Okay who got to Yankee Magazine? I’m floored to see a pro-housing article in this magazine (which I love but doesn’t normally weigh in such topics).

Cambridge’s mayor in 1919 was the OG YIMBY. newengland.com/living/homes...

Yankee Magazine gets it. Build up not out. newengland.com/living/homes...

The people in charge of your city’s streets do not care if their road designs kill people, so long as traffic flows freely.

Great article, and it think this is the key passage Parents see the benefits of giving their kids mobility through ebikes. But they don't have the proper information and end up buying emotos, which are often cheaper than ebikes. That's what we need to fix

If you can reverse a red card, you most certainly can reverse on street parking into a bike lane.

Cars & sprawl consume more fossil fuels, produce more pollution, drive more climate change, occupy more productive land, destroy more communities, drive up more healthcare costs, and generate more antisocial politics than ... ... whatever else. Name it.

Thunderstorms on the 4th!

Just hit my inbox: A new app where you use AR to place bollards! I am about to become the most obnoxious person downtown 😂 apps.apple.com/us/app/bolla...

Compare Alito's description of Trump's racist statements (on the left) to Justice Kagan's anthology of Trump's racist statements (on the right). These are passages from this morning's opinions in Mullin v. Doe.

Leading pedestrian intervals have to be paired with red light cameras to be safe. When living in DC, drivers knew they could run the red because of the delay.

Whose Fear Counts? By Tony Pentimalli A one-year-old boy is dead after police fired into a car outside a Walmart in Senatobia, Mississippi, and the country is once again being asked to begin with the fear of the officer rather than the life of the child.

Weird how any negative framing of our auto culture is automatically anti-car & radical yet the billions of dollars spent on aggressive car ads and auto first infrastructure isn't framed as anti-pedestrian, anti-bike, anti-transit, anti-person, anti-senior, anti-child or anti-planet.

Jesus Christ. Every day I feel like I see a news piece that makes me question raising my son in this country. You’re not even safe from your own damn bus driver.

Tired: Transit Oriented Development Wired: City Oriented Development

Being able to move to a nicer, cheaper apartment is bad actually.

It’s not shocking when you consider how car-oriented this country is. How does this compare to new road miles built I wonder? Sad but not shocking unfortunately.

Obligatory Arrested Development meme.

Just watched a video about how biking is a great way to get around our city. While I greatly appreciate encouraging people to bike, how do we do that without overblowing how good our bike infrastructure is? Same goes for groups that can only get bike gutters painted & acting like it’s a win.

I never thought I’d be asking my council member to please not give my family a discount on trash service, but welcome to local government I guess!

USA Today decided to examine why drivers are killing cyclists and landed on a terrible Both Sides framing. We even have an avid cyclist appearance. This is a horrifically bad way to cover traffic violence. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

First trip on the old gal since I moved to Beverly a year and a half ago. 🫣 I rode to the beach, of course. #cargobike

"Sure, not every person and not every trip. Maybe not even as a complete replacement for cars. But as a standard household tool? Absolutely!" Bikes (electric or non) can replace (dare I say it) transit trips. Especially in dense cities depending on where you're going. electrek.co/2026/05/18/w...

It’s quite incredible to see so many Boston drivers just completely ignore the BUS ONLY signs and drive down that lane anyway. Why are people so shitty?

In Massachusetts, we are now in the “find out” phase after fucking around for 46 years with a 2.5% property tax increase cap and bad land use.

I think there is, as ever, a nugget of truth here in that Americans feel like they *get massively less* for the taxes we pay in perceivable improvements in QOL, and the taxes we pay are paid in a way designed to be MAXIMALLY ornerous.

Great video from @evanedinger.bsky.social about this exact topic as it relates to the World Cup. Our public space is an international embarrassment. youtu.be/307RZ3stxNg?...

Apropos of everything, I’m tired of the “it costs too much” excuse our country uses when it comes to improving the public realm and life in general. Is it too much to ask for our public infrastructure to not look like shit? We can’t even get my city to mulch their damn tree boxes downtown. 😭

There are people (most Americans TBH) who cannot fathom any other way of getting around to do errands than via a car. I’ve even heard someone call themselves an “avid walker!” Everything that is not car is for exercise or leisure.

Separated bike lanes = 44% FEWER DEATHS

For those who don't know, every year police from around the country come to DC and commit crime sprees.

We should probably start thinking about regulating cars in cities with the same energy some people want to ban Ebikes.

The Yes Yes Yeses

Almost like cars have some sort of ideological hold on us, independent of any supporting facts or statistics.

What if Shakespeare was a Masshole? This is a thing of beauty.

As I always say, all I want is for e-bikes to be discussed in a way that aligns with the actual risks and takes into account the larger context of traffic violence and the fact that cars are still the most dangerous. We need less talk about bans and crackdowns and more focus on infrastructure. 1/

“E-bike users have increasingly been observed violating safety rules” So @princeton.edu is going to ban cars on campus too, right? Right…? www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2026...

Just one more.

This country is vile.

Museumification refers to the process by which a city’s culture is “preserved” or staged as if it were a museum exhibit—often prioritizing the display of heritage & aesthetics over lived, evolving infrastructure, affordability & daily connection—especially for locals & workers. Love his insights.

"Waymo has told advocates that expecting it to respect bike lanes is 'too high a bar' because customers expect to be dropped off in them." To be crystal clear, it's illegal for a car to be in a bike lane. It doesn't matter what Waymo's customers expect; the company shouldn't be doing it.

Someone needs to explain to these people that not liking the outcome is not the same as not having your voice heard. There was an election for mayor less than 6 months ago. The two guys who hate bikes got less than half the votes cast.

“We know what it takes to get to zero deaths in a city; it’s not some mystery. But if we keep using dangerous roads with bad land uses, we’ll end up waiting for AVs to save the day.” Something tells me this is exactly what we’ll do. 😞

💯 We ask engineers to “plan” which just ends up being traffic models.

I cannot be the only person who did not know there is a difference between Freedom 250 and America 250 until today. 👍🏻 America 250 👎🏻 Freedom 250

Leadership is almost always walled off from reality, experiencing cities exclusively through a windshield. I absolutely love seeing AOC out in the actual streets on an e-bike. ​And to the annoying safety-scolds about to complain in the replies...spare me and give me a break.

“No immediate charges” Why does our society accept this as normal.

The Advocate.

Democratic-run cities are unable to get out of their own ways on smoothing the path to making permanent and cheap something everyone outside of a few cranks likes. bsky.app/profile/yona...

A great 🧵 about how autonomous vehicles will not solve an epidemic of traffic violence. Worth the full read. The TL;DR: changing to less violent modes is the only solution that actually works. Please encourage your elected officials to embrace data and facts over feelings. #RealVisionZero