Unfortunately, not on Friday. Completely forgot that critical mass is always on a Fridays. It would have been fun to meet you in real life. Have fun in Hamburg. It's a very strange city, somewhere between old and new, stuffy and innovative.
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Unfortunately, not on Friday. Completely forgot that critical mass is always on a Fridays. It would have been fun to meet you in real life. Have fun in Hamburg. It's a very strange city, somewhere between old and new, stuffy and innovative.
When are you in Hamburg?
It is very, very expensive to let you local business increase 7.5% by ads and a good work in the shop. So, may be it doesn’t sounds so much but it is a huge sucsess! Sign A local business developer.
In Brazil 🇧🇷, the "Tarifa Zero" (fare-free transit) movement is showing impressive results. Cities that adopted it saw a 3.2% increase in formal employment and a 7.5% jump in local businesses. 138 cities are already on board and a national plan is being discussed.
For 30y, I've transported everything on my "regular" bike. When necessary, I've used a trailer: for IKEA, recycling, or to transport my 👨🌾 market counter. That works. But my new, short, compact cargo bike simply does the jobs better. Nearly all of them. I also don't do laundry by hand anymore.
Cars are more expensive than two kids! In the USA!! Not in the EU with expensive fuel and mostly free health and education.
When they say cars are freedom, they certainly don't mean financial freedom.
Mining for rare earths, etc., is also picking up again in Northern Europe. And it's not as warm there.🥵🥵
If one in a hundred thinks twice, it's worth it. Sometimes.
Which route are you actually taking?
Why have all countries in Europe become more Prussian than Germany?
I would sell my soul for free coffee.
But a rapidly growing city. This creates both problems and opportunities.
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"The best type of e-bike for replacing car trips is the cargo bike. Sturdy, capable, and often able to haul lots of cargo or even multiple humans, electric cargo bikes are rewiring cities to adapt their infrastructure for more human-centric transportation."
PREMIERE ALERT: Please tune in later today, Monday, September 22nd, at 2 pm EST for this special profile of the xTx ~ Cross-Texas Adventure Trail for people interested in getting away from it all through long-distance hiking, bike camping, and equestrian challenges. youtu.be/yybP-YqgU_g
A key to graceful aging is to always keep moving and human-scale infrastructure is pivotal for enabling people to age in place.
Mehr als die Hälfte der Haushalte innerhalb des Rings besitzt kein Auto. 60% der Verkehrsflächen werden dem Auto eingeräumt, obwohl nur 14 % der Wege mit dem Pkw zurückgelegt werden. Eine Umverteilung des knappen öffentlichen Raums, ist dringend notwendig. #autofreierTag 🚲💚 taz.de/Aktivistin-u...
80 🚇 and 🚉 stations in Hamburg has a Bike 🅿️ facility with 3.500 parkings slots in total. Over 80% are in use. The 1/2 of the stations are 100% in use. BUT: Many people signed up for their subscriptions in excitement, but don't use them. A different system is needed to allocate parking spaces.
The wind changing. Slowly, but day for day.
Not just dangerous for cyclists but potentially deadly to drivers! Bike lanes built like this are a risk to everyone. Today I narrowly avoided a woman who did not look before steps g out from behind a large suv. Drivers should also want better infrastructure
#GoodNews: In Paris sind inzwischen mehr mit den Fahrrad unterwegs als mit dem Auto. 🚲💚 #Verkehrswende #StädteFürMenschen
Happy Park(ing) Day! This is “Once Upon A Time in the Village” by Simon Liao and Tristan Coolman.
People commonly say their street is too narrow for bike lanes. Too few question if it’s too narrow for parking.
Homes with 3-4 cars parked outside them when there is only room for 1-2 cars is not a sign that we need to provide more room for parking; it’s a sign that the adult children can’t afford to move out despite being able to afford cars. That’s the real issue; housing supply and affordability.
Großer Respekt für Marc-Uwe Kling. Er ruft wegen der #Kimmel Absetzung zum #DisneyBoykott auf. 👏
We've given up buying toys for the cat. A hair tie, some string, or a cut-up cable tie fascinates her 100 times more.
