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Hot take, people who hate cities shouldn’t be in charge of cities

To this very day, Donald doesn't care about US manufacturing. He's pretending to care as a cover for pumping the stock market. The force of the US economy is so strong. Mathematically, it has to rebound after a dip. He's pushing it down on purpose then peddling insider info about when he'll stop

Housing policy is climate policy because housing policy is transportation policy

Single family zoning has always been about excluding poorer people from wealthy neighborhoods.

WATCH: If you REALLY want to understand just how lazy, moronic & dishonest Trump’s “math” is, that he claims is the basis for his “reciprocal tariffs” on nations all over the world (spoiler: they aren’t reciprocal), please watch this excellent CBC explanation by Andrew Chang. Then please share it.

As a neuroscientist who studies urban stress, loud cars/motorcycles should be banned, or fined excessively until drivers reassess their need to broadcast their self esteem with unnecessary noise pollution. I don’t need to hear your car in my apartment.

There was this whole thing where people said the French wouldn't embrace bicycle commuting like the Dutch because of inherent cultural traits and these lanes would be ghost towns. Instead, obviously, bike usage exploded as soon as the infrastructure was made available. These are all lessons people!

It's sort of the central myth of American transportation. Let's debunk it once and for all.

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY. There was also a 71% drop in air pollution. Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

"I posit that mass rezoning is not only justifiable but also one of the most cost-effective and least risky policy solutions for tackling housing affordability and supply challenges in the United States." www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

You all know I love the inspirational power of a great “before & after” street or place transformation. Here’s a before, middle and after transformation, showing the temporary and then permanent changes. The evolution of a school street in Bratislava, Slovakia, HT @holz-bau.bsky.social. Very smart.

Bolardos, jardineras, árboles, etc. permiten dar más seguridad a los carriles bici en Vitoria

This is very important: “Society benefits a lot from people walking & cycling! New figures from the Norwegian Directorate of Health show we save: 🚲 33 NOK for every km people cycle 🚶‍♀️ 49 NOK for every km people walk This is compared to people not being physically active e.g. if they drive a car.”

Better would be to make "major roads" in cities obsolete so no one lives by them.

Minimum parking requirements have always been a failed policy. They destroy the vital urban fabric of our communities and make needed housing more expensive to build today. These requirements, based on highly questionable math, should be fully eliminated to prevent further damage.

Desplazar los coches hacia el centro de la calzada PERMITE crear infraestructura segura de forma ✅ Rápida ✅ Barata ✅ Sencilla. Vitoria

IMPORTANT: The Dutch invested €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart govts do math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear — it wastes public money to NOT do it. #CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com

Never forget, if you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan cities for people and places, you get people and places. Plan for the city you want. HT Fred Kent

YIMBYism is wild because you start to ask questions like “why was single family zoning created?” and “are our regulations for building safety based on any actual safety data?” and soon realize that ~85% of the rules governing our cities are based on nothing but tradition and vibes.

New proposed rule: If a street is slated for a safety improvement project in several years & the infrastructure is damaged* by drivers in the meantime, the timeline should be moved up. *In this case: knocked over ped beg button on Pleasant Ave, slated for safe routes to school project in 2028-29

If this was really about government efficiency then we’d investigate highway widening projects before high speed rail & congestion pricing

Only those scared that cars are losing their appeal for consumers, like the owner of a bunch of car dependent real estate and a car manufacturer, would purposely bring congestion inefficiency back to Manhattan streets

In 1929, reknowned city planner Harlan Bartholomew warned that road widenings would exhaust cities' bonding capacity.

Telling people "street safety is a shared responsibility" is like saying school shootings can be prevented with bulletproof backpacks, ignoring the root cause while placing the burden on victims. 📸 - @stlurbanists.bsky.social

I can’t believe it - after years of advocacy, exclusionary zoning has ended in Cambridge. We just passed the single most comprehensive rezoning in the US—legalizing multifamily housing up to 6 stories citywide in a Paris style Here’s the details 🧵

Data on high risk behavior by unlicensed drivers in WA state. I wish we would focus less on the bad choices by individuals and more on the bad choices that we’ve made as a society to make driving the only reliable option in most of US communities to get anywhere. wtsc.wa.gov/wp-content/u...

Seville, Spain eliminated 5,000 car parking spaces and built an 80 km protected cycling network in just 18 months with 32 million €. Result: An average 70,000 bike trips a day. Leadership.

These MFs are so damn triggered that they’re removing mentions of biodiversity from government websites bro we are so fucking cooked 😂

This agency is a massive net positive for Americans, economically. We collectively get scammed out of billions less than we pay for this agency. Be angry.

Congestion pricing is proving that car dominance is bad for business. Donald is pimping out his presidential services to big auto.

“A new study of early separated lane projects in the U.S. across six cities finds a rise of ridership between 21% and 171% after the lanes were installed.” The pretty strong and convincing case for protected bike-lane networks in cities. In @fastcompany.com

It's a different world when your city stops incentivizing the building of the majority of its new housing units on the car-dependent fringes and starts allowing transit-oriented infill. Then all city streets can gradually become "narrow side streets" as they should be.

What flexposts say: "We could use steel bollards but a bollard might scratch a car and that would be a tragedy. So, we're going to use these instead — things literally designed to be run over — because protecting even one car from a scratch is worth thousands of pedestrian deaths every year."

If your city allows density, you get this lovely option: cheaper AND greener transportation infrastructure

Stop orienting destinations around car infrastructure. It's not going to work out.

The Constitution explicitly prohibits government reps and officials taking gifts from foreign governments yet...

Ebikes are cheating alright. Cheating Big Car execs out of their quarterly bonuses

Same issue in @cityofphoenixaz.bsky.social . Valley Metro Light rail extension along interstate 10 is such a bad call and massive missed opportunity. Light rail should be in walkable neighborhoods or neighborhoods that can be zoned to become walkable in the future.

For all my new bluesky followers, in case you wondered what happens when a metropolitan region increases its highway lane-mile capacity (either thru more lanes - width, or more miles - length), vehicle miles traveled per capita per day goes up: