Patrick Miner

🗒️✏️The TGRG has announced three sessions for postgraduate students at this year's RGS-IBG Annual Conference. 🌎🎙️ The deadline for all three is 20 February - get your submissions in now! 💥

Full details here: siskiyoucedar.github.io/callforpaper...

‘Car Brain’ Is Making the US Unhealthy and Dangerous. EVs Won’t Fix It. A trio of new books argue that we need to confront the full range of costs that car-based living has imposed on our cities, our health and our society.

Three newly published books argue that cars are destroying society as well as the planet.

Is the world finally ready to rein in the automobile?

My essay, in @bloomberg.com (gift link below)

'Mind the Gap': New inquiry reports transport system excluding majority of Scots - Transform Scotland A new report published today (Tuesday 17 June) by the Cross Party Group on Sustainable Transport reveals that Scotland’s transport system is systematically excluding many Scots — especially women, dis...

📣 NEW REPORT

'Mind the Gap' from the #SustainableTransportCPG finds Scotland’s transport system is excluding majority of Scots 👇 (1/)

transform.scot/2025/06/17/m...

Book cover with yellow and black border and white background. Black title: "Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile. Sarah Goodyear Doug Gordon Hosts of The War on Cars Podcast and Aaron Naparstek" Graphic shows yellow traffic light with vines on it.

Coming October 21st...

"Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile."

A new book about how cars ruin everything and what we can do to fight back.

Pre-order here: www.lifeaftercars.com

53 people on bikes leaving this Utrecht parking garage in 30 seconds. It's clean. I can hear people talking. Now imagine 53 cars leaving this parking garage.

53 mensen op de fiets in 30 seconden. Het is schoon. Ik hoor mensen praten. Stel je nu eens voor dat er 53 auto's een parkeergarage verlaten.

Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit The infrastructure required to host COP30 in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say.

First destroy the forest, then discuss saving it... "A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit" www.bbc.com/news/article...

Donald Shoup on a bicycle in two photos decades a apart. He is near a parking sign in both and wearing a crocheted sweater.

Rest in peace, Professor Shoup (1938-2025)
We will keep up the good work.

Share your stories and thoughts with the parking reform community here: parkingreform.org/donald-shoup

A poster for two sessions at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference in Birmingham on 26-29 August: Creative approaches to transport research, and current and emerging research in transport, with a QR code leading to https://siskiyoucedar.github.io/callforpapers.html

Academic bluesky! Are you / do you know any PGRs working in the transport and mobilities space?

We have two calls for papers at this year's RGS-IBG Conference and are keen to hear from you! See the details here or via the QR code: siskiyoucedar.github.io/callforpaper...

Please amplify if you can!

Opinion: The casual violence inflicted by car culture The New Orleans attack reminds us that vehicles are increasingly being used as weapons. But what about the environmental damage, destruction of cities, and more?

The casual violence inflicted by car culture deserves as much attention as vehicular terrorism, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com

Paris says 'non' to through-traffic in city center Other European cities have taken similar measures, but the Paris mayor's office said its own traffic limitation scheme was 'one of the most ambitious' on the continent.

It’s official — Paris has now limited through-traffic from parts of its historic city centre to reallocate space for people, and cut pollution and congestion. newseu.cgtn.com/news/2024-11...

Diagram showing "How cars and automobility harm human and environmental health".

Since their invention, cars and automobility have killed 60–80 million people. While some people benefit from automobility, nearly everyone—whether or not they drive—is harmed by it. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Since I’m living the lifestyle, I’m really looking forward to this new book by @nondriver.bsky.social. Thanks to @thewaroncars.bsky.social for the episode that brought the book to my attention

Interesting-looking review paper on the harm that cars cause to people and the environment, finding that "currently, 1 in 34 deaths are caused by automobility" doi.org/10.1016/j.jt...