for reaching net-zero cities". If just 1 in 5 urban residents shift only 1 trip per day from driving to cycling, it would cut emissions from all car travel in Europe by about 8%. Read more: tinyurl.com/muup824s Graphic: Mikael Colville Andersen

Women led the #Swiss vote against highway expansion. We know women face greater risks & burdens from climate change, unequal participation in decision-making and labor. Swiss women demonstrated critical leadership for social action! shorturl.at/0PUqQ

Historic vote!! #Swiss say no to highways, breaking the #blackhole of highway investment, instead making #publictransit, cycling, walking more attractive. Preventing traffic violence, air pollution, sedentary travel, and more. Showing the world there is an alternative narrative & different future.