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Cycling Professor 🚲 

Dec 28, 2021 • 12 tweets • 8 min read • Read on X

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VOTE now for the 2021 election of the #PowerfulMobilityMeme! Below are the top 10 candidates that were uploaded to the hashtag.

Every 🔁&💙 counts!
Vote as often as you like (before 01-01-2022)

@DonaldShoup

Candidate #1 for 2021's election of most #PowerfulMobilityMeme:

'Uneven attention for sustainable mobility solutions'
—via @DonaldShoup
(Used a lot around #COP21 in #Glasgow)

@tomflood1

Candidate #2 for 2021's election of most #PowerfulMobilityMeme:

'We all make sacrifices'
—@tomflood1

@davewalker

Candidate #3 for 2021's election of most #PowerfulMobilityMeme:

'The private things we do (not) store in public space'
—@davewalker

Candidate #4 for 2021's election of most #PowerfulMobilityMeme:

'The hostility streets we created for our children'
—Mehdi

@_dmoser

Candidate #5 for 2021's election of most #PowerfulMobilityMeme:

'Case studies where more roads solved it'
— @_dmoser

@bartoonist

Candidate #6 for 2021's election of most #PowerfulMobilityMeme:

'Divide and conquer'
—@bartoonist

@PhilippeSerruys

Candidate #7 for 2021's election of most #PowerfulMobilityMeme:

'Share the path'
— Pekka Rahkonen (via @PhilippeSerruys)

@Avidor

Candidate #8 for 2021's election of most #PowerfulMobilityMeme:

'Sacrifices'
—@Avidor

@fabiantodorovic

Candidate #9 for 2021's election of most #PowerfulMobilityMeme:

'The injustice mobility space’
—@fabiantodorovic

@IanLockwoodPE

Candidate #10 for 2021's election of most #PowerfulMobilityMeme:

'When the solution is right in front of you'
—@IanLockwoodPE

@urbanthoughts11

Out of contest for most #PowerfulMobilityMeme 2021:

The winner of #2020:
'Schrödinger's road space'
—@urbanthoughts11

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