uhhh this is hilarious, whatever's going on out in the world!

Funny thing about cargo bikes… they’re sneaking into the spot where the second car used to live.

No matter where you live in Boston, your fare on the Commuter Rail should be the same. Join us in supporting the Fare Equity bill before the State Legislature.

More concrete-curb-protected bike lanes! These are in Culver City, just south of the Metro E Line Station. (Even though Culver sadly largely erased their ambitious MoveCC project, there are still several good bike projects in the pipeline!)

Yeah, this can be Twitter replacement now.

Today is World Car Free Day! I grew up in a car-free household in LA for the first 22 years of my life before moving to Rhode Island 3 years ago! As a car-free Gen Z, I primarily use transit to get around! 😀🚌🚇

The effect of car dependency: in 1940, Basil Rathbone was photographed wearing an overcoat outside his home. As more men relied on cars, overcoats became shorter to accommodate drivers. Today, the right is marketed as an "overcoat," even if it would've been considered more sport coat length in 1940.

It is always such a slap in the face when you step out of a New York City park back into CARS

"They didn't have ADHD back in my day" yeah but you also didn't live in a hair-trigger same-day delivery predatory finance consumer-driven deceptive pattern-enabled society now did you

absolute dream job

Between June 2024 and June 2025, home prices in America fell in metro areas where available housing inventories increased from June 2019 levels. Prices rose in metro areas where inventory is still below June 2019 levels. @harvard-jchs.bsky.social

New York City Evictions are back to pre-pandemic levels. Hell Gate spent two days inside Brooklyn Housing Court to see how tenants are dealing with its long lines and slick landlord attorneys.

Mile after magnificent car-free mile today

This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.

they are really trying to cross the Footloose Event Horizon, the line beyond which authority becomes a joke

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And yet, Dr Daskalakis said being shot at didn't factor into his decision. THAT's how bad RFK Jr is trying to subvert CDC

Sobering data out of Altadena: of 151 post-fire sales, half were purchased by corporate entities. A new report from SAJE, Inclusive Action, Morena Strategies and more, is out today with urgent policy recommendations to prevent displacement. Read it here: www.morenastrategies.com/post/our-lat...

At a Metro LA Meeting, I asked about the high cost per light rail trip. The cost is overwhelmingly the cost of providing free or $3/day parking. My ride is slightly subsidized, but the free parking subsidy is like 10x higher. We need to decide if we run a transit service or a parking service

Kudos to Councilmembers Nithya Raman @cd4losangeles.bsky.social and Bob Blumenfield for shepherding this very worthwhile push to reform L.A.'s counterproductive outdated parking laws!

Listening in L.A. City Council Planning (PLUM) Committee - which will consider a motion to eliminate harmful minimum parking requirements citywide. Committee just started. Follow on YouTube Live www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMij...

Reposting this because if you're thinking of moving from Substack to Ghost, beehiiv, Buttondown or elsewhere, I can help you make that plan but I'm only doing this for 3 people so hit me up this week by contributing to the campaign!

I made a landing page for my flash offer. If you want my help moving from Substack to (wherever), you have 5 days to book this 1:1 offer for $499. It expires August 31 and there are only 3 available. www.revenuerulebreaker.com/substackswit...

very gratifying to have @transit.app recommend a route that depends on map data i added to open street map. highly recommend. maybe a fun activity for @bicyclealliance.bsky.social?

long live couch surfing. but seriously I have a very good sleeper sofa.

Conversely if you’re still using Airbnb your money is going into the pockets of this Trump Admin official who sits on the board and cannot be fired from that board for another 15 years.

My heart breaks into 10,000 pieces once again.

one month from today: no more parking mandates in 74% of Chicago

Japan Post just announced they will no longer deliver mail to the United States, joining Germany, Austria, Denmark, Italy, France, and Sweden.

I was super excited Lo Sontag speaking at this series from the Parking Reform Network. Come hear Lo talk about the high cost of free parking! I'll be there too! lu.ma/d4c45fc3 cc @tonyjordan.bsky.social

There was a brief window, when ED 1 was still in its original form, when I thought Los Angeles might finally have a mayor who was somewhat serious about addressing the housing and homelessness crisis. My bad!

LA allowing 6-story single-stair buildings by-right! #SingleStair

Using my credit card to take BART at SFO for the first time! 😍

Open looooop

White woman puts Mexican flag on her truck to waste ICE’s time.

7 mins of backstory. smarthistory.org/norman-rockw...

One of the many devastating things about making this video was that we had to update it about three times during the making to account for further killings of journalists, including (you'll see at the end) a special mention of the 6 Al Jazeera journalists targeted by Israel. Please watch to the end.

Now, that's a decent bike lane! (From Taipei Nangang leading towards Xizhi.)

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Journalist Anas al-Sharif with his daughter Sham and son Salah. Today's assassination of al-Sharif and four other Al Jazeera staff brings the number of journalists killed by Israel to 237. www.middleeasteye.net/news/al-jaze...

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

Homelessness is a policy failure, not a personal one.

“NYC reigns as the U.S. [vehicle] noise-camera epicenter. It operates 10…Fines are $800 for a first violation, $1,700 for a second, and $2,500 for a third. The city has issued more than 2,500 tickets since 2021, though it has collected only about $550,000 of the roughly $2 million in fines.”

What a beautiful train. Incredible that the USA (pop: 340 million) has built approximately three electrified commuter lines this century.

RFK Jr’s health department to halt $500m in mRNA vaccine research

A massive regressive national sales tax imposed upon every American by a president with no constitutional authority to impose a national sales tax. The reason why the founders gave this power to Congress is because this would never pass any Congress- even this one.

This intersection has been approved for safety improvements which were first proposed in 2011 (!) and funded in 2019. But because the people who put together the budget for the city do not prioritize saving the lives of our kids, these improvements are not scheduled to be completed until 2027

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