Benoît Chamontin ✌️❤️🇨🇦

Build as if you care about the youngest and the oldest. They usually don’t drive. The youngest are distracted by the wonders of childhood and the oldest are slowed by the rigors of age. Build streets safe for them, and you’ve built streets safe for us all.

@cyclefunmontreal.bsky.social you have a new place to try... The new bike path between Brossard and the one already opened on the Samuel De Champlain Bridge just opened this afternoon 😁

"Sometimes cause and effect is blindingly clear. Such is the case in Ontario, which last year banned speed cameras that ticket drivers who break the posted limit. [...] Nine months later, the impact is apparent: Outlawing Ontario’s speed safety cameras has triggered an explosion of urban speeding"

"Sometimes cause and effect is blindingly clear. Such is the case in Ontario, which last year banned speed cameras that ticket drivers who break the posted limit. [...] Nine months later, the impact is apparent: Outlawing Ontario’s speed safety cameras has triggered an explosion of urban speeding"

"We know what prevents deaths of people cycling, it’s the same thing that will shift people from “interested but concerned” to choose cycling: high-quality cycling infrastructure like protected bike lanes. The only thing standing in the way of us having that is political will [...]"

"Keeping people divided is useful for some political interests, but it doesn’t help any of us get around any quicker or reduce traffic. We should resist being forced into a specific identity: we’re all just commuters, in it together, but using different kinds of transportation."

"Cities need planting strategies tailored to local conditions rather than universal greening formulas [...] The findings also suggest cities should move beyond measuring success through tree numbers alone. The arrangement, density and type of vegetation matter just as much as canopy cover."

Very interesting tool by @cjlm.ca to map the walkability of cities across Canada : aportee.ca You can select different types of amenities (grocery, library, hospital, park...) and visualize its accessibility on foot. For now it seems that there is no option to show by bike or public transit.

"Keeping people divided is useful for some political interests, but it doesn’t help any of us get around any quicker or reduce traffic. We should resist being forced into a specific identity: we’re all just commuters, in it together, but using different kinds of transportation."

"Cities need planting strategies tailored to local conditions rather than universal greening formulas [...] The findings also suggest cities should move beyond measuring success through tree numbers alone. The arrangement, density and type of vegetation matter just as much as canopy cover."

Measuring passing distances on 8,753 occasions in which a motorist overtook a bicyclist, Laura Hamm and Marty Miller found that “painted bicycle lanes were associated with reduced passing distance and higher passing speed.” ...

“Extreme events are so far outside anything we have expected [...] It’s not so important whether it’s what we expected as experts. It’s whether it’s what we expect as people on the ground.” Extreme Heat Isn’t the Only Climate Impact Shocking Scientists : www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

“Extreme events are so far outside anything we have expected [...] It’s not so important whether it’s what we expected as experts. It’s whether it’s what we expect as people on the ground.” Extreme Heat Isn’t the Only Climate Impact Shocking Scientists : www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

«La voiture réchauffe plus les villes que la climatisation» Depuis quelques jours, j’entends de plus en plus cet argument pour nuancer les rejets de chaleur des climatiseurs. Qu’est-ce qu’en dit la littérature sur le sujet ? UN FIL 1/19

"The last decade has taught us that we have to build our own spaces, protect our own spaces, and use our own spaces to organize. We can’t depend on the “fair-weather” allies who join us at happy hour but vote against us at the polls."

"The last decade has taught us that we have to build our own spaces, protect our own spaces, and use our own spaces to organize. We can’t depend on the “fair-weather” allies who join us at happy hour but vote against us at the polls."

"Cities can start with paint and posts to establish a basic network quickly, demonstrate usage, and then harden high-priority segments with concrete as funding allows. This staged approach gets more streets safer for everyone sooner rather than delaying everything for premium designs."

"The real challenge is ­building cities where people have ­multiple viable ­transportation choices [...] When every single person must drive for nearly every activity, congestion is not a bug in the system; it is the inevitable outcome of the system itself."

