Lecturer @ Technical University of Munich @TUM_STS I like to ride bicycles and think about science and technology. Often simultaneously. Sometimes vice versa.
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I remember when the Bloor bike lanes went in in 2016. It was such a small change, yet somehow momentous, as if a sign of a better city to come. It's so disheartening to see how regressive and hostile the politics of the GTA actually are.
BREAKING: Premier Doug Ford's @OntarioPCParty has begun the process of removing bike lanes on sections of Bloor, Yonge, and University. Complete coverage soon at thestar.com
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I know stats don't really matter in this bike lane rhetoric from the Ontario government. However, in many places in Toronto, bike commute share is greater than 20% and in some tracts along Bloor it is above 30%. Also, in 2019, 48% of households had someone who biked for errands.
Hi all, I rarely go on here anymore, but I've returned just to remind everyone in Ontario: there aren't too many bike lanes, there are too many cars.
After living in a city for 5 years where only 1/3 of trips are by car, I've almost forgotten how dismal the discourse can be in T.O. Despite the reactions, the issue is pretty simple: the fewer the trips made by car, the better-off the city will be. Policy should support this.
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Whenever Torontonians (or more often, people from the GTA) debate transportation, I'm always a bit bewildered by how many people insist it's absolutely impossible to accomplish what dozens, if not hundreds, of cities all over the world already do.
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In the replies and elsewhere I am seeing many familiar pro-car/anti-bike arguments. I've previously written about why these views are mistaken. Let's start with a common one: drivers pay for roads. They don't. Indeed, driving requires costly subsidization: velosophe.bike/2013/09/27/th…
On what rules can look like if you build different kinds of transportation systems: thestar.com/opinion/contribu…
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Probably the biggest question I struggle with is why exactly trying to move towards alternative forms of transportation, or even just simply riding a bike, is met with such angry, reactionary, and resentful responses: velosophe.bike/2019/12/03/do…
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Question for astrobiologists: Let's say we somehow got a hold of a 2000 year global mean temperature record from a distant planet and that we also knew the planet's atmospheric composition. If it looked the same as Earth's, would we consider this a sign of advanced civilization?
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analyzing deficit model approaches to climate change coverage in Canadian print media: "uncritically reproduces the authority of science...strongest appeals to scientific neutrality are associated with climate skepticism"
buff.ly/45MP2nW by @BernhardIsopp
#ScholarSunday
Featuring my piece on politicization discourses surrounding climate change, alongside other great articles. Now with page numbers!
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For those who have been asking here is the Table of Contents for our new awesome book: Victorian Interdisciplinarity and the Sciences
The ToC and Introduction is also now available via @UPittPress website: upittpress.org/books/9780822…
