Pedestrian commercial streets are wildly popular in every corner of the globe.

Zaragoza can be quite stunning when it wants.

My ride in Zaragoza.

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"I haven't looked at the math.” —County Councilmember Who Wants to Steal Money from Seattle to Pay for Suburban Roads

Corner of the canal at Tursingel, just on the edge of Groningen city centre. Before (2015) & now (2026)

I’m taking this moment to appreciate @seattledot.bsky.social, which publishes an org chart and updates it every few months.

I’m super happy Ave For All is trying again in the fall. A lot of people were excited for this and its cancellation was a big mistake by the city. @lhjseattle.bsky.social and Cory Crocker worked hard and they aren’t giving up.

Mass pedestrianization—across every city in the world—is essential for building a healthy, safe, and sustainable future.

Fuck. The. New. York. Times. Vote by mail is slow but it is accessible, secure and accurate.

Apparently, you can have a whole neighborhood of shared streets.

I’m in one of the car-oriented parts of Barcelona trying one of their center-running bike lanes.

I’m on my way to @velo-city-conference.com with a few stops in between.

Every neighborhood in Seattle needs a pedestrian plaza like this one in Barcelona where I am currently getting a beer at my favorite picobrewery before a zoom call with my @streetsalliance.bsky.social colleagues to work on building a pedestrian plaza in every neighborhood in Seattle.

London continues to build pedestrian streets at a steady clip. The new King’s Passage is a great example.

Transferring from bus to train at Barbican: “Oh, hey, that’s Slough House.”

Proper cross-section.

The new and improved Goods Way is 🔥.

London is cool because you can just be walking around and come across a 19th Century bottle kiln in the pavement.

I’m looking forward to the conversion of London’s Space Needle to a hotel with public access to the tower.

Wes Anderson modal filter.

a key fact in this piece most Americans do not realize: your car already has a speed governor in it — it's just set at a super high speed to avoid damaging your engine, not for safety. "Install a speed governor" is literally just changing a setting in your car's computer and that's it.

As I prepare for my seasonal ride over to my BFFs at Greenlake’s Seattle Electric Bikes, I reiterate my wish to the universe for someone to turn one of the many open retail spaces in Lower Queen Anne into an ebike shop

Exhibition Road functions better like this.

I need a new Tube line that goes here. Sort of like a western Victoria line.

That seating area looks amazing. Back in 2018, I organized a protest in this spot asking for more places for people to sit. I'm pretty sure my (very lonely but well-covered by local media) "sit-in" had zero impact on the result but it is great to see this new public space.

It looks great now but once this “Kensington-style” (lacking effective pedestrian comfort zones) shared street opens to traffic, it’s going to be disappointing.

space energy comes from sugar smacks

The new gardens at the Natural History Museum are gorgeous.

Iconic single-stair.

Paying respects at Grenfell, where 72 lives were lost in a fire.

Exhibition Road exhibits one thing: You can’t build a successful shared street on a busy through route for cars.

Barbara Bailey Way could use this treatment.

It’s about using the right tool for the job. That’s all.

It’s a no-brainer: Pedestrianize streets alongside transit stations.

The Carriage Drive bike route through Hyde Park is great. All the motorists on this road are angry so it’s nice to have some separation.

This is one of the better shared street designs I have seen. Generous and well-protected comfort zones on either side and a shared roadway (left) that is still inviting for pedestrians.

i love trees, man. they don’t give a fuck

As those delays themselves are a “decision” - a decision to delay and to pursue the path of inaction and status quo over action. And inaction can be just as harmful or even more harmful than action, particularly when we are trying to correct the harms of prior bad decisions.

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Katie Wilson's SDOT will have to think cheap to make big changes in the current budget environment. Thankfully, a lot can be done cheaply if SDOT builds the muscles.

Four forklift-ready planters and a pair of removable bollards are all you need to calm a street-end.

I am scouting more Crockett Plaza references in London like this lived-in specimen at Portland Road in Notting Hill.

The London plane originated in the mid-17th century through natural cross-breeding and, since then, none is known to have died of old age. They are an ideal city tree, able to withstand heat, cold, drought, flood, pollution, compacted soil, and this…

Oh hey take a look under this railway arch.

London is lovely, even in the rain.

it’s a slippery slope one day you need memory foam then before long you need memory care

The real work of art is that cable routing imo.

🚭Pollution cut! 🥗Kids fed! 🚍Transit expanded! 🏡Homes built! 👮Crime down! “These are some of the things we’ve achieved together” — London Mayor Sadiq Khan

Rare and elusive side road zebra, an experimental treatment by City of Westminster.