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Today, California makes it legal to build homes near transit statewide. The pace of implementation will vary. The direction won't. 🏘️ 🚆

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NY, SF, DC concentrated 30%+ of new housing near rail since 1980 & have 7x the transit ridership of metros that didn't. More residents near frequent service means fewer car trips, lower transportation costs, and transit systems that can sustain themselves

Our latest investigation: How giant trucks and SUVs are far deadlier for pedestrians. “Before the driver knows what’s happened, the pedestrian’s head is under the wheel.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

“There is a larger principle here. States should not outsource their housing policy to local governments that tend to have a bias toward the status quo. States should assert more control over lot sizes, multifamily zoning, permitting processes and more.” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/o...

Malcom Gladwell talks to Stephen Smith re #elevators! "Have you ever heard of the perfect is the enemy of the good? That defines American elevator policy today." --MG @stephenjacobsmith.com podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath 50 reasons for more walkable streets.

wait for it this isn't an Atlanta thing, or a London thing, or a San Francisco thing; this is a Waymo thing. Waymo thing/robot 1, 2, 3...>3000. Waymo solves the critical urban problems of not enough cars and not enough bad drivers w as many things as they can. OP: tiktok.captivating_conservative

Everyone in this race is progressive and says the T needs more funding. That's true, but not enough. The Green Line Extension opened after 32 years, then shut down almost immediately because the $2.3B track was built too narrow. We need to build government capcity and show liberals can deliver.

Once again: close an area to cars, business *increases*. Every time. And yet every new proposal to close an area to cars meets the same resistance from business owners. I'm starting to wonder whether business owners really are rational self-interest maximizers, I tell you!

Let the building be a box. If you want to make it pretty, ornament the surface with something at the base, something in the middle, and something at the top. This is not rocket surgery.

We need to re-legalize the very cheap, bare bones housing that keeps people off the street. More broadly, we need policymakers to be ok with letting people build types of housing that they would not particularly want to live in.

Deadliest road in the city. But don’t worry, the focus group for designing this road with bike lanes is going to wrap up in 2028 when we are about to land humans on the moon

Cracking down on single family rentals will exclude poor and working people from desirable neighborhoods. It is profoundly inequitable.

Maybe we're doing public engagement wrong. www.fastcompany.com/91505393/tra... @fastcompany.com

BRAND NEW: “15-minute cities are open air prisons. There’s a war on cars. Homelessness has nothing to do with housing. Wider, faster roads and highways are an improvement. When it comes to cities, we’re inundated with lies like these.” Our new op-ed for @usa.streetsblog.org is live! #UrbanTruth

Unpopular opinion but turning right at a red light should not be legal in San Francisco (or anywhere else). Right on red makes horrors like this all too possible. sfstandard.com/2026/03/03/m...

Finds that place and grabs you. Posting it to @listigeplaylists.bsky.social for playlisting 🎵 open.spotify.com/track/6epfoL...

An under appreciated gem from Tracy Chapman Posting it to @listigeplaylists.bsky.social for playlisting 🎵 open.spotify.com/track/6Q4bnX...

Excellent powering through that break up energy from Kels. Posting it to @listigeplaylists.bsky.social for playlisting 🎵 open.spotify.com/track/60nRvE...

Sorry, but this @nytimes.com op-ed on free fares in New York City, by @galvinalmanza.bsky.social, is deeply ignorant of the issues. It proposes that pretty social justice vibes and some careless citations will change facts of math. Thread: 1/ www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/o...

I dunno how, but someone needs to come up with YIMBYism for commercial spaces.

Soaring lyrics from Maribou State. Posting it to @listigeplaylists.bsky.social for playlisting 🎵 open.spotify.com/track/3OQk21...

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Breezy and fresh. Posting it to @listigeplaylists.bsky.social for playlisting 🎵 open.spotify.com/track/1Lrax3...

I guess this is a win? Idk man. The bike lanes are safe, for now. We're not out millions of dollars, just tens of thousands for a consultant to hopefully tell us how bad an idea this is. And hey, we get to go to even more meetings! Hooray for The Process!

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Soulful funk. Posting it to @listigeplaylists.bsky.social for playlisting 🎵 open.spotify.com/track/4KNWdX...

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Wake up moving. Posting it to @listigeplaylists.bsky.social for playlisting 🎵 open.spotify.com/track/4DhV4O...

I wrote this a couple years ago, warning that car safety tech will never be a panacea. A big reason why: Drivers take more risks when they assume technology will protect them if something goes wrong. It's known as the Peltzman effect, and it's really bad news if you're walking or biking.

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Monday music. Posting it to @listigeplaylists.bsky.social for playlisting 🎵 open.spotify.com/track/5J9Jzq...

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A great jam more people should be listening to. Posting it to @listigeplaylists.bsky.social for playlisting 🎵 open.spotify.com/track/0PlkgF...

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Explore this gift article www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/s...

A gem by Joy Crookes. Posting it to @listigeplaylists.bsky.social for playlisting 🎵 open.spotify.com/track/59oGmg...

“Car bloat”—increasingly oversized automobiles—worsens road safety, affordability and the environment. Here are some of the stories I wrote in 2025 examining the trend and proposing solutions. 🧵 In @vox.com, I likened car bloat to secondhand smoke (which helped bring down the US tobacco industry).

Gift link to the Wall Street Journal article on 60 Minutes www.wsj.com/business/med...

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At least five FUBARed Waymo robots: Market & Guerrero, SF One is a problem, two a mistake, five a major ops screw up. Waymo has never fixed their cascading failure problem. Maybe they don't know how. Fundamentally unfit for service at scale until they do, IMO. OP: tiktok.brahmsstan

Every significant new plan for a city isn’t just an opportunity for policy change. It’s an opportunity, and a responsibility, for culture change. That’s how I do the plans I work on. That’s my definition of success. New conversation. New plan. New culture.

Moody and powerful for a Sunday morning. Posting it to @listigeplaylists.bsky.social for playlisting 🎵 open.spotify.com/track/33cguJ...

Cars are not as useful as people think they are in a widespread emergency or natural disaster. Driverless cars even less so.

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Cycling Cities is a new German documentary by bike enthusiast and urbanist Ingwar Perowanowitsch (@ingwarpero.bsky.social) that explores how some of Europe’s most successful cycling-friendly cities have transformed themselves into liveable, people-centred places.

So fresh. Posting it to @listigeplaylists.bsky.social for playlisting 🎵 open.spotify.com/track/1JlMVr...