I’m hoping that the Ann Arbor delegation can get behind this and that City Council can put it on their Policy Agenda. Intelligent Speed Assistance technology just makes sense and it would be great to see #Michigan join other states in doing this. #A2Council #VisionZero

Please fill out this survey to tell the Michigan Department of Transportation to make safety paramount and center Vision Zero principles in their designs and operations. #A2Council #VisionZero #Michigan

We can have safe streets for all. Leadership signals what is a priority. This is Day 3 of Mamdani's mayorship. #A2Council

Coverage of our abject failure in meeting our Vision Zero commitments in 2025. Ann Arbor’s City Council needs to make sure we follow through on all the designs and studies and targets and actually make infrastructure improvements to make pedestrians safe on our streets. #A2Council #VisionZero

2025 was a rough year for transportation reformers. I spent much of it thinking about ways to build support for car-free streets, transit expansions, bike lanes, etc. Here are a few stories where I shared what I’ve learned. 🧵

Vancouver’s transit is free for New Year’s Eve and into the wee hours, ensuring everyone has a safe way to get home. In Ann Arbor, AAATA shuts down service early. How many people will drive drunk tonight? #A2Council

Or sometimes the authorities *don't* take action to address dangerous road design after it kills someone. Or even multiple someones. We should not have to pay for safe streets with blood.

Zero deaths or serious injuries on Ann Arbor’s streets in 2026. #A2Council #VisionZero #NewYear

Hey #a2council, how many times are we going to have to explain this to the same two dozen cranks?

It’s a real shame when private citizens need to take the city’s responsibility into their own hands. City of Ann Arbor staff should have cleared this sidewalk, yet here we are. Thank you Pete and Mark. #A2Council

Given that there does not appear to be an appetite for municipal sidewalk snow removal in Ann Arbor, and the existing complaint-driven system is clearly not working with major corridors going over a week before being reasonably passable, we would like to see the following happen: 🧵 #A2Council

Meanwhile, at City Hall: seeclickfix.com/issues/20613... seeclickfix.com/issues/20613... #A2Council

Ann Arbor’s Transportation Manager would like to celebrate the fact that overall crashes are down since 2014. That is good, but it obscures the fact that K and A crashes are up. There is a reason Vision Zero highlights fatal and serious injury crashes: they change lives. #A2Council #VisionZero

The purpose of a system is what it does, and the purpose of this transportation system is to move cars. Not people. Cars.

Yet another unacceptable, preventable death. Not Ann Arbor proper, but our efforts cannot stop at the city limits. Washtenaw is a five-lane stroad with a 45 mph speed limit. There’s many homes and businesses on both sides, stops on heavily-used bus lines, and few crosswalks. #A2Council #VisionZero

We would love to see this pass in Michigan. #A2Council

Can't decide what's more irritating about this situation here. The pile of snow AAPS left on the sidewalk where they stopped plowing? Or the snow that the city of Ann Arbor has left untouched on the sidewalk adjacent to the Greenview park. #a2council seeclickfix.com/issues/20600...

“Dutch people cycle an average of 2.6km each per day. If this pattern was replicated worldwide, annual carbon emissions would drop by 686 million tonnes. This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.” @euronews.com

Imposing proportional consequences for anti social behavior like drunk driving is good and necessary to create a deterrence and protect public safety.

We need to do something better, #a2Council. seeclickfix.com/issues/20601... seeclickfix.com/issues/20601... seeclickfix.com/issues/20600... seeclickfix.com/issues/20600...

An excellent explanation of why the presentation to Transportation Commission on Nov. 19 was so alarming. The presentation should be retracted and revised to properly align with #a2Council 's affirmed (and re-affirmed) Vision Zero goal. Read to the end of the thread for the call to action.

The online survey for the Ann Arbor Roadway Rightsizing project closes on December 19. If you have not yet filled it out, please do so, and tell the project team to put safety for ALL road users first in their designs. #A2Council #VisionZero engage.a2gov.org/a2r2

A lot of people think basically all traffic laws are a fundamentally illegitimate pretext to harass and fine motorists at random, rather than regulations designed to prevent injury and death.

No bike rack = permission to bring your bicycle inside. We don't make the rules.

someone tell the California ACLU who is disproportionately more likely to be killed in traffic accidents including those involving people under the influence

Two ends of the same crosswalk #A2Council

Really feeling this in Ann Arbor. “The success in countries like Norway stems from prioritising safety in all aspects of transportation planning, not accepting traffic deaths as inevitable... We must be willing to prioritise human life over speed and convenience.“ #A2Council

And let's not forget, this debacle emboldened anti-sidewalk activists with a playbook to delay, obstruct, and oppose almost every significant sidewalk gap-fill project that's been done since then. Years later, we are still dealing with the consequences of this #a2council

This was a choice, not by the person walking but by the decision makers who refuse to prioritize them. Photo Credit: D_S_J_

#A2Council if we can’t have municipal snow removal can we either: A: have city workers or contractors clear the laggards at cost plus a fine OR B: set up a bounty program where insured & bonded bounty hunter snow clearers can document uncleared walks & collect the cost & split the fee with the city?

#A2Council yet another car-wrecking crash at Summit & N Main this morning. It's mildly traumatizing to see regular car-disabling wrecks next to and on the sidewalks you use every day. The drivers usually walk away, but people on our own neighborhood streets don't have airbags inside a cage.

Why did we not do a World Day of Remembrance in Ann Arbor #A2Council? Even this city in Ohio did one. Next year?