This is Utrecht's reinvented Amsterdamsestraatweg. The municipality faced a unique challenge: How to transform one of the busiest car routes into a greener, more liveable space? FInd out how they did it: buff.ly/p06KxAA
Here (Germany), the price on the menu is the price you pay. It includes taxes, a reasonable salary, etc. Tipping, in the form of a reasonable rounding up of the amount, is simply a sign of appreciation for particularly excellent service.
Car parking makes shopping windows useless.
The shapes will still vary, and the size will shrink, but the „cargo“ component will be the normal standard (Muli, i:sy cargo, R+M Carrie, all long tails and so on).
This is the urban world I'm advocating for and for those of you ready to complain about sidewalk clutter, direct your anger to the cause of it, found to the very left of the bikes in the photo.
Trapped in a dangerous pedestrian refuge.
And now imagine there wasn't even enough space.
For a 4h ride 🤯
Yes The Muli is even shorter and, above all, light. But the box on the Muli has to be almost empty to fold it, and it can't be locked. Here, there's a small 🛄 inside, and when I leave, I lock the box. The Muli is a great bike in a niche. But you need to know whether it meets all your needs.
It's a great bike if all I need to do is go shopping, take out recycling, and other everyday tasks. With the large battery, I can travel about 80km in our mountainous city at „Auto“mode, which is more than enough for everyday use and even sufficient for long rides on vacations.
Sorry for the weather 🤓
You can't enable emergency services with narrow bike lanes. Build them wide and eliminate the gridlock caused by the inefficient geometry of cars in cities.
Well, a few years ago or a few years in the future we can talk … but today … no … sorry. But we have a guest room and a small guest house in the Harz. You are welcome 🤓
It is part of the bike. It‘s a Carrie from Riese und Müller.
Thousands of euros for advertising that no one sees? I've been taking the train for three hours and have sold three cargo bikes.
Only in German available. „Cigarettes currency“ de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zigaret...
Lucky Strikes was as hard as the DM later.
Families don't need a house with a big yard when their city is their kid's playground.
Mrs. American Fietser is entering her 20th week of pregnancy and still biking for regular errands. Yes she's being extra careful, but really benefiting from the passive exercise.
I love this place. Even when children are running around screaming, the place gives a relaxed impression.
Carmel goes the right way. The trick now is not to build too much. Vacant retail spaces are poison for development. A slight undersupply, on the other hand, increases quality by creating competition for space. If there's vacancy, hide it. Temporary uses as pop-up strengthen the startup scene.
Dear European friends, after WWII, 100 million US care packages filled with coffee, chocolate, and other delicious treats brought joy to bitter times. It's time to get revenge with bicycle accessories: C2C are Duty-free (sometimes).
PREMIERE ALERT: Please tune in for this special bonus profile video today, Wednesday, September 17th at 2 pm - I do a ride-along on-bike interview with Pavielle Babai-Pirouz, owner of Austin's High Tech Hippie Pedicabs. youtu.be/7-VAnMQEAA4
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insulation is cheap negawatts ftw
Third places where you can simply be. ♥️
In England, you can't even project nonces onto Windsor Castle, in England. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I think Christiania Bike is on a good way. For those who don't know: Christiania is... how should I describe it... a kind of renegade area in Denmark. More lifestil is not possible. So, to chose this name it is also a statement. Lars, does this description really fit?
People don't need an excuse to leave the car at home, they simply need the infrastructure to allow it.
A new job opportunity for you.
*playing with nano banana to put ideas into visualizations. I'm already wishing Big Bike had this type of advertising vision and budget.
Don't market recreation, market a lifestyle.
When the price of a nationwide ticket for all public transport and regional trains was reduced to €9 per month, passenger numbers doubled and tripled. Now it costs €59, and the effect has vanished. But still a great relief for commuters without car dependency. And me: I saved ~€50 this month.
The President of Brazil 🇧🇷 has asked Minister Fernando Haddad and the economic team to conduct further research into the possibility of reducing or eliminating public transportation fares in the country.
In fact, I drove back and forth a lot at first because I couldn't believe it was there.
Bine = bike Big hands, small keyboard
In fact, the local infrastructure here isn't bad. Düren is only a few kilometers from the Netherlands, and there's cross-border cooperation in cycling.
