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Great letter by Steven Murray in the TC! "Bike lanes and other policies that provide people with more choice on how to get around benefit everyone." #yyj #urbantruth #bcpoli www.timescolonist.com/opinion/lett...
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Great letter by Steven Murray in the TC! "Bike lanes and other policies that provide people with more choice on how to get around benefit everyone." #yyj #urbantruth #bcpoli www.timescolonist.com/opinion/lett...
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Great letter by Steven Murray in the TC! "Bike lanes and other policies that provide people with more choice on how to get around benefit everyone." #yyj #urbantruth #bcpoli www.timescolonist.com/opinion/lett...
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Great letter by Steven Murray in the TC! "Bike lanes and other policies that provide people with more choice on how to get around benefit everyone." #yyj #urbantruth #bcpoli www.timescolonist.com/opinion/lett...
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Great letter by Steven Murray in the TC! "Bike lanes and other policies that provide people with more choice on how to get around benefit everyone." #yyj #urbantruth #bcpoli www.timescolonist.com/opinion/lett...
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LOST: Missing Middle Housing. Please help. Last seen 50+ years ago in cities everywhere. Please contact your elected officials to help find this housing. 555-456-CITY
#UrbanTruth #MissingMiddle
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What if these posters started appearing around your neighborhood? #MissingMiddle #UrbanTruth
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What if these posters started appearing around your neighborhood? #MissingMiddle #UrbanTruth
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What if these posters started appearing around your neighborhood? #MissingMiddle #UrbanTruth
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What if these posters started appearing around your neighborhood? #MissingMiddle #UrbanTruth
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What if these posters started appearing around your neighborhood? #MissingMiddle #UrbanTruth
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LOST: Missing Middle Housing. Please help. Last seen 50+ years ago in cities everywhere. Please contact your elected officials to help find this housing. 555-456-CITY #UrbanTruth #MissingMiddle
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LOST: Missing Middle Housing. Please help. Last seen 50+ years ago in cities everywhere. Please contact your elected officials to help find this housing. 555-456-CITY #UrbanTruth #MissingMiddle
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LOST: Missing Middle Housing. Please help. Last seen 50+ years ago in cities everywhere. Please contact your elected officials to help find this housing. 555-456-CITY #UrbanTruth #MissingMiddle
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LOST: Missing Middle Housing. Please help. Last seen 50+ years ago in cities everywhere. Please contact your elected officials to help find this housing. 555-456-CITY #UrbanTruth #MissingMiddle
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LOST: Missing Middle Housing. Please help. Last seen 50+ years ago in cities everywhere. Please contact your elected officials to help find this housing. 555-456-CITY #UrbanTruth #MissingMiddle
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Mamdani is destroying every talking point they have about what good government can actually get done, and the fact that it’s a democratic socialist doing it on the biggest stage in the nation is killing them. Expect the lies and disinformation to keep ramping up. #UrbanTruth
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Remember, if we don’t build housing to solve homelessness, we don’t really want to solve homelessness. #UrbanTruth #HousingFirst
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Remember, speed is ALWAYS a factor. #UrbanTruth #VisionZero #SpeedKills
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NEW: The Highway Lobby spend MILLIONS buying car dependency to make sure all of us have to spend BILLIONS. #UrbanTruth
They’ve “been shaping transportation policy conversations for decades in its interests.”
Via the Union of Concerned Scientists. Poster by our Urban Truth Collective.
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HERE is the ANALYSIS that the @[email protected] article is based on. It’s worth reading, and sharing widely! #UrbanTruth osf.io/preprints/so...
