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Following the tragic deaths over the weekend, I wanted to understand were there areas in Ireland that were more dangerous than others for road deaths and injuries.
I've produced the map below, which I hope will draw attention to where road safety efforts may help save lives.
#speirgorm
I've produced the map below, which I hope will draw attention to where road safety efforts may help save lives.
#speirgorm
November 17, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Following the tragic deaths over the weekend, I wanted to understand were there areas in Ireland that were more dangerous than others for road deaths and injuries.
I've produced the map below, which I hope will draw attention to where road safety efforts may help save lives.
#speirgorm
I've produced the map below, which I hope will draw attention to where road safety efforts may help save lives.
#speirgorm
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When it comes to road safety, zero is the only acceptable number. It's several years old now, but this video still packs a punch #VisionZero #SafeStreets #RoadViolence #ZeroVisionHFX youtu.be/yHhiUv9hX-o
November 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
When it comes to road safety, zero is the only acceptable number. It's several years old now, but this video still packs a punch #VisionZero #SafeStreets #RoadViolence #ZeroVisionHFX youtu.be/yHhiUv9hX-o
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Critical goods and services shouldn't be a 20 minute drive away. Walkability should be standard.
#HighlandPark #BetterBirmingham #WalkableNeighborhoods #SupportLocalBirmingham #PeopleFirstUrbanism
#NeighborhoodBusinesses #BirminghamEats #CommunityBuilding #UrbanismInAction #CoffeeAndCommunity
#HighlandPark #BetterBirmingham #WalkableNeighborhoods #SupportLocalBirmingham #PeopleFirstUrbanism
#NeighborhoodBusinesses #BirminghamEats #CommunityBuilding #UrbanismInAction #CoffeeAndCommunity
November 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Critical goods and services shouldn't be a 20 minute drive away. Walkability should be standard.
#HighlandPark #BetterBirmingham #WalkableNeighborhoods #SupportLocalBirmingham #PeopleFirstUrbanism
#NeighborhoodBusinesses #BirminghamEats #CommunityBuilding #UrbanismInAction #CoffeeAndCommunity
#HighlandPark #BetterBirmingham #WalkableNeighborhoods #SupportLocalBirmingham #PeopleFirstUrbanism
#NeighborhoodBusinesses #BirminghamEats #CommunityBuilding #UrbanismInAction #CoffeeAndCommunity
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It's good to see Aberdeen rolling out its 20mph limits across the city. Another Scottish City saying the #20splenty where people are.
Signs for 20mph streets have started to be installed | Aberdeen City Council
Signs for a new 20mph speed limit which will improve road safety have started to be installed today for streets in the north of Aberdeen.
www.aberdeencity.gov.uk
November 17, 2025 at 4:11 PM
It's good to see Aberdeen rolling out its 20mph limits across the city. Another Scottish City saying the #20splenty where people are.
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At the commemoration ceremony of the 🇱🇺National Association of Road Victims today, we thought of all the victims of road accidents on our streets. Every injured person, every life lost, is one too many!
World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims
#RoadSafety #VisionZero
@mmtp-lu.bsky.social
World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims
#RoadSafety #VisionZero
@mmtp-lu.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
At the commemoration ceremony of the 🇱🇺National Association of Road Victims today, we thought of all the victims of road accidents on our streets. Every injured person, every life lost, is one too many!
World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims
#RoadSafety #VisionZero
@mmtp-lu.bsky.social
World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims
#RoadSafety #VisionZero
@mmtp-lu.bsky.social
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Ann Arbor has committed to Vision Zero.
I am not really seeing it front-and-center in our transportation projects, at least not explicitly. In conversations, however, I am assured it is a priority.
Are we afraid to own it? Are we afraid of push-back if we use the specific phrase? #A2Council
I am not really seeing it front-and-center in our transportation projects, at least not explicitly. In conversations, however, I am assured it is a priority.
Are we afraid to own it? Are we afraid of push-back if we use the specific phrase? #A2Council
November 15, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Ann Arbor has committed to Vision Zero.
I am not really seeing it front-and-center in our transportation projects, at least not explicitly. In conversations, however, I am assured it is a priority.
Are we afraid to own it? Are we afraid of push-back if we use the specific phrase? #A2Council
I am not really seeing it front-and-center in our transportation projects, at least not explicitly. In conversations, however, I am assured it is a priority.
Are we afraid to own it? Are we afraid of push-back if we use the specific phrase? #A2Council
Reposted by Han van Spanje
open.spotify.com/episode/2qDh...
Hoffman and McClintock
corporate culture
and how car dominance started
Hoffman and McClintock
corporate culture
and how car dominance started
The Creation of America's Car Culture
open.spotify.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:30 PM
open.spotify.com/episode/2qDh...
