Is it economically optimal technocratic planning? No. Is it a clear political message to normal voters in a democracy in favor of public transportation? Yes.

Flock has problems and it's valuable for researchers to document them. But color me skeptical that the broad resentment is more principled than rich drivers objecting to & sabotaging speed cameras and parking meters. If you get to objecting to this law, you need a better anti-car framework.

Next they'll ban people going out in public unless they're in a car

Relevant to the vibecession posts going around yesterday that conflated adults with all Americans. www.dcfpi.org/all/dc-child...

Congestion Pricing would be more popular if we let people set their own fee for anybody sending them texts or emails

A hundred years since he learned who controls public space, and drivers haven't changed

Some vocal drivers are sociopaths who don't care if their neighbors get hurt or die in a car crash

"An elegant weapon for a more civilized road” - Obi Wan Major upgrades to the bike safety flag project! 🧵

When I was a kid, I was on some long-distance errand with my dad somewhere far from home. We pass a diner, he's "we need to stop here." The diner had tons of model trains at varying heights all around the walls. They were like jukeboxes - stick a quarter in and that train would go.

New @bennjordan.bsky.social ! I'm a NDIMBY (No Datacenters In My...) youtu.be/_bP80DEAbuo

Railroad workers did not win their strike. Biden is out of office and his stans are still pretending all that matters is one metric in a complicated industry with a management culture infamous for cutting costs and the anti-labor PSR. Protecting the limited right to strike under the RLA is good.

Good to see a governor say "spaces for cars are being prioritized over spaces for people" and tie NIMBY regulations to the era of red lining.

The misunderstanding that NIMBYs are maximizing property value rather than the socio-economic status of neighbors, makes it harder to understand why tax appraisals should include upzoned valuation. If a SFH neighborhood is consuming exclusivity, their tax payments should not go down through zoning.

bsky.app/profile/mich... "My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area. (15 in Manhattan btw)"

Bus reading: Baldwin on his reaction to treatment of Black people during and after the war. Material Abundance (tm) (DOW at 50k) is not enough. The postwar building boom was not for everyone. White flight and car dependent suburbanization of our cities was not YIMBY.

I really want a Democrat, any Democrat, to win in 2028. To that end, I could think of less convincing arguments to spread to voters than "actually everyone was doing well under Biden and you ingrates failed the party". But unlike the guy who insists on that, I rightfully wouldn't get Dem support.

Unreal priorities on display these days

Tragic. This won't be reported as violence by ICE, but it is. www.savannahnow.com/story/news/c...

Great overall and explains NIMBYs sacrificing property value to avoid new neighbors. To these sorts of homeowners, car dependency is a feature not a bug. It excludes neighbors, neighbors' guests, and even neighbors' domestic servants that aren't physically and financially able to drive.

replacing the tawdry "get a room" with the supportive "get an affordable unit in an accessible walkable neighborhood suitable to any choices you two make"

Automated camera fines for tinted windows and retractable bollards to stop offending drivers until they roll down windows. This could have been avoided. www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2026/02/14/h...

Mile? Kilometer? Doesn't matter. The units Americans need to learn are Fatal car crashes per ____ driven. and Population density per _____ ^2

watching the Olympics, TIL that in the Netherlands instead of Nascar they have professional left turn only racing teams for skating www.dutchnews.nl/2024/11/the-...

"Don't bother criticizing Newsom, he won't be nominated" meanwhile, multimillionaire in one of the least car dependent cities in America still married to a guy who injured someone while driving drunk as an 81 year old, and Democratic party leader says www.axios.com/2026/02/15/p...

Excess car dependency hurts everyone. Housing scarcity hurts everyone except exurban homeowners*. Subsidizing dangerous driving (underpriced insurance, low enforcement) helps * the most, disproportionately hurts the most vulnerable people who lack both stable housing and cars, and makes both worse.

they are hostile towards cities and on a visceral level they understand their side wins when drivers dominate space and put other people at risk

This is part of the systemic preference for (richer) drivers in states without mail-in voting. Even more obvious what the motivation is when it comes to campuses, and especially HBCUs.

truck guys are not okay www.reddit.com/r/dashcams/c...

peacock Olympics has a lot of geico ads featuring a dad worried about how much it costs to add his son to car insurance. The premium represents a small fraction of the crash risk of kids driving. Housing for families that is not car dependent is that much more valuable.

