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The way we talk about ROAD SAFETY: 🪦 blames victims instead of addressing causes 🏎️ normalizes the underlying violence ‼️ reduces a sense of urgency 📈 might make matters worse What if instead we talk about ROAD DANGER? Open Access paper:

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'Alexia: please visualise the priorities of US transport planners.' Yes, that is actually a bike path! Yes, those are actually 8 lanes for car drivers!

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30 people getting a coffee 🇺🇸 vs. 30 people getting a coffee 🇫🇷

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Electric cars are not invented to save the planet. They are invented to save the car industry.

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30 people getting a coffee 🇺🇸 vs. 30 people getting a coffee 🇫🇷

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“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.” ~E.F. Schumacher

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You are not stuck in traffic. You are traffic!

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"Please, tell me again why you need a car..." 🛴

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A relevant reminder for anybody interested in mobility innovation.

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Periodic reminder that building bicycle lanes is not a technical challenge. It is a political one!

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Top: "Ideology" Bottom: "Freedom" (Via @nicolasblume )

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"We can't change our city. We are not Amsterdam!" #Vienna : 'hold my #Weisswein *' ~Königsegasse, Vienna via @BirgitHebein (*or 16er-Blech if you prefer)

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'Nice idea, those human oriented streets, but what about when emergency vehicles have to get through?!!?'

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Our car-dependent status quo is the result of political choices that have steered decades of financial-, spatial- and design decisions. It is time to repoliticize these decisions that shape our public spaces. (via @nicolasblume )

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We don't need newer things (that are 'green'). We need fewer things.

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If your mobility planners do not follow this hierarchy, they ACTIVELY WORK AGAINST sustainability and liveability goals.

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' #Siri : please give me a visual metaphor for the status of cycling infrastructure in the United States' Yes, that is an actual bike path. Yes, those are actually 8 protected lanes for driving. — Lakeshore Drive, #Chicago

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One of these vehicles is considered so dangerous that it has to have an enforced speed limiter. The other one is a SUV.

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Every winter, Mother Nature reveals how much we’ve over-designed our streets for cars. If we look carefully, she also inspires us to create healthier and more equitable streets! (via @the_transit_guy & @Streetfilms )

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A relevant reminder for anybody interested in mobility innovation.

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If you claim that adding road capacity is a solution, you are part of the problem. (The fundamental problem of the bottleneck. From page 56 of 'Movement: How to take back our streets and transform our lives': )

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For decades, we have spent trillions to retrofit our cities, our public spaces and our society around cars. It just didn't work. If only we had an alternative. If only... 🚲 (London by @PeterStuart3 )

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3 years

Urban space is complex. But the math is relatively simple!

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Nature's way of showing traffic engineers how to make more equitable public spaces.

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"It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them." — @Lorespontevedra , Mayor of #Pontevedra 🇪🇸 (re-elected SIX time)

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Shibuya crossing: +/- 390.000 pedestrians a day still have to stop for a few people in cars every minute...

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Priorities in urban mobility. (via Thomas Hug)

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Electric cars are not invented to save the earth. They are invented to save the car industry. (graphic by @copenhagenizers / @colvilleandersn )

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Instead of driverless cars, our cities desperately need more carless drivers! (video by @JoppeVStiphout )

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2 years

'When you like to walk, but you're Dutch' — @dirkjanjanssen

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Adults: “Why don’t kids play outside anymore, like we used to do?” The outside we have created for them:

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3 years

Basic math shows us: Bicycle parking is not the problem but a fundamental part of the solution.

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Street experiments do not close streets. They re-open them as public spaces that serve multiple societal goals.

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"We can't change our city. We are not Amsterdam!" #Vienna : 'hold my #Weisswein 🥂*' - Königsegggasse (*or 16er-Blech🥫 if you prefer)

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Humanity. Desperately trying to save our way of life at the cost of everything else. by @Adenecartoon

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'Cycling cannot work here, because it is hilly?' Mother of the year: Hold my drink bottle!

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Hot in your street today?

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Our urban streets are complex phenomena. But sometimes, the basic math is shockingly simple!

