Pedestrian Observations: Corridor Zoning is not Transit-Oriented Development pedestrianobservations.com/2026/07/14/c...

I need the olds to please decide: do you want to complain about kids being inside on their phones, or do you want to complain about the kids outside? You must pick one.

🚨BREAKING: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lawyers have told a court that the agency may have thousands of documents relevant to Democrats’ demand for the Trump administration’s possible plans to deploy immigration agents at the polls this fall. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

SCOOP: In 2023-24, @mayorwu.boston.gov's streets cabinet IDed hazards and prepared safety improvement plans for the intersection where a driver killed Louisa Gag last week. But under her new second-term administration, those plans never got built. mass.streetsblog.org/2026/07/14/w...

We really have to rid ourselves of the “climate haven” term. That’s not how it works.

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing half the population that the "manly" way to get around is on a giant rolling couch controlled by gently depressing your toe.

Trump approved disaster aid requests from six red states last week. Two days later, he rejected aid requests from four blue states. Not only is he punishing states who didn’t vote for him, he’s playing politics with people’s lives. Despicable.

"The chemical, called 6PPD-Q, is formed when fine tire particles meet ozone. That happens anytime new chunks of tire are exposed to the air, meaning the particle may be nearly ubiquitous in car-heavy environments."

I had replied to the below: Paper maps are great. Never run out of juice, let you see the close-up detail and the big picture at the same time (because they're three feet wide, unlike your phone), and the more you use them the more you learn your way around without them, unlike obeying a machine.

London’s clean-air charges are saving people’s lives. A study of central London found that emergency hospital admissions fell after the city began charging older, more polluting vehicles to enter the centre (starting with the dirtiest vehicles in 2017.) buff.ly/15MZpu4 #ShareGoodNewsToo

Trump’s war on science comes for bikes and Vision Zero. Proven Safety Countermeasures are a set of street design tools that FHWA career engineers judge to have been proven to improve safety. They delisted Bike Lanes, Road Diets, and three speed management tools. highways.dot.gov/safety/prove...

Pretty classy message by the Norwegian Embassy. #WorldCup

A new OMB rule would allow the executive branch to cut scientific research funds on behalf of corporate interests and against marginalized people. Please submit public comments before the deadline on Monday July 13. This link gives excellent instructions: www.faseb.org/science-poli...

ACAB includes VAR

2/ Don't take my word for it. Norway has 632 heat pumps per 1,000 households, mostly air-to-air units. The coldest countries in Europe use the same technology for heating the anti net zero crowd now champions. @carbonbrief.org www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-h...

Also I've been posting too much car content, so look at these two matching ebikes I saw a couple roll up with and I loved riding my bike down and back to Lakeview, A+ weather to work up a sexy sweat

"To lose her on a morning commute at an intersection the city has explicitly documented as dangerous for years is just an unmitigated tragedy, a systemic failure." Deaths like Louisa's occur because our leaders prioritize the convenience of drivers over the safety of pedestrians and cyclists.

Global oil demand is set to decline this year for the first time since 2020.

There's an OMB rule change that would require political oversight of scientific grants, and could pull any that don't "reflect presidential priorities" Another country has tried this before! It was the USSR and it was called Lysenkoism. By @thsaey.bsky.social www.sciencenews.org/article/omb-...

Rally to commemorate Marcela Herrera, 22, "and all victims of vehicular violence" this Sunday in Pilsen. The event will call for bringing hit-and-run drivers to justice, and street designs that help prevent such tragedies. Background on Herrera's case: chi.streetsblog.org/2026/04/20/c...

The floor for the @boston.gov response to this is to come clean on everything that’s transpired at @streets.boston.gov in the past year, and restart all the paused work.

Speed limiting devices coming to every vehicle? License suspensions are an effective deterrent? These are some of the misleading claims and outright lies promoted in a recent video from Car Coach. Thanks for giving the opportunity to set the record straight! 📽️📽️

the Chicago Park District continues to fight about material access to bathrooms and they fight about records related to bathrooms they'd rather not talk about toilet paper, plumbing supplies, signage and Carlos's emails the Park District tells me access to bathrooms is not of high public interest

100 years of June sea surface temperature anomalies... wait for the last frame (record high) 🫣 Data from ERSSTv6: www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/ext... 🌊

just look at it!🫠

mitchell’s right. if you come from a faith tradition with a sacred text replete with warnings against wealth, you need a pretty damn robust argument to explain why, actually, the people protesting wealth are the real bad guys. this piece does not rise to the occasion. unserious.