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WATCH: One of the most important FALSE CHOICES in cities is the false choice between more density (aka homes) that we badly need, and better green/nature. When density is done well, green is smartly integrated. I did a deep dive on this with @[email protected] a few years back. #UrbanTruth
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The new slogan for more housing choice — “Are we kinda bein’ pricks?” #UrbanTruth
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“The Highway Lobby spends millions to make sure we spend billions.” — Union of Concerned Scientists. Their profit, your cost. Pleased to support @[email protected] in sharing/boosting their important new article below, with our newest @[email protected] poster. #UrbanTruth
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“Flawed economic models mean the accelerating impact of the climate crisis could lead to a global financial crash, experts warn.” “Recovery would be far harder than after the 2008 financial crash, they said, as ‘we can’t bail out the Earth like we did the banks’.” #ClimateCrisis #UrbanTruth
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A must read piece by @[email protected] as to why Toronto transit puts all American cities except for NYC to shame! It's not subways, but rather the frequent suburban bus service introduced in the early 1960's. #TTC #TOpoli #UrbanTruth
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A must read piece by @[email protected] as to why Toronto transit puts all American cities except for NYC to shame! It's not subways, but rather the frequent suburban bus service introduced in the early 1960's. #TTC #TOpoli #UrbanTruth
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A must read piece by @[email protected] as to why Toronto transit puts all American cities except for NYC to shame! It's not subways, but rather the frequent suburban bus service introduced in the early 1960's. #TTC #TOpoli #UrbanTruth
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Le auto migliori sono come sigarette migliori. Noi rimaniamo dipendenti, loro vendono di più. #urbantruth
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Better cars are like better cigarettes. We stay dependent, they sell more. #UrbanTruth
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WATCH: Jason from #NotJustBikes makes a thorough and very hard to dispute case that “When Oil Gets Expensive [Like Now, For Instance], Cities Get Better.” If you want to disagree, you should watch it all the way through before trying. #UrbanTruth youtu.be/eXNLaHsKMz8?...
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Paris urban biking investment helps cut pollution in half: “Between 2005 & 2024, levels of nitrogen dioxide & fine particulate matter — 2 of the most harmful pollutants to health — have been slashed by 50% & 55%, respectively.” Via @[email protected] Bike-lanes make better cities. #UrbanTruth
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"AVs almost by definition lower the friction and costs associated with driving ... And we already know, from the last century-plus of experience in the US, what happens when we make driving easier: We will get more of it. And more concrete and asphalt infrastructure to accommodate it." #UrbanTruth
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“Almost all of the associations have an affiliated research institute or foundation that provides an appearance of independence while supporting industry priorities…Yet their funding sources and staff almost always come from the same place, with the same motives.” — @[email protected] #UrbanTruth
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Why don't we have better public transit, and more safe routes to walk, roll and cycle? "It’s the fossil fuel industry that wants you to burn more gasoline. It’s auto manufacturers who want to keep you buying more cars." #UrbanTruth #climatesky
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STUDY: “Motonormativity is a shared bias whereby people judge motorised mobility differently to other comparable topics. This works against societies addressing climate and public health crises effectively.” Via @[email protected]. #UrbanTruth www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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It’s a big deal that the Union of Concerned Scientists @[email protected] is going directly after the Highway Lobby for the unprecedented damage they’ve done to cities and transportation. Spread the word. #UrbanTruth
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“It’s hard to justify a bridge by the number of people swimming across a river.” — @[email protected] #UrbanTruth
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NEW STUDY: Who is the Highway Lobby? “The highway lobby has been shaping transportation policy conversations for decades in its interests.” And they spend MILLIONS buying car dependency to make sure all of us have to spend BILLIONS. #UrbanTruth Via the Union of Concerned Scientists @[email protected].
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STUDY: Those microplastics from tires and such don’t just pollute the air and prematurely kill us. They’re also fuelling the climate crisis. #UrbanTruth www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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Remember, car dependency can’t be freedom. True mobility freedom comes from mobility choices. #UrbanTruth
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Remember this quote EVERY time you’re asked to “prove” the need for safe street conditions. Via our own @[email protected]. #UrbanTruth
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In case you missed this. #UrbanTruth
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Now THIS is GREAT! Our #UrbanTruth work is inspiring some of you to create your OWN new content. Check these out by @[email protected] on Mastodon building on our 1-Hour City Campaign. “Where would you rather live? “Which looks like freedom to you?” And which like dependency? #1HourCityConspiracy
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Riffing off the recent #UrbanTruth posts @urbantruth.bsky.social
@BrentToderian @grantennis
@tomflood
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Reducing the number of cars in a city
is good for business.
#Urbanism #UrbanTruth
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It’s actually not that complicated. Common sense, even. More things we need nearby, explained by our collaborator @[email protected]. #UrbanTruth #1HourCityConspiracy
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Madrid closed its central business district to cars for the first time during the 2018 Christmas period. The result was a 9.5% increase in retail spending on Madrid’s main shopping street, the Gran Vía. Plus there was a 71% drop in air pollution. Via @[email protected] in @[email protected]. #UrbanTruth
Closing Central Madrid To Cars...
