LindsayLovesBikes
@lindsaysturman.bsky.social
I love cities. Co-Host of podcast "Bike Talk." Advocating for the 15 minute cities and QUIMBY: Quality in my backyard. LCI-LA.com. Full of joy.
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I think it’s a basic misunderstanding of what motivates us to bike. Facts I learned from cohosting Bike Talk:
-80-90% of a pop will bike
-It’s our 1st choice if we can.
-This lane works for 1% of the population because of fear; how sensitive our amygdala is to fear.
Roger Geller Portland study:
-80-90% of a pop will bike
-It’s our 1st choice if we can.
-This lane works for 1% of the population because of fear; how sensitive our amygdala is to fear.
Roger Geller Portland study:
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Bellamystraat, Amsterdam in 1974 and today
May 5, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Bellamystraat, Amsterdam in 1974 and today
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BEFORE & AFTER: Baudelopark in Ghent, Belgium
Pretty cool!
Pretty cool!
April 20, 2025 at 2:49 PM
BEFORE & AFTER: Baudelopark in Ghent, Belgium
Pretty cool!
Pretty cool!
Anne Hidalgo has pulled off an Oceans 11 heist by quietly removed 1/2 the parking from Paris
Remember, Paris wasn’t “always this way.”
Not that many years ago, Paris was choking in car traffic. And it wasn’t a safe place to ride a bike for transportation, so not many people tried.
This is new. This is a result of deliberate vision, and bold leadership.
Cities are a result of choices.
Not that many years ago, Paris was choking in car traffic. And it wasn’t a safe place to ride a bike for transportation, so not many people tried.
This is new. This is a result of deliberate vision, and bold leadership.
Cities are a result of choices.
April 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Anne Hidalgo has pulled off an Oceans 11 heist by quietly removed 1/2 the parking from Paris
56% bike mode share! Cities can create ‘pocket Utrechts’ for those who want it…. Aka, 40% of people.
56% of Utrecht residents travel to the city center by bicycle: to shop, to work, to meet friends. Bicycle cities are thriving cities.
56% van de Utrechters reist per fiets of bakfiets naar het stadscentrum, om te winkelen, te werken of vrienden te ontmoeten. Fietssteden zijn bloeiende steden.
56% van de Utrechters reist per fiets of bakfiets naar het stadscentrum, om te winkelen, te werken of vrienden te ontmoeten. Fietssteden zijn bloeiende steden.
April 19, 2025 at 6:51 PM
56% bike mode share! Cities can create ‘pocket Utrechts’ for those who want it…. Aka, 40% of people.
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Frans Halsstraat, Amsterdam in 1982 and today
April 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Frans Halsstraat, Amsterdam in 1982 and today
I just learned about Bologna, Italy's city-wide 30km/h (18mph) speed limit which ELIMINATED pedestrian deaths + biking up 10% & pollution down 30%.
"Slowing down is often the best way to move forward" -- From @michelagrasso.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/urbancyc...
"Slowing down is often the best way to move forward" -- From @michelagrasso.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/urbancyc...
Bologna Città 30: How Slowing Down Can Move Us Forward
Interview with Andrea Colombo | Bologna, Italy
open.substack.com
April 17, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I just learned about Bologna, Italy's city-wide 30km/h (18mph) speed limit which ELIMINATED pedestrian deaths + biking up 10% & pollution down 30%.
"Slowing down is often the best way to move forward" -- From @michelagrasso.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/urbancyc...
"Slowing down is often the best way to move forward" -- From @michelagrasso.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/urbancyc...
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New blog post: the evidence is clear - demand for homes in walkable neighborhoods in the United States outstrips supply by a factor of 4 or more.
The huge unmet demand for walkable places — 15-Minute City
The evidence is clear: demand for homes in walkable neighborhoods in the United States outstrips supply by a factor of 4 or more.
www.15minutecity.com
April 11, 2025 at 7:01 PM
New blog post: the evidence is clear - demand for homes in walkable neighborhoods in the United States outstrips supply by a factor of 4 or more.
