We love curated things. You get insight. Context. Opinion. A refreshing change from the algorithmic and AI landscape. Currently updating our transit org list (hdy.guide/orglist) and listening to Iowa Public Radio. www.iowapublicradio.org/classical

Congratulations to our new transit-friendly mayor!

We rewatched Volcano, one of our favorite disaster flicks, recently. It holds up surprisingly well. Key to the story is the Red Line (now D) extension. This fictional extension was preparing to open... in 1997. Better late than never! www.imdb.com/title/tt0120...

And yes, we love you up in Toronto as well. Making plans for a visit next year. 🇨🇦

Would love to see this reformed. It's so arbitrary.

Go Dodgers! ⚾ We rode transit in LA. - Better than you'd think. Amazing if you're lucky. 🎰 - Frequency can be poor.⌚ - Difficult crossing county line. ❌ - TAP fixed the old nightmare of fares and transfers. 💳 howdoyou.guide/transit-gett...

This is the kind of playful whimsy we happily pay 2.90 for.

Looking forward to this read! @thewaroncars.bsky.social

Playing around with an idea. Who can identify what this is a sketch of?

Congrats to Kansas City on their streetcar expansion! We rode it earlier this year. Free fares made it really easy and low-stress for an out-of-towner, and it took us from Amtrak right to our hotel (give or take a couple blocks)! howdoyou.guide/transit-gett...

We walked through NYC's West Village on Halloween once. Closed to traffic. The feeling of safety was amazing. No threat of being maimed or killed if you carelessly wandered a few steps to the left.

Love a guide like this! It takes a lot of mental labor to keep rehashing the same explanations over and over. Read it, bookmark it, save yourself some sanity.

Getting Around: GROVER BEACH, CA Cute town. Gorgeous beach. App sent us on foot, along PCH, with no sidewalk. LESSON LEARNED: Take care to verify app directions. Read on for coyotes. howdoyou.guide/transit-gett...

Here's a nice guide on writing about crashes!

Poked around the city. Took some pics of our stickers.

New Guide just dropped! HOW DO YOU Step Onto the Subway - Let People Off First - Step All the Way In - Sit or Hold On Pre-order in the shop, or print at home for free: howdoyou.guide/mini-guides

A friendly request: Include which city you're referring to with your transit and urbanism takes, and at the start of articles. There's countless places that call things "Metro," and readers are tuning in from all over the world.

They're here! "How Do You Avoid Hitting People With Your Car" cards are now in stock and ready to ship! If you preordered, they're on their way! shop.howdoyou.guide/product/mini...

Love a good map! The skyway feels a bit like the dungeons in the original Legend of Zelda: a grid where each room has 1-4 exits to adjacent rooms, and you're not sure which are going to open.

We love to see it!

Preview, work in progress...

Our guide to not hitting people with your car is now available in Italian! Check us out on Mastodon (mastodon.social/@howdoyouguide) where we give a shout-out to our translators! If anyone would like to see it in other languages, we'd love to collaborate!

Week Without Driving: GALESBURG, IL Our favorite story of the week. People don't walk much in Galesburg. But we did! And we had a much better time than we would have if we drove! #WeekWithoutDriving @americawalks.bsky.social howdoyou.guide/transit-gett...

Week Without Driving: HARRISBURG PA Harrisburg's big win was how easy it was to buy a ticket. Right in the @transit.app app! Wish the buses ran more often and later though. #weekwithoutdriving @americawalks.bsky.social howdoyou.guide/transit-gett...

Week Without Driving: BUFFALO 👍 Buffalo had better transit than expected, and the light rail is free within downtown! Got around without driving just fine. 🤷‍♂️ Not sure what's up with cars driving on the tracks. #weekwithoutdriving @americawalks.bsky.social howdoyou.guide/transit-gett...

We love a good illustration! Some people are claiming we should only daylight (make it easier to see pedestrians) at intersections with crashes. Luckily, there's a map of crashes! Play with it yourself here: crashmapper.org#/ Golly, looks like people could use our guide! (data Sept 2020-2025)

Week Without Driving: FLAGSTAFF, AZ We actually didn't take transit in Flagstaff. But we learned some lessons about how you get a different impression of a city on foot. A complete rediscovery of somewhere we *thought* we'd been before. @americawalks.bsky.social howdoyou.guide/transit-gett...

💯 This is the kind of nuanced take that was too big to fit on a business card.

No, Defensive Walking Isn't The Solution For Road Deaths

Week Without Driving: PORTLAND ✅ Friendly, walkable city ✅ Tap to pay makes it easy for first-timers ✅ Trains are wheelchair accessible ✅ Not the bastion of crime politicians and media claim ❌ Streetcar frequency was poor @americawalks.bsky.social #walkabilitywin howdoyou.guide/transit-gett...

Fantastic article! Thrilled our guide is helping further the conversation.

This just in! You can now print our infamous "How Do You Avoid Hitting People with your Car" guide on your home printer, 4 to a page, for free! Or we can print it for you in color on beautiful matte stock! Pre-orders now available, ships in October. howdoyou.guide/mini-guides

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Working on a home-printer-friendly version of our guide. Currently thwarted by font issues. Creating outlines in InDesign gives us odd letter spacing, and removes underlines. Wanted to do PDF, but might just cut our losses and put it out as a PNG (below is a lo-res screenshot). Thoughts?

Those were covered in the NPR article.

Everyone is starting to notice our egregious typographical error. We are sufficiently ashamed. Please accept this corrected version of our guide:

Hi @npr.org! We worked late tonight putting together this handy pocket guide! It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers. It's the size of a folded business card. Print it, fold it, put it in your wallet!

Has anyone put together any comparisons as big friendly infographics? Asking for a friend who may need an excuse to learn to make big friendly infographics... 👀

We love good explanations. If you're wondering about homeless people on the subway, this is really thorough. Long read, absolutely worth it.

Next week is Week Without Driving, led by @americawalks.bsky.social. We'll be profiling a different city every day. We visited each city in person and got around without driving. Learn what worked, what didn't, and what pleasant surprises we found.

We took transit in Eugene, Oregon last year! - Surprisingly good express bus. - App install took a lot of effort. We missed a bus figuring it out! howdoyou.guide/transit-gett...

We love a good guide! 🚴‍♀️🚴🚴‍♂️

We love maps in public places!

Taking the bus in Santa Barbara: You can ride it if you really want, but you must try, try and try, try and try... howdoyou.guide/transit-gett...

Early prototype. The aim is to help gather the essentials on riding transit in a new city in about five minutes.

We love Chicago! Super easy to get around without a car. The L is a delight to ride, and we even took Metra our last time there. Contrary to fearmongering, over three visits and about ten days total, we were never crimed. Felt really safe. howdoyou.guide/transit-gett...

Really clear message, even with sound off. Love it! (Also love riding the bus.)

We pulled up to the Rochester, NY, Amtrak station and tried to get around without a car. The buses were pretty great, actually! But they weren't very frequent. Sometimes we walked instead. Paying with @transit.app was a nice surprise. howdoyou.guide/transit-gett...

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