This would be a big help to achieve the scale of infrastructure needed to meet the City’s mode share goals bsky.app/profile/heyj...

City of San Diego mode share goals (for all residents' trips) 2030: 19% walking 7% cycling 10% transit 2035: 25% walking 10% cycling 15% transit 2024 (Commute to Work*): 3.8% walking .6% cycling 2.6% transit *typically more multimodal than all trips climatedashboard.sandiego.gov/indicators/3...

irculate and VZ Coalition partners are urging Mayor Gloria to use parking revenues to make San Diego safer for pedestrians and cyclists. If the City continues making space for people to store their cars, the revenue ought to go towards preventing death and injury from them!

2019 article, glad the LA Times ran it, but would benefit from more than just this comparison between the two cities: “250 miles of bike lanes and 600 miles of bike paths in the greater Copenhagen area. LA, a vastly bigger and more populous city, 145 miles of bike paths or separated bike lanes”

Airport authorities do spend a ton of money on this roadway infrastructure, so if they're going to charge for transit, I don't see why they shouldn't charge for using the road networks they're building and maintaining too

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A Washington Post article suggests that, beyond a certain threshold, larger homes don't make people happier. Instead, well-being is correlated with affordable housing in walkable neighborhoods where they feel socially connected. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

I have a piece out today on @nextcity.org. To start 2026, my latest report is a story on @panasd.org & how they have been developing a community land trust. Leading an effort to build community-owned affordable housing & in San Diego, CA for immigrant & refugee families. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

There's still time to apply for a $2,000 grant to make biking better in your community! Apply by January 27, 2026 at 5 pm ET » bicyclefriendly.secure-platform.com/a/page/spark

Seriously urbanists - I am trying to get people using the panorama function on their phones more often. It is an easy tool almost no one uses in #Urbanism to show street allocations & is great for advocacy! Some samples below, far more at my 2025 wrap up here: www.streetfilms.org/featured/str...

Ocean heating defies all earlier projections. We are on the worst possible track. Yet this has completely vanished as a topic of conversation in America.

Show me bright spots that you have seen lately. Last weekend, I saw 10-15 minute BRT service on a Sunday night while sidewalk dining in San Diego. Youth 0-18 ride SD MTS free. My husband grew up 2 blocks away from Rapid 215. He took this line when it was much slower www.sdmts.com/fares/youth-...

Starting a thread for examples of why American fascism couldn’t have happened without car-centric planning and American suburbs.

"Local buses provided 10.6 million trips across the US on the average day in 2024, according to the American Public Transportation Association, which is more than four times the number of people who fly in the US every day."

Our spokescorgi is sweating bullets now, waiting for someone, anyone, to donate to the 11th Annual BikinginLA Holiday Fund Drive today! Do a girl a solid, and give now!! bikinginla.com/the-10th-ann...

The change in California law that goes into effect next year will NOT allow police to cite uncrewed ADS. It only allows police to send a note of noncompliance to DMV, which is not a citation and carries no penalties. Here is a recap of the legislature's decision: missionlocal.org/2024/08/waym...

1/3 First road diet in City of San Diego for bike lanes AFAIK was 2014 on Fifth Avenue in Bankers Hill. Upgraded again to “class IV” in 2022. Both upgrades attracted more and more riders on a climb that was very stressful with high speed differentials b/w people driving and biking.

I wrote this piece after a 12-year-old was killed by a car in my city. I wanted to analyze urban planning in San Diego, but just in the few weeks it took to research and write it, another two more children were killed by car drivers. We must de-center cars and reclaim safe urban space for youth!

The Biden administration's Reconnecting Communities program received $14 billion in requests for $1 billion total funding. A new bill would greatly expand it.

Two police officers struck by drunk, wrong-way driver in Pacific Beach Two San Diego Police officers were struck by a drunk, wrong-way driver in Pacific Beach on Saturday evening. One officer sustained non-life-threatening injuries and was hospitalized,…

This fall, we invited member agency staff to participate in a training series on putting NACTO's Urban Bikeway Design Guide into practice. 10 takeaways from training hundreds of North America’s bike network builders ⬇️ nacto.org/latest/10-ta...

As someone who studied and worked on ethnic conflict around the world I’ve been wary of importing language from that world into eg bike lane conflicts (dehumanization, identity-based, etc) but from what I heard I think treating these conflicts in this way is now legitimate.

"The state DMV, which is under [ @governor.ca.gov ] authority, has wide latitude to take dangerous drivers off the road. But it routinely allows drivers with extreme histories of dangerous driving to continue to operate on our roadways, where many go on to kill. "

WATCH: If you REALLY want to understand a BIG reason why cycling [aka riding a bike] is so dangerous in North America, and one of the biggest villains in the origin story of our unsafe status quo, invest some time watching this one, by NOT JUST BIKES (aka @theurbanistagenda.com here). Then share it.

