Also the lopsided amount of funding towards highways compared to transit, and active transportation. Can't remember if that was part of the IRA specifically but it's part of Biden's legacy

Aye, Georgia, early voting ends on Friday and the primary is on Tuesday. The Supreme Court election is on this ballot. It is not a primary, the winners are installed as judges. Go. Vote.

Me trying to get my 2 boys in the car to make a quick grocery run 3yo: Bike? 7yo: yeah, let's take the bike! Me: but I was trying to go really quick before dinner 3yo: Bike! 7yo: Bike! Together: BIKE BIKE BIKE BIKE BIKE Me: *sigh*...alright, we'll take the bike

New York streets belong to New Yorkers, and Soccer Streets are for the kids. We’re turning the block outside your school into a car-free playground and World Cup celebration. Now until June 26, you’ll find Soccer Streets in front of 50 public schools across all five boroughs. Let’s play!

These rhetorical devices reflect underlying beliefs about car supremacy: 1. "Moto monoculture" - cars are the only valid users of streets 2. "Auto impunity" - harms caused by cars should be overlooked 3. "Modal marginalization" - non-car users don't deserve to be considered in planning or politics

Awesome new paper by @ashtonindc.bsky.social unpacking ideas about "what—and who—our streets are for" that are behind car supremacy. By analyzing what people say at public meetings, this paper makes the case that individuals are upholding car supremacy and stymieing efforts to build safe streets.

The Atlas of Inner-City Highway Impacts with data on 142 cities. Free to view and download. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/hswq6...

Someone told me yesterday on this very app that Waymos are programmed not to block roads

Ahead of the NextGen bus network redesign launching SATURDAY, @stephanielamm.bsky.social and I looked at 3 years of MARTA's bus cancellation data. The new network requires fewer operators and fewer buses, which should help reduce cancellation rates. 🎁link: www.ajc.com/news/2026/04...

MARTA Reach is super cool. It’s basically public ride-share, providing service via 12 zones using a new @martatransit.bsky.social Reach app, that feels a lot like Uber/Lyft. Took the service and had a great experience, see the video or article! #atlanta #transportation #publictransportation

From marta.fail - 23 trips on that route were canceled today...an astonishingly terrible reliability.

We rode the new Bus Rapid Transit line from South Downtown to Summerhill! The bus is really comfortable and the covered platforms are nice. It arrives every 10 minutes & it's free to ride for now. It's definitely in need of more traffic light priority. I assume that's coming.

Spent a fun morning riding the new Rapid A-line, Atlanta’s first bus rapid transit project: www.ajc.com/news/2026/04...

I wont claim to know what other agencies are dealing with, but the agreement asked for trains from NY Penn to Meadowlands station, and the only way to accommodate as many people as is necessary from NY Penn is to close off a large portion of the NJT area of NY Penn, which means other trains canceled

MONTANA SUPREME COURT: “Transgender discrimination is, by its very nature, sex discrimination,” and is subject to strict scrutiny under the Montana Constitution.

Made it through the 2-day workshop on spec driven development and the whole thing felt so demoralizing. Most of it was everyone in our group sitting around while one person ran Claude skills in their terminal.

I'm in an all day long gen AI training session at my work and currently Claude is down lmao 🤣

Using the MARTA Tracker & Trip Planner, you can now set your departure time for a trip as April 18th (or later) and see what your trips will be like when the new bus system goes into effect on that date. tracker.itsmarta.com

Local architect & builder Eric Kronberg is sharing smart criticisms of Atlanta's concerning new zoning rewrite. Most residential areas are maintaining their suburban-style restrictions (large lot sizes, no new density). That's not good. More on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/posts/eric-k... 1/3

This is the water fountain 2 days later

May God bless the man and his baby drinking out of a public water fountain at an Atlanta park May they live long in good health Amen

Initial markings for the protected cycle track are in place on West Peachtree Street. It's finally happening! #Atlanta #cycling #urbanism

We've made some updates to Find The Right Bike! First up - a page for Maintenance Basics - if you've never owned a bike before, we make sure we explain what you need to do to keep it running, and link out to more in-depth sources! Next up - bike trailer additions...🧵

Bought my new Breeze card at the Airport just now and can report that it was as easy to buy as MARTA has promised!

