Don’t know where that proximity is to have the biggest impact? Then use EPA’s Smart Location Calculator that provides a breakdown of location efficiency of a development project! Bonus, it shows GHG impact but you also should calculate criteria air pollutant reduction. www.epa.gov/smartgrowth/...

Want durable climate coalitions? Go where people feel it: affordability. Housing + transportation are the biggest monthly bills. Policies that let more people live near jobs/services/transit cut costs *and* emissions. Volts featuring @spears.bsky.social www.volts.wtf/p/why-climat...

“In London cyclists now outnumber cars in the City by 2 to 1. Paris, where they now outnumber motorists across the whole city, is catching up with Europe’s traditional bike capitals, Amsterdam & Copenhagen…In Copenhagen, bikes account for almost half of commuter trips to work/school.” @economist.com

Great news in Hoosierlandia! www.hsrail.org/blog/indiana...

“Right now, our housing shortage means that the growth of one community comes at the expense of another, but I know a city where our successes are shared and we no longer have to compete for a scarce supply of homes is possible.” ggwash.org/view/102946/...

Hey, you! @51st.news is looking for a new reporter. Are you obsessed with D.C. news, history, culture, sports, events, or quirks and curiosities? Are you excited to tell stories about interesting local people and places? Apply!

NAMING CONTEST! Yes, Hill Family Biking has purchased an SUV… A Sweeper Utility Vehicle 😝 And IT NEEDS A NAME, so we are having a contest! Submit your best ideas in the comments below. Deadline is April 17th, and we will announce the name at our Birthday Ride on April 25th!

The Return of Slow Roll: Rebooting Detroit’s most joyful bike ride. momentummag.com/the-return-o...

Good night, sweet prince

The DC Streetcar is done, ten years and one month after it started operating on H Street NE. It could have been wonderful; it could have been extended. Instead, it was a victim of apathy and lack of caring. Long live the streetcar.

More scenes from Saturday's Littles Ride #BikeSky

Chair @chmnmendelson.bsky.social could always redirect funds to build and infill station and rely on all the regional WMATA parking garages at metro stations!

I think homework packets are over confident in parents knowledge of chores for farm animals. I asked my daughter, “what cows eat”and she said “blueberries.” I said “sure, why not and maybe!”

Inside the controlled haos of Saturday's Hill Family Biking Littles Ride #BikeJoy

war on cars NPS is breaking my brain

Spring is here! 🪁There will be road closures today downtown near the National Mall and Tidal Basin for the Cherry Blossom Kite Festival. If you have to go downtown today, metro, biking, walking, scooting is gonna be your best bet to get around.

Cities are diverse ecosystems more so than some agricultural areas!

Happy birthday to the Washington Metro, which opened 50 years ago today with service on 4.6 mi of Red Line between Rhode Is. Ave & Farragut N. System now serves 130 mi. The DC Metro shows that, with good planning & enough investment, the public sector can succeed & build something extraordinary.

Of nerdy urbanist interest: Next week the D.C. Council will cast a first vote on @brianneknadeau.bsky.social's bill to allow for new D.C. buildings up to six stories tall to have only a single stairwell in them, instead of the current two. Proponents say it creates more residential space.

Lots of bikes transporting folks to go swimming!

Five times in a six year span, planners tried to fix the streetcar. Each time, Bowser or Mendelson axed the fix. ggwash.org/view/99934/b...

Full video Featuring me, Jack, and Brian www.wusa9.com/article/traf...

Featuring Jack and @fakesharrows.bsky.social !

Morning transport is ready to go!

governments should be giving away e-bikes and that was true before the self induced gas crisis.

It's hot out there! Tucson just broke our earliest 100°F on record today, previously set on April 11, 2025. Average first 100°F is supposed to be mid-May. Surface temperatures are much higher of course, this was a random reading of an asphalt road I took. #heatwave #azwx #extremeheat

In 1901, Congress outlawed “duelling” [sic] in DC. Then in 2004, the DC Council repealed it along with other anachronistic offenses. In 2023, Congress rejected the District’s attempt to modernize its entire criminal code. So fighting in public remains punishable today as “affray.”

A group of third-graders from a D.C. school are visiting the D.C. Council today. Some want more focus on stopping littering and smoking. “Are you going to fight Donald Trump?” another kid asked @cmzparker5.bsky.social. “As best we can,” he responded. “Yay!” the kids cheered.

Doom is finally approaching my home

New co-authored open access @discover.springernature.com paper on a cool pavement pilot project in Tucson and its impact on pedestrian-level heat stress. link.springer.com/article/10.1... #uarizona #uazresearch #extremeheat #heatresilience #coolpavement

Indy Motor Speedway and Indy 500 practices!

Folks are going to stop following these alerts if this is what shut down the region!

DC traffic is about to be level chaos!

Yes, because congestion pricing famously turned NYC, London, and Milan into ghost towns

Additional things we lost last year.

Prohibit DC from erecting signage to prevent right turn on red at certain traffic signals?! 9 times out of 10 the locations where these signs are correlate to a pedestrian or cyclist getting hit by a vehicle. But this is what this Congress wants to spend time on??

Have to take a moment to wave at the oncoming train!

Same commission that put design constraints on Pennsylvania Ave NW street designs. DC Statehood now.

Ironically this might keep my property taxes inflated since mine actually went down this year.

Thank you @maustermuhle.bsky.social @51st.news for digging into the release of the long-suppressed road pricing report — and why Mayor Bowser’s justification doesn’t “really pass the smell test.” 51st.news/washington-d...

This is big news if Asian carp have been identified in Lake Michigan not just south of Chicago

I like to think our car is our second ebike!

This station is always expensive but haven’t seen these gas prices in a long time! Seems like my ebike and metro is the way to go!

New H Street NE study underway with an open house today at Sherwood Rec Center from 1-3 publicinput.com/hstreetstudy

Rising gas prices? I’m gonna keep on biking in the car-free club!

Happy this isn’t the case!

Will be interesting to watch which organizations can pull this off. www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/with...