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They spent the last four years telling us people who invaded the capital and beat police officers with flagpoles were unjustly persecuted civil rights heroes and now it’s taken about 45 minutes for them to be like “yeah if you write an op-ed you’re going to the blacksite that’s just common sense”
April 16, 2025 at 12:17 PM
They spent the last four years telling us people who invaded the capital and beat police officers with flagpoles were unjustly persecuted civil rights heroes and now it’s taken about 45 minutes for them to be like “yeah if you write an op-ed you’re going to the blacksite that’s just common sense”
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I want to tell you why the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia should matter to you.
The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.
The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.
April 15, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I want to tell you why the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia should matter to you.
The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.
The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.
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A helpful guide to the current state of US trade policy:
April 12, 2025 at 3:37 PM
A helpful guide to the current state of US trade policy:
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Here's the reality: they've backed themselves into a corner. If they bring him home there will be hell to pay. It's clear that they believe that the lesser hell is not bringing him home. So we need to make that hell the worse hell. Start calling and screaming at all of your representatives now! 1/2
April 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Here's the reality: they've backed themselves into a corner. If they bring him home there will be hell to pay. It's clear that they believe that the lesser hell is not bringing him home. So we need to make that hell the worse hell. Start calling and screaming at all of your representatives now! 1/2
QUIMBY: Quality in my backyard
April 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM
QUIMBY: Quality in my backyard
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Plainclothes agents. Trying to question elementary-aged kids. And lying that they had parents permission to do so.
April 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Plainclothes agents. Trying to question elementary-aged kids. And lying that they had parents permission to do so.
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For whatever reason ICE doesn't have a Bluesky account. So I thought I'd drop this in here. Note the Free Speech crowd has now put the good folks at ICE in charge of stopping, detaining and deporting "Ideas".
April 10, 2025 at 6:56 PM
For whatever reason ICE doesn't have a Bluesky account. So I thought I'd drop this in here. Note the Free Speech crowd has now put the good folks at ICE in charge of stopping, detaining and deporting "Ideas".
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I am absolutely not a fan of this man, that said, he’s completely correct and the messaging here is 💯
Rand Paul: "The whole [tariffs] debate is so fundamentally backwards & upside down. It's based on a fallacy & the fallacy is this: that somehow in a trade, someone must lose. That somehow when you trade with someone, someone is taking advantage of you... I have a trade deficit with my grocery store"
April 10, 2025 at 12:43 PM
I am absolutely not a fan of this man, that said, he’s completely correct and the messaging here is 💯
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The roadway treatment your city's traffic engineer doesn't want you to know about.
April 10, 2025 at 2:21 AM
The roadway treatment your city's traffic engineer doesn't want you to know about.
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Similar to 99% of residential properties in Boston, this four-unit building, constructed in 1850 on a 3,782 sf lot, could not be built under today’s overly restrictive zoning regulations.
📍 Beacon Hill, Boston
📍 Beacon Hill, Boston
April 9, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Similar to 99% of residential properties in Boston, this four-unit building, constructed in 1850 on a 3,782 sf lot, could not be built under today’s overly restrictive zoning regulations.
📍 Beacon Hill, Boston
📍 Beacon Hill, Boston
Fantastic read
www.15minutecity.com/blog/ubiquity
www.15minutecity.com/blog/ubiquity
The huge unmet demand for walkable places — 15-Minute City
The evidence is clear: demand for homes in walkable neighborhoods in the United States outstrips supply by a factor of 4 or more.
www.15minutecity.com
April 10, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Fantastic read
www.15minutecity.com/blog/ubiquity
www.15minutecity.com/blog/ubiquity
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I really cannot overstate how dangerous it is that the masked men in the snatch vans no longer feel any obligation to the courts or the justice system - even at the level of remembering a name.
That means that nobody is safe.
That means that nobody is safe.
