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Martin Villig 🇪🇪 retweeted
Jun 10
Transportation planning is a geometry puzzle. You only have so much space to work with, and the goal (I hope!) is to give people practical options for getting around.
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Tallinnas linnavalitsus võiks ka rattasõidu positiivseid aspekte välja tuua vs autojuhtide kiusamine?
Sõidan rattaga iga päev aastaringselt 8a, pole Covidist saadik haige olnud.
30 minutes of active mobility a day:
✅ Lower risk of heart disease
✅ Better mental health & reduced stress
✅ Improved fitness & weight
✅ Lower risk of diabetes-2
✅ Better sleep
✅ Better air quality
✅ Less congestion
✅ Stronger community
Good for you. Good for the planet.
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Martin Villig 🇪🇪 retweeted
Mar 21
"Gas prices are high? Hadn't noticed."
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#Tallinn says there is no need to build bike lanes, turned down 40M EU funding for building new tram lines and gives priority to cars. Photo of pavement/bike lane this week from the biggest bridge we have. Sad. Very sad 😢
Jan 27
American bike advocates routinely (and correctly) talk about Dutch design being a gold standard.
e.g. the Dutch roundabout
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Jan 28
Looking forward to see first practical initiatives that empower our people and entrepreneurs to grow economy!
Jan 27
Today we launched Estonia’s most impactful AI initiative for the decade ahead.
We’re turning bold ideas into real solutions — not replacing people with AI, but empowering them with it. This could lift our economy by up to 50% over the next 10 years.
Estonia’s aim is to become the world’s AI hub, where government and businesses build the future together.
In full 👇
riigikantselei.ee/en/news/go…
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Martin Villig 🇪🇪 retweeted
Here’s why the US took control over Venezuela
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Jan 4
Well visualised, same in most cities 💚
With #snow❄️ Mother Nature reveals how much we over-designed our streets for cars.
If we learn to look carefully, she also inspires us to create healthier and more equitable streets for all!
- Philadelphia🇺🇸, S 4th & Monroe St.
(📸 by @drewkaiser | Animation by @otucis)
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20 Aug 2025
Does your kid walk/cycle to school or would you need to drive them? Why?
19 Aug 2025
As our kids go #BackToSchool, never forget that we ARE the traffic that we’re afraid of. If more kids walked, biked or rode transit to school, it would erase a massive number of car trips each day, and our kids would be safer, healthier and better at school.
Spread the word.
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20 Aug 2025
Cities for people! 💚
20 Aug 2025
🌳 Paris just transformed one of its most iconic squares: Place de l’Hôtel de Ville. Once a vast stone esplanade, it’s now an urban forest.
Inaugurated on June 21, 2025, this project is reshaping how the city tackles climate, space, and livability. 🌍
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18 Mar 2025
Tallinnas ehitatakse Kadaka puiestee silda enam kui aasta? Töövälisel ajal objektil 0 inimest, sest "aega ju on" küll kohalikud inimesed saavad aasta või enam ringi ka sõita, kelle mure see ikka on?
17 Mar 2025
😮What the Dutch🇳🇱?
Building a tunnel under a highway in less than 48 hours
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Martin Villig 🇪🇪 retweeted
28 Feb 2025
The President of the United States and his boot licking cronies embarrassed us all with their treatment of Zelenskyy
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Estonia is the first country in the world to launch AI into schools with @OpenAI and @AnthropicAI.
It's been great to see this go from an idea to launching in just two months. Looking forward to amazing educational startups here!🇪🇪
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Martin Villig 🇪🇪 retweeted
30 Jan 2025
“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.”
“Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” grist.org/biking/one-mile-on…
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30 Jan 2025
Netherlands is doing some interesting urban pilots.
Should owning and driving a car be human right... when its 6 times more expensive (and polluting) to society than cycling?
sciencedaily.com/releases/20…
30 Jan 2025
In the new #Merwedekanaalzone Utrecht builds biggest 'car-free' district:
👨👩👧👦 10.000 inhabitants
🚲 21.500 bicycles
🏙️ High density/diversity
🌞 Energy-neutral
🚗 Shared mobility
🌳 Abundant green spaces
🍏 Communal gardens
👩🔧 Neighbourhood janitor
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Martin Villig 🇪🇪 retweeted
27 Jan 2025
Estonia is now 0% bureaucrazy!
We’re proud to announce that every government service in Estonia is now fully digital. Whether signing documents, starting a business, paying taxes, or sorting out your healthcare, it’s all handled with a click.
#digitalnation #eestonia #bureaucrazy
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27 Jan 2025
Estonia is in top (or bottom?) of this list? Is it actually good or bad sign? I think taking a walk or going to sauna (with friends?) could help... to some extent?
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22 Nov 2024
Check out @villigm podcast about Bolt growth story, if you haven't already. Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/447…
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Martin Villig 🇪🇪 retweeted
6 Nov 2024
No one hates to see a European succeed as much as European regulators.
6 Nov 2024
The French Polymarket whale commissioned polls with a specific alternate methodology, the “neighbor method”
1. What a baller
2. What a killer example of how betting markets can surface contrarian, high quality signals
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1 Nov 2024
Natural and human influenced climate catastrophic situations show that humans have little influence over massive powers of nature.
The calm in nature is a mask; respect what lies beneath 🧵
1. Valencia right now after the floods
ALT Downpours caused Spain’s deadliest flooding in decades. Floodwaters surged through cities, towns and villages, trapping people in their homes, sweeping up cars in their wake and causing significant damage 📷 José Jordan
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Martin Villig 🇪🇪 retweeted
12 Jul 2024
1/ Seeing a lot of ads these days which suggest that [some humongous SUV] is "designed for the city".
This is an oxymoron.
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