Riding in Ryde - Joseph P
@ridinginryde.bsky.social
Mostly cycling on low stress / separated cycle routes and general cycling-related content based in Sydney Australia. See vids on my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ridinginryde?sub_confirmation=1
Tragedy has struck! Yesterday I was exploring a 🚲 route from Pennant Hills to Macquarie Park via the Pennant Hills Fire Trail and the Great North Walk, and a stick got caught in the chain and snapped the derailleur mounting 😭
August 31, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Tragedy has struck! Yesterday I was exploring a 🚲 route from Pennant Hills to Macquarie Park via the Pennant Hills Fire Trail and the Great North Walk, and a stick got caught in the chain and snapped the derailleur mounting 😭
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Dangerous streets keep kids off bikes, court rules Canadian bike riders have a right to not get killed, and #CicLAvia rolls through Culver City and Venice on Sunday: bikinginla.com/2025/08/14/d... #bikeLA
Dangerous streets keep kids off bikes, Canadian bike riders have a right to not get killed, and CicLAvia rolls on Sunday - BikinginLA
She gets it. A Washington writer says dangerous streets make it hard to give bike-riding kids the freedom they need to roam and explore.
bikinginla.com
August 14, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Dangerous streets keep kids off bikes, court rules Canadian bike riders have a right to not get killed, and #CicLAvia rolls through Culver City and Venice on Sunday: bikinginla.com/2025/08/14/d... #bikeLA
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Hunter St Metro is set to be able to handle 40,000 passengers PER HOUR.
🤯🤯🤯🤯
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
🤯🤯🤯🤯
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
How an underground marvel will reshape the way Sydney moves
The number of train passengers a metro station carved out beneath the central city has been built to handle is staggering.
www.smh.com.au
August 14, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Hunter St Metro is set to be able to handle 40,000 passengers PER HOUR.
🤯🤯🤯🤯
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
🤯🤯🤯🤯
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
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“There is nothing to be gained by playing politics with speed limits – only people to be injured and lives to be lost,” London mayor Sadiq Khan said
“When we talk about how we make our roads safer, it’s easy to get distracted by bluff and bluster,” says Sadiq Khan, as London mayor calls for more 20mph zones that save lives and don’t slow traffic +...
The temperatures are still rising, so get the factor 50 ready, crack the windows open, and join Ryan Mallon for another day chock-full of cycling news and views on the Wednesday live blog
road.cc
August 13, 2025 at 8:59 AM
“There is nothing to be gained by playing politics with speed limits – only people to be injured and lives to be lost,” London mayor Sadiq Khan said
I rode to work for the first time not long ago, only made possible with an e-bike because of all the hills and the fact that I don't ride regularly
This is a pretty solid explainer about what e-bikes are and the rules around them.
What I'd love to see is more coverage of what e-bikes *enable* people to do. Stories about disabled people who use them to gain independence. Or lower income people who benefit from not needing the expense of a car.
What I'd love to see is more coverage of what e-bikes *enable* people to do. Stories about disabled people who use them to gain independence. Or lower income people who benefit from not needing the expense of a car.
This is a fairly center of the road article but I feel like there's a push out there to label e-bike riders as anarchistic hooligans and as someone who recently discovered the joy of cycling, I don't like it
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/09/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/09/m...
August 10, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I rode to work for the first time not long ago, only made possible with an e-bike because of all the hills and the fact that I don't ride regularly
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Congestion pricing seems to have triggered a surge in Manhattan pedestrian activity:
“Nearly 36M people last month were in areas south of 60th Street in Manhattan, a 4.6% boost from January 2024.” (The increase was 1.6% outside the zone.)
Suggests retail sales are growing within the zone, too.
“Nearly 36M people last month were in areas south of 60th Street in Manhattan, a 4.6% boost from January 2024.” (The increase was 1.6% outside the zone.)
Suggests retail sales are growing within the zone, too.
NYC Sees Pedestrian Traffic Increase in Congestion-Pricing Zone
Pedestrian traffic on New York City’s busiest streets increased in January even after motorists began paying a new toll to drive into those same neighborhoods.
www.bloomberg.com
February 6, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Congestion pricing seems to have triggered a surge in Manhattan pedestrian activity:
“Nearly 36M people last month were in areas south of 60th Street in Manhattan, a 4.6% boost from January 2024.” (The increase was 1.6% outside the zone.)
Suggests retail sales are growing within the zone, too.
“Nearly 36M people last month were in areas south of 60th Street in Manhattan, a 4.6% boost from January 2024.” (The increase was 1.6% outside the zone.)
Suggests retail sales are growing within the zone, too.
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My new story @nyc.streetsblog.org shows another early and unheralded benefit of congestion pricing: fewer crashes! nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/01/23/c...
Congestion Relief Zone is Also a CRASH Relief Zone: Data - Streetsblog New York City
Congestion pricing critics will have one less reason to say the toll isn't working
nyc.streetsblog.org
January 23, 2025 at 7:28 PM
My new story @nyc.streetsblog.org shows another early and unheralded benefit of congestion pricing: fewer crashes! nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/01/23/c...
