Danny's Pathologically Polymathic: January 2022

the lifetime cost of driving a car - Ecological Economics

"most lower-income and many moderate-income households are harmed overall by policies that favor automobile travel over more affordable and resource-efficient modes"

how parking works in the Netherlands - Reinventing Parking

Milan has massively ambitious cycle network plans - CityLab

making Oxford 20mph - Oxford Blog

cow attacks are a political issue in India - BBC

what is an "unadopted street"? - Roads

Google flags files containing just "1" as infringing copyright - Hacker News

fifty years on from the Bloody Sunday massacre - Irish Times

the cryptocurrency scam is open fraud, not just a bubble - Jacobin

Ghent is building 400 metres of new road bridge, but using that to shut 2km of main road elsewhere to cars - Wegenenverkeer

the UK's low density housing and poor public transport drive low productivity and regional inequality - Centre for Cities

"67 per cent of people in big European cities can reach their city centre by public transport within 30 minutes, compared to only 40 per cent of the people in Britain's"

go Dutch: make driving indirect and inconvenient; design for the speed and behaviour you want; plan for a network; don't give up at intersections; connect cycling and public transport - Momentum

Oxfordshire should commit to colouring cycle lanes and tracks - Oxford Blog

a history of London's public toilets - BBC

Transport for London makes more main roads 20mph - TransportXtra

university students no longer understand hierarchical file systems - Verge

a board game about the Council of Nicaea - Hollandspiele

should cycling have priority on Dutch roundabouts? - Bicycle Dutch

"enclosure theory" - a myth of urban design - Chris Haile

no germination for Seeds of Peace in Israel and Palestine, twenty-five years on - Guardian

the UK is a kleptocratic chumocracy - Pluralistic - Chatham House

now try Absurdle - Things of Interest

Zurich has had an inventory of all parking in the city since 1908! - Bloomberg

the UK is really lagging in cargo bike uptake - ETA

mapping direct train trips across Europe - Bahn Guru

"taking account of socio-economic factors, Australia's three school sectors show no meaningful difference in the rate of student learning progress in NAPLAN reading and numeracy" - SMH

an argument for why road pricing will never work in Britain - Traffic Flows

I'm not convinced that the impossibility of optimality rules out efficacy. I'm also not convinced that the "smaller-scale solutions" advocated can solve congestion, or indeed any of the other problems of over-use of cars: we will need LTNs and area-wide circulation schemes and parking constriction.

location explains 25% of carbon emissions across US households - Energy at Haas

reclaiming Paris from cars - Slate

Dutch "doubt line" shows how to address vaccine hesitancy - Guardian

how "Cycling Mikey" uses volunteer video to enforce road laws - Guardian

standing up to China: go Lithuania! - Guardian

from family comedy to the politics of partition - Tomb of Sand [my review]

cycle freight is transforming European cities - Carlton Reid

the struggle to get aerosol transmission of Covid accepted - Wired

remembering Jane Jacobs - YouTube [5 minute video] - Bloomberg [quotes]

background on Colorado's urban firestorm - Intelligencer

bring back the royal commission on pollution! - Guardian

designing streets for lower speeds - Ranty Highwayman [via @RantyHighwayman]