𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @grescoe Twitter profile

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The reviews are in, and the reviews are good! My latest book: The Lost Supper: Searching for the Future of Food in the Flavors of the Past I'm imagining it as a doc series. ( @veltre for option) Here's a round-up of what the critics are saying:

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"A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation."

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"In a quality city, a person should be able to live their entire life without a car, and not feel deprived."

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The #Istanbul Metro has outsourced its fare collection, and the new ticket inspectors are very strict.

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2 years

This is stunning! To allow riders to better view autumn leaves, the driver of this Eizan Electric Railway train on the Kurama Line switches off the lights so passengers can better view this "Maple Tunnel" outside #Kyoto . Another reason to love #Japan 's rail culture.

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Siri, show me the most vivid conceivable example of Experimental Archaeology at work

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1: #Tokyo metro map in 2D. 2: The same map in 3D.

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Sorry Erich von Däniken—you don’t need aliens to explain the Pyramids and Easter Island…just very determined and ingenious Homo sapiens.

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2 years

"A jacked-up motorcycle in the middle of the night can easily wake up 10,000 people." More cities in #France install "Méduse" anti-noise radars, which have 4 microphones, camera to automatically ticket vehicles that exceed a certain number of decibels

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I'm fascinated by these. Paternoster Lifts. An open-doored elevator that’s on a loop, moving slowly and continually. Name inspired by a loop of rosary beads. This one is at #Prague City Hall...

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"Urbanism works when it creates a journey as desirable as the destination."

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"The Night Sprinter network would be a European grid of night trains that would consist of 40 international long-distance lines. By 2030, it would connect more than 200 cities from #Lisbon to #Helsinki ." Part of the "flight-free movement" growing across Europe.

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"A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation."

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"A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation." — @EnriquePenalosa (Photo: #Strasbourg , France)

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THIS JUST IN: #Paris 's car-free zone announced. Starting in 2024, cars will be banned in much of 1st-4th arrondissements. Zone will be reserved for pedestrians, cyclists, transit, the handicapped, local residents. Offenders will be automatically ticketed.

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By 1920, the network of interurbans in the US was so dense that a determined commuter could hop interlinked streetcars from Waterville, Maine, to Sheboygan, Wisconsin—a journey of 1,000 miles—exclusively by electric trolley. 🧵🚋

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"Cars make us lonely." —Donald Appleyard, Livable Streets, 1981.

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Where does this bike path lead? To the train station, of course. Because that's how you actually build urban transport infrastructure in the time of a climate crisis.

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City of #Llubljana in #Slovenia , population 280,000, kicked cars out in 2007. Since then, car use has dropped by 32%, black carbon emissions are down 70%, noise pollution is down by 6 decibels. Unfortunately, going car-free has made the center a living hell, as this video shows:

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STUDY: Drivers of luxury cars found to give pedestrians the right of way 3x less than those driving less expensive vehicles; 4x more likely to cut off other drivers. Call it "BMW Syndrome."

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I’ve been to Lago di Garda in northern #Italy —spectacular! (olive trees and lemons on a blue lake with the Dolomites looming). Seeing the bicycle route they've built since makes me want to go back. 🧵 global bike path #bucketlist

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Back to School... Two ways to do the school run. An elementary school in North Carolina vs. one in #Holland .

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"NASA has declared automobiles are the largest net contributor of climate change pollution in the world." Your regular reminder that cars aren't part of the problem—they *are* the problem.

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Is that last hill kicking your butt? Scandinavia’s got you covered. The Trampe, which transports cyclists, ski-lift-style, up a 20-degree incline in Trondheim, #Norway .

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This train platform in #Japan 's Yamaguchi Prefecture has no ticket booth, no entrance or exit. Why does it exist?

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This year, cars will be banished from streets around 168 schools in the #Paris area—students and parents can access them on foot or by bicycle.

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"A jacked-up motorcycle in the middle of the night can easily wake up 10,000 Parisians." #Paris joins other cities in #France in installing "Méduse" radars, which automatically ticket drivers whose vehicles exceed a certain number of decibels

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Picking up groceries with an F-150 is like... Cracking nuts with a sledgehammer or Making toast with a flamethrower. 6 out of 10 trips are under 5 miles. Love this ad from the UK.

