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A bicycle would need to travel on a road 160,000 times to cause as much wear and tear as single motor vehicle trip.
Hate constant road construction? Advocate for better cycling infrastructure in your city!
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Lucas Campbell
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Lucas Campbell
@luccampbell
city planner + environmentalist. opinions are my own.
Regina, Saskatchewan Katılım Ocak 2011
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Happy Earth Day 2026.
We must continue to invest in the electrification of every aspect of our cities, while simultaneously building dense, mixed use neighbourhoods which prioritize public and active transportation.
It is good for our community.
It is good for our planet.
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The future can be so bright if only we dare to allow it to be.
Amanda Litman@amandalitman
I love it when we refuse to settle for the way things are as the way they have to be. nytimes.com/2026/04/13/nyr…
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Experts confirm: drivers opting for larger SUVs are compounding the pothole problem.
In accordance, road maintenance costs are increasing.
Should large SUV owners be charged a higher tax compared to those who opt for smaller vehicles or bicycles?
theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/a…
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Shaded bike lanes aren’t talked about enough.
Alejandro Cencerrado@AlejandroCence2
Toda la vida vendiéndote que tú lo que necesitas delante de casa es un almacén de coches y no esto 😍😍😍
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I do wonder what it would take for Average Joe commuter to reach out to his next-door neighbour and discuss the fact that they both commute daily to the same general area—and perhaps there are some efficiencies that could be had.
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One benefit of owning a vehicle that can haul upwards of 7 or 8 ppl could be carpooling and splitting gas, yet the majority of these vehicles are near empty.
This tells me that **for these people***, the price of gas is not too expensive yet.
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I’ve been counting and calculating average vehicle occupancy while walking to work lately.
It’s consistently 1.1 people per vehicle, and most are mid-sized SUVs.
Brent Bellamy@brent_bellamy
For 15 years, Canadians have overwhelmingly purchased large SUV’s and pickup trucks knowing the price of gas will always increase and be volatile. Maybe instead of subsiding that, we invest in public transit so people have the option to not drive everywhere for everything.
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World-class cycling infrastructure costs a fraction of world-class driving infrastructure.
Bikademy@bikademy
This felt different... We rode across Copenhagen, on a bridge made only for bikes... The Bicycle Snake. No noise. No stress. Just movement and a view you don’t usually get. And for a moment... everything felt… simple.
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And to be 100% clear: the goal is not to make it impossible for vehicles to exist in a city.
The goal is to balance the scales in the name of reducing the negative externalities that come with private vehicles being the overwhelming way people get around—of which there are many.
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Mayor Hidalgo transformed Paris by showing residents and visitors alike how wonderful a city can be it is built for people, not cars.
Residents voted today to further that mission. A quieter city, a healthier city, a livable city.
Cities everywhere must strive for the same.
Jonathan Berk@berkie1
Emmanuel Grégoire has won the race to succeed Anne Hidalgo, the transformational leader since 2014, as the next Mayor of Paris. He’s pledged to build on her legacy, continuing the expansion of the City's bike network & growing the city’s network of neighborhood green spaces. 🇫🇷
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Small projects with big impact.
Toronto Poles and Dangling Wires@PolesWires
Why do our cars get the best spaces?
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Governments at all levels need to invest in serious alternatives.
This means wide sidewalks, protected bike lanes, and fast public transit.
Anything less is a disservice, and investment in the past, and setting their jurisdiction up for failure.
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The answer is because in most places, these alternative options are just simply bad. Either dangerous or slow or uninteresting or unpleasant.
Decades of car-centric investments have made us reliant on an energy source extracted from the depths of hell to simply go buy groceries.
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Road transport makes up 50% of oil demand.
In North America, the majority of daily trips driven are within a walking or biking distance—and certainly within a public transit radius.
Why waste a finite resource on 3.5 kilometre drives?
Rory Johnston@Rory_Johnston
These "oil and gas are in everything" graphics are about to get very real super quick for a lot of people.
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How long has it been since you last took a drivers test? 10, 20, 30+ years? Now think of how many additional cyclists are on the road since then.
This should absolutely be a mandatory part of all driver education. Too many drivers pass cyclists too closely. This costs lives.
Awesome Videos ❤️@Awesomevideos07
Training given to bus drivers to understand how a cyclist feels when they pass near them... 😂
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The built environment is a policy choice.
Andy Boenau@Boenau
"Gas prices are high? Hadn't noticed."
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All Canadian cities need to start planning for the reality of trending towards fewer snowy days.
The Globe and Mail@globeandmail
Vancouver set to close out first snow-free winter in 43 years theglobeandmail.com/canada/british…
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School drop off in walkable communities vs. car dependant communities.
Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist@UrbanCourtyard
Paris makes 300 school streets traffic free. This is so obviously beneficial BUT POSSIBLE BECAUSE PARIS already has dense, walkable urbanism US cities will struggling with massive quality of life improvements like this as long as they prioritize low-density, car-oriented development
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