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Nulla dies sine linea.

Author of Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile. Advocate for bicycles, transit, walking, alternatives to the car...and great cities.

Words in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, Smithsonian, L'actualité, The New Yorker, Wall Street Journal.

The Lost Supper: Searching for the Future of Food in the Flavors of the Past now out from Greystone. www.lostsupper.blog

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Smart cities match service vehicles to urban form (rather than letting vehicles determine the size of streets).

"Alley Bus" in Chungking 🧵

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Design your vehicles to fit your city—not the other way around.

(Below: a right-sized fire truck being tested in .)
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Take a ride on the T13, the most rural tramway in the area. It glides through forests and fields to St-Cyr.

(It's technically known as a "tram-train.")

In the link, find more on the expansion of Paris's tram network this year.

https://fabricofparis.com/2023/02/28/transport-in-ile-de-france-a-new-year-retrospective-tramways

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BMW owner puzzled by strange lever next to steering wheel:

"Tapping it up and down makes odd regular clicking noise. What should I do?"

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A recent study has found that drivers of luxury cars are more likely to cut off pedestrians and other drivers.

A phenomenon known as the "Audi Effect," or sometimes, "Mercedes Brain."

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More on the study, and what causes the "Audi Effect," in my latest Straphanger dispatch:

https://straphanger.substack.com/p/the-audi-effect

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Turns out "Audis in Houses" is a thing. Here's a collection of Audis in places where they really, really shouldn't be.

https://aseasyasridingabike.wordpress.com/2015/12/26/audis-in-houses/

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"Streets and sidewalks—venues of myriad public activities as late as 1920—were redefined as exclusive transport ways."

—Peter D. Norton, Fighting Traffic.
Photos: Mulberry St./Little Italy []

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This month, will become the latest European city to bar through-traffic from its city center.

The plan, to be introduced for a three-month trial period on April 26, will see cars barred from driving through (but not from driving to) the heart of Lisbon’s downtown.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-24/lisbon-car-ban-limits-through-traffic-in-city-center

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Why does so much of (metro pop. 40.7 million) feel like a small town?

One important reason: people in move a lot of cargo and accomplish a lot of urban tasks with very small vehicles, from the Mama-chari ("mommy-bike") to teeny-tiny garbage trucks.

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Farmers in the US are getting sick of paying $80,000 for super-sized trucks that won't even fit into their barns.

They've been importing mini-trucks from #Japan that do the job and cost a lot less.

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2023/04/20/rural-americans-are-importing-tiny-japanese-pickup-trucks

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As Jeff Wood of @TheOverheadWire points out: "Japan taxes vehicles by size and engine displacement annually which has led to a lot of these smaller work trucks and vans. I often wonder what would happen if we taxed vehicles by weight or size as trucks and cars are getting ridiculously huge and dangerous to cyclists and pedestrians."

https://jalopnik.com/cost-of-driving-in-japan-taxes-tolls-parking-inspection-1849878881

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Here's a great intro to the small vehicles of

https://medium.com/a-chair-in-a-room/small-vehicles-of-tokyo-7cdda49c2bf8

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🎶 Let's go surfin' now 🎶

's metro opens extension to Hoek van Holland Strand station, providing direct access from city centre to the beach in a 37-minute journey.

https://www.railwaypro.com/wp/rotterdam-opens-the-last-extension-of-line-b/

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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.

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More on the study, and what causes the "Audi Effect," aka Mercedes Brain, in my latest Straphanger dispatch:

https://straphanger.substack.com/p/the-audi-effect

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A "points" registry in for all major violations of traffic rules (like extreme speeding, DUI, etc) is broken down by brand.

Surprise: It validates the association between luxury car ownership and anti-social/asshole behavior.

https://www.autozeitung.de/punkte-flensburg-ranking-198855.html

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"If all citizens are equal before law, a bus with 80 passengers has the right to 80 times more street space than a car with one."
Which is why when you see buses whipping past cars stuck in traffic—that's real democracy in action.
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"In the twentieth century, it became possible to travel to the moon, but impossible to walk across the street."

—Joell Vanderwagen

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