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In defence of the status quo, we are made to belief that asking for richer public space, safety for our children or a higher quality of live is 'Radical Activism'. You are not a radical. They are!

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4 years

You know you have a mainstream cycling culture when this how your police engages with children on bicycles! "You wanna race with us?" ~ @politie_Rdam

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'Siri, please visualize the priorities of mobility policy-makers in the USA' Yes, that is actually a bike path! Yes, those are actually 8 lanes for car drivers!

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"It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them." ~ @Lorespontevedra , Mayor of #Pontevedra 🇪🇸 (re-elected SIX times)

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Urban heat and all its consequences are yet another hidden cost of our choice to monopolize our public spaces with parked and moving vehicles. Time for change!

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11 months

Today #Amsterdam starts a transition experiment of 6 weeks that reclaims a car dominated street as public space. There are already some important lessons about the importance of language. 1/🧵

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🤔:"I wonder why children these days don't play outside anymore like they did in the past..." Outside (in the past) Outside (these days)

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'Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.' —E.F. Schumacher

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'The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.' Using traffic engineering to solve the problems of traffic engineering. The case of #Alexandria 🇬🇷

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'When you're accustomed to #privilege , any demand for more equality feels like oppression.'

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It is not easy to fix the historical mistake to let cars dominate public space. But #Catharijnesingel (Utrecht) shows that cities can heal from the inflicted wounds.

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'Alexa, please give me a visual metaphor for the status of cycling infrastructure in the United States' ~Chicago bike path next to an 8 lane road for cars during a storm.

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"We can't change our city. We are not Amsterdam!" #Vienna : 'hold my #Weissbier ' (Königsegasse via @BirgitHebein )

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"It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them." ~ @Lorespontevedra , Mayor of Pontevedra, Spain.

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Our problems will not be solved by different cars. They will only be solved by fewer cars.

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Not a Critical Mass event. Just morning peak hour in #Delft (🎥 by @tpap_ )

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'Hey children, don't forget to look left-right-left, wear hi-viz, make eye-contact. Road safety is a shared responsibility, after all!' Meanwhile, car drivers:

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“A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation.” —Gustavo Petro

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Our cities do not need driverless cars. They desperately need more carless drivers! (📸: @PinarPinzuti )

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Instead of efforts to make streets ready for DRIVERLESS CARS, our cities should create conditions for many more CARLESS DRIVERS! (📹 by Joppe van Stiphout)

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You can have an efficient urban mobility system. Or you can have cars. But you can't have both.

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What the Dutch!? It's getting colder. So @GeorgiousDesign invented the Cyclo-Knitter; a pedal-powered machine that knits a scarf in the 5 minutes you are waiting for a train.

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Newer cars are not invented to save the world. They are invented to save the car industry. Let's shift our focus from NEWER cars to FEWER cars.

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Radical change: Never easy. But always possible.

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“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.” ~E.F. Schumacher

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Every time someone says that 'making it harder to drive will need radical changes' show them this. Creating current car dependency was only possible with a massive, decade-long and destructive effort to erase the city as we knew it. (via )

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An inspiring before - after from the country of cars. If Düsseldorf 🇩🇪 can change, why can't your city? (made by )

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How (not) to solve a bottleneck. (Original from 'Movement': . Enhanced by @Jtrace_a_stras )

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The idea of driverless cars is distracting us from real and proven solutions for urban mobility. We don't need driverless cars. We desperately need more carless drivers!

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'Dutch city cycling is cute and all, but BIG cities cannot change their mobility patterns over night!' Paris: "Hold my 🍷" Video of Rue de Rivoli by @mozilette

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Bike lanes look empty, because they are highly efficient in terms of vehicular throughput. ~3 minutes timelapse in #London

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Our cities do not need driverless cars. They desperately need more carless drivers! ~ Dutch schoolbuses, Nijmegen

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You know you have a mainstream cycling culture when this is how helmets and hi-viz are used around young children.👷‍♀️👷 Meet the worlds happiest traffic controller: Johan Zandvliet from Zwolle.