Hoffman and McClintock
corporate culture
and how car dominance started
Hoffman and McClintock
corporate culture
and how car dominance started
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It’s wild to see this in person, then struggle to convince Village leaders that it’s possible and incredibly vibrant. It’s hard to feel like the work ahead isn’t insurmountable. We’re going to spend *years* testing a couple flex posts as if we’re the first town on the planet to ever use them.
Voorstraat in Utrecht: a true fietsstraat where bikes come first and cars are guests. It’s not just safer and more relaxed to cycle - the whole street benefits. Outdoor cafés, quieter homes, and a vibrant public space. When you design for people, cities flourish.
November 15, 2025 at 7:43 PM
It’s wild to see this in person, then struggle to convince Village leaders that it’s possible and incredibly vibrant. It’s hard to feel like the work ahead isn’t insurmountable. We’re going to spend *years* testing a couple flex posts as if we’re the first town on the planet to ever use them.
Reposted by Han van Spanje
This is really important.
The main thing that makes it hard to achieve integrated nature and green in cities isn’t density of buildings or density of people — it's density of cars. And the more well-designed and integrated density of people & buildings you achieve, the fewer cars you need or want.
The main thing that makes it hard to achieve integrated nature and green in cities isn’t density of buildings or density of people — it's density of cars. And the more well-designed and integrated density of people & buildings you achieve, the fewer cars you need or want.
November 9, 2025 at 8:09 AM
This is really important.
The main thing that makes it hard to achieve integrated nature and green in cities isn’t density of buildings or density of people — it's density of cars. And the more well-designed and integrated density of people & buildings you achieve, the fewer cars you need or want.
The main thing that makes it hard to achieve integrated nature and green in cities isn’t density of buildings or density of people — it's density of cars. And the more well-designed and integrated density of people & buildings you achieve, the fewer cars you need or want.
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👍👍👍 new bike lane on Dutch Village Road.
That whole commercial district (along with Joe Howe and Bayer's Road) is gonna be my new bike-able 'hood
The treats at Al-Arz bakery are now nearby!
Dressed for city safety
That whole commercial district (along with Joe Howe and Bayer's Road) is gonna be my new bike-able 'hood
The treats at Al-Arz bakery are now nearby!
Dressed for city safety
October 30, 2025 at 8:36 PM
👍👍👍 new bike lane on Dutch Village Road.
That whole commercial district (along with Joe Howe and Bayer's Road) is gonna be my new bike-able 'hood
The treats at Al-Arz bakery are now nearby!
Dressed for city safety
That whole commercial district (along with Joe Howe and Bayer's Road) is gonna be my new bike-able 'hood
The treats at Al-Arz bakery are now nearby!
Dressed for city safety
Reposted by Han van Spanje
As Doug points out on this pod: Dense walkable cities are the antidote to fascism.
The route to fascism lies in empathy free living where you live in your unwalkable suburban bubble, road rage against other people in cars, and only interact with people outside your family when buying something.
The route to fascism lies in empathy free living where you live in your unwalkable suburban bubble, road rage against other people in cars, and only interact with people outside your family when buying something.
The message consultants all say that when you discuss urbanism you're definitely never supposed to bad-mouth cars, lest you turn off thin-skinned suburbanites. But fuck it, I'm not running for office, the world is burning, & YOLO, so: cars fucking suck!
Yes, you weenies: a war on cars
Sarah Goodyear and Doug Gordon join me to discuss their new book and why a future with fewer cars is a happier one.
www.volts.wtf
October 25, 2025 at 2:12 AM
As Doug points out on this pod: Dense walkable cities are the antidote to fascism.
The route to fascism lies in empathy free living where you live in your unwalkable suburban bubble, road rage against other people in cars, and only interact with people outside your family when buying something.
The route to fascism lies in empathy free living where you live in your unwalkable suburban bubble, road rage against other people in cars, and only interact with people outside your family when buying something.
Reposted by Han van Spanje
Love 30, @dublincommuters.bsky.social, ourselves & other road safety campaigners are calling on the Minister Darragh O’Brien to issue a commencement order without delay for the default urban speed limit of 30km/h as defined in the Road Traffic Act 2024.
www.irishcyclingcampaign.ie/call-for-com...
www.irishcyclingcampaign.ie/call-for-com...
Call for Commencement of Default 30km/h Speed Limit in Urban Areas
PRESS RELEASE (FOR IMMEDIATE USE) The Love 30 Campaign for Safer Speed Limits, the Dublin Commuter Coalition, Irish Cycling Campaign and other road safety campaigners are calling on the Minister for T...
www.irishcyclingcampaign.ie
October 21, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Love 30, @dublincommuters.bsky.social, ourselves & other road safety campaigners are calling on the Minister Darragh O’Brien to issue a commencement order without delay for the default urban speed limit of 30km/h as defined in the Road Traffic Act 2024.
www.irishcyclingcampaign.ie/call-for-com...
www.irishcyclingcampaign.ie/call-for-com...
