Cole Valley

When the supply of available homes goes down relative to demand, prices increase. This is one of the best established findings in housing policy, and policymakers who don't center this aren't going to fix the housing crisis.

PDX!

Portland

We need to address both housing supply & ensuring family-sized homes that aren't just suburban single-families. Legalizing single-stair (w/safe construction materials) can help with both. We shouldn't be re-inventing the wheel w/long commissions; learn from places like Seattle & get it implemented.

Oregon

Dope! From @nytimes.com

One of my long-term bucket items of West Coast hiking is to see a Murrelet #birding www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/s...

Naito Parkway

Portland Saturday Market

Portland!

Go By Train

Your war correspondent on the ground in battle-ravaged inner northeast Portland

Willamette Valley views. En route to Portland.

so between this and the rescission of unspent grants that Congress had delegated to bike lanes and greenway projects, this admin's just waging an all-out war on bikes?

Shasta!

If they had a right-wing, “tough-on-crime” coded mayor there would be endless national profiles about him and how he finally brought sanity back to Chicago.

Perfection, Twin Peaks

Waymo x Zeeker vehicles.

Actually, when I click on an academic article, I want to actually *read it* - not receive an AI-generated summary. Sigh

That's five times the amount of the Trump Administration is trying to claw back from California HSR -- www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Getting VERY excited for Hardly Strictly Bluegrass. One of SF's best weekends.

Okay this funding is really exciting and I've spoken with some French Consulate staff about it. The Lafayette Fellowship (due date Nov 30) will support one year of masters study at leading French universities. Details here: lafayette.villa-albertine.org

What's taken place with Broadway's pedestrianization (and bikeways!) is becoming a signature street-life destination for Manhattan

Design District

NYC Subway annual ridership trends

Renewable energy improves lives: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/c...

We are live in a very poorly lighted room with Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo and @thewaroncars.bsky.social hosy @sgoodyear.bsky.social talking about making cities better. #ThisIsStreetsblog.

Last week our peak morning commute ridership (westbound only, arrive by 9:30 AM) landed at 2,774 per day. That's our third best week for that figure since 2020. Beaten only by ... the two weeks prior. Peak morning commute ridership is up 23% year over year. 📈

Mission Bay

Watching my GIS students collect field data around the Bay Area (and beyond) from surveys they designed really is one of those 'teaching is amazing' moments.

Why your next car should be an electric cargo bike

Today Oxford Street was transformed into a traffic-free celebration giving Londoners and visitors a glimpse of the world-class high street it could become ⤵️

Not many people know this but SDOT planned a big open streets event for September 17, 2017. A Cascade-led version made it to the mayor's desk with a route, budget, org chart, branding, and detailed plan, and Mayor Durkan killed it.

Mission

Lands End

Welp, updated my "biggest wind turbine in the world" slide again. Last time I taught thermo, it was a 19 MW turbine with 128 m blades. This year, it's 26 MW with 150 m blades. Always offshore, always in China. Context: A Boeing 747 is 71 m long. 150 m is about the height of a 50-story skyscraper.

Late to this - but it's fantastic in terms of explaining "City of Yes" zoning changes. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Go off, Lower East Side

Vintage MUNI

Good morning

“Why does transit seem to be in an endless emergency? Why is it so easy to assume that transit’s financial situation is hopeless? Because we have constructed our transportation funding streams to make transit’s costs visible, while the costs of car dependence are mostly concealed.”

Why is this horrible for Universities? Just about everyone who isn't a citizen or green card holder already who's hired for a tenure track faculty position is hired through an H1B and then, after 3-5 years, applies for a green card. This is literally "No more foreign professors can be hired"

Nine new miles! Four new stations! The Metro A Line extension to Pomona is open! la.streetsblog.org/2025/09/19/m...

Excited to explore the new picnic tables at Sunset Dunes, kudos to @sunsetdunes.org

Fort Mason

New affordable housing going up in the Mission.

Unbeatable

Saturday, at Diridon