Daniel Firth

@danielfirth.bsky.social

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Policy nerd - urban planner - map fan 🏳️‍🌈. Director of Climate Policy Research at C40 Cities. Ex Transport for London, City of Stockholm and Metro Vancouver TransLink. Opinions are my own or borrowed from someone smarter | Stockholm, sometimes Vancouver

A wall map of the original plan of Chandigarh
Construction site for the new metro line seen from my balcony at home
Logo of the Stockholm Åre 2026 Candidate City Olympic Winter Games, in traditional, colourful kurbits or rose-painting style
A cheque book stub for 900 pounds payed to ”Rent”, dated 2 November 2005
A graph showing the growth of car traffic and population as an index in the City Oslo 2007 to 2023. Car traffic shown as a yellow line has remained stable apart from a small dip in 2020-21 caused by restrictions introduced to slow the spread of Covid-19. Population, shown as a blue line has increased by around 30 percent between 2017 and 2023.
A roadsign with alternating blue and black text on each line, reading: You’re four times It’s hard to more likely to have concentrate on two things when you’re on at the same time a mobile phone
A view of the congestion charging infrastructure in a dark and snowy Stockholm
A view across the sea with snow clouds and a small area of clear sky
Mayor Sadiq Khan - Co-chair of C40 - at the World Mayors Summit announcing that three quarters of C40 cities have already peaked their emissions
The bronze statue of Suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst in Manchester
Two trams - one yellow - meet on a curving track through a forest with early autumn colours
The video shows a train arriving at an underground station. A barrier consisting of yellow cables is raised up as the train arrives so people can board, and is lowered again as the train leaves
A metro train in a station in Sofia, Bulgaria. The train is silver with green doors and a green stripe
View of a lake in the early morning from the window of a tram
Me, a man with a rapidly greying beard in a metro station with a rainbow painted on the cave-like roof
Laughing Cow cheese spread packet with Tour de France theme
A sign, in Swedish, saying "Keep Maria [the neighbournood in question] Queer. A few local residents want to close Stockholm's oldest gay bar. Shame on you! Thank-you to everyone who supports a living inner city"
View of metro trains crossing a bridge in the centre of Stockholm, Sweden
Film of a hydrofoil ferry in Stockolm
A bridge - Västerbron in Stockholm - reflected in a still lake in the morning sunshine
A statue of Axel Oxenstierna on a plinth in a formal park, in front of Riddarhuset, the House of Nobility in Stockholm, built in the mid 17th century.
Overhead view of a roundabout, Museirondellen in Jönköping, with a bus passing through the middle