Incredibly tragic, ‘police said the driver “did not see” the bicyclist.’ 😡 Nearby there is a 2-way separated bikeway, memorial quick build the same thing here, keep one parking lane, take out the centerline and let these drivers share 18’ to “see” each other closer. maps.app.goo.gl/BZchetEZdbWo...

Or gate its bikeways every night at 9 forcing people to ride the freeway shoulder 😖 sdrp.org/david-kreitz...

All Skate Stoppers now :(

Outside of the health benefits of biking and walking, there's also a clear federal interest for biking and walking safety In 2023, 3,979 people biking and walking were killed on the National Highway System. There is a federal interest in not having so many deadly roads funded with federal funds

Over 200 vehicles have dangerously obstructed me in the 2way bike lane on the short section of J st between 1st and 10th @seanelorivera.bsky.social we need policies to protect these lanes w/ concrete and enforcement to prevent rideshares, city vehicles and delivery trucks from blocking them

We literally just finished spending a billion dollars widening US 101 between Marin and Sonoma (a project that, it should be said, *created* a lot of traffic delays itself), only to find that it didn't fix traffic, which seems worse than ever. bsky.app/profile/warr...

"Motorists are hostile to measures that slow traffic and favor pedestrians. Local leaders give token or tepid support. Spending on pedestrian-friendly improvements is not prioritized." www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...

Time is running out to give to Day 9 of the 11th Annual BikinginLA Holiday Fund Drive! Don't wait for tomorrow, donate now!! bikinginla.com/the-10th-ann...

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.

As Congress gears up to reauthorize America's surface transportation programs, advocates are calling on federal lawmakers to reinforce state laws that keep residents safer on the road — whether they're driving or not.

As San Diego ICE arrests soar, more than half have no criminal histories. From reporters Jake Kincaid and @sofiareports.bsky.social. inewsource.org/2025/12/02/s...

Bad journalism has real-life consequences.

DDOT continues to publish before/after analyses of safety projects. The numbers for the 9th street NW bike lanes suggest that we should be doing these projects everywhere we can. Crashes plummeted, pedestrian and bike traffic skyrocketed, and vehicle travel times dropped.

Do you go on group bike rides? How big? How do yours run? What makes them successful? What has scared you? I've been working on a post for a long time but I decided to just go ahead and hit publish. 🚲❤️😅 Keeping the ride safe: Lessons from Seattle group bike rides: blog.jcole.us/2025/11/30/k...

It's Day 3 of the 11th Annual BikinginLA Holiday Fund Drive! Beat the Cyber Monday rush and give now to support SoCal's best source for bike news and advocacy!!! bikinginla.com/2025/11/28/i...

Tragic result of a 5-lane road with multi-family residential, bus route, sharrows, 35 mph posted speed limit. This is one of the few non-conventional segments of the State Highway System owned / operated by Caltrans all of which are in Escondido, Coronado, or unincorporated County.

Howdy buckaroos, and bike-riding boys and girls of all ages! It’s the 11th Annual BikinginLA Holiday Fund Drive! bikinginla.com/2025/11/28/i...

‘Critical’ to ‘course-correct’: San Diego is heading in the wrong direction on greenhouse gas emissions, new data show San Diego's greenhouse gas emissions rose by 2% in 2023, contrary to expectations for a decrease, prompting concerns from environmenta…

The 11th Annual BikinginLA Holiday Fund Drive doesn't actually start until tomorrow, but the page is live now for anyone who wants to get a head start on giving! And Happy Thanksgiving! bikinginla.com/the-10th-ann...

An amazing amount of work went into this bsky.app/profile/ucla... study/report/infomaps, etc on the damaging legacy of racist highway construction in communities and cities up and down the state. cal.streetsblog.org/2025/11/25/u...

Bravo to @somervilleinfr1.bsky.social, among like maybe three US city transpo agencies committed enough to safety to try a raised crossing across a minor arterial.

Fantastic multi-use path crossing. I love the cross/bike walk markings and passive actuation of the RRFB lights with infrared at the curb.

Report: It Pretty Incredible That Americans Entrusted With Driving Cars https://theonion.com/report-it-pretty-incredible-that-americans-entrusted-w-1819574734/

Stocks you convinced your parents to buy: Rubio's Restaurants, Inc. IPO May 1999 What eating a fish taco for the first time does to an insatiable teenager …

Most of the administrative stuff that DOGE did is still happening. They’re not gonna suddenly not dissolve Education. I still can’t travel without sixteen layers of review. They’re still plowing out rulemakings to reshape the civil service.