Never before have we had so much information at our fingertips, so much data to understand the world, and so many tools to verify it. And yet, never before has it been so easy to get lost in fake news, biased headlines, and half-truths. This same contradiction has also taken hold in public debate: never before has so much evidence been produced and used to guide policy, and at the same time, never before have politicians been so polarized and so unwilling to listen to what the data says.

She is the first person in the world to hold a specific chair on cycling at a university, in Ghent. Meredith Glaser (California, 1982) holds a PhD in urban planning from the University of Amsterdam, a city where she has lived for the past fifteen years, and is director of the Urban Cycling Institute. "I grew up with the car as the king of transport, and arriving here shook my world: I've never had a car again," she says. This researcher and expert in cycling planning advises the Flemish government and affirms that it is necessary to "redistribute street space." A few days ago, she gave a talk, in collaboration with the Barcelona Metropolitan Area (AMB), to promote bicycle use in "greater Barcelona."