We found the “this is more of a comment than a question” guy in the fanbase.

This morning a driver struck and killed Louisa Gag, a biking advocate and transportation planner. Gag had coauthored a Vision Zero Action plan: visionzeronetwork.org/wp-content/u...

I'm finally digging into the cross tabs underlying the @searchlightinst.bsky.social memo telling Dems not to talk about climate change. It surprised me, but may not surprise you, that the memo lies about what US swing voters actually said in the polling. Let's have a look, shall we? 🧵

Car Brain isn’t an insult. It’s literal.

Never underestimate the market among rich people for research papers or news articles that say climate change is not that bad, is not their fault, or does not require them to change their lives or choices.

Hey, fellas, before you write that white hot take about how rape is such a tricky thing and, I mean, who can really say what happened and, you know, maybe we should not be too judgmental, I'd like to remind you that instead you can simply shut the fuck up.

National Grid "determined that installing a non-pipeline alternative like electrifying the [3] homes with heat pumps wasn’t viable despite it costing about 20 percent less than a gas pipe replacement..." commonwealthbeacon.org/energy/ten-c...

Magic happens when you lower the urbanized area speed limit to 20 mph…

An Afghan national who fought alongside U.S. forces has died from an allergic reaction while in ICE custody, one day after he was detained for deportation proceedings, his death certificate shows. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The thing is, Chicago also downzoned in the 60s-early 2000s--in fact, a huge chunk of Humboldt Park was downzoned. You will be shocked to hear that this has not prevented gentrification, and that in fact downzoned areas are associated with disproportionate growth of white residents.

Car ownership is mandatory in Trumpland. You must buy gas.

An upcoming bill would require companies seeking to operate fully autonomous vehicles in New Jersey to use cameras plus two other sensing technologies, most commonly lidar and radar. This would effectively ban Tesla’s camera-only Robotaxi system in NJ unless the company changed its hardware.

Russell Vought’s OMB Grant Proposal takes the formerly expert informed, democratic grant award process and turns it into an authoritative process based on political ideology. It will destroy science in America as we know it. Take action here: zurl.co/ydchb Article: zurl.co/Juc68

On 5/29/24, Steve Bender, 73, was biking in the South Suburbs when a driver fatally struck him. chi.streetsblog.org/2026/01/11/t... Bender also enjoyed gardening, birdwatching, and drawing. A bench was installed on the Cal-Sage Trail in his honor. Statement below provided by his wife Mary.

There’s a scene in the dystopian sci-fi movie Minority Report where Tom Cruise’s character is riding in an autonomous vehicle that gets remotely commandeered by the police to bring him into custody. The audience is supposed to see this as flagrant disregard for privacy and due process.

Vance owns this. Blood on his hands.

“Right now, vehicle ownership takes up around 1/3 of one’s cost of living…it’s too much...The library gives people a chance to try [e-biking] out before they make the plunge.” I am so excited to announce a dream pilot 4 years in the making. Article: www.columbiagorgenews.com/news/new-e-b...

Since Trump wants Chicago to call him, perhaps we could check in on this payment? www.chicagoriver.org/blog/2025/7/...

Heads up for the Chicago transit nerds. IDOT is hosting a meeting to gather feedback about the Metra Clybourn station. Thursday July 23 530p-730p Holstein Park Fieldhouse

Streetcar, by Alexander Calder American, 1898–1976 1951 More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/109274

In the 24 hours since Taylor and Travis tied the knot in his home city, Zohran Mamdani has not held a single solo press conference.

On Amercica's 250th anniversary, some of these people are waving the American flag, and some are literally waving the Confederate flag of traitors who sought to destroy America. www.rawstory.com/confederate-...

What’s an American patriot to do this July 4th? I recommend: Ignore Do___d Tr__p. Read the Declaration, Jefferson’s June 24, 1826 letter to Weightman, and Lincoln. Enjoy family cookouts, neighborhood gatherings, and civic parades. Above all: Do whatever you want. It’s a free country.