NIMBY concern about curbside parking due to intergenerational occupancy in this house contrasts with lack of complaints about vehicles getting larger and nuclear families buying more. Exclusion through car dependency was always a feature for neighborhoods like this, which explains both. 1/n

What a document, everything from barges to cars. rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/79039 Not the worst part of our covid response, but as VMT declined we missed an opportunity to reallocate some lanes or entire roads from cars to bikes and pedestrians. Instead the worst drivers have killed more people.

youth anti-car content is teaching kids that people who text and drive are villains

As an occasional masker I didn't personally feel that I needed to in the empty store today. But I masked to express my personal opinion that jon stewart, the pod jon, and that other guy are jerks.

This is some real serious symbolism that Mayor Mamdani is going for. Old City Hall was meant to be the showcase of the original subway when it opened in 1904. But it's not just that: the first subway was quick and cheap to build, taking only five years from start to finish. Symbolism, man.

It is so profoundly stupid that the American government is wasting money on SLS to race China to the moon, while China has already built two thirds as many miles of HSR as America has miles of interstate highways (46,876 miles).

A waiter knows us because we regularly walk to the restaurant. Sees the kids getting bigger. Quipped tonight that we'll need to buy cars for them soon. oh buddy, no

On my to-read list. The political utility of "Abundance" over earlier terms like YIMBY and mode-shifting seemed to be avoiding specificity about an abundance of *what*, and specifically pretending we could have an abundance of cars, so people could project their current aspirations onto the term.

Some people encourage turning off lights around homes at night. Great but streetlights where people might walk are good, etc. Everyone living under a true dark sky is hard to combine with other benefits. But cities building more condos and leaving more areas with dark sky accessible is achievable.

"The metal tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping. I mean: you're not helping! Why is that?"

www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/12/... I read AV opponents share stories of no service in inclement weather. It's a reasonable concern but there are more interesting aspects than only flat opposition. 1/n

Caught @acollierastro.bsky.social 's ~Christmas day video (great!) and the mention of vaccination and driving side by side reminded me of my post yesterday. Now I wonder, what's the correlation between antivax and other behaviors like drunk driving? youtu.be/Z-F3JEpGFa4&... bsky.app/profile/poli...

#drivernotcar the closest this news report comes to hinting that a driver might exist is relaying that the police have not determined if anybody will be charged youtu.be/wap0fPWue18

Video shows the downsides of trams used as a cheaper substitute for more expensive types of rail. A generalized lesson is that opponents of transit will try to cut costs. In contexts where metros are needed, they'll push trams. Where trams are needed, eg #Atlanta's beltline, they're pushing AVs.

Bluesky is @samd.bsky.social 's post of a guy complaining about how Abundance won't help him open a small business in a storefront that's been abandoned (due to sprawl), leading to somebody else complaining about Abundance because it's too urbanist. I dislike the Abundance (tm) set too, but lol

The three most important things when looking at real estate: Density, Density, Density! One aspect that seems to be missing, I haven't read the full paper, is that density contributes to healthier politics. Sprawl is individually harmful, and also inhibits our ability to collectively help people.

I made a feed because I'm a dork

Great to see politicians recognize the real affordability crisis. As much as some ignorant pundits say it's an NYC/SF/vibes problem, it's more a families with young children problem. Let's invest in childcare and transit instead of wasting government subsidies on drivers and SFH sprawl.

Many of you have heard how the #maha crowd are trying to kill children by ending childhood vaccination, www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/... The American politics of cars means they also want drivers to kill children. The #waroncars is for anyone who wants to protect children from them. 1/n

the fact that there is free parking at all in manhattan is wild to me

Whatever the nominal party identification, here we see the conservative right-wing alignment of car centrism (opposing highway tolls) and anti-urbanism (subsidizing rural landowners, opposing autonomy of city governments)

What do you call a system of government that makes decisions in favor of automobiles? An autocracy.

check out these volunteers who give fines to drivers and question if people claiming disabilities actually have them youtu.be/AvitrVQRrLc Seems great! But hard to imagine volunteers issuing citations for other offenses, and especially questioning drivers about themselves, ie, capacity to drive.

traffic calming infrastructure is everywhere for those with the eyes to see

Slingblade, a movie about the danger posed by people whose brains have marinated in car culture

High speed rail to connect major cities rightfully gets a lot of attention, and America should learn from more developed countries how to build it at large scale. But, the caption below aside, we also need a lot of low speed rail to connect rural stops. youtu.be/8B9M6Bzc4Us

Among drivers who think they should be able to drive on city streets for free, do more or less than 99% also think that transit riders should pay fares?

