Wendy W @WendyW@qoto.org

“They cut speed limits, changed street design, removed space for cars…Now it appears that work is paying off. #Oslo & #Helsinki are reaping the rewards of committed action on making their roads safer, reducing pedestrian fatalities to zero last year.”

#cities #urbanism #cars #VisionZero #streets
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/16/how-helsinki-and-oslo-cut-pedestrian-deaths-to-zero

Happy Easter from Streatham #london

Britons have more confidence in EU than Westminster, poll finds:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/mar/30/britons-more-confidence-in-eu-than-westminster-poll-brexit

Climate change is accelerating – and the UK government is ‘strikingly unprepared’
https://theconversation.com/climate-change-is-accelerating-and-the-uk-government-is-strikingly-unprepared-202863

@vicgrinberg fascinating. One thing I don’t understand is how a transient ‘flash’ exciting dust clouds thousands of light years from us is observable in the same time frame as the flash hitting earth’s atmosphere? Sorry to be dim.

Got these two lucky shots whilst on my walk this evening

This #NationalPuppyDay, we salute all the dog stars out there. Exploring is more fun with your best friend at your side. 🐾
#NASA

Disunited Kingdom https://reader.foreignaffairs.com/2023/02/21/disunited-kingdom/content.html

Peace and geometry by the sun
#dogsofmastodon

“once cities make the decision to reduce or remove cars, they rarely go back. No one I spoke to for this piece could name a recent sizable pedestrianization or traffic-reduction scheme that had been reversed once it had been given time to have an effect.” Via WIRED. #cities #cars #urbanism#streets #CarFree

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/car-free-cities-opposition

happy bday to this wonderful chonk

#DogsOfMastodon #labrador #LabsOfMastodon #pup

Took this photo last year in December. Today it is just as cold and there is a little snow. So it fits well with today's #ThickTrunkTuesday
Have a nice and peaceful day.

This is a formal portrait of the surviving Apollo astronauts. That's Buzz Aldrin in the silver tux. I have to imagine the conversation went like this:

ALDRIN: Ok, let's get started
PHOTOGRAPH: Mr. Aldrin, you are aware that this is a formal portrait?
BA: I'm not an idiot son.
PG: Well your suit-
BA: Son, have you been to the moon?
PG: No sir.
BA: Well I have. The moon. The motherlovin' moon. In a tin can run by a calculator and powered by a can of sterno. (1/)

Never forget that when Seoul, Korea removed the #Cheonggyecheon expressway in 2003, and replaced it with a restored stream and 1000 acre park in the city’s centre, not only did it transform the city’s public life and economic success, but the vehicle traffic got better.

The traffic got BETTER.

#cars #cities #urbanism #Seoul #traffic #car