Journey of a bike advocate. Goes on bike ride - smile emoji Experiences the danger - shocked emoji Approaches city council - straight face emoji nothing changes angry enoji person throwing a molotov cocktail Dreams of ending car culture
It all happened so fast.
@thebikinglawyer.bsky.social
Every time a politician or campaigner tells you that not everyone can cycle or that we need to bring everyone with us or that we need to balance modes and priorities ask yourself what have they done about all the cars...
(Answer: probably hardly anything useful)
Then I had to explain what that meant
I told my German husband that was a very "inside baseball" joke...
Cartoon depicting a planet Earth covered in freeways and oil wells wheezing and complaining to a Sun doctor who says, "Take six billion of these and call me in the morning." He's holding a bicycle.
Cartoonist: Neal Skorpen
The freedom of bike transportation should be available to people of all ages in the city.
#paris #velo #bike #transportation #children #15minutecity #urbanism #cargobike
Image of a car filled highway in congestion and gridlock, with three cigarette packs in front, one named gas, the second named hybrid, and the third named EV. The main text says “taste the freedom.“ At the bottom is the tagline for the Urban Truth Collective. Car dependency is the opposite of freedom.
Car dependency is a hell of a drug. #UrbanTruth
Next week's cover of The New Yorker. "War-a-Lago" by Barry Blitt.
So let’s be clear: this type of corporate bullying is designed to rob us of our rights and freedoms.
But we will not be silenced.
www.greenpeace.org/internationa...
PLEASE HELP US SHARE THIS: “We’ve let the lies be far too successful, and that’s significantly hurt our cities. No more.”
It’s our blunt NEW @usa.streetsblog.org op-ed sharing why we’ve created @urbantruth.bsky.social. SPOILER: We need to call out the lies and tell the truth much more persuasively!
Die Abendzeitung bringt es auf den Punkt
![Suburbia is Subsidized: Here's the Math [ST07]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ny5w2k6brb2kdubxnevke6li/bafkreiel2nac6kjxkzjji3o24qpv2ehz3ayohjkeihsxj3fcjcbf35gugi)
WATCH: If you STILL don’t understand how car-dependent suburbia is HEAVILY SUBSIDIZED by downtown and all the urban parts of your city, watch this EXCELLENT video by #NotJustBikes with #Urban3 & @strongtowns.bsky.social. And PLEASE SHARE it as much as possible.
I’ve sent it to a LOT of politicians.
A diagram showing how a 2 minute delay to an active travel trip reduces the accessible area from a 15-minute trip by 25%
As I was made to wait 2.5 minutes to cross a road this morning, let's again do the maths simple.ghost.io/lets-do-the-...
Fox News report: KIDS ON BIKES
“Will no one stop them” says local curmudgeon
Las Vegas for Democracy in Munich✨💫
Am 8. März ist Kommunalwahl: Geht wählen, und wählt Liebe und keinen Hass 💛🩷
#SiegfriedundJoy #magic #disappear #comedy #Kommunalwahl2026
Unsere Stadt für Alle!
@adfc-muenchen.bsky.social
@oedpmuenchen.bsky.social
@grnmuc.bsky.social
@dielinkemuc.bsky.social
Blaues Plakat + buntes Gegenplakat: Du siehst es doch auch ... dass sich das Klima ändert
Blaues Plakat + buntes Gegenplakat: dein Auto würde uns wählen ... Es hat ja auch kein Hirn
Wunderbare Gegenplakatierungen, eben zugesandt bekommen:
Ice can disable your car news article. Picture of a ford suv
Welp, time to sell your car and get an Ebike.
Foto eines Gehweges der durch Autos in zweiter Reihe vollgeparkt wurde. Ein Parken Schild für Fahrräder ruft zum Fahrbahnparken auf: 04.03.2026 ab 15 Uhr Kreuz und quer like we don't care
🅿️ Fahrbahnparken!
Angemeldete Mitmach-Aktion zur #Kommunalwahl2026
Wir parken mal wie Autos, kreuz und quer, mittendrin und überall!
📆 Mi., 4.3. 15-15:30 Uhr
📍 Rosenheimer Platz, München
(Rosenheimer Straße stadtauswärts, zwischen Einmündung Balanstraße und Einmündung Metzstraße)
#Verkehrswende
Tramfest heute! Der Radentscheid befasst sich auch mit den Planungen der Strecken, damit seitlich die Radfahrende Platz haben. (Und trotz Streik fährt die 14 heute.) Tram Westtangente hurrah! 11:30, Laimer Anger!
Tramfest heute! Der Radentscheid befasst sich auch mit den Planungen der Strecken, damit seitlich die Radfahrende Platz haben. (Und trotz Streik fährt die 14 heute.) Tram Westtangente hurrah!
11:30, Laimer Anger!
And what movie was it?
Where is that? I'd take my in-laws there!
INBOX: @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social dropped a 90s sitcom-themed video endorsement of @bradlander.bsky.social, specifically calling out AIPAC's influence:
It's Lent - but instead of fun we’ll give up exhaust fumes! In keeping with the motto "CO2 fasting" we will make the road our bike path on Friday. 🚲🫶
🌞The sun should be visible, so grab your bikes and show Munich what the traffic turnaround looks like!
@djrothkopf.bsky.social puts the SOTU in multi-context:
“If you took every true thing President Donald Trump said during Tuesday’s State of the Union address and tattooed it onto the genitalia of a flea, there would still be room for the Gettysburg Address.”(Depending on the endowment of the flea)
also noise pollution in the U.S. is almost entirely from cars and it’s literally giving people heart attacks
I wrote an article about it because it’s so absurd
Webinar am 17. März: Informationen und Austausch rund um das Thema "Ladeinfrastruktur für E-Bikes" - gemeinsam mit ONgineer GmbH
🚲🚲🚲
Wie können Arbeitgeber Ladestationen planen, die unkompliziertes Aufladen ermöglichen und hohe Sicherheit bieten?
Hier anmelden:
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Ich war live dabei, wie ein ganzer Löschzug der Feuerwehr trotz Tempo 30 auf der Geiststraße gar nicht langsamer war als sonst. CDU FDP Menschen jetzt so Herzinfarkt.
