Physiotherapist.
The Netherlands
Joined January 2015
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Huge thanks to @filipmaricpt @JeremyLewisPT and Dr Jessica Stanhope for getting this to print! Also grateful to the peer reviewers! Prescribing active transport as a planetary health intervention – benefits, challenges and recommendations tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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Ireland's National Transport Authority has released its new Cycle Design Manual, and it's filled with Dutch-inspired elements adapted for an Irish context:
✅ Segregated cycle tracks
✅ Protected intersections
✅ Roundabouts
✅ Bicycle streets
Read more: nationaltransport.ie/publica…
Great to hear that @EamonRyan wants to fully withdraw Ireland from the Energy Charter Treaty. I fully support Ireland taking back control from the greedy energy companies
#ExitECT @UpliftIRL
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Cycle lanes reduce congestion. Their capacity for moving people is about six times that of car lanes. More cyclists means fewer cars on the road, saving billions of 💰💰💰in congestion costs (and on healthcare, pollution etc.) HT @WeAreCyclingUK
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Cycling is good for business! People who walk or cycle make more trips to the shops and spend more money. Tell your local shopowners when they oppose cycle lanes or pedestrian streets! HT @WeAreCyclingUK for the graphic.
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There's no "bicycle culture" in the Netherlands, just like there's no "shoe culture" for people who walk where you live.
It's just another option you can use if it's more convenient (and it often is, due to properly designed road infrastructure).
WATCH: youtube.com/watch?v=vMed1qce…
ALT A view over the handlebars of a separated cycle path in Amsterdam. A blue and white tram passes in the background.
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Want to add healthy years to your life? Consider taking up cycling! If it were a 💊, everybody would take it.
Cycling significantly lowers (even halves) mortality hazards across the board.
(H/T @ianwalker: eprints.gla.ac.uk/138376/7/1…
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You have to be a special kind of lucky to get to write an #EnviroPT chapter with @sunsopeningband! What a pleasure to have worked on this together and add a broader perspective to #lifestylemedicine.
#EnviroPT 🌍🌏🌎🚑
Look at this “odd chapter” about the reciprocity between the health of we humans and the health of our natural world. Grateful for it to be included in a book that’s ostensibly about human lifestyle, but acknowledges our choices exist in a milieu that can be our own creation.
ALT Chapter 10 of a lifestyle medicine textbook: environmental influences on health. It starts with a quote from Henry David Thoreau. The quote is from “Walden: Or, Life in the Woods.” It goes: “We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.” If a chapter starting like this is goes in a lifestyle medicine book, you know things will get delightfully weird as we deconstruct what it means to live a lifestyle in some kind of harmony with our natural world, building the case that our human health and the health of our natural world are inextricably linked. And they do.
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Almost 30% of students who drive to UCD live within 6 km of Belfield campus.
Madness.
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E-bikes are as close to a silver bullet for achieving net zero as you can get.
'3 studies indicated a reduction in car use of 20% - 30%'
We should be moving heaven and earth to enable their uptake
Summary of 107 academic studies about e-bikes:
🔷 Use of e-bikes "is associated with lower energy and emissions."
🔷 E-bike riding "is a form of moderate to vigorous intensity physical activity."
🔷 E-bikes "can cause a significant modal shift."
doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.20…
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Summary of 107 academic studies about e-bikes:
🔷 Use of e-bikes "is associated with lower energy and emissions."
🔷 E-bike riding "is a form of moderate to vigorous intensity physical activity."
🔷 E-bikes "can cause a significant modal shift."
doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.20…
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Heavier cars are safer for their drivers, but far deadlier for everyone else.
This paper find that for every 1,000 pounds a car weighs over a Toyota Corolla, the chance of killing another person goes up by 46%! Heavier vehicles lead to 28k more US deaths. doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdt03…
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Major traffic jams can be solved if only a small proportion of the traffic is shifted to other modes. If cycling measures could lead to a decrease in car traffic of just a couple of percents, the investment in cycling will pay for itself. dutchcycling.nl/knowledge/bl…
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Remarkable new research about the "Roundabout City" -- Carmel, IN.
Carmel's roundabouts have apparently reduced crash injuries by 47%(!).
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doi.org/10.1016/j.jsr.2022.0…
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New paper reviews dozens of cycling studies in developed countries, asking why more people don't bike.
Answer: "The leading barriers [are] related to riding on the road alongside motor vehicles."
In other words: **Build protected bike lanes**
doi.org/10.1080/01441647.202…
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Pickup trucks and SUVs are killers. In the USA:
▪️ Pickup trucks are involved in 5.6% of pedestrian/cyclist crashes -- and 12.6% of deaths
▪️ SUVs are involved in 14.7% of pedestrian/cyclist crashes -- and 25.4% of deaths
doi.org/10.1016/j.jsr.2022.0…
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From NYC, the relative benefits of seven street safety tactics.
Note how much safer bike lanes become when they're protected. Also, road diets are awesome.
(KSI = Killed or Seriously Injured)
www1.nyc.gov/html/dot/downlo…
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NEW STUDY: If everyone emulated the Dutch, cycling just 2.6 kilometres/day, world would reduce CO2 emissions by 686 million tonnes a year. #Netherlands
nature.com/articles/s43247-0…
