We can either design cities & communities for people where normal physical activity is an almost invisible part of daily life, or we can design places for cars where physical activity requires extraordinary effort. My comments on Australia’s News Breakfast

@BreakfastNews It is a strange world we live in where people think it's perfectly normal to drive to the gym to take some exercise. Sadly the natural result of making our streets actively hostile to those on foot or on bikes.

@BreakfastNews Years ago, the bike parents of L’ecole bilingue elem. school worked with the city to take parking OUT of the street in front of the school, to increase safety for student cyclists. I talked to car parents that if they parked further away, and walked 5-6 min. to and from car …/2

@BreakfastNews just the other day I was sitting with two ladies discussing how they would find time to go swimming together. I didn't jump into the conversation because I didn't want to say that by riding a bike for transport i'd design this problem out of my life.

@BreakfastNews Clarification: we #engineered cities from #bureaucratic #policies not focused on human #livability. When we #design Cities for livability, we will engineer great components that support the design and the occupants.

@BreakfastNews I've never heard your voice before this is so interesting and unexpected

@BreakfastNews 15-min city truthers (aka cookers) go gonna lose their fckn minds 🤣

@BreakfastNews Spot on

@BreakfastNews Is there somewhere we can watch the whole interview? I have looked on the ABC streaming site and can't find it. Thanks!

@BreakfastNews 💯

@BBugVic @BreakfastNews Did you define “designing healthy cities”? Canadian cities have mandatory drivers insurance; Australian ones don’t. You have the GTA; Melbourne has 31 LGAs. You have 🛑; we have give ways. Your cars stop before the sidewalk. There’s more to healthy cities than bike lanes.