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How did I miss this 3 weeks ago?! I freaking LOVE this and hope this guy is still safe. Is this why MAGAs hate bike lanes so much? The getaway van they can’t wrap their puny combustion engine addled brains around
ICE attempted
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.
October 20, 2025 at 11:07 AM
How did I miss this 3 weeks ago?! I freaking LOVE this and hope this guy is still safe. Is this why MAGAs hate bike lanes so much? The getaway van they can’t wrap their puny combustion engine addled brains around
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On-street cyclehangars (secure, covered bike parking), but the cover is in the shape of a Range Rover. More of this please!!
movepeople.substack.com/p/bread-bin-...
movepeople.substack.com/p/bread-bin-...
October 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM
On-street cyclehangars (secure, covered bike parking), but the cover is in the shape of a Range Rover. More of this please!!
movepeople.substack.com/p/bread-bin-...
movepeople.substack.com/p/bread-bin-...
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This is What Chicago Thinks about
Chump and RepubliKKKans.......
Chump and RepubliKKKans.......
October 19, 2025 at 10:08 AM
This is What Chicago Thinks about
Chump and RepubliKKKans.......
Chump and RepubliKKKans.......
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Hey Mike Johnson, let’s see who showed up for what you called the “Hate America” rally.
October 19, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Hey Mike Johnson, let’s see who showed up for what you called the “Hate America” rally.
Reposted by Han van Spanje
October 19, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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You can judge any city by the quality and vitality of its places for public life. Here in Torino Italy it’s the many piazzas, the pedestrian streets, & the public market. Many cities had to claim these places back from cars.
Don’t have those kinds of places in your city? Are you sure you’re a city?
Don’t have those kinds of places in your city? Are you sure you’re a city?
October 18, 2025 at 1:16 PM
You can judge any city by the quality and vitality of its places for public life. Here in Torino Italy it’s the many piazzas, the pedestrian streets, & the public market. Many cities had to claim these places back from cars.
Don’t have those kinds of places in your city? Are you sure you’re a city?
Don’t have those kinds of places in your city? Are you sure you’re a city?
Reposted by Han van Spanje
Today on Dutch newssite @nieuws.nos.nl:
"How long can the German CDU ostracise the extreme right AfD? Chancellor Merz & his party leadership will discuss this in a small group this weekend."
Well, there's research about this.
And there's the experiences of your Dutch neighbours.
nos.nl/l/2586848
"How long can the German CDU ostracise the extreme right AfD? Chancellor Merz & his party leadership will discuss this in a small group this weekend."
Well, there's research about this.
And there's the experiences of your Dutch neighbours.
nos.nl/l/2586848
Topberaad Duitse christendemocraten over samenwerking met AfD
Binnen de partij van de bondskanselier gaan stemmen op om de AfD minder uit de weg te gaan.
nos.nl
October 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Today on Dutch newssite @nieuws.nos.nl:
"How long can the German CDU ostracise the extreme right AfD? Chancellor Merz & his party leadership will discuss this in a small group this weekend."
Well, there's research about this.
And there's the experiences of your Dutch neighbours.
nos.nl/l/2586848
"How long can the German CDU ostracise the extreme right AfD? Chancellor Merz & his party leadership will discuss this in a small group this weekend."
Well, there's research about this.
And there's the experiences of your Dutch neighbours.
nos.nl/l/2586848
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The artificial intelligence and robotics being developed by multi-billionaires will allow corporate America to wipe out tens of millions of decent-paying jobs, cut labor costs and boost profits.
What happens to working class people who can’t find jobs because they don’t exist?
What happens to working class people who can’t find jobs because they don’t exist?
AI Could Wipe Out the Working Class | Sen. Bernie Sanders
YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders
youtu.be
October 7, 2025 at 11:34 PM
The artificial intelligence and robotics being developed by multi-billionaires will allow corporate America to wipe out tens of millions of decent-paying jobs, cut labor costs and boost profits.
What happens to working class people who can’t find jobs because they don’t exist?
What happens to working class people who can’t find jobs because they don’t exist?
Reposted by Han van Spanje
The sickest children from around the country are brought to Children's National Hospital for treatment.
The doctors who care for them work days on end for starvation wages.
These doctors deserve a fair bargain. NOW.
The doctors who care for them work days on end for starvation wages.
These doctors deserve a fair bargain. NOW.
Doctors Working for Starvation Wages Speak Up | Sen. Bernie Sanders
YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders
youtu.be
October 10, 2025 at 4:17 PM
The sickest children from around the country are brought to Children's National Hospital for treatment.
The doctors who care for them work days on end for starvation wages.
These doctors deserve a fair bargain. NOW.
The doctors who care for them work days on end for starvation wages.
These doctors deserve a fair bargain. NOW.