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Made it from Greenpoint to NYU Langone hospital in 20 minutes.
Prior to congestion pricing, it would be 30-40 mins.
Prior to congestion pricing, it would be 30-40 mins.
January 23, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Made it from Greenpoint to NYU Langone hospital in 20 minutes.
Prior to congestion pricing, it would be 30-40 mins.
Prior to congestion pricing, it would be 30-40 mins.
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The inherent chaos, inefficiency, and safety risks of school drop-offs mirror the paradox of car dependency more broadly: the more that people who have the privilege of driving are incentivized to drive, the more difficult, less comfortable, and less safe it becomes for people who don’t.
School Dropoff Is Everything That Sucks About Car Culture
We need better transportation options — not just for kids, but for everyone.
www.romper.com
January 17, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The inherent chaos, inefficiency, and safety risks of school drop-offs mirror the paradox of car dependency more broadly: the more that people who have the privilege of driving are incentivized to drive, the more difficult, less comfortable, and less safe it becomes for people who don’t.
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I just walked for an hour in lower Manhattan. I did not hear a single honk, which is not typical.
A lot of people have already talked about noise pollution, but another positive is the deshitifaction™ of driving in NYC. Decreasing the misery of driving here makes life better and safer for everyone.
A lot of people have already talked about noise pollution, but another positive is the deshitifaction™ of driving in NYC. Decreasing the misery of driving here makes life better and safer for everyone.
January 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I just walked for an hour in lower Manhattan. I did not hear a single honk, which is not typical.
A lot of people have already talked about noise pollution, but another positive is the deshitifaction™ of driving in NYC. Decreasing the misery of driving here makes life better and safer for everyone.
A lot of people have already talked about noise pollution, but another positive is the deshitifaction™ of driving in NYC. Decreasing the misery of driving here makes life better and safer for everyone.
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LA is burning & our implicit political baseline is still that climate policies are acceptable if and only if they require zero sacrifice or even mild lifestyle change on anyone's part.
Public will not have to change lives ‘radically’ for climate goal, MPs promised
Lifestyle change, such as diet and travel, are not in the scope of the 2035 goal
www.independent.co.uk
January 10, 2025 at 11:55 PM
LA is burning & our implicit political baseline is still that climate policies are acceptable if and only if they require zero sacrifice or even mild lifestyle change on anyone's part.
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I love when folks kindly, but inquisitively approach me outside the grocery store as I load groceries into my (admittedly) $9k e-cargo bike.
I answer their questions, one of which is always "How much did that cost?". I tell them how much, they gasp, and then walk off to their $65k grocery-getter.
I answer their questions, one of which is always "How much did that cost?". I tell them how much, they gasp, and then walk off to their $65k grocery-getter.
People ask me to justify my $6k cargo bike (that allows me to drive less than 10k miles a year), but folks are stoked about $11k eMTBs.
January 10, 2025 at 8:52 PM
I love when folks kindly, but inquisitively approach me outside the grocery store as I load groceries into my (admittedly) $9k e-cargo bike.
I answer their questions, one of which is always "How much did that cost?". I tell them how much, they gasp, and then walk off to their $65k grocery-getter.
I answer their questions, one of which is always "How much did that cost?". I tell them how much, they gasp, and then walk off to their $65k grocery-getter.
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My first time walking around the CONGESTION RELIEF ZONE on a non bone-chilling day and I am in love. Dramatic improvement. Here is 42nd & Madison — unfathomable that this usual clusterf*** of cars at this hour is this clear. As you can see however by the crosswalk, Manhattan is a ghost town now 🤣
January 10, 2025 at 8:28 PM
My first time walking around the CONGESTION RELIEF ZONE on a non bone-chilling day and I am in love. Dramatic improvement. Here is 42nd & Madison — unfathomable that this usual clusterf*** of cars at this hour is this clear. As you can see however by the crosswalk, Manhattan is a ghost town now 🤣
Must-see video explaining motonormativity, or "car brain"
youtu.be/PdqZsRayyFk?...
youtu.be/PdqZsRayyFk?...
January 10, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Must-see video explaining motonormativity, or "car brain"
youtu.be/PdqZsRayyFk?...
youtu.be/PdqZsRayyFk?...
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Outside academia, “congestion pricing” sounds like a term coined by the idea’s opponents, because it combines words for 2 unpleasant things, like “death taxes.” The better terms “decongestion pricing” or “congestion relief zone” describe what the price buys for those who pay it.
January 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Outside academia, “congestion pricing” sounds like a term coined by the idea’s opponents, because it combines words for 2 unpleasant things, like “death taxes.” The better terms “decongestion pricing” or “congestion relief zone” describe what the price buys for those who pay it.
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easy to read "insurers stopped covering homes in California right before these fires" as something sinister, but from covering this industry, I gotta say I think it's the opposite: no one is more aware of increased risk due to climate change than insurers
www.businessinsider.com/california-f...
www.businessinsider.com/california-f...
