Mark McIntyre
@markjmcintyre.bsky.social
Keen on active travel 🚲 music, cities, odds and ends of Glasgow history, transport. Powoli uczę się polskiego 🇵🇱 posting my own views
A new housing development under construction in the Netherlands The cycle infrastructure is already in place, complete with junctions ready to connect to future homes, along with dedicated bus lanes Active and sustainable travel is planned from the very beginning, not bolted on as an afterthought
Great news - basically extending the #SouthCityWay into the centre of town, all the way up to Argyle Street (itself now being renovated). Network of protected cycle routes in and across the city centre now really visibly coming together.
Work on the Stockwell Street Avenue to begin next week - Glasgow City Council
Work to create the Stockwell Street Avenue, the next stage in the biggest transformation of the city centre's streets and spaces since the 1970s, will start on Monday 10 August.
glasgow.gov.uk
If this is what a summer's been like in a world of +1.53°C warming, can you imagine +1.7°C or +2°C in a few more years' time?
Zeke Hausfather@zekehausfather.com · 3d agoI'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.
There's a phrase I love for its absolute simplicity: "Build for what you want". It came to mind many times when reading this. Do we want spaces that serve people walking, wheeling, cycling & using public transport? Or do we want continued car dominance and congestion in our towns and cities?
What Scotland's transport trends reveal about car dependency - Transform Scotland
Transform Scotland’s Emilia Lauder explores what Scotland’s transport trends reveal about the country’s continuing reliance on private cars. Scotland is investing millions in electric buses, EV infras...
transform.scot
I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.
This summer, hundreds of young people are riding bikes that would otherwise have gone to landfill – thanks to a pilot project giving brand new life to old bikes: buff.ly/M9gzWL6
Where Vienna is building new neighbourhoods - it's building them around sustainable transport. (📸 info in alt text)
Thinking more about Vienna. Its city museum - the best city museum I've ever seen - has a very touching section all about transport. Personal stories of what transport and public space means to locals' lives and how sustainable transport is central to where the city sees itself going.
Argentinierstraße is really impressive to see in person. A street running straight from Vienna city centre to the Hauptbahnhof, it had 6,000+ bikes a day on a slim cycle lane. Such was the importance as a N-S cycle route, the city made it a cycle priority street, largely rerouting cars elsewhere.
Dutch Cycling Embassy@dutchcycling.nl · 3d agoVienna's Argentinierstraße is a great example of how Dutch cycling principles can be thoughtfully adapted to a different local context. Rather than simply copying a design, the project translated the concept of a cycling street into a solution that works within Austrian regulations: buff.ly/wmHsJnf
Vienna's Argentinierstraße is a great example of how Dutch cycling principles can be thoughtfully adapted to a different local context. Rather than simply copying a design, the project translated the concept of a cycling street into a solution that works within Austrian regulations: buff.ly/wmHsJnf
Tip of the hat to Fifa official Kevin Lamour, who basically assured himself of the sack when speaking on the record to AP's @gdunbarap.bsky.social. Fifa staff were “deceived” by Infantino’s lack of openness planning the private investor scheme and “deserve better than contempt and intimidation.”
Senior FIFA official resigns over Infantino's World Cup sell-off plan. Second says it deceived staff
Two senior FIFA officials have criticized Gianni Infantino’s World Cup sell-off plan with one resigning as a presidential adviser and a second saying staff were deceived by project that must not go ah...
apnews.com
Host the anti-world cup in Avignon, you cowards.
Sky News@news.sky.com · 6d agoEuropean nations agree to boycott World Cup if FIFA goes ahead with World Cup sell-off
#Motonormativity is... focusing on minor overnight disruption for drivers, at news that two essential footbridges spanning the single widest stretch of motorway in Europe are to be repaired - after being out of action for two years.
🚲 "Convenience, practical reasons… it's my best form of transport. If I have any appointments, medical check-ups in the city centre for example, I'll get there by bike." 👇 Read Michael's story here.
Everyday cycling at 89: “It’s my main way of looking after myself”
Edinburgh resident Michael, aged 89, shares why he cycles every day: "convenience, practical reasons… it's my best form of transport".
cycling.scot
This drone shot of Strathbungo in Glasgow reminded me earlier of a very very similar area in Copenhagen. Similar townhouses, very similar streets. Very different uses of street space. 🌳🛝🚲🌷🏡
Past Glasgow@pastglasgow.co.uk · last wk.Looking down on the category B-listed three storey late 19th century tenements of Nithsdale Rd in Strathbungo. There's something appealing about the uniformity of this stretch. #glasgow
In case you're counting, the planet is now on day 6 reaching a global surface temperature above 17.0°C. The only other years reaching 17.0°C since records began in 1940, and likely in the last 120,000 years, were 2023 and 2024. Next year will be much hotter.
Elon Musk, owner of X, has called the editor of the Economist "a traitor to the West, plain and simple" after her recent interview with him. He now argues that "anyone who opposes remigration is a traitor" Musk has been socialising violence since Aug25: "fight or die, that's what it comes down to"
Really really poor to see STV News do the "both sides" vox pop thing in a broadcast clip on their socials, with a Portuguese woman describing increasing racist abuse on the street & public transport, and someone from yesterday's other protest saying you need to "get out and fight fight fight".
I'm definitely rusty on this and don't think the science is conclusive yet, but there's an ongoing debate about how much atmospheric warming is slowing/weakening the jet stream, causing stationary weather patterns like this (which we all notice as longer droughts & storms that don't shift).
Robert Rohde@rarohde.bsky.social · 2w agoSee the alternating warm and cold patches in the Northern mid-latitudes? That's the imprint of a quasi-stationary Rossby wave (i.e. oscillations in the jet stream). It's rare to see it so clearly in a monthly-average temperature map.
See the alternating warm and cold patches in the Northern mid-latitudes? That's the imprint of a quasi-stationary Rossby wave (i.e. oscillations in the jet stream). It's rare to see it so clearly in a monthly-average temperature map.
Rush hour in C̶o̶p̶e̶n̶h̶a̶g̶e̶n̶ ̶A̶m̶s̶t̶e̶r̶d̶a̶m̶ Glasgow
Need to recommend this book to people. Properly fascinating: touching on all sorts of areas of Viking history (& historiography) by following the trail of a small jewel bead from a grave in the Midlands, to its likely origin in central Asia. With tangents into Viking & other history on every page.
I love this view at the claypits. A brilliant demonstration of what an urban oasis it really is.
not a big fan of how every summer i see that thing i said on X - The Everything App everywhere with wildfires and then in autumn i see it with flooding and then in winter with vanishing glaciers
hiksmash@hiksmash.blacksky.app · 3w agoClimate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer until you're the one calmly stating "we're encased in flame"
Desperately sad story in Boston, where safe streets activist and city transport planner Louisa Gag was killed travelling by bike last week. I'm aware of similar recent deaths of a transport planner in Chicago and pro-cycling MP in Poland. Cities can't wait until these deaths happen to make changes.
Savage@citizensavage.bsky.social · 3w agoMassive turnout in honor of Louisa Gag and for better bike transit in Boston @universalhub.com
"Most of us rarely do anything that could easily kill another person – except when we drive." A thought-provoking article from @profkyd.bsky.social, on why we need to treat driving as the serious responsibility that it is and take stronger action to prevent deaths and injuries on our streets.
Too many drivers see road safety rules as a personal affront. It’s time to tighten up UK laws | Sally Kyd
Two court cases last month illustrate how confusion over legal definitions are feeding into a culture of poor driving standards, says law professor Sally Kyd
theguardian.com
