When change isn't made, change doesn't happen. Two months into 2025 and already 21 Houstonians have died while walking and rolling. The Mayor works daily to make it worse, not better.

After 16 years of living in Houston and driving to work, I decided a few weeks ago to bike to work. And I've been enjoying it so much that even a 28F morning didn't deter me. (and yes, that stylish balaclava was handed to me by my daughter because "it's too cold daddy" 🤪)

@mattlanza.bsky.social for us gardeners, is there a good website/tool that calculates the odds of a freeze still happening this season for houston? I would assume mixing the 10-14 day models with some historic data should be able to every day provide a probability for one more freeze this season?

The city consistently fails to provide safe detours and regularly allows sidewalks and bike lanes to be blocked. Please tell us how pedestrian safety is a top priority? We've got a million examples. Walk and roll with us Houston Public Works. @jayrjordan.bsky.social .

To the extent Whitmire has addressed road safety at all in the first year of his tenure, it has uniformly been to stop, delay, or water down any measures to improve it. He ran on enforcement as the solution (dubious) but hasn't even done anything on that front!

I think it was a success :)

A couple thoughts on this upcoming winter storm for #Houston. We are now entering the timeframe where forecasting specifics gets modestly more comfortable. Models have been almost uncomfortably stable with the general theme of this storm for 2+ days now. 1/11

Why speed matters and why Houston needs to lower it's residential speed limit to 20 mph.

What works is traffic calming. What works are safety improvement projects. But the Mayor has cancelled those left and right. www.walkandrollhouston.com/high-injury-...

Americans are ~2.5x more likely to die in a crash than a Canadian, ~3.5x more likely than a Spaniard, and ~5x more likely than a Japanese person. Here are a few of the articles I wrote in 2024 trying to understand why the US is uniquely terrible at road safety. 🧵

It’s interesting that downtown now has a free golf cart shuttle but it still costs a 1.25 to get somewhere from Denver harbor, I guess Whitmire’s equity concerns evaporated now that it’s not about blocking safe bike infrastructure

Dropped some truthbombs about cars on teevee today.

If Time Magazine had just listened to me... What a missed opportunity 😜

Daylighting British style ... Probably this is also a lot more effective at alerting drivers of the upcoming crosswalk compared to a yellow sign on the side of the road. It's just paint, but paint can still make a positive difference.

Really insightful video by Ashton Schottler (Type Ashton) about municipal funding differences in the US vs. Germany and how that leads to different outcomes for residents and creates different cities. youtu.be/w-2XqR6YHnU?...

Hard not to escape the conclusion that the Korean political system is more resilient than the US system

WATCH: If you’re fighting for safe bike-lanes & better cities against blatant liars ANYWHERE, watch this DEVASTATING new video using both evidence AND COMMON SENSE by #NOTJUSTBIKES on “the World’s Dumbest Bike-lane Law.” (congrats Ontario, it’s your guy!) PLEASE share it a lot! youtu.be/KgFCQ7jEZxI

Or we are on bikes in the lanes, slowing down the cars. When the Waugh bike lane ends, I take the lane until crossing over Buffalo bayou and a big truck behind me today laid on his horn. Advocate for bike lanes dude- I don’t want to share the lane with you either!

We want a Montrose Blvd that’s safer to walk, roll, and drive. Join tonight on Zoom or in person to demand a shared use path and no lane widening montrosehtx.org/meeting/dece...

I’m reminded often of the work Maggie Gordon has done at @houstonlanding.bsky.social on the constant problem of train crossings, traffic, emergency services, and student commutes in Houston. It was inevitable that this tragedy would eventually occur.

"Many people are worried about President-Elect Donald Trump’s forthcoming administration’s corrosive effects on democracy. The corrosion is already happening, though. A particularly vocal subset of the ultrarich is steering the ship, and doesn’t care who knows." www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Bus lanes save lives! Madison St is the only continuous thoroughfare that runs from waterfront to waterfront in Seattle Emergency vehicles can now slice right through traffic from 1st Avenue to MLK, saving precious minutes in their response! Thanks, SDOT!

It can be done if engineers want to...

