🧵With targets to build 1.5m new homes createstreets today call for a new approach to planning new town extensions For too long we've defaulted to concreting over the countryside with sprawling housing estates driven by prediction-led transport planning thetimes.co.uk/article/we-mus…

6. This wasn't just 'nice to have' by taking these moves expert transport modellers ITP found this would mean 🚶‍♂️9,300 more walking and cycling trips 🚗Less congestion on local roads with 12,000 fewer vehicle trips 🌳Resulting in 2,000 tonnes less of CO2 being emitted

Until 1976, Jubilee Gardens was a car park. Don't believe the people who tell you things have to stay the way they are.

The noise of our towns and cities is a choice. Another, quieter version exists elsewhere. We should consider.

1/12 Exciting news: I have been appointed Professor of Transport Data Science Institute for Transport Studies at Leeds Absolutely stoked, honoured and inspired. A small change in job title but a big step in my career 🎉🙏🚀

This seems like an easy win should we ever introduce a deposit scheme.

Jennifer Lopez is the perfect advocate for normalising cycling. Glamour magazine claims J.Lo’s outfits are not practical for cycling, but with a comfortable step through bike, chain guard and mudguards, you can very easily dress for the destination, not the journey.

You NEVER forget your first bollard. #WorldBollardAssociation

Your periodic reminder that town planning used to be an Olympic event. John Hughes won gold for Team GB in 1932.

Hear me out. We could simply make traffic-free routes accessible..

The best way to remake a city is through transport. By changing how people move, Montréal is changing the spaces they use; transitioning from hostile, asphalt- and car-dominated places to ones that are more vibrant, welcoming, and resilient to the challenges of the 21st century.

There is zero private car parking for Olympic events in the city of Paris. (And yet—through the magic of walking, rolling, biking, and transit—thousands and thousands of people got there just fine.)

Pedestrian commercial streets are wildly popular in every corner of the globe. #Paris

"Elevated railways with a capacity of 40,000 people per hour are being torn down while elevated highways with a capacity of 6,000 per hour are being erected" -Transit Journal, 1935

Air conditioning unit, parasol, flood defence, nature reserve, antidepressant, crime fighter. Your local neighbourhood superhero.

After eleven years, it's time to update my London Underground concentric-circles-and-spokes map. Completely redrawn from centre to edges, it's so much better than before, and more geographically accurate than the official map.

Oooooh. Well now that is an interesting opportunity. Good luck to all applicants, that looks brilliant!

I love cars so much I wish they were much larger and carried like 50 people and went on a set route every few minutes.

this was my entire masters thesis at berkeley, “the supply and demand of human-scale neighborhoods in america” the data absolutely supports this. if we don’t build more walkable neighborhoods, the few that we have become luxury items—not because they are any more expensive to

Just to be clear your driving habit is heavily subsidised. This is especially true for the 46% of London households and the 22% of UK households who don’t own a car In summary for every mile a motorist drives, taxpayers subsidise 21p outside London, up to £1 inside.