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Cycling Professor 🚲  Profile picture
@fietsprofessor
May 14, 2020 • 4 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
Car-driving engineers steer our transport policies towards disciplining the vulnerable, making them responsible for their own safety.

In NL the go-to frame of those is 'distracted young cyclists', in the US 'distracted pedestrians'. File under #HiViz #Helmets #Jaywalking
Supported by statistics that only talk about the details of those who die, and not those who kill.

"Elderly died more, they were riding e-bikes. Children die more, they were playing outside more" is the way we describe traffic deaths during lockdown.
nos.nl/artikel/233382… Image
(3) This is not an incident, but a general pattern. Media talk about traffic crashes as if they are glitches in the machine, as if vehicles just collide with human bodies.

This helps us to ignore the systemic violence that lies underneath. Read: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Image
(4) Based on continuous crowd-sourced newspaper mining, we can map much more important characteristics of the ongoing traffic violence in a country.

Who kills who: hetongeluk.nl/statistieken/a…
What happens to our children: hetongeluk.nl/kinddoden?hd=1… ImageImage

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Something TERRIBLE happened to the streets in #LegoCity and we need to talk about it!

🧐 Why did @LEGO_Group decide to WIDEN the streets?
🚙 What does it teach us about real #autobesity?
🛣️ And how can we change it?

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2. 'With Lego you can make anything' is a marketing slogan often heard. If you want to create a city however, you have to work with the standard road plate sets.

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After years of #carsharing, I am considering buying an #OwnCar. But before I decide, I have a few questions to confirm that this is the right solution for me. Please help me out in this thread 🧵: Image
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Today #Amsterdam starts a transition experiment of 6 weeks that reclaims a car dominated street as public space.

There are already some important lessons about the importance of language. 1/🧵 Image
The Weesperstraat has been seen as important link for car traffic to get in and out central Amsterdam for four decades.

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Todays worldwide #KidicalMass illustrates that the call for more child-friendly streets does not come from a small minority.

Look at the kids and parents having a party!
Music and laughter instead of #VroomVroom

📹 of #Barcelona by @jordihoney
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May 5, 2023
Why should children have a Right to the Street?
❤ Health?
💨 Emissions?
👫 Access to friends?
🏘 Exploration & attachment?
👥 Children’s citizenship?

Whatever the reason, people want change and will show it this weekend across Europe kidsonbike.org.
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We discipline them, give them responsibility for their own safety. We tell them to not be distracted! Image
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NL 🇳🇱 is known as the country of bikes. And Dutch cities are often heralded as inspiring utopias. In many ways they are.

But this blinds us for a key shortcoming of the Dutch approach. For that, we need to talk about cars.

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This number has been rapidly growing and is expected to grow even further. In the last 30 years this went from 0,8 tot 1,1 car per household. [3] Image
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