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So, what are you afraid of? Number of people killed by animals per year put in perspective.

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So, how is it going with that 'war on motorists'? Let's watch one zebra crossing to find out! Spoiler: it isn't a war, it is a massacre. And not ON motorists, but BY them...

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'Our city is just car-dependent. We can't just change our streets to accommodate people. We are not Amsterdam!!' Paris: "Please hold my wine 🍷🥖!" With political courage, rapid change can happen.

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Look at this irresponsible guy! ❌ No helmet ❌ No hi-viz ❌ Waving & smiling instead of serious signalling ❌ Only one hand at handlebar ❌ Bag on handlebar Who it is, you ask? Well, just @markrutte , Prime Minister of the Netherlands going to work (pic: @dvhn_nl )

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You can use this to park 3 private cars. Or you can have this! — #NewYork , 10th Avenue/37th Street (📸 by @the_transit_guy )

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Can you think about a less efficient way to transport people through your city than cars?

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I wish that Lego City would no longer be so car-centric. How about upgrading it to the 21st Century? Step 1: adding bike lanes. More ideas? cc: @PlasticPlanners @Lego_group (original by @msteeman ) #MobilityWishlist2020s

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Controlling traffic can be a meaningful job, if you want to make something out of it! (and if most people are on bikes....)

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Utrecht shows us all that car-dominated urban spaces are a choice, not a given. And that mistakes in the past can be undone. (animation by @qrs )

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1990’s: one more lane will fix it 🚘🚘🚘 2000's: one more lane will fix it 🚘🚘🚘🚘 2010’s: one more lane will fix it 🚘🚘🚘🚘🚘 2020's: new types of cars will fix it 🚘🚘🚘🚘🚘🚖 #Utrecht : "Hold my @Heineken !" 🌳🚣🌳🏞🌲🛶🌼 (gif by @qrs )

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Amsterdam used 1970s oil crisis as catalyst for change. It took 40 years of consistent planning since then to become the cycling city we know today. Will your city embrace todays crisis as seed for positive change? ~Damrak, 1970s-2010s

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Electric cars are not invented to save the planet. They are only invented to save the car industry.

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Happy World Car Free day!

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The parking lot at the #DutchGP in #Zandvoort (📸 via @RBR_Daily )

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"Look, our city can't just change its car-dominated streets to accommodate people. We are not Amsterdam!!" Paris: "Wait. Hold my wine 🍷🥖 !" ~Rue de Rivoli

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We don't need newer cars. We really need fewer cars!

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'Turns out British 3 years olds can also cycle into city centres.... ....as long as they are in The Netherlands.' ~ @NorwichCycling

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If you think adding road capacity is a solution... ....you are part of the problem!

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'Moss walls' or 'Liquid Trees' signal your city's ambition to solve air pollution without actually doing something effective. But don't worry. One simple change of placement can make all the difference!

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'These shit e-scooters are everywhere!!' — @SchoenScheisse We congratulate the 2022 winner of Most Powerful #MobilityMeme (with 77% of 6310 votes across our platforms).

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Every time it snows, Mother Nature inspires us to create healthier & more equitable streets! (animated by @otucis )

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What do you think would be an acceptable number of people dying on our roads? Powerful message by Transport Accident Commission Victoria.

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What if we can show the ridiculous amount of space and disciplining required for car traffic in our cities? (Actual car commercial for Saturn Ion, via @javiermalagon )

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Nature is healing: Euphoric Argentinians 🇦🇷 reclaiming their urban highways (and incidently show how to optimize their capacity)!

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One of these modes transports a lot of people efficiently. The other one is cars.

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🚨 A gentle reminder for @TimmermansEU and the @EU_Commission 🚨 Our mobility challenge is not about NEWER cars. It is about much, much FEWER cars!

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E-scooters are dangerous. E-bikes are dangerous. Distracted walking is dangerous. Wearing grey clothes is dangerous. Playing with a ball is dangerous. Jaywalking is dangerous. Listening to music is dangerous. Meanwhile, the car industry: (📸 by @tylernewcomb_ )

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