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#Spain offers a high-speed train service between Barcelona and Madrid called Avlo. It covers the 625 km distance in 2 hours 30 minutes, top speed 330 km/h (185 mph). Fares start at €7. By comparison...

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“Airplanes should no longer be means of transporting people in 1 hour 15 minutes, when the same trip could be done at lower cost of CO2 by train in 2.5 hours. This must be the rule, and we will enforce it.” — #France 's finance minister

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"In a quality city, a person should be able to live their entire life without a car, and not feel deprived." —Paul Bedford

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"In a quality city, a person should be able to live their entire life without a car, and not feel deprived." —Paul Bedford

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Until 1969, half of US children rode a bicycle or walked to school. Today: 87% get driven.

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At any one time, there are 500 million empty parking spaces in the US—for 330m citizens. (Avg size: 153 sq ft—which adds up to a parking lot the size of Delaware + Rhode Island.) Annual taxpayer subsidy to free parking: $374 billion.

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When this #Singapore elevated train passes residential towers, its windows automatically "blank out," become opaque, to ensure residents' privacy.

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There's a housing crisis in many cities. But cars can park free. Why not claim public street-space for those who need it? If you disguise your shelter as a polluting, duly-licensed private vehicle, like artist Michael Rakowitz did... ...the authorities should be fine with it.

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Here's how to make green #transit even greener. Put the tram tracks on a carpet of grass or sedum. 2 kms of track creates 1.5 football fields' worth of green space, reducing air pollution and urban heat island effect. A tram-on-the-lawn thread: 🚋🌱🧵 1/ Milan #Milano

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Spot the difference. For those of us who want to build better cities, create more livable streets, reduce congestion, and improve public health and safety, there is none.

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Nice, #Nantes , #Toulouse and 5 other cities in #France are launching "radars anti-bruit" (noise cameras) to automatically ticket drivers whose vehicles exceed a certain number of decibels on city streets.

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#France announces it will spend a quarter billion euros ($250 million US) to encourage people to use bicycles as transportation. via @Reuters

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The city of #Llubljana in #Slovenia , population 280,000, kicked cars out of its center 15 years ago. It's become a paradise for walkers, children, bike-riders. People with limited mobility can use the free Kavalier electric shuttles to take them where they need to go...

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Walt Disney World has significantly better transit than most cities in the US. Its 12-train-set monorail, 325 buses would make it the 16th most ridden transit system in the nation. America's fantasy world, it turns out, is a place you can get around without getting into a car.

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It's only purpose is to allow passengers to stop, get out, and enjoy the view of the Nishiki River. Sigh...I love Japanese rail culture.

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A developed country isn't a place where the poor drive cars. It's where everybody—rich and poor alike—can use public transit.

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When you build cities for people, rather than cars, civic misdemeanors like "jaywalking" and "loitering" become civic virtues.

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"Cities are meant to stop traffic. That is their point. That is why they are there. That is why traders put outposts there, merchants put shops there, hoteliers erect inns there. Rationally one wants to have traffic *stop* there, not go *through*."

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STUDY: Drivers of luxury cars found to give pedestrians the right of way 3x less than those driving less expensive vehicles; 4x more likely to cut off other drivers. Call it the "Audi Effect."

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There have been 0 deaths on #Paris 's bike paths so far in 2022. The busiest of them now count 15,000+ riders a day. Usage is up 17-30% over last year. So successful city is now considering widening existing paths.

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"The automobile has dissolved the living tissue of the city. Its appetite for space is absolutely insatiable; moving & parked, it devours urban land, leaving buildings as mere islands of habitable space in a sea of dangerous & ugly traffic." —James Marston Fitch, NY Times, 1960.

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Free winter tires for people choosing bikes over cars in #Sweden —public transport agency will give away studded tires for winter bicycle users.

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You can take a train from the mainland of #Italy to the (island of) #Sicily . There's no bridge... ...the train just rolls right onto the ferry.

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"In a quality city, a person should be able to live their entire life without a car, and not feel deprived." —Paul Bedford

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STUDY: Drivers of luxury cars found to give pedestrians the right of way 3x less than those driving less expensive vehicles; 4x more likely to cut off other drivers. Call it the "Audi Effect."

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What *really* killed streetcars? They stopped running efficiently because they were swamped by private automobiles. This stunning colorized footage from 1930s Los Angeles shows it well...