Car dependency means time in the car represents too large a fraction of the time families spend together. But how many parents use time in the car as a crutch because they have a captive audience, without the effort of forming a healthy relationship with kids.

Many pro-housing anti-sprawl #urbanism folks attack this point and emphasize how housing is more important than profits. Fair enough! But this is a false tradeoff. As an investor, would you rather have a given house (same structure, same acreage) in a city covered with SFH zoning, or in Manhattan?

congrats to Manhattan almost every American urban core would benefit even more, if only they could overcome the political power of the larger proportion of drivers commuting into their city

I visited somebody very happy about the secondary improvements (sidewalk, etc) coming along with a very expensive road expansion near their porch, with the noise and air pollution the extra traffic entails. I wish cities invested as much in amenities to surround new multiunit housing developments.

It's possible to both strongly oppose insecure cameras, especially ones used to track human beings and not cars, and also want better monitoring to find drivers who cause crashes.

Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.

Hypothetically, what do you think would happen to a president who responded to homelessness, absent legislative authority, by building dense mixed-use development with minimal parking on land zoned for SFHs by a NIMBY city council?

contra the view of SFHs as family friendly, and @whstancil.bsky.social that housing is affordable despite that the imposition of SFH sprawl because it aligns with preferences, poverty is concentrated among the households with children least able to adapt to housing scarcity imposed by NIMBYs

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A lot of older people with the means should be responsibly planning for retirement where they won't have to drive when it's no longer safe, and selfishly planning for retirement where grandkids will enjoy visits without thirty minute car rides to do anything.

"Police said the driver was a woman around the age of 70, and they do not believe she was impaired." Car culture is police stanning a violent criminal who attacks a group of people with a deadly weapon, and sends two children (age 3, 9) to the hospital. www.fox34.com/2025/12/21/5...

my two cents, is what I'd have if I got a penny for every giant truck I saw driving with its lights off tonight. Another unsafe behavior that could easily be discouraged with automated cameras.

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Get a load of this Ferrari buyer saying a pedestrian intentionally got hit "hoping to collect the insurance". www.italpassion.fr/en/ferrari/h...

I want bicycle infrastructure that’s safe enough to do this

youtu.be/75mW1vKphvE Building lanes at intersections to increase flow of cars along stroads is bad policy for the same reason building highway lanes to solve traffic is bad policy. Ban unprotected left turns. Drivers who misunderstand it should be required to retake the driving test.

People have rightly noted that news coverage of crashes is largely determined by police reports. Understaffed newsrooms can't dig deeper, so use them almost exclusively, eg, bsky.app/profile/obcy... A different structural aspect of car news is automotive journalism. Here's Jonathan Gitlin, 1/n

We all pay for crashes NHTSA says that 22% of adults aged 19–64 with hospital-admitted crash injuries became Medicaid-eligible 35% of those who converted to Medicaid stay on Medicaid indefinitely with lifetime Medicaid costs of $316,000 (2019 estimate) crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/V...

Tapping the "niedermeyer is a carbain" sign. The linked study about touchscreens doesn't test manual controls, much less compare them to touch screens, much less tell drivers to knock it off with changing so many settings while in motion. Manufacturers just want to upsell. bsky.app/profile/poli...

Carbrains always want to impose costs on cities to subsidize car dependent sprawl.

There are single digit school bus passenger deaths per year, injuryfacts.nsc.org/motor-vehicl... Given the scale of traffic violence against children in America, preventing that number from being higher is a noteworthy accomplishment by underfunded school transportation departments.

Yes actually. The car seat is required because of the risk of being in your car, and more generally in the car of an average parent. The car seat does not make kids safer than being in a *bus* driven by somebody with a CDL. Buses can have seat belts, parents can lobby their school board for them.