As @sgoodyear.bsky.social so eloquently conveys, dependence on a functioning car to satisfy the needs of life is the antithesis of ‘freedom.’

Fact. People perceive, appreciate, and use quality bike/ped/transit infrastructure.

It’s late 2025, our earth is melting, mental and public ill-health are endemic, life’s unaffordable for most…and transportation consultancies are hiring highway engineers. smdh

In 1920 Buffalo’s International Railway Company, then managed by the Mitten Management Company of Philadelphia, raised streetcar fare from five cents to seven cents. Many Buffalonians resented the increase and blamed the management company. ...

Auspicious start to the day 🌈 in Carrboro, NC

This #WDoR2025, families are sharing their stories of loved ones lost to traffic violence. Their voices are the most powerful call for leaders to remember, support, and ACT – so everyone can move safely, no matter how they get around. @familiesforsafestreets.org @roadtozero.bsky.social

Sincerely wish this instead read: “They’re a 1000 convivial pocket parks in Downtown.”

It's #ElectionDay! Let's revisit insights from @ianwalker.bsky.social and Marco Te Brömmelstroet "it is possible public support for changes to road systems becomes ‘hidden’ because people tend incorrectly to assume that their (majority) desire for change represents an unpopular minority view. 1/2

The end of daylight saving is 2nd only to New Years for the density of totally reasonable promises we make to ourselves

“These harms are Cacophony (noise), Carbon emissions, Casualties from collisions, Community severance, Concern and social isolation, Congestion, Contamination (of air and ground), Conurbation design, and Couch potatoes.” 🙏

Highly recommend @thewaroncars.bsky.social's book Life After Cars.

A decade in - the #VisionZero movement is changing how we think, talk, and build for safety. Check out our Top 10 Signs of Progress and what they mean for the next decade of #VisionZero: visionzeronetwork.org/top-10-signs...

Not only is it somehow legal, it’s subsidized, deregulated, even celebrated!

“If someone was walking along the streets spraying poisonous fumes into people’s faces, they’d be arrested and probably locked up. But if you spray those fumes into people’s faces using a car, it’s somehow legal.” -Tyre Extinguishers rep in @thewaroncars.bsky.social ‘Life After Cars’ book.

Great interview on @chrislhayes.bsky.social podcast with the authors of this book: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

Cars are often “structural killers”—they kill directly (via crashes + pollution) and indirectly (via facilitating drive by shootings or drug ODs in the wake of car crash injury). Yet cars are frequently compared to “direct killers” like guns and opioids. 100% unfair.

It’s arrived! (with a car-free driveway since ‘17 providing the backdrop).

The fact that local public schools are funded via property taxes, which determines each school’s resources, which determines ed outcomes, which determines economic outcomes, gives credence to notion that one’s zip code determines one’s fate. And somehow we’re okay with this?

Hardly hear a whisper about this travesty

How would you feel if your loved one died in traffic and your local news decided to immediately follow up the tragedy with a traffic report?

No Kings Carrboro / Chapel Hill NC

"My two favorite things: libraries + bicycles. They both move people forward without wasting anything." —Peter Golkin I take a look at transit, bicycles, and books in this HIGH SPEED dispatch. (In keeping with the public spirit, paywall removed!) www.highspeed.blog/the-little-s...

Something about the ability to comfortably travel at inhuman speeds strips us of our humanity.

Safe, comfortable sharing of public space relies upon a solid social contract. Yet when the owner of a popular local business consistently violates the contract, safe and comfortable travel for people unprotected by roll cages becomes precarious. How might we shore up this social contract?

We seriously need to discuss this more: Report: A Third of Americans Can’t Rely On Cars — And 16 Million Have No Access At All - usa.streetsblog.org/2025/10/02/r...

Increasingly perceiving a need to transition our everyday language away from “having hope” and toward “practicing hope.” Thoughts?

