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You can take bikes on buses in Antananarivo? Wait. What? I've lived here for 12 years and I never knew that YOU CAN TAKE BIKES ON BUSES IN ANTANANARIVO!!!

#Africa #Madagascar #Antananarivo #Multimodal #Bus #PublicTransport #Bike #Cycling #NotJustBikes #Carfree #TransportationJustice #Photography #OriginalPhoto #HalfHeartedFanatic

@crazyeddie @aworkinglibrary
It is probably about car dependency, car-centered areas. Like in the US where in many towns without a car one would struggle to do anything: getting to the grocery store, getting back from the store, reaching the other river bank as many bridges are motor vehicles only.

People can’t live without cars in such places. Even food banks have huge lines of cars, four "lanes". Some homeless people drive cars as well. Imagine the closest grocery store being 1 hour walking distance away, and the weather may be extremely hot/cold.

Many such areas don’t even have sidewalks or anything for walking at all. At the same time so called "jay-walking" is prohibited by law. The term "jaywalking" actually was invented by the cars lobby in the early 20th century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaywalking
Moving around by walking is extremely inconvenient, dangerous, taking ridiculous amounts of time, basically incompatible with everyday activities.

Also the parking lots, roads, intersections take up huge chunks of the city. Consider how much longer it takes to walk somewhere compared to what it could be without all these. Urban areas could look very different if they were human-centered and Points Of Interest were packed tightly.

And the bigger the city, the more space car infrastructure takes up. More lanes, wider intersections, parking lots can have up to many thousands spots, highways, freeways, interchanges of ridiculous sizes and shapes.

The topic is huge, what I mentioned is just the tip. Think of what you see around every day. Also all the noise. And danger it brings to everyone, not just drivers. The number of so called "accidents", another convenient term for the horrible things that happen everyday.

The areas which are pedestrian-friendly, bicycle friendly, have public transportation tend to have happier residents, more attraction points, more small businesses, more street life, way better air quality, less noise among other benefits.
Also social connections and interaction happen there and not on a 4-lane highway.

#Cars #Car #City #Urban #Streets
#Cities #CarFree #Roads #CarDependancy #StreetLife #Safety #Bycicles #Walking #UrbanSprawl #OneMoreLane #InducedTraffic #PublicTransport #PublicTransit #Access #PublicTransportation #Accessibility #Accessible #PublicSpaces #Socialization #Capitalism #Subsidies #Lobbying #WordsMatter #History #CarsAreDangerous #FuckCars

“Open street transformations vary in duration and scale, shaping how we relate to and use a street. It shifts the way we perceive what public space in the city can be, even for a single day, and that shift feeds our collective imaginary of the city.”
#openstreets #carfree #publicspaces #road #vancouver

https://spacing.ca/vancouver/2026/07/27/open-streets-how-often/

Suzuki World Triathlon Championships Hamburg
11./12.07.2026 | Hamburg, Germany

8 Videos here:
https://youtube.com/@bicycle-life2/videos

#triathlon #hamburg #swimbikerun #suzuki
#verkehrswende #verkehrswendejetzt
#fahrradbubble #klima #sport #competition
#carfree #CarFreeCity #EverySecondMatters
#parasports

If you need a traffic light 🚦 – if people need to endure a bureaucrat beating them up with a stick to cross a street – you've made a mistake somewhere.

Many are made wrong – to prioritise cars – but the people who oppose the fundamental concept of a #pedestrian #bridge or #underpass, are the most anti-pedestrian people ever. They are the #motorist bureaucrats beating you up in every intersection. 🥊

#bureaucracy #urbanism #carfree

My bike trailer met a colleague at the grocery store.

It's rare to see signs of active, utilitarian, middle-class mobility in Antananarivo.

Note: Photo taken before my Travoy folding hinge hyperextended

#Africa #Madagascar #Antananarivo #Bike #Cycling #CyclingLife #Burley #Travoy #NotJustBikes #Urbanism #Motonomativity #Fuckcars #Carfree #LowCar #Walkability #WalkableCities #Photography #OriginalPhoto #HalfHeartedFanatic

It was a complicated day for logistics. Note the motorcycle helmet in the bike bag in the back of the taxi with my folding bike.

Honestly, I don't know how some car-free and low-car people get by without folding bikes.

#Africa #Madagascar #Antananarivo #Malagasy #Brompton #Multimodality #Carfree #LowCar #Bike #Cycling #CyclingLife #CommuteByBike #NotJustBikes #Urbanism #Photography #OriginalPhoto #HalfHeartedFanatic

Crap! A Burley Travoy isn't supposed to fold this way. Any advice on how to repair this?

NB: Replacement parts will be hard to get in Madagascar, but good mechanics are plentiful.

@burleydesign attn @campfirecycling

#bikerepair #travoy #burleytravoy #BurleyDesign #Bike #Cycling #CyclingLife #Brompton #CommuteByBike #NotJustBikes #CarryShitOlympics #Carfree #LowCar#HalfHeartedFanatic

#CarFree #CollegeGreen stuffed with parked cars is a thing apparently

#Dublin

#TheGuardian: "Meet the #Americans who choose to live without a #car in the #US: ‘It takes some doing’"

#carFree #carCulture
#publicTransport #bikeCommuting #biking #velotaf #transportsEnCommun

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/08/americans-without-cars-driving-dominated-country

“These photos let us see the real city,” he says. “A city emptied of most of its inhabitants, with deserted streets, no cars.”

Definitely not the sort of #CarFree streets we dream of.

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/28/nx-s1-5157701/france-wwii-war-photos-mystery

#France #Occupation #RaoulMinot #Photographs #Paris #Montmartre #PlaceDeLaConcorde #ChampsElysées

“These photos let us see the real city,” he says. “A city emptied of most of its inhabitants, with deserted streets, no cars.”

Definitely not the sort of #CarFree streets we dream of.

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/28/nx-s1-5157701/france-wwii-war-photos-mystery

#France #Occupation #RaoulMinot #Photographs #Paris #Montmartre #PlaceDeLaConcorde #ChampsElysées

“These photos let us see the real city,” he says. “A city emptied of most of its inhabitants, with deserted streets, no cars.”

Definitely not the sort of #CarFree streets we dream of.

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/28/nx-s1-5157701/france-wwii-war-photos-mystery

#France #Occupation #RaoulMinot #Photographs #Paris #Montmartre #PlaceDeLaConcorde #ChampsElysées

“These photos let us see the real city,” he says. “A city emptied of most of its inhabitants, with deserted streets, no cars.”

Definitely not the sort of #CarFree streets we dream of.

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/28/nx-s1-5157701/france-wwii-war-photos-mystery

#France #Occupation #RaoulMinot #Photographs #Paris #Montmartre #PlaceDeLaConcorde #ChampsElysées