D.C. folks who care about OR & WA housing might enjoy this @pewtrusts.org event next month. I think we're the only two states that have legalized co-living (aka SROs) in all multifamily zones! If that's a perfect fit for empty office buildings, sweet web.cvent.com/event/eee204...

Walkable cities means more cute cats to befriend on your way home from work.

Really good article about transit; especially the invisible costs of cars vs the visible costs of transit

The urbanism of Oranienburg. 🇩🇪

“I think it’s startling to see how many data points just driving your car through one city can add up to,” EFF’s @MGuariglia.bsky.social told @NBCNews.com. “It’s still unnerving to get a real concrete idea how ALPRs are essentially mass surveillance.” www.nbcnews.com/tech/securi...

"I don't own a bike, but having one this week has felt healing. When I was on the bike this week I felt peace. That's priceless." - an MCBL member, after borrowing a bike for a week Read more member stories in our full report, linked in this month's update: mplscargobikelibrary.com/2025/09/15/s...

“This is pretty ridiculous. We are now arguing about local traffic enforcement in the U.S. Congress.” #dcstatehood @maustermuhle.bsky.social @51st.news

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

The urbanism of Neustrelitz, Germany. 🇩🇪

It is wild to me that people can acknowledge how crazy rent prices have gotten, see home ownership out of reach for a large majority of people, see cost of living increase and still not realize a lot of us are just one bad turn away from being homeless.

"We are not trying to stop redevelopment,’ 5th District Council member Stephanie Lynch said in a recent meeting. ‘We are trying to delay displacement, because that is what will happen if we were to allow this to move forward."

“California is home to one half of the unsheltered homeless population. It's a catastrophic failure. It brings disgrace upon the governments of these left leaning coastal states that despite years and years of policy conversations around this, they have not really moved the needle on homelessness.”

“This year during the census of homeless individuals we saw a drop by about 9 percent in Washington, DC. So that's actually a pretty significant victory for the city. Mayor Bowser's administration is very correct to take credit for that. They've made a lot of inroads and outreach.”

I mean, what's better than this?

It’s cars. It’s always just the fucking cars. www.axios.com/local/portla...

Riding the tram through a rainy Frankfurt (Oder). 🚋

it is bonkers that people have to beg Montgomery County, which has a $7.6 billion budget, to install basic infrastructure

share of americans who say they have a good chance of improving their standard of living: 25% record survey low, going back to 1987 -wsj/norc

now this is an abundance agenda

"Multiple protestors have been arrested in Orlando, Florida for recoloring the Pulse Memorial’s rainbow crosswalk, even after a judge ruled that the state’s highway patrol had no probable cause in doing so." www.them.us/story/orland...

Will the absence of public transport infrastructure in North America mark the moment its citizens notice how far their continent has fallen behind?

“Subsidized apartments make up about 41 percent of housing in Pantin, this Parisian suburb of 61,000 inhabitants; 33 percent of apartments in any new construction must be low-cost social housing accessible to poorer families.”

The urbanism of Paphos, Cyprus. 🇨🇾

I interviewed with Crystal Graham of Augusta Free Press in Waynesboro, Virginia. We spoke about many road safety issues and my daughter Robyn's tragic death. Augusta and Waynesboro's bicycle & pedestrian infrastructure, is poor at best. Like so may cities, the priority is given to motor vehicles.

Good morning to everyone except for the people who make policy decisions around homelessness without reading research or talking to service providers about best practices

Today my 13 year old and two friends spontaneously traveled by train 40 kilometers to a town with a comic store they wanted to visit. They even switched trains on the way. I love that this is something a kid kan do safely and independently.

The Free State of Florida is now trying to ban *sidewalk chalking*

Nicosia’s biggest park was dedicated to a nationalist who sought to expel the Turkish minority and unite Cyprus with Greece, so residents voted to change the name to Eleftheria (Freedom) Square and hire Zaha Hadid to fully redo the space. 🇨🇾

Riding Berlin’s S-Bahn to the city’s main train station. 🚇

The urbanism of Babbelsberg. 🇩🇪

Mandatory parking minimums are one of the biggest threats to historic preservation efforts. I hope more preservation organizations will step up and help retire these outdated rules from another era.

In the dead of night, Ron DeSantis ordered the rainbow crosswalk at the Pulse memorial painted over — defacing a sacred space in the heart of Orlando that honors the 49 lives stolen in one of the deadliest massacres in U.S. history.

"...automobile travel has about ten times the death rate as public transit, and transit vehicles also impose less risk on non-occupants like cyclists, pedestrians and other road users. Cars should come with warnings: 'Driving causes painful injuries, disabilities and death.'"

FDOT: "You can't have a sidewalk mural because safety." Also FDOT: "This bike lane on a 50 mph, 8-lane stroad that will be crossed by merging traffic under a freeway overpass seems fine."

“Richmond’s speed cameras, which began operating in March 2024, nabbed 26,739 speeding drivers in the final nine months of the year. Compare that with the first eight months of 2025, when those cameras resulted in 58,834.” 🥳

“The available data don’t bear out the safety concerns. A 2022 study examined the crash history at 17 asphalt art sites across the country. It found 83 fewer crashes at the analyzed intersections — more than a 50 percent decrease compared with data from before the crosswalks were painted.”

Paint is not protection.

The fastest-growing homeless population in America? School-age children. Last year, student homelessness in California—where rents continue to soar past wages—rose by 20,000, reaching its highest level in a decade. But sure, keep insisting homelessness is all about mental illness and addiction.

Calling all transit fans! Let your voice be heard. 🚇   🗳️ Vote on the exterior design for our new 8000-series rail fleet! Voting will close at 11:59 PM on August 22. Winning concept will be announced next week.    Vote before time runs out: wmata.questionpro.com/a/TakeSurvey...

The District isn't just a stage for a national show: people live here. And what happens here will set the scene for what happens in cities across the country.

Architects of curbless streets often say that changes in paving materials provide “subtle cues” sufficient to calm traffic and distinguish car space from pedestrian space.

New study from the same authors confirms promoting e-bicycle ownership replaces car trips. “Most of the new e-bike travel is induced or replaces car usage, highlighting e-bikes’ potential to not just replace other active modes or public transport, but reduce car dependence...”

Predictably, the administration’s hostile takeover of DC isn’t just police. Among many other things, he wants to undo local progress om streets. www.nbcwashington.com/video/news/l...

It’s not hard to keep bike lanes open during construction if your city officials care about the lives of people on bikes enough.

Transit getting scraps even in states where the Democrats control both chambers and the governorships is a shanda. Hard to think of a government function that directly touches more lives and is more of a marker on the question of 'can government deliver' and ... yet.

"I think on some level, conservatives know perfectly well that liberal American cities are quite safe. That’s why they have to work themselves into such paroxysms of hysterical cowardice—to give themselves permission to inflict violence on the Americans they hate." prospect.org/justice/2025...

“Uber received a report of sexual assault or sexual misconduct in the United States almost every eight minutes on average between 2017 and 2022. So, the total number for that period is 400,181. That is much more than what the company has publicly disclosed.”

I despise cars. I can't drive. Too much anxiety. It is a great example of how capitalism has ruined us and made us more miserable, lonely people. I miss NYC, taking the subway and being able to go anywhere I want on a whim. Cars are not worth the bastardization of communities to accommodate them.

“We got more than 20,000 transportation projects done across the country, but we could have done more quicker. And it's really important, especially if we want to meet the need for more housing, that we not allow a kind of proceduralism to get in our way.” 🏗️🏢 @petebuttigieg.bsky.social