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the pre-Roman languages of the Western Mediterranean - Antigone
I don't think uncomputable reals are as weird as ineffable cardinals - Scientific American
Brussels' "Good Move" taming the car - Bloomberg
cars share of trip mileage down from 64% to 49%, cycling up from 3% to 10% mode share, households with cars down from 75% to under 50%
sustainable mobility and urban transport - Nature
"a rapid and large-scale reduction in car use is necessary to meet stringent carbon budgets and avoid high energy demand"
photos from the immediate aftermath of the 1980 Gwangju Uprising - Hankyoreh
the Earth's oceans are warming up frighteningly quickly - Bill Mckibben
"this is an experiment we haven't run before, and the test tube we're using is the whole planet"
Reverse Gear: the UK is failing with transport decarbonisation
"Transport has been the laggard sector in carbon reduction for 30 years. It is now the largest emitting sector."
Network Rail's railway crossing replacements are making the countryside inaccessible - Yorkshire Bylines
the French are madly pessimistic about France - Guardian
copper artefacts reveal patterns of trade in prehistoric Europe - EurekaAlert
the Amish have embraced e-bikes - Manual
potential climate tipping points - OECD
the UK government wants to censor WhatsApp and Wikipedia... - TechDirt
France aims for universal cycle training - NextCity
52 Ways to Walk - Guardian
a brief update on the political tensions in Israel - Conversation
SARS-CoV-2 and "textbook" immunity - John Snow Project
Britain's long and ongoing economic decline - Palladium
Make Parking Impossible? - New Republic
"The 'carrots' of nice bike lanes and sparkling new tram lines are not enough. Governments will need to deploy the 'sticks' of gasoline taxes, private vehicle bans in urban areas, and dynamically priced parking in order to decrease car use."
a socialist argument against devolution in the UK - Critic
the movement to make cities child-friendly again - Conversation
drones and artillery are a key combination in Ukraine - 1945
the controversy over Abingdon's proposed water reservoir - Guardian
London's housing market is driving away families, schools are closing - FT
what is it actually like living in a 15-minute neighbourhood? - HuckMag
the iceberg of harm from road danger - Oxford Blog
"This in turn contributes to the 1 in 6 deaths in the UK — and a huge range of chronic health problems — that are attributable to physical inactivity."
TV shows on active travel need more experts and fewer conspiracy theorists - road.cc
Trotsky on the Ukraine-Russia war - Workers Liberty
a whole story about the bollard on our street - BBC
conflicting definitions: The _Mekong River_ and the _Mekong economic subregion_ are fundamentally at odds with one other - Diplomat
meet Amsterdam's microcars - Not Just Bikes [video]
Utrecht is already a 15-minute city - Journal of Urban Mobility
remembering Dubravka Ugresic - Guardian
a world of blocs? - CSIS
200 years ago it was horses rather than cars plaguing Oxford - Bodleian
the courage of Vladimir Kara-Murza, "as a historian" - Adam Tooze
how Tokyo became the world's most pedestrian-friendly large city - Heatmap
the physics of cycling - Ciechanowski
"an increasing dose-response relationship between road traffic noise and incident primary hypertension" - BBC - JACC
"road traffic noise and air pollution may have synergistic effects"
what would serious action on the climate emergency look like? - SGR

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