Mixed use in action. First pick your paint, then get your beer. Don’t reverse the activities or the walls might be pink :)
Natalia Barbour
@nataliabarbour.bsky.social
Transportation | Cycling | Cities | former academic | past TU Delft & MIT | 🇵🇱 IG: natalia_barbour_phd www.nataliabarbour.com
Monday's Most Read # 1 - American Drivers Think Speeding Is Okay Because Everyone Else Is Doing It link.theoverheadwire.com/7h46b @jalopnik.bsky.social
American Drivers Think Speeding Is Okay Because Everyone Else Is Doing It - Jalopnik
What's a little extra 5 or 10 mph on the clock?
link.theoverheadwire.com
Some designs do not require you to walk across the street. They require you to grow wings and fly.
A. Zivarts@nondriver.bsky.social · 2d agoSecond trip in a row where I'm staying at a hotel where you have to be nearly suicidal to try to cross the street to get to the adjacent bus stop going towards downtown.
Bicycles seamlessly weave into the urban landscape, fitting the spaces we already have. Cars just demand we pave over and dominate it.
A true indicator of safe infrastructure is the presence of kids.
The only thing that should be higher than your heels are the standards for the cycling infrastructure. 🚲 👠
YAY! IT’S PREMIERE DAY Pls tune in today, Thurs, Aug 27th, at 2 pm Eastern (6 am on Fri in NZ) for a very special on-bike interview and cycle network tour in Auckland, New Zealand, with Dutch Mobility Expert, whom you may remember from my Utrecht videos, @lennartnout.bsky.social youtu.be/kINBY8LtC1Y
A Dutch Mobility Expert's Take on the Auckland Cycle Network (Part One)
YouTube video by Active Towns
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Both are city vehicles, but... Only one demands minimal space, doesn't threaten lives, and causes zero wear on our roads. Yet the cargo bike has to beg for every single scrap of safe infrastructure, while the massive SUV is just handed the entire city by default.
Future of urban mobility. Electric scooter but with a roof! 📸 credit: dad 📍: Poland
Streets are for people. Safety is mandatory, dancing optional.
In the US, 52% of trips are shorter than 3 miles. Mode shift is more about the willingness to change behavior than the trip lengths.
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Every city is a sum of small decisions that multiply over time. 
The e-scooters in my neighborhood are geofenced and can go up to 10mph, meanwhile my 16-year old daughter with a permit can go 70mph on a highway with very little experience.
Cycling is beneficial to both the cyclists and the people around them, but you don't get all the available benefits if half of people are afraid to ride. The obvious way to improve safety is to build cycling infrastructure. #cycling
‘They were told bikes were for men’: how Latin America’s city of cycling is breaking gender barriers
With less than a third of cycling journeys taken by women, Colombia’s capital, Bogotá, is installing bike lanes, teaching cycling and making sure ‘stereotypes are left behind’
theguardian.com
Motonormativity is removing installed bike lanes but acting like people are crazy for suggesting we should take away space from cars
New research on robotaxi intended usage and a proof that transportation is so much more than getting from your origin to destination.
Congestion is a complex problem with rather simple solutions.
Freedom in mobility is a freedom to choose how you want to travel regardless of the weather conditions, your abilities, age, and upbringing.
A reminder: 🚗: I hope I find parking. 🚴🏽♂️: I hope I don’t die. Our priorities are not the same.
Come walk with me around LYNX Central Station in Orlando, Florida 🌴
Building cities for people shouldn't be a radical idea. The real hostile, unnatural design is blanketing our communities with massive parking lots and urban highways.
Having kids has made me more anti-car than childless me could have imagined.
Theory versus practice: bike edition. Video on IG: natalia_barbour_phd
Only one of them will be considered more acceptable to be in a parking spot. The other one is a bike.
Let’s un-normalize the: “Did you walk here?” [stare] When it is referring to a 15 min walk in a light rain or a little hot weather. Because yes, we did.