This is the tire additive that kills salmon when it gets into runoff, and is added to tires to protect them from being damaged by car exhaust. Ban the additive, ban car exhaust, then finally #bancars

I know woke suburbanists object to charging tolls or enforcing laws against drivers who haven't been able to procure housing near transit. But my family and I just walked by a fender bender near this location, and a third driver weaved around them without taking her eyes off the phone, c'mon

got in an argument with this khaki wearing guy who had his pristine f150 parked all the way across a sidewalk (?) and in the course of the argument i asked ‘do you do a lot of backcountry driving in that thing’ and it upset him so bad he had to lock himself in his truck lmao

Rare for a driver to cause so much harm and also have millions in assets to cover what insurance won't, egregious if the justice system lets her hide it. I've said that drivers should be required to walk, bike, and ride transit before getting a license. Doubly so for judges, they need perspective,

Requiring Waymo to always have a safety driver behind the wheel, and also banning all cars without Waymo's level of ability to avoid crashes, would boost Waymo's profits, should appease everyone worried about street safety, and would absolutely infuriate everyone who wants to maintain car culture.

Of course homeowners lose equity if they are personally not allowed to sell to multiunit developers. Land values are highest in city centers, not exurbs. The property value excuse for NIMBYism is less logical than thinking building lanes solves traffic.

We have to stop letting drivers use the roads without paying any tolls, it invites anti-social behavior like littering.

a lot of the peacock Olympics ads are for Google AI summaries of searches for basic sports questions and it's so embarrassing for them you had a better product five winter Olympics ago and you're paying to tell people you're ruining it?

These seem great! Enforcement against antisocial behavior governed by the political process is literally the compromise position, versus people taking direct action against these drivers (often intentionally) harming people around them.

In 1912, Fisher wrote: ""The highways of America are built chiefly of politics, whereas the proper material is crushed rock, or concrete." ...which might be the best quote for @thismachinekillsfascists.bike

If cruisers don't want to spend a lot and don't want to go anywhere, why not pay adequate wages for a staycation instead of flying to cruise? youtu.be/7NBa5o--y3k As a vacation, to me it smacks of drivers passing through public space in the most limiting and selfish way they can. 1/2

A related benefit of public housing impacting the overall construction of the city is that the city can intentionally make it car light/free, and build transportation infrastructure accordingly.

a stupid conservative misunderstood a discussion about traffic enforcement to defend cops in the US by comparison to the EU. The EU has seven figure car insurance coverage and has mandated speed limiters. Conservatives could ask for those, to reduce how many dangerous traffic stops cops need to do.

Going car-free is the best thing most people can do for climate. To reduce car dependency, cities should promote car-free living, supporting compact cities through policy, and investing in public transportation, pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure, and shared mobility options.

important to distinguish 1 anti-social behavior/crime (bad) 2 moving those acts (good for a place, unclear overall) 3 preventing those acts (good) 4 nature of interventions (non-carceral better) 5 disparate impact/intent the biggest proponents of #transit fares focus on 1, the least controversial

Hey Democrats, Republicans are telling you that electricity is a losing issue for them. Do like @techconnectify.bsky.social and tell voters how much cheaper renewable energy should be!

Who are Super Speeders? Glad you asked:

An accident means nobody can be held accountable, therefore a government that considers car crashes as accidents must never be allowed to build or operate roads.

on the way home there was traffic because of a crash scene, where a driver had hit a motorcyclist. Right after seeing the wreck a bunch of drivers gunned it, as if they needed to make up time. @michaelhobbes.bsky.social was right, speed limiters for every car, I don't care about your objections.

taxis driving without a passenger, between trips, is a concerning source of VMT but I think the more important influence of taxis is enabling households to be carless in America's least car dependent cities

Yep, from my piece about insurance, drivers have to block out what driving means because seriously and analytically engaging with the risks under their direct control is overwhelming. politicsofcars.beehiiv.com/p/inadequate...