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Sep 9 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The city of #Llubljana in #Slovenia, population 280,000, kicked cars out of its center 15 years ago.

It's become a paradise for walkers, children, bike-riders.
People with limited mobility can use the free Kavalier electric shuttles to take them where they need to go...
...more on this great service here.
visitljubljana.com/en/visitors/tr…
This from the city's tourist board: "In #Ljubljana we believe tourism should be accessible to everyone. ♿️ That's why STIC Ljubljana is now providing a free rental of electric attachment for #wheelchairs."
Erratum: Kavalir, not Kavalier!

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Sep 11
I’ve been to Lago di Garda in northern #Italy—spectacular! (olive trees and lemons on a blue lake with the Dolomites looming).
Seeing the bicycle route they've built since makes me want to go back.
🧵 global bike path #bucketlist
Submarine cycling.
In Limburg, #Belgium, the Bokrijk bike path takes you below the surface of a lake in a national park...from a distance, it looks like bike riders’ heads are plowing through the water at speed.
Another Belgian stunner.

Fietsen door de Bomen, "Cycling through the trees," a corkscrewing bike path that takes you up to the treetops in a park in Limburg, #Belgium
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Design your transit, service, and emergency vehicles to fit your city—not the other way around.
Tiny buses serve narrow streets of #Rome's centro storico. #Roma
Small fire trucks serve narrow streets of #Tokyo.
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Sep 1
Room for 42 compact, self-powered, low-emission vehicles.
Or 1 fucking Tesla. Image
FYI: Follow @Tweetermeyer, author of Ludicrous: The Unvarnished Story of Tesla Motors. Image
To Capt. Obvious and Company out there, and there seem to be a lot of you: Clearly not meant to be a photo of an actual bike rack! It's a Brompton folding bike publicity shot.
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Aug 30
1: #Tokyo metro map in 2D.
2: The same map in 3D. ImageImage
Tokyo Train #Transit:
2 interlinking metro networks and 12 separate rail companies
882 stations
43 million users a day
(2.5x number on all US transit) Image
3d model Tokyo Arteria by Takagatsu Kuriyama.
Video here:
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Aug 29
What's missing from these pictures?

No on-street parking makes all the difference in the cities of #Japan. The 1962 "proof-of-parking" law means you buy a car, you've got to show you've got a place—off public streets—to warehouse it.

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In the three #Tokyo neighborhoods I spent time in over a decade, the streets were refreshingly free of on-street parked cars—certainly compared to North America. Image
The parking laws lead to some interesting arrangements; cars squeezed into tiny garages (how do you open the door to get out?); car elevators; multi-storey lots where cars are stacked like battery hens. ImageImageImage
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Aug 29
This year, cars will be banished from streets around 168 schools in the #Paris area—students and parents can access them on foot or by bicycle.
These "rues aux écoles" (School Streets) are a big win for the safety of kids.

paris.fr/pages/57-nouve…
They also eliminate the vicious circle, in which getting to school without a car is dangerous—only because there are so many cars outside the school.
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