Quite ironic that installing a DFO ("deadly fixed object") on a multitude path is no concern for engineers but taking a similar approach on a car intersection would never pass in the US. (and yes this definitely is VERY effective in slowing down people and avoiding intersection crashes)

Gotta say, for once I'm with Whitmire on this one. Now do the same and go e up that 11mil 2nd montrose library rehab and dedicate that money to missing sidewalks and crosswalks.

If the cop had driven 35mph instead of 55mph there is a good chance that Ms. Pool would still be alive today. That HPD's preliminary investigation said "speed was not a factor" in this crash is incompetent and ignorant at best and at worst deceiving (5/5) bsky.app/profile/bren...

So many Houstonians die while walking and biking that it's not news. Not shown are thousands of injuries.

It doesn't inspire confidence in HPD when taking 15 minutes to analyze the dashcam video of the Antoine crash reveals the facts 1) the officer was speeding at approx. 55mph in a 35mph street 2) the victim was in an unmarked crosswalk = had the right of way 3) the car was travelling southbound (1/5)

This won't change what MAGA will say or do. They will do evil things and say "both sides lie and cheat and bend the rules when it suits them". They would have done that either way. NOW they've been given the gift of that statement being FACT. That matters in court of public opinion and in courts.

I think you should all read Jon Chait's piece and so I am gifting it to you. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Winter makes our transportation priorities so obvious. Highway below: perfectly cleared. Road beside: almost perfectly cleared. Sidewalk: narrow, uncleared, with snow added to it from the plow that cleared the road (+ lots of footprints in the snow). www.ourstreetsmn.org/initiative/m...

Easiest way to kick Elon out of the Trump admin: Give him a Time Magazine Person of the Year cover with the label "The Shadow President".

People are often surprised when I tell them this: both Twitter and Facebook/insta/threads are now specifically engineered to downgrade, hide, suppress real journalism. If this platform is different, that's a huge change

Now this is some serious contrast. And it also allows for some nice new trees to grow in the daylighting zone.

Just crazy, multiple people died in the same spot for a decade and the official answer from the City of Springfield, MA still is "don't cross the street to get from the library's parking lot to the library and instead take the 3-4 minute detour walk". www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqCs...

@chrondotcom.bsky.social are you really going to let @houstonchronicle.com upstage you like this and not manage to get your own @chron.com handle???? 😉

Great infrastructure for bikes, still more than enough room for cars. Yes we can have it all 😉

How can it be that this is still not addressed? Im so used to use the browser back button to move from a post back to a feed, but every time I do this on bsky I end up at whatever website I visited before coming to bsky. @jay.bsky.team @support.bsky.team

Houston bsky, I'm thinking of taking the kids the first time to the Thanksgiving parade with the Red line. Any recommendations for less crowded spots to watch? Is showing up right at 9am too late at milam/Leeland? At 5 and 3 they won't last more than 15 mins waiting until the parade arrives...

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I have tried to make that point many times before in conversations, but going forward I will exclusively use this perfect analogy 😁

In a kinda similar note, it’s really not okay for TxDOT and members of the Texas Transportation Commission to talk about “customers” who use roads. Their job is to fairly balance the interests of all Texans including those who don’t drive but still are impacted by the transportation system.

I love my neighborhood's new roundabout. Is Houston's mayor about to tear it out? www.chron.com/culture/arti...

A new development on the site of the former Halliburton campus in Westchase is now one of Houston's first-ever designated "Walkable Places" www.chron.com/news/houston...

Doug Burgum has been selected for Secretary of Interior. He is seems quite thoughtful on housing and mobility. Here's him at a governor's summit calling for the legalization of mixed-use and walkable neighborhoods. I hope he can apply this perspective to plans to release federal land for housing.

Remember, when it comes to the actual likelihood that a vehicle crash will occur at all, AND whether the consequences of a crash are serious, or even deadly, or not, speed is ALWAYS a factor. Including when the legal speed limits are currently too high. #SpeedKills #VisionZero

Bluebikes, Greater Boston’s bike share system, surpassed 4 million annual rides for the first time ever in October with 2-months left to go. A +28% increase over 2023 as the regional network of safe, comfortable bike lanes continues to grow. 🚲