some good news - in the centre of London, cyclists are on track to outnumber motor vehicles (cars, buses, lorries) within a couple of years
anecdotally it has got a much more pleasant place to walk around in the last decade
https://www.economist.com/britain/2025/05/22/london-has-become-a-cycling-city (£)
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Oh. London England.
For a minute we thought it was London *Ontario*
(The province whose premier is ripping out bike lanes 🤬)
@jofr thanks :)
https://github.com/bovine3dom/france-iris it's tippecanoe + deck.gl + maplibre (+ perspective if you click the graph icon in the top left to mess with the data)
deck.gl is generally more performant than leaflet but the main reason I'm using it here is that you can use CSS layer mixing to make the base map punch through the colours because it renders as a separate layer on top of the map
@bovine3dom In 1999, the two totaled ~200K people. In 2024, they totaled ~110K. What happened to the other 90K people? Are they using public transport, just staying away from the city, or what?
(The article didn't mention the decline.)
@kbob it's a count of vehicles, not people, so even a relatively small shift of people to road-based public transport could cause a big drop in vehicles
shift to rail would explain it too - Thameslink has got a lot better, the Elizabeth and Jubilee lines opened...
but I'm not an expert in this :)
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