"Cities can start with paint and posts to establish a basic network quickly, demonstrate usage, and then harden high-priority segments with concrete as funding allows. This staged approach gets more streets safer for everyone sooner rather than delaying everything for premium designs."

Artemis II inspired everyone at so many levels. This should not make us forget the current attacks on science and the need to continue to fight for science. "Without science, the stunning images of Earth from space are only pretty pictures. We all deserve so much more." - @drkatemarvel.bsky.social

Artemis II inspired everyone at so many levels. This should not make us forget the current attacks on science and the need to continue to fight for science. "Without science, the stunning images of Earth from space are only pretty pictures. We all deserve so much more." - @drkatemarvel.bsky.social

"One of the biggest problem we have in transportation planning in Canada is that we don't view our transportation modes as a comprehensive network" - @jedwinmok.com Nice to see @cbcnews.ca with @hudsonyuen.bsky.social for a video on what to learn from Copenhagen’s public transit solutions.

"That may be the most important lesson about local speed mitigation tactics. These moves can clearly save lives; researchers don’t doubt their effectiveness. Even better, many residents are eager to see them implemented. The missing link: policymakers courageous enough to do the right thing."

"Canada and Mexico must urgently break the chain of deepened integration with the U.S., as the latter has proven to be driven by violence, openly hostile to regulation, dismissive of international norms and indifferent to the deleterious cross-border consequences of its policies."

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

“Europe now risks being flooded with oversized, under-regulated U.S. pick-up trucks and SUVs – vehicles that are heavier, more dangerous to other car drivers, pedestrians and cyclists, and completely out of step with Europe’s vision for safer, more sustainable mobility.”

"The study introduces a new measure called the Equal Infrastructure Allocation (EIA) score, which compares how much dedicated infrastructure space is available per traveler, for different modes of transport."

My favorite description of the term “privilege” is who gets the benefit of the doubt and who doesn’t. We see it every day in who gets the rules rigorously enforced against them and who gets a slap on the wrist or warning when the rules say there are heavy consequences for their actions.

"The most dangerous part of Car Brain is that we don’t see it for what it is—a mass delusion that enables harm, excludes millions, and degrades mental and physical well-being."

“What makes dysfunction so dangerous is that we might simply learn to live with it. But understanding hypernormalization gives us language – and permission – to recognize when systems are failing, and clarifies the risk of not taking action when we can.”

“Traditional buttons, dials, and levers had perceptible and actionable qualities—you could feel for them, adjust them without looking, and rely on muscle memory. A touchscreen obliterates this" www.wired.com/story/why-ca...

Sometimes good urban planning means lack thereof planning—letting go & allowing things organically to happen! This goes for zoning, parks (see desire paths), and how we regulate/allow public streets/spaces to be used (informal events, art, commercial uses, resting spaces, transportation modes, etc)

"When we design with the everyday needs of the most vulnerable in mind, we create environments that are more humane, more livable, and ultimately better for all."

“Any vehicle that’s on the road that is at or near a congested level is imposing delay on other vehicles behind them. SUVs impose a greater delay on the vehicles behind them than do smaller cars.” - @davidlevinson.bsky.social, professor at the University of Sydney’s school of engineering

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We wrote our report to help at-risk people stay safe. Never thought we’d need to aim its lessons at the Pentagon. But here we are. Security is not just a tech issue. It’s a people issue. And some of the people in the highest offices in the land apparently need remedial OPSEC. Urgently.

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In our report, we warned: even when encryption is strong, user behavior can render it meaningless. Misunderstanding threat models, poor design, or just recklessness—these open the door. And this was recklessness of the highest order. www.techpolicy.press/what-is-secu...

Agencies within the Trump administration have flagged hundreds of words to limit or avoid, according to a compilation of government documents. These terms appeared in government memos, in official and unofficial agency guidance and in other documents. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...