I embrace cycling as transportation, so prefer to ride in normal street clothing. When I was in Amsterdam this summer, I was delighted to add a stylish tench coat to my wardrobe with nice touches for cycling, like a two-way zip, fold down cuffs, and pockets with magnetic closures! rain-couture.nl

If you live in Santa Clara County and use the creek and river trail systems, we have entered the season where these trails are subject to periodic flooding. This is a great resource that shows near real-time trail flooding status that is invaluable to avoid flooded trail sections.

Life Hack: unanticipated disruptions to your routine forces you to try different options. You can use these short term annoyances as opportunities to mindfully sample alternatives that can make your life better in the long run! www.londoncentric.media/p/london-und...

The people want leaders who will fight for good climate policy and affordable housing.

Pet peeve: multi-use paths that are treated like optional recreational facilities, rather than critical transportation infrastructure that they actually are.

You know your train station needs better wayfinding signage when random strangers print out and tape up the signs that contain the information that disembarking riders actually need because the official signage is inadequate. Do better Diridon Station!

I’m so excited that I’ve been accepted to run the 2026 Boston Marathon! This will be my 8th consecutive Boston Marathon!

Franklin likes to help out around the house! Yesterday he helped water the garden! 😂

Bus, train, and tram fares: $22.15 Bike share fares: $3.44 A day without driving in traffic or dealing with parking, a day where I can get work done during my commute and enjoy an evening in the city with dinner and a concert: Priceless

If you have a relatively recent iPhone that includes an Action Button: Have you configured an action, and if so what action did you choose? How often do you use the Action Button?

If you are in the market for a new car, and you have considered an EV as an option, now may be a great time to buy or lease a new EV! Federal incentives expire at the end of this month, so dealers are offering great deals to move EVs off their lots before their prices effectively go up by $7500.

My daily commuter is a long-tail electric cargo bike, configured with large cargo bags instead of passenger seating. I love it because it handles like a normal bike. And on the way home from work, I can stop by the supermarket and buy an entire shopping cart of groceries, no need to plan ahead!

My daily bicycle commute on the San Francisco Bay Trail takes me past Moffett Field. I often see a variety of wildlife, but today was particularly special as I got to see this red tail hawk perched dramatically on the barbed wire fence surrounding the airfield!

TIL: 4-way stops are ubiquitous in the US. They shouldn’t be. Most 4-way stops are unwarranted and are misused to control speed. 4-way stops don’t work for speed control. There are better ways to control speed and to manage intersections in ways that are effective and safe for all road users.

I sincerely believe it would do so much good for us to have regular, face to face interactions with people different from ourselves, whether in pubs and cafes, bowling or softball leagues, unions or civic organizations, military service or volunteer organizations.

Unusual circumstances conspired to force me to drive to work instead of cycling as I normally do. It reminded me how frustrating I find it to be trapped in rush hour congestion. And it also reminded me of another advantage of cycling: I can park so much closer when I cycle than when I drive!

I’m so excited and proud to announce the biggest updates to the Google Translate mobile apps since I’ve been on the team, including a massively upgraded speech translation features and a brand new language practice feature. These features are rolling out now in the latest version! Update now!

If you see a teenager zooming by on what looks like a fat tire dirtbike with pedals, doing wheelies and traveling at 35mph or more, that is not an e-bike, and it’s probably not even a street legal moped or motorcycle. Please don’t call those things e-bikes as it unfairly stigmatizes actual e-bikes.

Motorists: If you are already stopped at an intersection, and a bicyclist is approaching from the left and comes to a stop, YOU have the right of way. You might think it is polite to wave the cyclist through, but it is confusing and it violates the rules of right-of-way.

A friend of mine is test driving a Tern e-bike today, and I’m delighted to have been a part of her journey towards getting an e-bike for practical transportation!

If you live in the US and want a COVID-19 vaccine, ACT NOW. The federal government may act as soon as this Friday to limit access to the vaccine to only those 65 or older or with high risk factors.

I would have no problem with NYC’s 15 mph speed limit for e-bikes as long as they ALSO apply the same speed limit to cars, the vehicle that is ACTUALLY killing and maiming the most New Yorkers.

What if every speed limit was suddenly changed to 25mph. At first, chaos. Eventually… perhaps a better world? Even in the absence of a Twilight Zone scenario, we can voluntarily adopt some of these ideas into our real world, and make our cities better for humans.

Cargo bikes are great for people with kids and ALSO great for people without kids!

I’m excited to learn that Montreal has recently introduced cargo trailers to its docked bike share system! I hope this innovation can spread to other cities that share the PBSC system, like Bay Wheels in SF, Citibike in NYC, Capital Bike Share in DC, and Bike Share Toronto! bixi.com/en/trailer/

In 1932, the citizens of democratic Weimar Germany elected the Nazi party to a plurality of seats in the national legislature, the last free and fair election in Germany until after the Nazi regime was defeated in a global war in 1945. 🧵1/5

Tell me what you care about, and I will tell you how the answer is, at least in part, fewer cars.

