Bicycles Deliver.

“Every $1,300 New York City invested in building bike lanes in 2015 provided benefits equivalent to one additional year of life at full health over the lifetime of all city residents, according to a new economic assessment.” That’s a better return on investment than some direct health treatments…”

Parking mandates add $34k per spot to housing costs, taxing carless renters and paving over natural beauty. States should cap these rigid rules, prioritizing people over pavement to cut rents, reduce toxic runoff, and build more walkable communities.

I'm not a fan of 'go touch grass' because I think people should remove grass from most places and replace it with native flora, but 'go touch natives' definitely gives the wrong impression. 😔

We've left many elders with two options: - drive - never leave the house alone Elders deserve better. They deserve to get groceries, visit friends, and go to the movies by themselves if they want without taking the very real chance they kill someone.

Getting around by bike means I can dart onto unknown streets and discover a new miniature park, no big deal. 🏞️

If developers always build up to the maximum (density, height, etc.) that’s allowed in your city, that’s a sign that your zoning rules are substantially restricting housing supply.

Medium vs High Density: Why Do We Have to Choose?

Narrow streets with no curb parking and arcaded sidewalks are such fantastic urban design.

The California coast is an incredible place, and we should make it easier to build infill housing in its urbanized areas so more people can live here.

There were more traffic deaths than homicides in 2025. I’m running to make LA streets safer for everyone!

There's no rule saying you can't continue to seek child-like joy as you get older. There's a bike for every need, ability, and stage of life. How you move through the world should be your choice, and your city should give you the infrastructure to make it happen.

Vacant strip malls and office parks should be converted into housing. Washington just legalized it and dropped the retail mandates that can raise rents for everyone. www.sightline.org/2026/03/11/w...

Here are some nice mushrooms

Huge crowds enjoying the warm sun on the lakefront today

Parked my bike 10 feet from my table at Mabel’s Gone Fishing in North Park! Parking isn’t hard here if you’ve got the right vehicle! #northpark

Cities can change People can change too

I don’t think we talk enough about how outrageous it is that we HAVE a law that says passenger trains get priority over freight trains and this is constantly and blatantly violated because the DOJ doesn’t care to enforce it.

Been a year since I got an electric bike, and I really didn't anticipate how much it would change my relationship to the city. No need to worry about traffic, parking, sweat (Seattle is super hilly), bus schedules. Everything just feels so much closer.

Holy shit we might have a cure for sickle cell anemia

every one of these homes is a 3-bedroom. served by a single stair. with daylight on opposite sides. no windowless bedrooms no dozens of units on the same floor more privacy not looking into homes 10-15' away and 100% illegal in ever city in the US our building codes are *trash*

Lie: Bike-lanes cause traffic congestion. Truth: Bike-lanes help solve traffic congestion. Lie: Bike-lanes hurt street shops if they replace parking. Truth: Bike-lanes help street shops more than street parking does. Lie: Bike-lanes cost us too much. Truth: Bike-lanes save us all public money.

I just love my ebike so much

This is an amazing first step! It's a shame that an elevator industry lobby group managed cut the line looking to align Washington State its elevator codes with the international standard, but allowing smaller elevators in smaller apartments is still a very meaningful change.

US fire departments are often reactive, instead of proactive. Fire marshals are often charged with reviewing proposed changes to the status quo (new building & renovation plans, street redesign plans, etc.), rather than creating an integrated master plan to address EXISTING, long-accepted hazards.

Sorry folks, but you're going to be spammed with pictures of Bologna's tram in the nect few days as one of the major section through the city center is mostly completed and my feed is full of pics I feel compelled to share

For people interested in using less gas and making some trips by bike, here are my tips: 1-3 miles is a good distance for a trip to try by bike Choosing a time outside of rush hour can be helpful (especially if bike infrastructure is bad) Think about your route and don't just trust google maps /x

So recently I got this device called the Instruo Pocket Scion. It takes electrical signals from plants and passes them through a sound engine. I hooked it up to this calla lily in my garden and here's what happened:

yeah there's some weird and self-serving shit in EA, but the basic idea of "it matters if things work. we should try and see if the things we are doing work." is *shockingly* controversial and groundbreaking in parts of the non-profit sector.

river forever problems for now

A great step! Condos are a tiny fraction of new developments in California, despite being very desirable, at least in part because we’ve passed laws that makes condos very legally risky for builders. This sort of reform would reduce the risk and hopefully stimulate more build-to-own development!

My best cargo run to date. Picked up my son from daycare, then about $250 worth of groceries. Those panniers are packed full. Glad I grabbed some carabiners at the last second.

Took the wide lens downtown today and captured some commuters

Morning commute past the cherry blossoms at waterfront park! This used to be a freeway! 👀 I-5 is next! ❌️❌️ #PortlandOregon #PDX

The Three Towers of Phase 1 of Sen̓áḵw nearing completion! senakw.com Pictured from near the Vancouver Academy of Music in what is now Vanier Park, but what was once yet another part of the old village of Sen̓áḵw and former Kitsilano 6 Reserve.

vegetables i love em peanut butter i love em bikes i love em disco tracks i love em

Great video by CityEd! And I wanted to give a hell yeah to 2018-2022 Croyden! YIMBY Icon!! Con gov repealed the plan that allowed more building in 2022, but it was a great trial to prove that clear predictable rules increasing building in the UK too. 😱 youtu.be/scJP80Lltt4?...

Tula and I took the cargo bike to town and out to the dog beach this morning. We were channeling our inner @manbikesdog.bsky.social personalities!

👀 That’s extremely cool! How many vehicles per day can a 2-lane road with roundabouts handle?

Vancouver’s urban tree canopy, and the “kissing canopies” over streets that mature trees create, are one of our city’s most important assets. Cooling, cleaning, beautifying & strengthening the city. Keep/grow this as we add more neighbours (but not more cars). Nice pic via @traffictrish.bsky.social

According to the City of Paris, in the last 10 years 150K trees have been planted, and 45ha of parks created in the already hot city, all intended to not only improve quality-of-life today, but also help the city adapt to & manage summer heatwaves of 50℃ (122F) by 2050. Keep going with this, Paris.

If you have a high traffic street in a city… Traffic engineers consolidate traffic onto that one street, to increase speed of traffic & leave other streets quieter. Urbanist, OTOH, recommend dispersing the traffic into other modes and onto other streets where possible. Do I have that right?

I was surprised by the designs you went with, since preserving a second lane seems detrimental to me, so I made my first three roads on Streetmix with the designs I would want to see proposed. The 5 foot sidewalks are a travesty next to 2 lane roads + parking

It’s no Brompton 💅 but it was easy tossing this lil guy into the back of the rental car to get there and back! Less than $70 for a 24hr car rental to pop out of town is way cheaper than car ownership 🦾

Kinnikinnick (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi) #Winter #flowers #bloomscrolling

Santa Cruz loves to mandate the housing requirements it wants to see, but this strangles developers in red tape. Perhaps we could consider incentives like Portland does, allowing small multi-units to use more of the parcel space. If we want more small and local developers, this would help!

Thank you for your reporting on this, Jordan. The fact that the delays cost a funding source is infuriating. Delays cost money, money that could have been another community project.

This is Pipsqueak. Her bed is a banana. Technically speaking it is a banana split, but either way, very a-peeling. 12/10 (IG: sassypebs)

As an "extraordinary, climate change-fueled heatwave envelops the West", I'm reminded that on hot days, humans really like shade. This Saint Tropez street shows how to provide it on the cheap.🧵

Public transit is so wholesome. Let's fund it.