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"A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation." Photo: Orléans, France.

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"It simply never occurs to us to make streets into oases rather than deserts." Italy vs. the United States

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Case in point: #Switzerland trams of #Zurich

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#Istanbul tried to use canine inspectors for a while, but they kept on getting distracted. Especially by the view of the Blue Mosque from the city ferries. Cats stay focused.

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Too foot-weary to pedal that last hill home? Put your bike on the Zahnradbahn. In #Germany , the Stuttgart to Degerloch open bike-car has been taking bike-commuters up and downhill since 1983.

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The city before the automobile. Streetcars, bicycles, pedestrians, horses. Quieter, more relaxed, and people still got where they needed to go. (And got some fresh air, too.) A dreamy view of #Barcelona , Carrer Gran de Gràcia, 1909.

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Room for 42 compact, self-powered, low-emission vehicles. Or 1 fucking Tesla.

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#France is serious about meeting climate commitments. This year, banned domestic flight routes where an alternative rail journey under 2.5 hours is available. It has also invested €61bn in railways in last 5 years, pledging to invest a further €6.5bn

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"The automobile has dissolved the living tissue of the city. Its appetite for space is absolutely insatiable; moving and parked, it devours urban land, leaving buildings as mere islands of habitable space in a sea of dangerous and ugly traffic."

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@grescoe

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Reality check: b/c of embodied carbon + battery production, electric car only starts saving emissions after 40,000 miles. Existing EV fleet stands to reduce global temperatures by just 1/100,000 of a degree Celsius by 2100. Real solution: end car-dependency—and don't buy a Tesla.

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Most importantly, every electric car, Tesla or otherwise, matters to the environment we all share. Every time someone chooses electric, the future gets a little bit brighter! If not Tesla, please take a look at these other options:

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@grescoe

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" #Copenhagen took away three percent of inner city parking every year. If you do it slowly enough, nobody notices." The Strøget, 1954 and today.

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"The bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created. Converting calories into gas, a bicycle gets the equivalent of three thousand miles per gallon."

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇

@grescoe

3 months

What *really* killed streetcars? They stopped running efficiently because they were swamped by private automobiles. This stunning colorized footage from 1930s Los Angeles shows it well... 🚋🧵

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇

@grescoe

2 years

"In the twentieth century, it became possible to travel to moon, but impossible to walk across the street."

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇

@grescoe

2 years

NEW STUDY: Children are 8 times more likely to be killed in crashes involving SUVs/pick-ups than regular cars. Altogether, SUVs/pickups account for 38% of pedestrian and cyclist fatalities.

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇

@grescoe

4 months

STUDY: Drivers of luxury cars found to give pedestrians the right of way 3x less than those driving less expensive vehicles; 4x more likely to cut off other drivers. Call it the "Audi Effect" ... 🧵

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇

@grescoe

3 years

This is what a city *can* look like. #Amsterdam

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇

@grescoe

2 years

"Motorized vehicles create remoteness which they alone can shrink. They create distances for all, and shrink them for only a few."

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇

@grescoe

2 years

NEW STUDY: If everyone emulated the Dutch, cycling just 2.6 kilometres/day, world would reduce CO2 emissions by 686 million tonnes a year. #Netherlands

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇

@grescoe

2 years

Which city quietly rules on public transport? Hint: it's got 30 tram lines, 423 kms of tracks, serving more than 1,071 stops. 43 daytime bus routes, 23 nighttime bus routes, 10 regional rail lines, 181 stations. And, if you're a resident with an annual pass, €1 a day to ride.

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇

@grescoe

2 years

"Bicycles are the indicator species of a healthy community, like shellfish in a bay."

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇

@grescoe

2 years

Here's the *real* future of transport (sorry, Elon): The Non-Polluting, Autonomy-Building, Fitness-Enhancing, Happiness-Producing, Self-Driven Vehicle.

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇

@grescoe

2 years

This will sound unbelievable to most people. (Not to me!) A classic study from #Denmark followed 30,000 people of all ages for 15 years. Those who rode a bicycle to work were 40% less likely to die—of all causes—over the study period.

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇

@grescoe

2 years

As Bedford points out, the opposite is also true: "A good sustainability and quality of life indicator: the average amount of time spent in a car." (Elevated time car-commuting time also turns out to be a reliable metric of social isolation and general life dissatisfaction.)