Life writes the best stories.🫣
I try to sell them bine rack 🤣🤣🤣
Today I'm attending a training course run by the National Cyclists' Association in Germany. The choice of training rooms without bike racks was suboptimal. What was embarrassing, however, was that I was the only one who came by bike. You can't learn cycling from your car seat!
i keep coming back to the massive opportunity these sorts of sites could be for small mixed income, family-friendly car-light ecodistricts w/ coop grocer store, open space, community space but our zoning would have to change considerably in many places to do this
Human beings are not cognitively or psychologically equipped to safely and responsibly operate cars. The fact we have normalized it is truly wild.
My selling point was the lockable box. The mechanism is rubbish, but it's enough to prevent passing theft.
If you use a staple rack it could be the weakest point. The pipes and profiles from which they are built consist mostly of air.
Like the „global town square“ idea!
Paid line sitters?
My range is not limited by the Wh, but by the comfort of my bike saddle. ⚡️😖😫🔥🚑
That would be good news for everyone, especially for those who work with retailers. They have their difficulties with customers on bikes. But with employees on bikes, they can safely gain experience. And then, that experience speaks for itself.
EU urged to back corporate bike leasing in its upcoming legislative initiatives. Read more: zagdaily.com/trends/eu-ur...
Verry cool 🤭 Seriously, it rides great. Like all cargo bikes, it has a very large turning circle, but otherwise, it's great that it's barely any longer than a regular bike.
Todays journey ~400km by train and ~55km by bike … and at the hotel the owner parks in my space 😤
Yes. Exactly. It works.
Travelling Vienna → Rome → London → Split → Berlin → Budapest: the train is by far the cleanest option. E.g Vienna–London by plane emits 3000% more CO₂ than by train.
Memorial bike art at the entrance to Impasse de l'Hôtel d'Argenson #paris #art #bike #bikeart #streetart #15minutecity #urbanism #Impassedel'Hôteld'Argenson
Money hurts, but it doesn't change anything. 1,000 mandatory hours as a school crossing guard plus the 10x penalty to compensate for the extra workload of having a rookie on the team.
Warum auch nicht. wir verbiete 1.000 Sachen um Rattenplagen oder Brände zu unterbinden, wir verbieten den Besitz von Waffen und und und Verbote sind etwas normales. Sogar die 10 Gebote sind in Wirklichkeit 9 Verbote und ein Gebot.
Señor Toro, bienvenido a la guerra contra los coches.
When your recycling bin is full but your friends across town say they have room. ♻️
The best cycling is recycling! Just out of curiosity: Are there public recycling containers in the USA?
London needs a street artist, how to convert it into something funny.
Für lebenswertere Städte ist es notwendig, den Autoverkehr zu begrenzen. Davon würden alle profitieren, auch die Autofahrer. Denn es gäbe weniger Stau, bessere Luft, weniger Lärm, weniger Unfälle und mehr Platz für alle. 👏 #Verkehrswende 🚲 #StädteFürMenschen 💚 www.taz.de/!6111957
I've been completely disconnected all evening. Wife and I went to dinner in another city. Streamed a radio station from her hometown in Brazil on the way. Went for a small walk in that town right after dinner. Drove back home and walked over to visit neighbors on their front porch. It was fantastic.
Remember this one, Street Design Nerds? One of the most intriguing cities in recent years at reconsidering streets for people instead of just for cars, Oslo Norway, translated their great Street Design Manual into English and put it on-line. Worth digging into. www.oslo.kommune.no/getfile.php/...
To be more precise: It causes the apocalypse. During the apocalypse, this vehicle is, as it already is, completely useless.
Wichtiger Hinweis zu den Kommunalwahlen in NRW! #NieWiederIstJetzt #AfdVerbot 📷 keinmenschistillegal 👏
Oh … good idea. My partner has her girls night and I will now look the RHPS.
mass timber social housing for homeless women in BCN solar protection community spaces www.archdaily.com/1033980/shel...
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This furniture store provides a van free of charge. Auto zu klein/ car to tiny? The advertising is aimed at drivers of small cars (management couldn't imagine bicycles being offered), but owning a vehicle isn't a consideration.
This combination is cheaper than a car payment.
