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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
Over 1⃣5⃣0⃣.0⃣0⃣0⃣ joined one of 500 different #KidicalMass rides across the world.

Here are 3⃣.0⃣0⃣0⃣ in #Koeln by @KidicalmassK.
Left top: #Vienna
Right top: #Berlin
Left bottom: #Lisboa
Right bottom: #Dortmund

And many, many more: kidsonbike.org ImageImageImageImage
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May 5
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.
Children across the world have lost their right to roam in just four generations. There are many reasons for this, but for a large part this can be traced back to how we design our streets. Image
We optimized our streets to offer the Homo Economicus optimal vehicular throughput and comfortable parking. The safety and dignity of our children became secondary, at best.

We discipline them, give them responsibility for their own safety. We tell them to not be distracted! Image
Read 5 tweets
Feb 22, 2022
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.

A MINI-LECTURE (based on: english.kimnet.nl/publications/p…)🧵: Image
Dutch individuals and companies collectively own 8.7 million private cars. With 17.4 million people and 8 million households that equates to 500 cars
per 1,000 inhabitants, or an average of just over 1 car per household. [2] Image
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
Read 12 tweets
Dec 28, 2021
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) Image
Candidate #1 for 2021's election of most #PowerfulMobilityMeme:

'Uneven attention for sustainable mobility solutions'
—via @DonaldShoup
(Used a lot around #COP21 in #Glasgow) Image
Candidate #2 for 2021's election of most #PowerfulMobilityMeme:

'We all make sacrifices'
@tomflood1 Image
Read 12 tweets
Nov 14, 2021
It is not easy to fix the historical mistake to let cars dominate public space. But #Catharijnesingel (Utrecht) shows that cities can heal from the inflicted wounds.
Radical change is possible. But it takes strong leadership.
Design for the city you want to be.
Not for the traffic you have (or that modelers 'predict')

(pics via @NLinSF)
Read 4 tweets
Oct 22, 2021
Connect the dots:
😱 Danish🇩🇰 kids cycle less far (-25%), less often (-32%) in last 10 years
🚙 Proportion of kids cycling to school dropped 30%. Car journeys doubled/tripled
🤸‍♀️ Only 26% gets enough physical exercise
⛑ Helmets became the norm

See: …oerncykleralliancen-dk.translate.goog/bornecykling-i…
As a background statistic, overall road violence is on the rise: thelocal.dk/20191212/denma…
Read 4 tweets
Jan 13, 2021
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.”
~E.F. Schumacher

A developing collection 🧵...

(pics from 'A short history of innovation' by @efesce) Image
(2) of developing 🧵

Fiat 500 (Cinquecento) Image
(3) of developing 🧵

@BMW 5 series Image
Read 13 tweets

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