Insurers dropped fire coverage for California homes months ago. Now, wildfires are claiming more houses in Los Angeles.
Some insurers have scaled back their coverage in California because of wildfires over the past few years, creating a challenge for rebuilding.
www.businessinsider.com
January 9, 2025 at 7:34 PM
easy to read "insurers stopped covering homes in California right before these fires" as something sinister, but from covering this industry, I gotta say I think it's the opposite: no one is more aware of increased risk due to climate change than insurers
www.businessinsider.com/california-f...
www.businessinsider.com/california-f...
I'm familiar with this situation...I have a local example here: youtube.com/shorts/_DJVB...
January 6, 2025 at 5:08 AM
I'm familiar with this situation...I have a local example here: youtube.com/shorts/_DJVB...
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In cities where there isn’t likely to be investment available for badly needed service improvements AND free fares (sadly, that’s MOST cities), I strongly prefer strategic ridership-focused SERVICE IMPROVEMENTS, along with reasonable fares (and free fares for under 18, over 60, and low income). 3/
January 4, 2025 at 3:22 AM
In cities where there isn’t likely to be investment available for badly needed service improvements AND free fares (sadly, that’s MOST cities), I strongly prefer strategic ridership-focused SERVICE IMPROVEMENTS, along with reasonable fares (and free fares for under 18, over 60, and low income). 3/
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Blunt is a good guy but he needs to be educated on the issue here. The 'war on drivers', is actually a 'war on killing', does that sound more acceptable?
December 30, 2024 at 5:14 PM
Blunt is a good guy but he needs to be educated on the issue here. The 'war on drivers', is actually a 'war on killing', does that sound more acceptable?
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Instead of restraining car bloat, US policy has catalyzed it through loopholes in emissions rules and the federal tax code.
In @vox.com, I explained how.
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
In @vox.com, I explained how.
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
The reckless policies that helped fill our streets with ridiculously large cars
Dangerous, polluting SUVs and pickup trucks took over America. Lawmakers are partly to blame.
www.vox.com
December 28, 2024 at 12:34 PM
Instead of restraining car bloat, US policy has catalyzed it through loopholes in emissions rules and the federal tax code.
In @vox.com, I explained how.
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
In @vox.com, I explained how.
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
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FUN FACT: Even the most modest Goat-Based Elevated Light Rail System has 10 x the throughput of a Tesla Tunnel.
December 18, 2024 at 7:40 PM
FUN FACT: Even the most modest Goat-Based Elevated Light Rail System has 10 x the throughput of a Tesla Tunnel.
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“It's amazing how pollution has dropped in #Paris in 15 years. @annehidalgo.bsky.social has filled the city with bike-lanes & not only has she reduced pollution by 40% but she’s also been re-elected.”
Trading car space for green space, bike space, kid space…trading pollution for people. Good trade.
Trading car space for green space, bike space, kid space…trading pollution for people. Good trade.
Es alucinante cómo ha bajado la contaminación en París en 15 años. Anne Hidalgo lo ha llenado todo de carriles bici y no sólo ha reducido la contaminación en un 40%, sino que ha sido reelegida.
December 18, 2024 at 7:49 PM
“It's amazing how pollution has dropped in #Paris in 15 years. @annehidalgo.bsky.social has filled the city with bike-lanes & not only has she reduced pollution by 40% but she’s also been re-elected.”
Trading car space for green space, bike space, kid space…trading pollution for people. Good trade.
Trading car space for green space, bike space, kid space…trading pollution for people. Good trade.
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Mark your calendars.📅
On 10 January 2025, we will release the Global Climate Highlights 2024, presenting the most critical climate data and insights from this year, almost certainly the hottest on record and the first to cross the 1.5°C threshold.
Stay tuned#CopernicusClimateate
On 10 January 2025, we will release the Global Climate Highlights 2024, presenting the most critical climate data and insights from this year, almost certainly the hottest on record and the first to cross the 1.5°C threshold.
Stay tuned#CopernicusClimateate
December 18, 2024 at 8:30 AM
Mark your calendars.📅
On 10 January 2025, we will release the Global Climate Highlights 2024, presenting the most critical climate data and insights from this year, almost certainly the hottest on record and the first to cross the 1.5°C threshold.
Stay tuned#CopernicusClimateate
On 10 January 2025, we will release the Global Climate Highlights 2024, presenting the most critical climate data and insights from this year, almost certainly the hottest on record and the first to cross the 1.5°C threshold.
Stay tuned#CopernicusClimateate
Woohoo! Parramatta light rail opening date set for Friday 20 December
www.nsw.gov.au/driving-boat...
www.nsw.gov.au/driving-boat...
Take me to Church Street, Parramatta light rail opening date set
For the first time in 80 years, and after 5 years of construction and testing, trams will carry passengers through the heart of Parramatta.
www.nsw.gov.au
December 18, 2024 at 8:22 AM
Woohoo! Parramatta light rail opening date set for Friday 20 December
www.nsw.gov.au/driving-boat...
www.nsw.gov.au/driving-boat...