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇

@grescoe

2 years

*This* is the way to arrive in a city. #Antwerp 's central train station, aka #Belgium 's "Railway Cathedral."

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇

@grescoe

2 years

Build it, and they will ride, Scandinavian edition. Plowed and illuminated winter bike lanes in Oulu, #Finland .

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇

@grescoe

2 years

#Norway is now saying it has oversold electric cars—two-thirds of all vehicles purchased—and wants people to make a really green choice by riding buses and trains.

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇

@grescoe

2 years

THIS JUST HAPPENED—AND IT'S BIG. Speed limiting tech on cars is now mandatory in the European Union. "From July 2022, Intelligent speed assistance (ISA) will be mandatory for new models/types of vehicles introduced on the market."

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇

@grescoe

2 years

"We'll always need big diesel trucks in our cities to deliver freight. It's just reality." Not so fast. The electric "Cargo Tram" has long been a fixture in many cities in #Europe . 🧵🚋

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇

@grescoe

1 month

"Suburbia is that place where people put their bikes on cars and drive them out to the country so they can cycle in circles." —Steve Schmitt.

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇

@grescoe

2 years

"Highways don't belong in cities. Period. Europe didn't do it. America did. And our cities have paid the price."

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇

@grescoe

2 years

(A quote variously attributed to Meik Wiking, Enrique Peñalosa...and Gustavo Petro. Whoever said it first, the insight continues to ring true.) Photo: Orléans, #France .

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇

@grescoe

2 years

When you ride a bicycle, you're part of the neighborhood. When you're in a car, you're just passing through.

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇

@grescoe

2 years

"You'll never be homeless in America—if you're a car." There are a quarter of a billion cars in the U.S.—and 2 billion parking spaces. The nation now builds more 3-car garages than 1-bedroom apartments.

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇

@grescoe

2 years

Great-grandfather: allowed to walk 6 miles on his own Grandfather: could walk 1 mile Mother: could walk a half mile Son: could walk 300 yards (to end of street). What happened? *Cars* happened. M1, traffic, white vans...shrinking geography of childhood in UK, thnx to @timrgill

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇

@grescoe

2 years

"The right to access every building in a city by private motorcar in an age when everyone possesses such a vehicle is actually the right to destroy the city."

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇

@grescoe

2 years

"Increased city accessibility by cars is always accompanied by declines in service of public transit."

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇

@grescoe

4 years

"A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation." — @EnriquePenalosa (Photo: #Zurich )

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇

@grescoe

3 years

I saw this happen in #Osaka . The platform attendant was ready with the ramp. I thought: “Ah, civilization.”

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇

@grescoe

2 years

UK STUDY: Fit amateur bicycle-riders aged 55-79 have immune systems comparable to those of 20 year olds.

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇

@grescoe

25 days

Hey, I finally scored! First time on a new Siemens Venture train, leaving from #Quebec City, destination #Ottawa . First impression… 🚅🧵

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇

@grescoe

1 year

How one school made a street safer for kids. Not a full on "School Street," where all cars are banned, but a big improvement for health and safety of children. Before/After.

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇

@grescoe

2 years

Design your transit, service, and emergency vehicles to fit your city—not the other way around.

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇

@grescoe

4 years

"The automobile has dissolved the living tissue of the city. Its appetite for space is absolutely insatiable; moving & parked, it devours urban land, leaving buildings as mere islands of habitable space in a sea of dangerous & ugly traffic." —James Marston Fitch, NY Times, 1960.

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇

@grescoe

2 years

THIS JUST IN: The Dutch city of Haarlem, pop. 160,000, is banning ads in public spaces for holiday flights, fossil-fuel cars...and meat (making it the first city in the world to do the latter). #Netherlands

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇

@grescoe

4 years

“The airplane should no longer be a means of transporting [people] in 1 hour 15 minutes which could be done at lower cost of CO2 by train in 2 hours 30 minutes. This must be the rule and we will enforce it.” — #France 's finance minister Exactly—bravo!

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇

@grescoe

2 years

"You pay every time you board a bus, and that makes you think about whether you want to ride it. If you paid every time you used a parking space, you'd also think about whether you want to drive. Free parking doesn’t mean free markets; it often means freeloading."

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