It feels like half my neighborhood has decided shoveling the sidewalk is optional this year. It’s going to be a LONG winter.

Santa Rampage in Milwaukee is so much fun! #bike #cycling #bicycle #santarampage #christmas #ridebikes #criticalmasss #milwaukee #wisconsin #grinch #holidays #bikeride

Marin County is spending an increasing amount of its countywide sales tax on crossing guards, which I view as a band-aid solution, up from 4.2% in 2004 to 7.5% today. For the price of paying a crossing guard for one year, Corte Madera made the following quick-build improvements, which work 24/7.

"Walk sign is on". Note this is a School Zone, and we recently decided to abandon safety here on a rebuild because of concerns that a large box truck couldn't make the turns. Absolutely upside down thinking. WFB is going backwards - just like this driver did once they stranded themselves.

Winter is one of the best times to educate people about car-centric policies because when it's snowy you can clearly see how little our cities care about anyone not traveling in a car. Even if you're not some activist, someone walking in winter can appreciate how much an unplowed sidewalk sucks.

Hot take: no matter how civically engaged you are, if you don’t clear the public sidewalk in front of your property, you are not a good citizen of the city.

It’s not uncommon to see elderly people walking in the street in WFB. It’s clear what our priorities really are here.

If you want to know who your city is actually built for, wait for it to snow. The machines get a heated red carpet. The humans get a frozen obstacle course.

TV truck ad. Love my truck like a human loves a puppy. Also is that dude like 7ft tall so he can actually reach the hood?

me and my mutuals showing up in the replies when a big account says we should license cyclists

George Orwell is watching you 🚲 #bikesky #bici #vintage #photography #bicycle #bike #fahrrad #自転車 #cycling #cyclinglife #bikelife #biking #bicicleta #velo #cycle 🚲🚴‍♂️🚵‍♂️ #vélo

I will really hope things can go as planned this time around and the state and federal government will actually help fund this line. If everything goes right, we can get Amtrak service to Madison and commuter rail service to Kenosha in the 2030s (maybe even Amtrak service to Green Bay).

When you invite your neighbours over for a wintertide potluck…

117,000 people live within half a mile of the E line, opening for service today. It marks the 8th BRT line in the region and the third new BRT line that Metro Transit has opened this year. Transit is getting better every single day in MN.

Out here in Milwaukee with @wibikefed.bsky.social 🥶🚲🎅

Three teenagers riding side by side, chatting and sharing gum because protected cycle tracks make this kind of freedom safe, normal and enables social life.

Trip to the tip at the other end of town on busiest Sat of the year?! Always feel like a superhero on my #cargobike 🦸 Old radiator + charity shop load 👍 #carfree #carryshitolympics

For the first time, the average new car costs more than $50,000! It's making more and more sense for some families to consider a comparatively cheap (and surprisingly versatile) e-cargo bike, rather than buying a second car!

Sure is nice to have a new third space.

Noise pollution is harmful, unwanted, disruptive and negatively impacts people's health. And is often caused by motorised traffic 🚘 🛻 🚖 That why cities deserve rush hour traffic where the loudest sound is that of squeaking bicycle brakes 🚲

Worth noting there's probably not more than a couple legitimate bike parking spots within a "block" here, at the front (snow likely eliminated most of them). It's ok, 28 people can park their cars at the door, closer than the next closest bus stops.

Let's stimulate those brain cells responsible for imagination

Moments apart: parent biking a kid home in a trailer in traffic where there's no bike facility, person walking in the street where there's icy sidewalks, person getting off a at a poorly plowed bus stop – 19°F. People absolutely need alternatives to driving and we're making it as hard as possible.

Old lady on a bicycle doing a wheelie. #bikesky #bici #vintage #photography #bicycle #bike #fahrrad #自転車 #streetstyle #vélo #fun #cycling #cyclinglife #bikelife #biking #bicicleta #velo #cycle 🚲 🚴‍♂️🚴‍♀️🚵‍♂️ 🚵‍♀️

Milwaukee, ~75 years ago The Everett Street Depot (1886-1965) in the background stood on 4th & Clybourn where the We Energies building is now. Designed by Townsend Mix, it had the largest clocktower in the US when it was built. The train track is now the 794 highway spur.

