A great look at how Baltimore’s investment in an “ecosystem of community–oriented interventions” has drastically reduced violent crime in the city by treating crime as a public health crisis. [popular.info]

BREAKING & BIG: Today in PARIS, citizens voted in a referendum to PEDESTRIANIZE 500 MORE of the city's streets, giving fresh momentum to efforts by city leaders to create people-places, curb car usage, and improve air quality. 66% of Parisians voted in favour of the measure, official results showed!

@scottwiener.bsky.social it’s a great time to see how good regulation can create thriving retail: prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...

France’s pharmacies continue to outperform right now while Walgreens and CVS are failing pharmacists, staff, & all of us.

It’s time for CA to follow France’s lead!

The idea of public transport was invented by philosopher-mathematician Blaise Pascal when he knew he was near death in his 30s.

I love that such an accomplished thinker
chose to devote some of his last lucid hours to drawing lines on maps.

Beautiful piece by Taras Grescoe on Pascal’s legacy.

Never forget, if you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan cities for people and places, you get people and places.

Plan for the city you want.

HT Fred Kent

Don’t forget Valencia, Spain.

Don’t forget those who insisted that actions needed to avoid the #ClimateCrisis were “too expensive.”

Don’t forget all the record-breaking, historic or “100 year” events we’ve seen lately.

They’re not the “new normal.

It’s going to keep getting exponentially worse.

This train made it from Chicago to New York 4 hours faster than today’s.

Cars just don’t have that je ne sais quoi.

NYC had the longest metro system in the the world until the 1980s. Now it’s not even in the top 10.

Major cities elsewhere in the world are adding new metro lines at a rapid clip & NYC has just a 3-stop extension planned for 2033 or later… www.thetransportpolitic.com/databook/urb...

“They weren’t lazy about it—they didn’t just throw up barriers & ban cars,” @BrentToderian.bsky.social said. He also marvelled at how much was done with comparatively little funds—little over C$1 million.

“It might be the best bargain I’ve ever heard.” #Montreal
www.theenergymix.com/montreal-add...

One of the MOST IMPORTANT THINGS your city could do to become more healthy, sustainable, livable, affordable, equitable, successful — stop pretending to “balance” transportation modes, and commit to PRIORITIZING walking/rolling, biking, public transit. HT @dublincycling.bsky.social’s great graphic.

@gocaltrain.bsky.social Welcome!

Over the decade ending in 2019, global SUV ownership doubled. “If it keeps growing at its current rate, increased SUV ownership will offset the entire emissions reduction from electric vehicles.” Plus they’re much more likely than smaller cars to kill pedestrians. www.fastcompany.com/90420280/sho...

THIS IS HUGE. Paris City Hall has announced that starting on Monday, Paris will limit (not ban) car traffic in the city centre, as cities like Ghent have done. They’re creating a limited traffic zone (ZTL) about 2 sq miles in size, to clean the air & create more space for people.

Also, there is one ship that has a #SanFrancisco MUNI train tunnel through its hull!

www.sfmta.com/blog/ghost-s...

One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen was filled with cars until a 2 year pilot project in 1962. The opposition argued “no cars means no business” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.

We often say that CO₂ emissions from shipping are hard-to-abate but 40% by weight of what we ship are fossil fuels so it should get easier when we decarbonize.