NEW DATE: The first livestream recording of 2026 will be next Tuesday, January 20th at 6p ET. Join @davidzipper.bsky.social and @wesmars.bsky.social then on YouTube live (and subscribe to get an alert about future livestreams). Link below.

Overheard at #TRBAM in DC: Why in the world is this wheelchair user choosing to ride in the street against traffic on a busy arterial rather than use these beautiful brick-lined sidewalk? Oh wait... never mind.

Really not sure why I didn't take any pictures, but @davidzipper.bsky.social and I had a great time hanging out with everyone that ventured out for our in-person Rail Drinks! Hopefully this is the first of what becomes an annual tradition for the @lookbothwayspod.bsky.social...

Coming soon to a bar (perhaps) near you...

In DC for TRB? So are @wesmars.bsky.social & @davidzipper.bsky.social! Join them for in-person Rail Drinks on Tuesday, Jan 13 @5:30p at Free State (501B G St NW, a couple blocks from the Convention Center).

If you are in DC for TRB & like to get up early, I'll be presenting in what should be a great session with some great folks tomorrow at 8 AM. The session is "Measuring Success on Multimodal Streets" & will be in the Convention Center, room 145A. My talk is called "Counting What Counts"... #TRBAM

Killed By a Traffic Engineer (Reprise)

@wesmars.bsky.social is annoyed that sidewalks don't get enough respect

I seem dubious of something...

Chapter 10: The Three E's Original Title: Eazy-er Said Than Dunn Eazy-E from the album Eazy-Duz-It (1988)

Chapter 9: Killed by a Traffic Engineer? Original Title: Losing My Religion R.E.M. from the album Out of Time (1991)

Chapter 8: Science Versus Faith Original Title: She Blinded Me With Science Thomas Dolby from the album The Golden Age of Wireless (1982)

Chapter 7: Little Lies Original Title: Little Lies Fleetwood Mac from the album Tango in the Night (1987)

Chapter 6: Won't Somebody Please Think of the Children? Original Title: We Didn't Start the Fire Billy Joel from the album Storm Front (1989)

Chapter 5: Passing the Buck Original Title: Give Me One Reason Tracy Chapman from the album New Beginning (1995)

As for Chapter 4: Hand Me Downs Original Title: Riders on the Storm The Doors from, one of my favorite albums, L.A. Woman (1971)

Chapter 3 is another one that stayed the same... Chapter 3: Murder Incorporated Bruce Springsteen from his Greatest Hits album (1995)

Chapter 2: Deal or No Deal Original Title: You Can't Always Get What You Want The Rolling Stones from the album Let It Bleed (1969)

Chapter 1 happens to be one of those that remained the same... Chapter 1: Bad Medicine By Bon Jovi from the album New Jersey (1988)

It's been suggested to me that the posts in the threads showing the original song-based chapter titles of #KilledByATrafficEngineer have gotten lost in the bluesky shuffle So I'm going to flip things and quote post them - which should help the cause...

Wanna drive at 16? No problem! But, we'll need you to be 18+ to play with this Lego car

Channeling anger into action is right up my alley...

Ready for some good reading in 2026!

Even McDonald's wants more bollards @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social... and yes, this is real

Now this is an ugly holiday sweater...

@davidzipper.bsky.social: Robotaxis are "by far, the most overhyped transportation technology of 2025."

The transportation villain of 2025? An easy pick for @davidzipper.bsky.social & @wesmars.bsky.social Listen to the end of year episode: lookbothwayspod.podbean.com

I like how we switched to green text in time for the holidays

Today, we tossed out our regularly scheduled programming in order to recap 2025 in our End of Year Extravaganza podcast. Listen wherever it is you pod or watch us on YouTube...

Someone hiding in the trunk wasn't at the top of any or our lists of concerns about Waymo... but holy jeez, this is wild www.kron4.com/news/technology-ai/viral-video-of-man-hiding-in-trunk-of-waymo-raises-safety-concerns/amp/

We won't be sharing our picks for the best & worst bus stops in Denver, but if we did, I definitely found a promising candidate for the latter on my way to work today...

As for the Ghost Bikes that drivers continue to crash into? Always disappointing but really shouldn't be surprising given why the Ghost Bike is there in the first place

I was just talking with @nosquish.bsky.social about the usefulness of Ghost Bikes vs. whether their presence scares off people from bicycling... and then I saw this bumper sticker today

I'm not trying to look into your soul... I swear

I'm saving my rant about the disheartening differences between real-life Punxsutawney PA transportation versus movie Punxsutawney PA transportation for a future episode... #WorldsLargestVehicularInclinedLift #YouWillHaveToListenToFindOut #PunxsutawneyPhil #GobblersKnob

I can quibble with the fact that there are many, many, many sidewalks in Denver more in need of repair than the one outside my house... Still, they did use my Sidewalk Fees to fix a lip greater than the quarter-inch limit required by the ADA - and did so in short order (without me even asking).

Fair questions... but now let me proceed to only somewhat vaguely, kind of answer one of them.

The last time I "read" The Power Broker was on Audible, and that was over 66 hours long... So what's the over/under for running time on this Netflix series?

Saw these little delivery buggers all over Miami... oftentimes stuck & and not quite sure how to get back on the sidewalk

Not quite 5 bucks like before, but 7 ain't bad...

Here's a fun text that @davidzipper.bsky.social received about #backtothefuture... I will say that my intent was to lead into a flying car discussion rather than sell it as a must-see movie. But if you somehow haven't seen Back to the Future, you really should see Back to the Future!!!

You gotta pay more for houses with walkability because we don't build nearly enough of them... Walkability shouldn't be a "perk" It should be the default

Yes, I went well over my self-allotted 30 seconds, but... I've got all the time in the world; I've got a time machine! @lookbothwayspod.bsky.social

Here's what it looked like before... They basically turned these 7 parking spaces into a whole lot more

My take on Mamdani's ambitious vision for revamping NYC streets: "The NYC DOT Commissioner position is going to be the most exciting job in American transportation." From the latest @lookbothwayspod.bsky.social (please ignore my crooked glasses): lookbothwayspod.podbean.com/e/episode-9-...

Also saw my first Denver-based Waymo in the wild on my bike ride in...

Dropped by this morning, and this same restaurant expanded their outdoor seat even more into the old parking lot... @parkingreform.org

Saw these amazing holiday decorations in Denver last night on the corner of 2 high-injury network streets... 'tis the season!

I've been asked to share the fact that my book is now 50% off its usual price (which, to be honest, is much more in line with what I'd want to pay for a book)

Not only did this bus stop in Perth, Australia, show me that the bus would be coming in 3 minutes with a digital display -- but when I pushed that big, yellow button, it also told me so... And yes, the bus showed up 3 minutes later.