Hey, remember when car and oil companies successfully lobbied governments to create car dependent cities and suburbs, and once we became almost completely car dependent, WE became the loudest, angriest champions of unhindered road space for cars, unnaturally cheap gas, and subsidized free parking?

URBANISM BOOK ALERT: One of the most interesting cities to learn from when it comes to smart city-building is Oslo, Norway. My old friend Erling Fossen has a new book ready for pre-order on Oslo urbanism, and I wrote the forward. Oslo: In The Air. Spread the word. #UrbanismBookClub https://ao-publishing.com/product/oslo-in-the-air/

IMPORTANT: “What impressed Mr. Toderian most was not just the exclusion of cars but what replaced them. ‘They weren’t lazy about it. They didnt just throw up barriers & ban cars,’ he said.” A key message for cities already working on #OpenStreets for people, for next year. Don’t just do it — do it well.

The Globe and Mail

Montreal avenue’s car-free transformation proves a hit with residents, business owners

Almost 2.5 kilometres of Mont-Royal Ave. has been blocked off to traffic, with art installations and greenery creating a daily festival, packed wit...

I’m surprised that while my Bluesky account has grown by 8000 followers — DOUBLED to 16k+ — in just the last week since the election, my Mastodon count hasn’t changed at all. Is Mastodon not seen as an alternative to Twitter? Or is my account hard to find for those not following me? Honestly curious.

Trump wants Matt Gaetz to be Attorney General of the United States of America. Presumably because Jeffrey Epstein is unavailable.

"Without our bikes, we would not have been able to buy much-needed food and water supplies and then quickly deliver them to cut-off villages within half-an-hour.” Bicycles save lives: How bikes have been critical after Spain's Valencia floods.

Cycling Weekly

Bicycles save lives: How bikes have been critical after Spain

Chris Marshall-Bell lives in Valencia, Spain, and he and tens of thousands of others have accessed the dozens of flooded villages by bike to help w...