Product builder. Ex-founder. Currently working on transforming cities with micro-mobility at @Lyft
Montreal & London
Joined February 2009
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Well this is delightfully mind-boggling to watch. Wild to think about how many people that can transport! bbc.com/news/av/world-europe…
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🚨EXCLUSIVE: Yvon Chouinard, who founded the outdoor apparel maker Patagonia and became a reluctant billionaire with his unconventional spin on capitalism, has given away the company. All Patagonia’s profits will now be used to fight climate change.🧵
nytimes.com/2022/09/14/clima…
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If you didn’t know, Therese Coffey, the new Deputy Prime Minister and Health Secretary voted against same-sex marriage and continues to say that she opposes equality for gay couples. How will this impact how she will handle the monkey pox outbreak among gay + bisexual men?
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Weekend reminder that SimCity's creators couldn't accurately reflect the scale of urban parking lots because if they did the game fell apart.
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"Experts had too much power over Covid lockdowns" @RishiSunak
I'm sorry, what...?
So, what he's saying is that people who know less about what they're doing should have had more of a say on our Covid response... right?
I've spent a great deal of time working with transport authorities on the safe use of e-scooters and e-bikes on our roads.
Limiting their speed is *always* a hard requirement, set by law in the UK. But for some reason, the idea of limiting the speed of cars is seen as madness.
The road and and the Piccadilly Line near Park Royal Underground Station are likely to remain closed for a significant period of time, according to Ealing Police standard.co.uk/news/london/c…
A late follow up to this: worth highlighting that some progress is being made. By July 2024, all new cars sold in the EU will require Intelligent Speed Assistance.
This doesn’t mandate limiting the speed, but the tech will be there to do so.
mashable.com/article/anti-sp…
And whilst it is unlikely to succeed, there’s a bill trying to do something similar in New York. nyc.streetsblog.org/2022/08/…
Incredible warnings on the state of our news media. Reluctant to discuss issues for fear of being labelled impartial.
“…every day that we sidestep these issues with glaring omissions feels like a conspiracy against the British people; we are pushing the public further away”
Emily Maitlis says ‘active Tory party agent’ shaping BBC news output theguardian.com/media/2022/a…
Very glad @maitlis has spoken out. The influence the Conservatives have had on the BBC has been blindingly obvious for some time now.
Impartiality doesn’t mean the presentation of objectively unbalanced arguments as balanced one’s; nor the omission of facts.
"It might take ... five minutes to find 60 economists who feared Brexit and five hours to find a sole voice who espoused it.
But by the time we went on air we simply had one of each; we presented this unequal effort to our audience as balance. It wasn't" bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment…
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Emily Maitlis - "We are seeing politicians move in directions that are deeply & clearly deleterious to basic democratic government...it's about people in power who are prepared to test the very limits of the constitution to achieve their aims..."
Even my favourite city sim game understands how much better cities can be with more pedestrianisation, beautiful public spaces and less cars 😍
Coming soon - Cities: Skylines Plazas & Promenades! Say hello to pedestrian streets, car-free areas, modern plazas, brand new city-service buildings and 3 new special districts.🌆
#Citiesskylines #PlazasPromenades
Something a visiting friend pointed out that I’d not really appreciated before: she was doing so much more walking than usual *because* of excellent public transit.
She figured this was why she saw so much less obesity than in her home town.
Walking to and from stations and bus stops quickly adds up. She talked about how she just walks from her car to her house, office, shops etc.
Brilliantly funny quote from the wonderful mobility guru that is @itssarahbarnes:
"I don’t like to pick favourites, but if I had to(!) Apple’s autonomous vehicle is my favourite because there are so few of them and I never see them".
Go check out her newsletter!
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Players and VIPs get ferried around #Wimbledon in electric SUVs, often getting stuck in traffic.
Not Cameron Norrie, the last Briton standing in the tournament. “I don’t own a car. It’s nice to beat the traffic and get a good warm up for sure.”
ALT Cameron Norrie on bicycle
ALT Telegraph front page with Cameron Norrie
Our govt wants the railways to modernise (great 👌), they want them to be more efficient (sounds good!), but they want them to run without taxpayer subsidy... why? What's the logic for *public* transport being a profit driven venture? 🤨 1/4
But as the name hints, public transport (and infrastructure more broadly) has public benefit (at least when done well). Money put into public transport absolutely provides a return back to the taxpayer. 3/4