Objective fact: people > cars. A fact Catalans have known for some time. Nothing worth agonizing over. On the contrary, it’s 100% worth celebrating. 🎉

Each event will focus on the VAST benefits of moving more the way we’re made - with others, with the world around us, with ourselves. They will also focus heavily on pedestrian 👩🏿‍🦽👩🏽‍🦼🧑🏾‍🦯🚶‍♀️🚏🚴🏾 and mobility justice advocacy.

Can't we just get healthcare

Safety individualism is killing us. Instead, @npr.org: From: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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“ WRAL News is working to learn the cause of the crash.” 👀

Social exchanges are the building blocks of community. On a walk this morning I said good morning to three acquaintances. I suspect we are felt more rooted in place, a part of something grander than ourselves. Cars suppress these exchanges and offer us little by way of building community.

When you manage land and road infrastructure like this, #WorldCarFreeDay becomes a sort of joke.

To get us to joyful biking, walking, and rolling, we must address the foundation of this effervescence: safety and security. Until we all enjoy objectively and subjectively safe places to bike, walk, roll within and through, we will be postponing joy. Let’s no longer postpone joy. 🚲 🚶🏻 🦽

Prediction: the next BIG road safety innovation will emerge from TDM (mode shift efforts). We’ve spent 100+ years rendering driving a bit less dangerous to car occupants, all the while neglecting all who ambulate outside of cars. Fewer cars and less driving is how we will get to zero.

Mode shift is a potent public and environmental health intervention.

Mr. Ferguson Jr. was waiting for the bus when a driver of a jeep ran over him and fled from the scene. Hit-and-runs kill thousands in our communities each year in the U.S. When is a good time to seriously regulate vehicles? abc11.com/post/61-year... crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/P...

I wonder if we should be more specific than #multimodal.” Sometimes the term “multimodal” can be perceived as “all modes equally.” Yet in practice, it’s nearly impossible to realize true travel mode parity, as cars utterly dominate the spaces they occupy.

Props to @kenmcld.bsky.social for informing #BikeWalkNC Summit participants about this necessary proposed legislation

One of these things undermines all the others: -enhancing marshlands -enhancing wildlife habitats -reducing flooding -improving traffic flow along an adjacent highway via widening. Which could it possible be? 🤔

⚕️ Need to know who should get the flu, COVID-19, and RSV #vaccines this year? With the US #publichealth system in chaos, the Common Health Coalition produced this excellent graphic to help people prepare for the respiratory virus season.

"To make the road design code safer: 1. Reduce design speed 2. Reduce standard road widths 3. Replace accident with crash 4. Delete 85th percentile rule 5. Delete Level Of Service 6. Raised crosswalks at all schools" @brenttoderian.bsky.social @wesmars.bsky.social @tomflood.bsky.social

Brief 🧵 about the purpose of streets coming your way! Argument: streets are for far more than driving or even walking, biking, rolling, and other modes. At their core, streets are for exploring, creating, and connecting. Think play. Socializing. Expression. Commerce. Civic action.

"Instead of saying, 'The driver was going 60 in a 25 zone,' we should ask, 'Why is it even possible for a driver to go 60 in a 25 zone?' The problem isn't just the individual; it's the system." 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 @sethlaj.bsky.social catalog.results4america.org/resources/ho...

The only real question I have about Gen AI and LLMs is: who asked for these exactly?

EVs are not the answer.

Individualism. n. A cultural assumption that everything which befalls and benefits you is entirely of your making, and not of your genetic lottery nor your socio-environmental circumstances Social progress is directly and negatively proportional to the % of a population that espouses individualism

Air conditioning and private autos. Funny how these two inventions… which have eradicated front porch/stoop/yard conviviality, created vast social chasms among people, and disproportionately contribute to global warming… are the very same inventions we rely on to adapt to a warming world.

Interested in preventing people using our roads and streets from dying on them? Curious to learn more about what a Safe System is and how those who control our roads and policies and vehicle regulations and injury surveillance and emergency response could keep us all safe?