This podcast does a great job explaining why wagons disappeared and SUVs took over: the auto industry lobbied for a loophole that exempted trucks, SUVs and Jeeps from fuel efficiency standards. Then they went all in on them and stopped making cars that had to abide by the standards.

this is every small municipal Facebook group and your most local reps possibly think it’s a representative sample and they’re listening to these maniacs as if they make good points

That 12 mph could be the difference between life and death for a pedestrian who gets hit by a driver

Ford was an anti-semite who actually published books maligning Jews! They built trucks for Hitler- as did VW. The US auto industry ensured there was a fuel efficiency loophole for SUVs and trucks and then eliminated sedans. They fight every safety reg tooth and nail. EVIL

Car companies are evil, evil, evil, and we would all do well to work on ways to drive less, own smaller, electric and fewer cars. Public transit is often union jobs. Your local bike stores often care about the community

What a delightful sight to see in the bike locker at work this morning: not one, not two, but three electric cargo bikes!

A sidewalk most people in the area would likely assume is rarely used (it's a truly hostile location with not a huge amount of obvious destinations). Footprints probably generated in the preceding hour or so from this photo, because of how the snow fell that night.

After falling multiple times this week, yeah, agree. No way we’re going to get regular folks who store the bike away for winter to bike if we treat them with such disdain. In WFB we’ve demolished a bridge and said “see look, no one crosses this river”

Taking the car to go get groceries today simply because I know there will be multiple instances where bike infrastructure is not clear of mounded snow where it meets the clean and clear streets for cars. A city gets the traffic they design and maintain for.

WFB did this when the sinkhole threatened to swallow parts of the town. Spent millions with no public comment, or typical bid process. Couple kids a year hit by drivers? “We’ll apply for some grants that are three years out.. next year.. if we have money left in the budget.. for some plastic posts”

City: We unanimously declare a climate emergency! We must make change no matter what the cost, humanity's survival depends on it! Community: Can we put in a protected bike lane to get more people cycling. City: No, we'll lose parking spots.

beware.

This International Day of Persons with Disabilities we're celebrating the ever-increasing range of brilliant mobility aids available.

A busy, more car-centric suburb like Brookfield looks like this in Amsterdam, etc. Perfectly safe for kids or anyone else outside a car. We don’t have this because we don’t care, that’s it. You also can ride almost anywhere between towns without a gap in the bike paths.

Quite. Amazing to watch the confidence of this young lad. Only possible because the infrastructure enables it.

Lately I have been formulating thoughts about how bikes are like living in another dimension. In one, people are stressed about parking and speeding and gas prices and traffic. In my world, we are just pedaling along, enjoying the ride.

WFB: We burned out our crew on the parade and trying to keep all the car lanes perfect, sidewalks will have to wait a week unless it gets hot outside. Sorry grandma, ask the kid struggling to bike over the ice pile for assistance

We have *two* public lots a similar distance as you might walk going to the Target at Bayshore. Yet we have a few dozen sacred street spots mere feet from storefront. Sendiks will have spaces as far away as Target. We have both absurd quantity *and* proximity of parking on a “quaint Main Street”.

Your regular reminder drivers, that you shouldn't be an incredible asshole

The average American outlives the ability to drive by 6 to 10 years (men vs women). Seniors deserve cities where they can independently get around, and not be isolated.

There is a bus stop (“high frequency”) next to that black car on the right. The gas station is completely cleared.

Seems most drivers have settled on 1. Look startled 2. Don’t stop 3. Sheepish wave 4. Mouth “sorry” 5. 😬 6. Floor it out of sight 7. Stare blankly ahead as we sit at the stop light for 30 seconds 8. Floor it out of sight

Lady just drove through a School Zone eating out of a large bowl. Holding it in one hand, spoon in the other.

A couple municipal-owned areas. Trying to see if there’s a pattern between perfectly clear places, and where that snow is being stored

10 Things I Hate About Bike Lanes 1️⃣Bicyclists don't obey the traffic laws I made up. 2️⃣There are no bicyclists. 3️⃣Nobody wants bike lanes. 4️⃣Bike lanes lower property values. 5️⃣Road space is for cars. 6️⃣Cars on roads is bad. 7️⃣PARKING!!! 8️⃣QUALITY OF LIFE!!! 9️⃣ECONOMIC DISASTER!!! 🔟Road space is for cars.