My council colleague Paddy Monahan and I made a short video about an unsafe junction in Whitehall in Dublin. Yet again, #motonormativity putting our kids in danger. We’re working to get this fixed before someone gets hurt. #speirgorm #ActiveTravel #StreetsAreForPeople
November 7, 2025 at 8:26 AM
My council colleague Paddy Monahan and I made a short video about an unsafe junction in Whitehall in Dublin. Yet again, #motonormativity putting our kids in danger. We’re working to get this fixed before someone gets hurt. #speirgorm #ActiveTravel #StreetsAreForPeople
This is pathetic. One Sunday afternoon for six hours? New York City's motonormativity is a disease greatly in need of a cure.
gothamist.com/news/holiday...
gothamist.com/news/holiday...
Holiday Open Street returning to NYC's Fifth Avenue for just 1 Sunday
The event was scaled back to a single weekend in 2024 and will repeat that schedule this year.
gothamist.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:41 PM
This is pathetic. One Sunday afternoon for six hours? New York City's motonormativity is a disease greatly in need of a cure.
gothamist.com/news/holiday...
gothamist.com/news/holiday...
Oh yeah, going international on Wikipedia
November 4, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Oh yeah, going international on Wikipedia
Can I add "experts are surprised about the fact that Seattleites are concerned about traffic violence after the deadliest year on city roads since 2006" to the list of prime examples of motonormativity?
Seattle University's annual survey on public safety, initiated in 2015, shows how local perceptions of crime, safety and policing have shifted.
Seattle's ‘surprising’ top public-safety concern, according to an annual survey
www.seattletimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Can I add "experts are surprised about the fact that Seattleites are concerned about traffic violence after the deadliest year on city roads since 2006" to the list of prime examples of motonormativity?
We live in an society that encourages car dependency and motonormativity. Most people have to unlearn it and learn to imagine alternatives - some are more reticent to do so than others.
Using the phrase "cognitive disablement" in this context is massively ableist. Not beating the allegations here.
Using the phrase "cognitive disablement" in this context is massively ableist. Not beating the allegations here.
November 8, 2025 at 10:05 AM
We live in an society that encourages car dependency and motonormativity. Most people have to unlearn it and learn to imagine alternatives - some are more reticent to do so than others.
Using the phrase "cognitive disablement" in this context is massively ableist. Not beating the allegations here.
Using the phrase "cognitive disablement" in this context is massively ableist. Not beating the allegations here.
This happens to me once a week in the Gaslamp, our most touristy neighborhood. It's like they've never seen a bike before. Meanwhile they are oblivious to the massive pickup trucks and huge Suburban SUVs blowing every stop sign and yielding to no pedestrians Visceral object lesson in motonormativity
November 3, 2025 at 8:05 PM
This happens to me once a week in the Gaslamp, our most touristy neighborhood. It's like they've never seen a bike before. Meanwhile they are oblivious to the massive pickup trucks and huge Suburban SUVs blowing every stop sign and yielding to no pedestrians Visceral object lesson in motonormativity
We talk about freedom of choice in transport, but what if that freedom isn’t as equal as it seems?
At our Stormont event, behavioural scientist @ianwalker.bsky.social explored motonormativity — the bias that treats driving as the default and everything else as second-best.
cyclinguk.org/stormont
At our Stormont event, behavioural scientist @ianwalker.bsky.social explored motonormativity — the bias that treats driving as the default and everything else as second-best.
cyclinguk.org/stormont
Freedom to ride: the unconscious bias that’s limiting our transport choices
Northern Ireland Advocacy Lead Andrew McClean reports on our Stormont event where acclaimed environmental psychologist Professor Ian Walker was the keynote speaker: ‘Freedom for all: what does real tr...
cyclinguk.org
October 30, 2025 at 2:58 PM
We talk about freedom of choice in transport, but what if that freedom isn’t as equal as it seems?
At our Stormont event, behavioural scientist @ianwalker.bsky.social explored motonormativity — the bias that treats driving as the default and everything else as second-best.
cyclinguk.org/stormont
At our Stormont event, behavioural scientist @ianwalker.bsky.social explored motonormativity — the bias that treats driving as the default and everything else as second-best.
cyclinguk.org/stormont
“It’s so endemic, it’s so pervasive, it’s so ubiquitous, that people don’t recognize just how much it is all around them”
I've been talking motonormativity with @grist.org. Also features @sgoodyear.bsky.social and @brooklynspoke.bsky.social
grist.org/culture/cars...
I've been talking motonormativity with @grist.org. Also features @sgoodyear.bsky.social and @brooklynspoke.bsky.social
grist.org/culture/cars...
What we lost when cars won
Americans once feared cars. Now we can’t imagine life without them.
grist.org
October 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
“It’s so endemic, it’s so pervasive, it’s so ubiquitous, that people don’t recognize just how much it is all around them”
I've been talking motonormativity with @grist.org. Also features @sgoodyear.bsky.social and @brooklynspoke.bsky.social
grist.org/culture/cars...