My detained client was scheduled for a bond hearing this AM in a MA immigration court. He wasn't brought in, and he and his case have disappeared.
I then received this notice of activity on a nonexistent docket in which his name was changed to "N/A"
It's all happening a lot faster than I expected
I then received this notice of activity on a nonexistent docket in which his name was changed to "N/A"
It's all happening a lot faster than I expected
April 9, 2025 at 11:58 AM
I really cannot overstate how dangerous it is that the masked men in the snatch vans no longer feel any obligation to the courts or the justice system - even at the level of remembering a name.
That means that nobody is safe.
That means that nobody is safe.
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Yup!
something I haven't seen yet: isn't a massive increase in the range of goods worth smuggling going to be a big boost to exactly the kind of cross-border organized crime the WH claims it wants to stop?
April 8, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Yup!
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What could a car-lite #LosAngeles look like?
Our current approach isn't working. We invest in expensive transit projects, but fail to build the infrastructure around stations needed to create riders. What could a transit-first community look like?
I present to you, a Westwood for the future:
Our current approach isn't working. We invest in expensive transit projects, but fail to build the infrastructure around stations needed to create riders. What could a transit-first community look like?
I present to you, a Westwood for the future:
April 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
What could a car-lite #LosAngeles look like?
Our current approach isn't working. We invest in expensive transit projects, but fail to build the infrastructure around stations needed to create riders. What could a transit-first community look like?
I present to you, a Westwood for the future:
Our current approach isn't working. We invest in expensive transit projects, but fail to build the infrastructure around stations needed to create riders. What could a transit-first community look like?
I present to you, a Westwood for the future:
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This is a good, funny sign. But it gets at a key element of what Social Security does. Middle aged people who aren't fully supporting aging parents can fund their kids education. It runs through the whole life cycle.
April 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
This is a good, funny sign. But it gets at a key element of what Social Security does. Middle aged people who aren't fully supporting aging parents can fund their kids education. It runs through the whole life cycle.
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We don’t expect planes to share runways with cars. Or boats to use roads. So why expect people cycling to share space with fast, heavy traffic? Every mode needs its own safe infrastructure.
🎥 Watch how the Dutch do it right 👇
🎥 Watch how the Dutch do it right 👇
April 6, 2025 at 2:16 PM
We don’t expect planes to share runways with cars. Or boats to use roads. So why expect people cycling to share space with fast, heavy traffic? Every mode needs its own safe infrastructure.
🎥 Watch how the Dutch do it right 👇
🎥 Watch how the Dutch do it right 👇
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My vision for Los Angeles is a future where nobody needs to own a car
But many Angelenos are dependent on their car today
We need policy that leads us to our car-light future, while still improving life for those who currently have no choice but to drive
But many Angelenos are dependent on their car today
We need policy that leads us to our car-light future, while still improving life for those who currently have no choice but to drive
April 5, 2025 at 8:40 AM
My vision for Los Angeles is a future where nobody needs to own a car
But many Angelenos are dependent on their car today
We need policy that leads us to our car-light future, while still improving life for those who currently have no choice but to drive
But many Angelenos are dependent on their car today
We need policy that leads us to our car-light future, while still improving life for those who currently have no choice but to drive
This is really interesting…. Paris is showing cities what Amsterdam figured out and Copenhagen copied.
Arriving to Munster… seems like Denmark, but it’s Germany.
The land of cars… and I see bicycles everywhere. All Ages Abilities.
Next week at Int. Summit Health & Cities in Hanover. Love the mix.
Good cities make healthy lifestyle the easier option. For everyone, 8 and 80.
The land of cars… and I see bicycles everywhere. All Ages Abilities.
Next week at Int. Summit Health & Cities in Hanover. Love the mix.
Good cities make healthy lifestyle the easier option. For everyone, 8 and 80.
April 5, 2025 at 7:53 PM
This is really interesting…. Paris is showing cities what Amsterdam figured out and Copenhagen copied.