An underrated aspect of EVs is they actually incentivize drivers to go slower to maximize their range compared to ICE vehicles where the incentive is generally to go faster for more efficiency

This is absurd: after plans with @culdesac.bsky.social (which is building out a car-free neighborhood in Tempe, Arizona) fell through, Atlanta BeltLine officials are now planning to build only 625 residential units but 1,711 parking spaces at Murphy Crossing next to the BeltLine and marta heavy rail

@dougnagy.bsky.social raised an excellent counterpoint: further up north along the marta Red Line, the edge city of Dunwoody's High Street TOD project is projected to offer three times the residential+ hotel density of Murphy Crossing, with citywide parking maximums and protected bike requirements:

Sandy springs actually has a Cheesecake Factory which is directly accessible by MARTA That being said that particular location got a 56 on its health inspection a few years back so i think that makes it transit oriented food poisoning or something

Here's a photo I took in Caen, France a couple of years ago. Notice how calmly people are walking across the tracks as the train approaches! This could be the Eastside Beltline in Atlanta if we can get our priorities straight.

What a thrill to ride to the Atlanta United FC game with the Atlanta Bikes Bus!

The MLK Cycle track is probably one of the best implemented bike lanes we have in Atlanta, but what depresses me about it is how awful the street access is. There's practically nothing at street level except parking garages and office buildings set so far back you can barely see them.

So glad Atlanta United decided to win the same weekend we made it out to a game

We made it but they are turning people away from the bike valet because its full. Ours were some of the last ones they let in.

What's the best route to get the Mercedes Benz bike valet from the eeast side. We were planning to hit the memorial drive bike lane to downtown but I'm not quite sure where to go after that. MLK?

Atlanta, welcome to The War on Cars.

Atlanta may have a reputation as a car town, but this was an absolutely delightful thing to see. Change is possible.

THE MARTA REACH DRIVER JUST TOLD ME ITS FREE FOR THE FIRST 20 DAYS FREE FREE FREE

What is “the E-Bike Effect?” “Those who bought e-bikes increased their average daily bicycle use from 2.1km (1.3 miles) to 9.2km (5.7 miles), a 340% increase. The e-bike share of all their transportation increased dramatically too; from 17% to 49%.” Fewer car trips. Via @lloydalter.bsky.social

Typical Dutch street design: narrow city-centre streets where cars, pedestrians and cyclists share the road paving is used, alongside build-outs and tight geometry to naturally slow motor traffic. Then, once on main roads, clear red cycle tracks keep bikes and motor vehicles safely separated.

Can we pls swap this for a federal e-bike/e-cargo bike rebate

MARTA REACH HYPE THREAD

Life After Cars LIVE is THIS FRIDAY! As we gather at the historic Plaza Theatre, we’re making it easy to get there without a car, because… that’s kind of the point. 😉 📍 March 13th at 8:00PM | Tickets: givebutter.com/lifeaftercars. 🎟️

SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors. My report:

I tested the weird, tiny, low-cost electric car soon coming to the US

Welp, time to sell your car and get an Ebike.

This is (among the reasons) why I don't trust and don't use any social media with an algorithmic feed e.g. Facebook, Tiktok, Instagram, etc. The people in control of the algorithm have too much influence

The #ghostbike with a teddy bear is killing me.

Atlanta, ATLDOT has a new survey about your support (or not) of bringing back docked bike stations in Atlanta & how much you’d want to pay for a bike ride. Let them know what you think about that… survey.alchemer.com/s3/8641259/C...