I've been talking motonormativity with @grist.org. Also features @sgoodyear.bsky.social and @brooklynspoke.bsky.social
grist.org/culture/cars...
The degree to which motonormativity / car brain has warped American society is never clearer than when a driver kills someone — particularly a pedestrian or cyclists.
A driver has killed a cyclist ... again with no charges. Rest in peace, Cristian Vazquez: nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/10/28/d...
Driver Fatally Doors Cyclist in Queens Yet is Not Charged - Streetsblog New York City
A Citi Bike rider was killed after being doored on Monday by a Queens motorist — yet the driver was not charged for the illegal act. According to police, Cristian Vazquez, 26 of nearby College Point, ...
nyc.streetsblog.org
October 28, 2025 at 9:03 PM
The degree to which motonormativity / car brain has warped American society is never clearer than when a driver kills someone — particularly a pedestrian or cyclists.
A huge pleasure to visit Belfast recently. Andrew McClean from @cyclinguk.bsky.social was good enough to interview me when I was there so if you've got some time to kill, here's all you could want to know about motonormativity and stuff
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M4M...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M4M...
A series of planning errors Ian Walker
YouTube video by Andrew McClean
www.youtube.com
October 27, 2025 at 5:57 PM
A huge pleasure to visit Belfast recently. Andrew McClean from @cyclinguk.bsky.social was good enough to interview me when I was there so if you've got some time to kill, here's all you could want to know about motonormativity and stuff
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M4M...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M4M...
Ugh yes, and by the time you've stopped it's too late unless you were already going really, really, slow... More Motonormativity - normalising not looking 😱
(A lesser issue, but wish bike light standards were better too for traffic free paths so that they are dipped like the German standards)
(A lesser issue, but wish bike light standards were better too for traffic free paths so that they are dipped like the German standards)
October 28, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Ugh yes, and by the time you've stopped it's too late unless you were already going really, really, slow... More Motonormativity - normalising not looking 😱
(A lesser issue, but wish bike light standards were better too for traffic free paths so that they are dipped like the German standards)
(A lesser issue, but wish bike light standards were better too for traffic free paths so that they are dipped like the German standards)
"If something is familiar, the harm it causes can become invisible or at least accepted as natural." Motonormativity in one sentence.
A superb post about on-street parking and the baclkash against cycle parking here, from @maxsullivan.bsky.social movepeople.substack.com/p/bread-bin-...
Bread bin bike bunker blight
Why we hear less from those who would benefit from change on our streets. How we accelerated our cycle hangar program. And how to deal with the feelings that surround them.
movepeople.substack.com
October 20, 2025 at 2:19 PM
"If something is familiar, the harm it causes can become invisible or at least accepted as natural." Motonormativity in one sentence.
“The masters tools will never dismantle the masters house” - Audre Lorde
You are fighting #Motonormativity with every trip by bus, train, boat, bike, or scooter.
Keep it up, you’re doing great 👍
You are fighting #Motonormativity with every trip by bus, train, boat, bike, or scooter.
Keep it up, you’re doing great 👍
October 18, 2025 at 12:24 AM
“The masters tools will never dismantle the masters house” - Audre Lorde
You are fighting #Motonormativity with every trip by bus, train, boat, bike, or scooter.
Keep it up, you’re doing great 👍
You are fighting #Motonormativity with every trip by bus, train, boat, bike, or scooter.
Keep it up, you’re doing great 👍
There’s 237 comments in 5 hrs and almost all of them are victim blaming. 🤦♂️
October 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
#Verkehrt: Ständig Subventionen für KFZ und dumme Argumente – #Motonormativity
KFZ-Verkehr in Deutschland wir mit Billionen Euros subventioniert und dazu noch an vielen Stelle ideell, aber immer wieder kommen die gleichen Dummen Argumente dagegen. Sogar aus Ministerien. Subventionen sind alle…
KFZ-Verkehr in Deutschland wir mit Billionen Euros subventioniert und dazu noch an vielen Stelle ideell, aber immer wieder kommen die gleichen Dummen Argumente dagegen. Sogar aus Ministerien. Subventionen sind alle…
#Verkehrt: Ständig Subventionen für KFZ und dumme Argumente – #Motonormativity
KFZ-Verkehr in Deutschland wir mit Billionen Euros subventioniert und dazu noch an vielen Stelle ideell, aber immer wieder kommen die gleichen Dummen Argumente dagegen. Sogar aus Ministerien. Subventionen sind alle finanziellen und sonstigen Vorteile, welche eine Mobilitätsform attraktiver machen. Beim KFZ-Verkehr sind das u. a.: - Niedrige Bußgelder für Vergehen - Wegsehen durch Kommunen beim Falschparken - Abstellen auf Kosten der Allgemeinheit (keine/niedrige Parkgebühren)
ulrics.blog
October 17, 2025 at 6:30 AM
#Verkehrt: Ständig Subventionen für KFZ und dumme Argumente – #Motonormativity
KFZ-Verkehr in Deutschland wir mit Billionen Euros subventioniert und dazu noch an vielen Stelle ideell, aber immer wieder kommen die gleichen Dummen Argumente dagegen. Sogar aus Ministerien. Subventionen sind alle…
KFZ-Verkehr in Deutschland wir mit Billionen Euros subventioniert und dazu noch an vielen Stelle ideell, aber immer wieder kommen die gleichen Dummen Argumente dagegen. Sogar aus Ministerien. Subventionen sind alle…
Can we please sort out the nonsense of "smart" crossing signals.
