This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

As a counter to the "what's the point because things will never change" crowd, having current mayors in different cities so clearly challenge the premise that cars are good and necessary for full enfranchisement in society is not a thing that would have happened just a few short years ago.

hope everyone in the wide world of housing and transportation researchers applying for today’s @arnoldventures.bsky.social LOI deadline enjoy their celebratory cold beverages

legalize these

Please, I am begging people: never again repeat the claim that only two people were killed in the occupation of Minnesota.

Since Larry Schwartz started this fare evasion crusade well before the pandemic, I have said over and over and over again that you cannot enforce your way to lower fare evasion rates. You must design your way to them. It's going to take the MTA nearly a decade to get there, but we're getting there.

👏 people over parking 👏

feels like the two big stories for organizers to be aware of right now is Meta rolling back encrypted Instagram DMs & Zoom meetings being recorded:

My man clearly had to fight with Cigna over an MRI

Gonna be in the largest city in the US tomorrow while the Metro K Line Northern Extension showdown plays out in the second largest city, my other home 😭🚇

“We handed over some aspect of critical operations to a person we don’t really know and didn’t vet before hiring, who doesn’t care about working for us or future employment, who is legally immune and who won’t even remember any of this afterwards” is only a slight exaggeration of some LLM usage

The newly elected mayor of Paris celebrated his victory by riding a bike around the city. He ran on: —60,000 new social houses —15 express bus routes —Completing a full bike network —Changing ring road to a blvd —1000 new pedestrian streets —300 new hectares of parks We can do better.

Mary Fong Lau, the 80 year old woman who killed four people including a baby and a toddler after crashing into a bus stop going 75mph the wrong way down a 25mph street, has been sentenced to probation and will not permanently lose her drivers' license. This is a despicable miscarriage of justice.

Having to remove the seat and stem to get the 12 speed P Line on the airplane box takes a little bit of whimsy out of the folding bike experience.

Can't say enough good things about @fastmail.com, which has zero AI features and is also faster and less cluttered than Gmail: join.fastmail.com/287bc112

While the outage hasn’t been categorized as a cyberattack, Metro’s statement to me does confirm “unauthorized activity”

We're expanding our pilot with Convo, providing free American Sign Language interpretation for customers in locations across the system! Learn more: www.mta.info/accessibilit...

Not 12 hours after a driver killed a man riding a bike and severely injured others, a different driver killed another man. Deranged car culture.

I, too, am calling for people to cut oil demand. In addition to these ideas, also try demanding: -adequate funding for transit operations, -protected bike lanes, and -an end to freeway expansions.

Work self-promotion: Last night we held the 1st meeting for Focus 2050, MBTA's long-range capital plan. We're very proud to be handling this major effort mostly in-house for the first time in decades. More about the plan, including feedback opportunities: www.mbta.com/projects/pla...

Bicycle infrastructure has a minimal footprint that preserves nature and enhances our surroundings. Car infrastructure demands the opposite. It clears the landscape and sterilizes our environment, quite literally paving over the very things that make our world enjoyable.

The @transit.app people do a *tremendous* job of incentivizing you to tell them about what's up with the bus by constantly being like "look at all the avatars of other people you've helped". From an app design perspective it's fascinating.

Even in a world of extremes, some events still stand out to me. This is one. All-time monthly records are being shattered. The size of this ridge across the western U.S. is truly striking for March, and we see a very clear climate change connection. Explore: csi.climatecentral.org/climate-shif...

Dtla. Can't hate it.

Say what you want about the #CAGov clown car primary, but billionaire/ self-proclaimed "class traitor" Tom Steyer rebranding Prop 13 as the "Trump Tax Loophole" is an interesting rhetorical move. I wonder why nobody else is taking a page out of his playbook. (h/t @jdcmedlock.bsky.social)

Pope Leo is the first Pope to have ever experienced the US healthcare system, so there's that

No, I am proposing taxing rich people’s property to fund section 8 vouchers.

It’s a profoundly regressive policy—middle class renters shoulder the entire burden for providing affordable housing while actual rich people, who overwhelmingly live in single family homes they own, pay nothing—that worsens the problem it’s supposedly intended to solve.

Fair to say that the Western U.S. heatwave has reached record-shattering status, with dozens of locations breaking all-time March monthly heat records & some now approaching *April* records. Swath of record heat extends clear from Pacific to Great Plains, & from Canada to Mexico.

The DASH is still, functionally fare free most days. The DTLA DASH buses are the perfect gateway into transit -- bring your coworkers to try clean, reliable, and frequent service. Fares are a big friction. Could imagine pairing a fare-free DASH with paid street parking in the Arts District? I can.

Afroman prevailed: verdict for the defense! Making a lemon pound cake this weekend in his honor. www.wcpo.com/news/local-n...

This would be illegal if Metro flew planes: www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/...

Not me running for the train before remembering there's a continuing real-time outage and arrival boards are not to be trusted on Metro

This Metro outage is going into its second day. Transit app users should turn on the GO feature that pops up in the trip planner when traveling to help other riders. There’s no data coming from Metro but if enough people use GO it will provide fairly reliable data for anyone using the app

ME: oh a little Zohran video for St Patrick's Day, probably just celebrating Irish culture, maybe a few green beer jokes ZOHRAN (2 minutes in): ...and that's why King Leopold I of Belgium is a big wet bitch. Furthermore...

While researching the history of bringing bikes on buses, I just discovered something: in the mid 20th century, buses in Australia and New Zealand had hooks on the front or back for mothers to hang prams off! Bus pram hooks were apparently a unique NZ+Aus phenomenon, found nowhere else in the world.

We design streets so a single person in a car can take up the width of two by default. Yet when we build bike infrastructure, we almost exclusively design for single-file movement. Cycling is naturally social. It's face-to-face with the world. We should design our infrastructure to enable it.

Hey I got my yearly data incident notification, another year of free credit monitoring. I think it's been close to a decade of unbroken coverage

They said it would take 193 years to clean London’s air. We did it in nine. 💨 London has now met legal limits for nitrogen dioxide air pollution.

SCOOP— Trump wants a 24k gold coin w/ his face on it for America 250, but an official at a late February coin advisory committee meeting called it something only done by "nations ruled by kings or dictators." After NYT reported the criticism, US Mint yanked online vid of the meeting w/o explanation.

I’d rather have this:

I, for one, cannot wait to never use the TAP app again. This flashed on the screen today while I was approaching the fare gates. Restarted the app twice and my tap card reappeared.

Wallace Stegner was an OG peninsular proto-YIMBY!

A friend in San Diego was quoted $21,000 to put solar on her small house in San Diego. This seems wild. Is this within expectations?

We're implementing the largest expansion of Sammy’s Law in city history: lowering speed limits to 15 MPH at all eligible school locations by the end of our first term. And we’re not waiting to start. In 2026, we’re reducing 800 locations to 15 MPH, for a total of nearly 1,300 School Slow Zones.

It is the height of irony that on the one segment of Telegraph Ave where Oakland DOT said they *had* to install a painted rather than a protected bike lane (over the objections of advocates) they have now installed concrete blocks to evict the homeless encampment.

We’re back. Two weeks ago, a driver killed a 2 year-old child at 4th and Channel—the third pedestrian fatality of 2026. Since then, all SFMTA has done was repaint the existing crosswalks for a photo op. So the community took matters into our own hands.

LOL it has gotten so bad that @marklevinenyc.bsky.social is out here fact-checking Jack Schlossberg’s NIMBY disinformation campaign

Gillian's work on ICE flights, including this latest, has been completely unmatched by news orgs with real budgets and support.