There’s a lot to love about Parisian urbanism captured in this one image: microcars, on street EV charging, and two-way bike flow on an otherwise one-way street. Très bien!

Celebrating 18 years as a tandem team with my best friend, wife, and stoker!

One of my favorite unbanist creators X Disneyland = catnip for me. Many people have something to see about the urbanism of Disney parks for good or bad. It’s nice see at least a little something new on the topic. nebula.tv/videos/cityn...

If you have been considering the purchase of an EV or installing rooftop solar and you are still in the position to do so, you should act NOW. Congress has repealed federal consumer incentives for EVs, rooftop solar, and other green technologies, but the repeals won’t take effect for a few months.

My wife isn’t comfortable riding a bicycle solo and isn’t particularly motivated to learn, so when she goes places in her own, she always drives. But she is a pragmatist and recognizes how convenient and inexpensive cycling can be. So for trips within a few miles of home, we ride a tandem bicycle!

Superchargers tend to be located in some of the most car oriented places: car dealerships, highway exits, strip malls, etc. But you don’t become aware of just how pedestrian hostile these places are until your EV is tethered to a charger and you want to walk a short distance to a restaurant.

A high-end family-oriented electric cargo bike from Urban Arrow or Riese & Müller might cost $6000-$10000. If you think of it as a toy for occasional family outings on the local bike trail, that’s a LOT. But it’s a bargain if it replaces the second car and doesn’t need gas or oil changes.

For many multi-car US households, an electric cargo bike really can partially or completely replace a car, especially if one adult can commute by transit or e-bike.

Truckee, CA doesn’t seem like a particularly bike friendly town: typical car infrastructure, no protected bike lanes, high elevation, and big hills. Yet there are TONS of people biking here, including LOTS of parents with a kid or two on the bike of their e-cargo bike.

While conventional pedal bikes are a good option for many trips, much of North America was built or rebuilt for car in the decades after WWII. Because of these design choices e-bikes can be a great for even more trips, because they effectively shorten distances and carry heavy loads with ease.

@ohtheurbanity.bsky.social made a great point about encouraging practical cycling: it requires not just good infrastructure, but also culture. People need to own bikes and know how to ride them, know basic maintenance, how to select routes, how to park securely, and biking needs to feel normal.

Are you interested in an e-bike as practical transportation but confused by the huge diversity in brands, models, form factors, features, and prices that range from $700 to over $10000? This guide is the best I’ve seen to help you figure it all out and find the best bike for you.

My last professional haircut was February 2020, and I don’t plan to ever pay for a haircut again. I learned how to cut my own hair from YouTube videos during the pandemic, and I’ve gotten pretty good at it. The convenience of cutting my own hair at home whenever I want is great!

As car drivers, we take destination wayfinding signs for granted. In cities that take bicycles seriously, good wayfinding signs are part of a complete transportation system. I’m happy to see San José add this sign at an intersection of major bike routes in my neighborhood! #DTSJ

“EVs are just great vehicles, like the customer experience of being able to charge at home. The range anxiety that I thought I was going to have when I first started goes away with time because you realize that almost all the charging you do is at home.” Jeff Morrison, GM SVP

An argument for the value of diversity in software development: many smartphone users use a large font size, and these users a disproportionately in their mid-40s or older due to presbyopia. A software team with older members would be more likely recognize the need to handle large font sizes.

If you design or implement mobile apps, design adaptations for landscape, small screen, and large font size as early as possible in the process. Retrofitting these onto an already implemented app not designed for them can be extremely difficult. #a11y #MobileDevelopment

I’m so excited by Tuesday’s election results! In my local city council district runoff election, the progressive urbanist Anthony Tordillos is winning. And in the NYC mayoral primary, the urbanist democratic socialist candidate Mamdani appears to have soundly defeated Anthony Cuomo!

If California is serious about reducing traffic congestion, improving air quality, and combatting climate change, we need to stop spending our limited tax dollars on freeway expansions and invest in real solutions, like local transit, regional rail, long distance passenger rail, and high speed rail.

If you love music, you should check out trygroovething.com/launch -- it debuted today, and I know its inventor!

I love it when my city acts like a real urban city! We went to a Metallica concert on Friday and Sunday at Levi’s Stadium. Parking was extortionate, so we used VTA light rail to get to and from the show. VTA runs extra trains for events, so it was fast, convenient and cheap! Highly recommend!

The Bay Area is an archipelago of walkable islands, linked by threads of rail and bike trails, surrounded by a sea of car dependency.

Shared urban transportation: old meets new in San Francisco!