Have you heard of the Southern Arterial Route? I hadn’t either. Here’s a ~12,000-word Wikipedia article with 153 references to bring you and your search engine up to speed! jakecoppinger.com/2026/02/have... #sydney #ultimo #chippendale #redfern #waterloo #nsw #auspol #urbanism #wikipedia

Sharing this magnus opus by @jakecoppinger.bsky.social: Sydneysiders, have you ever noticed the wide stroads and one-way heavy traffic when you drive between Redfern and Green Square? This project has a name, and the streetscape doesn't have to be this way jakecoppinger.com/2026/02/have...

Tweethearts - my cartoon for @australia.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A proliferation of sexual deepfakes on X has prompted other countries to investigate Grok, the platform’s AI software, but, so far, Ottawa remains silent. www.hilltimes.com/story/2026/0...

Australia's eSafety Commissioner is assessing several image-based abuse complaints involving Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok, after weeks a "mass undressing spree" where it generated 10,000s images including women & children depicted in revealing outfits or suggestive positions. thesizzle.com.au/p/e...

And an absolutely data filled, painstakingly researched piece by @jakecoppinger.bsky.social on the same topic. Even the left wing media is failing us in these conversations, and doing a disservice to the victims by not even questioning car culture narrative. jakecoppinger.com/2025/12/why-...

There have been misleading articles on pedestrian and cyclist road deaths recently. Some have “...suggested that e-scooters and e-bikes played a significant part in the rise in pedestrian deaths”, when “...fatalities were in fact the riders of e-scooters” (ABC) jakecoppinger.com/2025/11/list...

Good news! Not only is Sydney’s new Oxford Street cycleway doing numbers (3,000+ trips p/d) the other *five lanes* of traffic everyone was *so worried* about appear to be *just fine*(!)

What happened in Sydney’s CBD when signals were reprogrammed to turn green 20 seconds quicker? jakecoppinger.com/2025/09/gree...

I have published TfNSW GIPA 26T-0120 documents on the Epping Bridge transport modelling “review”. Please let me know if you have any insights / comments on these! jakecoppinger.com/2024/10/bett... files.jakecoppinger.com/epping-bridg...

I’d been using the Arc browser daily since it was invite-only, so The Browser Company confirming it’s effectively dead still stings. I really admired Arc for how much thought and craft went into it. So I wrote an obituary for my favourite browser: sidney.me/writing/arc-... #ArcBrowser

I've written this analysis piece based on TfNSW GIPA 25T-1420, which you may have seen this morning in the Sydney Morning Herald. I hope you find it helpful to understand the project. jakecoppinger.com/2025/05/not-... #auspol #sydney #australia #urbanism

This week is National Road Safety Week. 50 people walking are killed on NSW roads and streets every year and this figure is trending up. Many of these people are killed taking risks to cross streets because signal wait times are too long. jakecoppinger.com/2025/05/no-s... #auspol #sydney #urbanism

Compared to 2022, there has been a nationwide swing to #DemocracySausage, with an increase of 5.2 percentage points in the estimated percentage of election day voters with access to #DemocracySausage. The largest swing was in NSW with a 10.5 percentage point increase.

Goolay’yari WalkSydney hosted a Sunday afternoon walk along the Cooks river between the Beamish Street pedestrian bridge and the Sugar Mill pedestrian bridge in Hulstone Park.  The area around Campsie, Sydney, NSW, was traditionally Wangal land, a clan of the Darug (or Dharug, Dharuk, Daruk) tribe…

So why, yet again, block the footpath for road works signage??

"It's the most wonderful time of the year.." Police holding people walking on zebra crossing at Broadway to allow vehicles through..

A good solution for the Central station exit into the cycleway.

My project Better Intersections is in The Sydney Morning Herald today! "The push for improved walking spaces came to a head in 2023 when Sydney software engineer Jake Coppinger began crowdsourcing a survey of the worst pedestrian wait times at local intersections." www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

Massive win for the Merri-bek community! Tonight Merri-bek council voted to approve a new Nightingale development offering high quality, sustainable, non-for-profit housing 1/

4/ Instead of giving future residents the choice to save tens of thousands by opting out of car parking, these councillors are ignoring expert advice, State Government policy, and plain common sense—all based on the vibe of it.

Blog: Victoria's public transport operators don't set the service hours or frequency, or set the fares. That's the State Government. Read more: danielbowen.com/2024... #Melbourne #Victoria #PublicTransport

Here on Bluesky and looking forward to engaging with you about the important issues in our economy and the opportunities ahead. Please follow me to stay updated on what's happening, and our plans for the future. #auspol

❌ On-street parking ✅ Beers

Where in the world are they getting housing policy right? I’d like to learn from that.