Three times I pressed the button, three times a driver edging forward triggered the "pedestrian crossing" sensor, thus deactivating the button.
Fucking annoying, to put it mildly.
#motonormativity
Three times I pressed the button, three times a driver edging forward triggered the "pedestrian crossing" sensor, thus deactivating the button.
Fucking annoying, to put it mildly.
#motonormativity
October 15, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Can we please sort out the nonsense of "smart" crossing signals.
Three times I pressed the button, three times a driver edging forward triggered the "pedestrian crossing" sensor, thus deactivating the button.
Fucking annoying, to put it mildly.
#motonormativity
Three times I pressed the button, three times a driver edging forward triggered the "pedestrian crossing" sensor, thus deactivating the button.
Fucking annoying, to put it mildly.
#motonormativity
"Not visible" to whom? To the driver.
Another example of motonormativity.
Another example of motonormativity.
October 12, 2025 at 12:08 AM
"Not visible" to whom? To the driver.
Another example of motonormativity.
Another example of motonormativity.
Maybe you stumbled in here entirely unaware, but the instinct to blame the victims getting hit by cars rather than the cars or the people driving them is part of a long and storied tradition of what's sometimes known as motonormativity.
October 11, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Maybe you stumbled in here entirely unaware, but the instinct to blame the victims getting hit by cars rather than the cars or the people driving them is part of a long and storied tradition of what's sometimes known as motonormativity.
*walks into Waterstones* Where's your Motonormativity section?
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)
Is the world finally ready to rein in the automobile?
My essay, in @bloomberg.com (gift link below)
‘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.
www.bloomberg.com
October 10, 2025 at 1:21 PM
*walks into Waterstones* Where's your Motonormativity section?
Someday we'll have a talk about how motonormativity (car brain) has led to this commonly held idea that you, on your feet, can be ordered not to use spaces that are your right to use. You have a right to the street, and assembling on it is 1st Amendment activity.
moments ago, state + local charged the crowd outside the broadview ice detention center and detained three people.
it happened after someone tried to cross a street that isp has blocked off.
after the arrests, a state trooper warned the crowd that anyone in the street would be arrested.
it happened after someone tried to cross a street that isp has blocked off.
after the arrests, a state trooper warned the crowd that anyone in the street would be arrested.
October 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Someday we'll have a talk about how motonormativity (car brain) has led to this commonly held idea that you, on your feet, can be ordered not to use spaces that are your right to use. You have a right to the street, and assembling on it is 1st Amendment activity.
A true example of motonormativity. Almost impossible to imagine him doing this without a car being involved.
October 9, 2025 at 1:29 PM
A true example of motonormativity. Almost impossible to imagine him doing this without a car being involved.
If I am killed by a driver, the people I love will feel the same anguish regardless of said driver‘s intent. Motonormativity stops us from accurately assessing the material impact of the crime.
I remember talking to a former law enforcement official who told me that judges and juries can be hesitant to impose charges that could send drivers to prison, largely because those judges and juries are drivers too and worry that an "accident" could lead to prison time.
October 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
If I am killed by a driver, the people I love will feel the same anguish regardless of said driver‘s intent. Motonormativity stops us from accurately assessing the material impact of the crime.
A parish council in Oxford has refused to install a bench on a quiet side street in case people sit on it and get hit by a car
www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/news/2552131...
#motonormativity
@apiln.bsky.social
www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/news/2552131...
#motonormativity
@apiln.bsky.social
Proposed 'eyesore' bench causes outrage among community
Plans for a new artistic bench that have been two years in the making have caused outrage among residents in Botley near an Oxford Brookes campus.
www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk
October 7, 2025 at 7:16 AM
A parish council in Oxford has refused to install a bench on a quiet side street in case people sit on it and get hit by a car
www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/news/2552131...
#motonormativity
@apiln.bsky.social
www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/news/2552131...
#motonormativity
@apiln.bsky.social
The people that need to see your post probably are not on BlueSky. #Motonormativity seems to support placing all modes other than car/truck into simplified categories to assign danger and blame. #eBikesAreNotMotoBikes
October 7, 2025 at 12:43 PM
The people that need to see your post probably are not on BlueSky. #Motonormativity seems to support placing all modes other than car/truck into simplified categories to assign danger and blame. #eBikesAreNotMotoBikes
Motonormativity at its finest!
October 4, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Motonormativity at its finest!