Professor of Cycling | CEO Urban Cycling Institute
Meredith Glaser
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Instead of efficiency, mobility can also maximize playfulness, calm, joy. Does your city maximize joy on its streets?
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Meredith Glaser
🔊Ads for Range Rovers now banned in Amsterdam. Also, ads for flights and any kind of meat. It is now all verboden. shorturl.at/tS5fU
😱 Proven causality 😱 Paris cut car space & pollution plummeted. The Airparif data:
📉 -55% Fine particles (PM_{2.5})
🌬️ -40% Toxic NO_2 exposure
🌱 -35% Traffic CO_2 emissions
Paris is prioritizing community over commutes, green spaces over parking, and fresh air over exhaust.
📸 Christoph Najdovski
What if our transportation policies started with the vision that our kids could walk, bike and roll to school on their own from 8 years old. Clearly, our streets would need to change.
When your classroom is the city of Amsterdam. When your classmates are from all over the globe. When we look past the pavement. Together we explore an expansive view of cycling. A deep dive. Not for nothing - to build new knowledge for 21st century cities. 3 spots left: l1nq.com/3p5hn5z
Amsterdam Councillor @annekeveenhoff.bsky.social shares why Amsterdam bans high-carbon advertising: “If you spend lots of tax money on policies trying to manage climate change, why would you rent out your public walls for exactly the opposite?” 👊 #micdrop
Why can’t we do it like Amsterdam? Song by @danabrahamsmusic.bsky.social tells us! Every time cities try to build cycling infrastructure:
❌ Too hilly
❌ Our weather is terrible
❌ Our culture isn't built for it
Stop imagining. Just build it - they will come! www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTma...
Meredith Glaser
Meredith Glaser
Meredith Glaser
Meredith Glaser
Watch this #brave kid tell off city councillors and fiercely demand #safe streets, all with grace, #humility, and respect.
When was the last time you did something like this?
More power to #children holding adults #accountable!
Inspired by Tom Flood
Credits: @huisinglab.bsky.social