There’s been so few updates from TfNSW on the Sydney Park Junction project that for some queries ChatGPT cites my website multiple times when asked about it… #sydney #auspol #urbanism

After SMH reported that “Haylen’s office confirmed the upgrades would take place as the initial proposal publicly exhibited in 2021”, you would be mistaken for thinking TfNSW will build the original design. jakecoppinger.com/2024/11/sydn... #sydney #auspol #tfnsw #nsw

The number of deaths on Australian roads has risen for 27 consecutive months in a row, with last month the deadliest October in eight years. Almost 1300 people have died in the past 12 months, with the biggest spike affecting children aged seven and under. www.drive.com.au/news/deadlie...

It’s so simple: just avoid the routes that get you to the places you need to go. Perfect!

The recording of the haka led by Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke in NZ Parliament has been remixed by a Māori artist and been shared on Boiler Room's Instagram: www.instagram.com/reel/DCnSrn4... Free DL on Bandcamp: aroha.bandcamp.com/track/let-he... #aotearoa #newzealand

“Every $1,300 New York invested in building bike-lanes in 2015 provided benefits equivalent to 1 additional year of life at full health over the lifetime of all city residents, according to a new economic assessment.” Bike-lanes are a sound public health investment. www.reuters.com/article/busi...

#BREAKING: The Sydney train network will shut down from Thursday to Sunday. Negotiations between the government and the RBTU are in a deadlock. “This will cause major disruption to the millions of people who rely on the Sydney Trains network,” Jo Haylen says.

Demonstrating place making and safe streets in Enmore - Making Enmore’s commons safer for children, removing rat-runs, and giving more space to people This compact area can be used as a low-cost minimal-disruption demonstration transformation. mathewhounsell.windra.net/demonstratin...

Love this map! It shows the grades of the streets in order to help pedestrians and cyclists plan their routes (from Queenstown, New Zealand).

Urban Affection - #photography #sydney #australia

Merri-bek Council is looking for feedback on Albert Street, Brunswick. What would make it work better for people on foot & bikes; trees, modal filters, easier crossings at big roads, protected bike lanes, pedestrian crossings? #Melbourne #Merri-bek conversations.merri-bek.vic.gov.au/albert-stree...

"Why nonsensical pollution monitoring by NSW government should concern us all": pollutionwatch.org.au/2024/10/why-... "Westconnex St Peters Interchange: Environmental Monitoring Failures": pollutionwatch.org.au/2024/10/west... #westconnex #auspol #sydney #nsw #epa #tfnsw

As someone who writes about bike/pedestrian crashes and knows many transportation researchers who study them, I can say with confidence that Waymo's John Scanlon is either lying or ignorant (or both). www.theverge.com/2024/11/11/2...

Signed hook turns - in Sydney!

Hounsell, M. (2020). Using TOTOR datasets in transport operations - Facilitating an empirically-driven continuous-optimisation approach to sustainable transport operations using TOTOR datasets [Conventional Thesis, University of Technology Sydney]. hdl.handle.net/10453/144073

@glenroynick.bsky.social any chance I could be added to your Australian Urbanism list? I wasn't able to find the pinned post unfortunately! A sample of my writing (I've previously been more active on Mastodon): jakecoppinger.com

The Sydney Park Junction project page has been updated and an email sent to some stakeholders. See a diff thanks to the Internet Archive: web.archive.org/web/diff/202... #sydney #auspol #cycling #tfnsw #sydneyparkjunction #cityofsydney #urbanism

Melbourne news media: "Labor's Suburban Rail Loop is a waste no-one will ride it" Meanwhile in Sydney:

New SMH article on Sydney Park Junction including an excerpt of a briefing given to Haylen and Graham on 5 August. Slide is marked "GIPA Access Application 25T-0513 Page 3 of 15" and image filename is "Screenshot-2024-11-06-120552_3" archive.is/1utPP jakecoppinger.com/2024/09/anot...

The Epping Bridge Project is first and foremost a road widening project (5 to 7 car lanes). It does not follow TfNSW’s Road User and Space Allocation Policy or Movement & Place framework, and at $220m costs 2x the NSW active transport funding over the next 4 years! jakecoppinger.com/2024/10/bett...

SMH reported yesterday that Minister Jo Haylen "directed" TfNSW to "abandon the reduced plan" for Sydney Park Junction This reportedly took place 5 days after the September 19th letter Bicycle NSW addressed to Minister Haylen, which included a link to my blog post jakecoppinger.com/2024/09/anot...