So, this needs to be said: two weeks ago something happened that made me proud to be Belgian. THREAD!
Here's the story. A friend – I will call her Caroline – got in touch after a silence of several years. We used to work together back in the day, and had become sort-of-friends. We had stayed in touch through a common friend, who, like me, lives in Brussels. Caroline herself, who lived in the US when we worked together, was now back to France.
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"Tractor-driving anti-Ulez protesters bring traffic to a standstill around London 10 days before hated £12.50-a-day charge is due to cover entire city"
Lock them up!
Recently a neighbour looked at one of my bikes and said "you must have lots of money".
He owns a soft-top Audi and a new city van which he's just bought.
It's amazing how people can erase/ignore the cost of motor vehicles from their minds. It's a really impressive trick. You hear the same when people comment about cargo bikes which could actually replace a car!
To ensure cars didn’t take back control of Paris streets as the pandemic was “ending,” (like they have in so many cities), #Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo made sure that 60k parking spaces and many streets were permanently transformed to seating for restaurants, people places and bike-lanes.
Alberto Cottica
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Elisabeth Anderson 
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Brent Toderian
Richard Murphy