Yesterday the Washington Post rid itself of Publisher and Chief Executive Will Lewis. If you're interested in those events and their tumultuous background, I would recommend this detailed account from NPR's @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social No paywall. www.npr.org/2026/02/07/n...

“In other words, the true benefit of [road widening] is that it enables more driving, not that it eases congestion.”

It’s not Christmas if the boy’s new drone doesn’t get stuck in grandma’s hair.

My holiday card pet peeve is people including wide angle photos of themselves in tiny little postage stamp images on a card so you can hardly see anything at all in the photo. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

Boiseans: We'd love to have a direct flight to the east coast. NYC? DC? Boston? Boise Airport: Ok how about Anchorage

Beautiful light on the Boise foothills this morning

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The funniest stupid thing (stupidest funny thing?) that violent drivers always say: "All these bicycles are causing traffic!!" Ah so ... you'd prefer if we were all in cars in front of you?

“How will they get any customers if they don’t have parking?”

"Americans’ driving habits have worsened across multiple measures, from reckless driving to drunken driving, which road #safety advocates call a public #health failure" #Vehicular #Violence @bikeportland.org @waroncars.bsky.social kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

It is possible to make cities safe for young pedestrians like this. Many places have achieved this. For now, through our relative inaction, we are deciding that the lives of children are a price worth paying for the vastly overstated convenience of driving.

Election is Tuesday! I’m out knocking in support of my two favorite candidates for Garden City council. If you live in the GC or know someone who does, get after it.

“What’s a phone book?” - The 8-year-old, tonight.

Luv 2 have car free pedestrian streets downtown

Wouldn’t want to take up a few parking spaces with this thing, so let’s create a massive, unmarked safety hazard for people on the Greenbelt.

I think I’m going with “Approved Affordable Housing Development is Sorely Needed and in a Great Location.”

The power of pedestrianization.

Electric bicycles, and shared electric bicycles in particular, are a revolutionary transportation technology. Forward-looking cities should be building out the infrastructure necessary to make cycling safe and convenient for everyone who wants to do it.

Just immaculate vibes in Boise this morning.

What a delight 8th street is. Your periodic reminder that people thought it would be better to have cars driving through it.

Happy Parking Day! It’s wild to think of what you could do with all that space if you didn’t force parking on people.

Meridian built a transportation system that is almost exclusively for private vehicles, but now its denying building permits to businesses because they'll attract too many private vehicles? Seems like In-N-Out is being punished for its success.

They’re shoving their sexuality down our throats again in downtown Boise this weekend.

When your transportation system is overwhelmingly structured around accommodating private vehicles, about a third of the botanical garden just winds up being a parking lot.

When you walk around downtown on the weekend or a holiday you really see how much dead, empty space is used for parking that could be used for housing or businesses.

The greatest family restaurant in Boise was Fort Street Station, and I’m still searching for a replacement.

Elliot Erwitt Idaho, Boise 1954

There is no possible justification for limiting e-bikes to 15mph but not cars.

One of the worst things about driving is other drivers. One of the best things about cycling is other cyclists.

"I’m old enough to remember when teachers lived near schools and nurses near hospitals. That didn’t change because of their preferences — it changed because we banned the housing they could afford." calmatters.org/commentary/2...

August 1, 2025, marks the 81st anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising. Poles all over the country and especially in the capital, Warsaw, spend the day remembering those who fought and died fighting against Nazi German occupation.

Love seeing the Basque video crews on the Greenbelt.

The Flicks still rents DVDs, and had an obscure French film from 2003 that we were looking for. What a delight.

Rents in Spokane are down 12% as a result of pro-housing legislation, like removing parking minimums, incentivizing housing on former parking lots, and upzoning all residential parcels. reason.com/2025/07/22/r...

ITD is proposing some pretty fantastic improvements to Chinden – multi-use pathways, enhanced pedestrian crossings, medians, etc. Let them know what you think! They are soliciting feedback via an online "meeting" for their Chinden Drainage and Design Study, accessible here: arcg.is/1myKq90

Your periodic reminder that the best chocolate chip cookies in the Treasure Valley are found at Messenger Pizza in downtown Nampa.

During the First World War, Louis and Antoinette Thuillier created thousands of glass negatives containing photographs of soldiers. The digitized images are astonishingly clear: you can read the date of a newspaper folded on a lap.

Boise School District, once again showing why they are one of the best. 👏👏

Boise School District, once again showing why they are one of the best. 👏👏

Boise

Still kind of amazing to me that there are machines that regularly kill and maim constantly speeding through downtown, with noise pollution that makes downtown almost unlivable, and what really gets people’s goat is a sorta annoying bike bar.

Idaho.

“I think we just sorely can’t afford to lose any parking downtown” Somewhere along the way, we decided that the government should be the ones to decide what people do with the land they own. And in this case, it’s space to park cars and not space for people to live. boisedev.com/news/2025/06...

As a photographer, having your work appreciated in this way is about as good as it gets.

In order to eliminate any inconvenience to cars, we’ve made it illegal for children to be children

It’s basically incompetence, bordering on malpractice, for a state transportation agency like ITD to exclusively consider more gigantic roads for private cars to get people around. We know how this movie ends, and it’s Los Angeles/Houston/Seattle gridlock. boisedev.com/news/2025/06...

3 cyclists at the light, and one car. If you build safe and comfortable bike transportation infrastructure, they will ride.

“So what can the Capitol learn from Sacramento and our test run of these housing reforms? First and most importantly, they work. Rents in Sacramento continue to decline…dropping an average of about $250 from this time a year ago (after falling 8.1% the year before)” www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-e...

The Boise zoning code rewrite, and subsequent elections, established (twice) that Boiseans want housing over parking spaces. I'm glad council did not bow to complaints about "too few parking spaces" and approved these 212 new affordable homes. 👏👏 boisedev.com/news/2025/05...

Barcelona’s extreme popularity as a tourist destination - such that they are banning short-term rentals - basically boils down to the city not having parking lots and therefore being really attractive as a place to exist.