Thanks so much for including us!

👀 This is really cool to see! Thanks to everyone who purchased the ebook and supported independent booksellers. We really appreciate it. bookshop.org/a/9252/97805...

On 9 June, join me & @yosra999.bsky.social for a conversation with authors @sgoodyear.bsky.social & @brooklynspoke.bsky.social about Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile. With Azbah Ansari, Sadok Damak, @reenamahajan.bsky.social, & Gabriela García Portuondo.

Finally got a digital copy of Life After Cars from @thewaroncars.bsky.social Hopefully will finish reading it before @sgoodyear.bsky.social & @brooklynspoke.bsky.social keynote at McGill next week!

It wasn't until my late 30s that I realized we don't have to follow the boring, textbook "adult" progression of driving everywhere. Discovering e-cargo bikes reconnected me with the youthful joy of riding. It puts actual fun back into the mundane reality of day-to-day mobility.

Really excited to talk about the possibilities for a better future with these folks!

Logical consequence of forced car dependency. People no longer capable of driving are compelled to do so anyway. They are crashing into **buildings** on a weekly basis, killing innocent people. Meanwhile we are in the middle of a moral panic around ebikes which are 1000x safer than cars.

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.

This is quite something from Singapore's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vivian Balakrishnan, in an interview with Reuters. The end of the post-war order, diagnosed in technocratic language. www.mfa.gov.sg/newsroom/pre...

Our journalists will be covering the No Kings protests Saturday, on the ground across the country. Live coverage starts at 10 a.m. ET Saturday. #FairFearlessFree #LocalJournalism #ReportLocal

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really interesting thread with lots of great recommendations.

A short list: Walkable City @jeffspeck.bsky.social Happy City @charlesincities.bsky.social Life After Cars @sgoodyear.bsky.social & @brooklynspoke.bsky.social Street Fight @jskstreet.bsky.social All readable. Killed By A Traffic Engineer for heavier read @wesmars.bsky.social #UrbanismBookClub

Tony Kushner talks about how "The Pushcart War" remains relevant, especially in an age when of people trying to profit off of technology at the expense of humanity. Hear the entire episode wherever you listen to podcasts. podcasts.apple.com/lu/podcast/t...

I just read Life After Cars and I learned so much and feel so inspired to fight car dependency.

Most seniors in Hong Kong do not own or drive a car, because they can get anywhere they want to with the city's robust public transport system at a taxpayer-subsidized cost of $0.26 per trip. My parents just take random day trips for fun. That is true freedom that American seniors will never have.

The first rule of the American car system is that we don’t talk about the American car system.

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If this Monday is already overwhelming you (as it is me), may I suggest the balm of listening to the great Tony Kushner talking about one of the great life-affirming children's books, The Pushcart War. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone

​An obvious truth that NHTSA and state DOTs don't talk about: Less driving --> Fewer crashes​

The Bourne Identity (2002) / The Hidalgo Legacy (2026)

"Parisians have said yes to climate (action), yes to solidarity, yes to democracy." Thank you Anne Hidalgo for all you have done for Parisians and the inspiration you've given to all of us working for greener, safer cities with public and active transport at the heart of that.

Grégoire is now continuing his victory evening by entering into the metro!

🇫🇷 municipal elections: “My timeline, made up of many journalists and experts, only talks about major cities and other large urban areas, while the RN is winning dozens of small municipalities. Those are just as many votes for the far right in the Senate, etc. It’s dramatic to be this disconnected.”

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At the Town Hall, Anne Hidalgo’s welcome for Emmanuel Grégoire was a truly special moment; I am delighted to have been part of this extraordinary victory. Paris: pioneering, innovative, and always committed to life and people 💫🌟🙌

IMO the more interesting takeaway is that 44% of Americans prefer to live within walking distance of schools and stores. Safe to assume that most of them currently don’t. The US forces car-dominated sprawl on millions of people who don’t want it.

Everyone covered these elections as a test of how the left factions should behave toward each other. Well, in the 3 biggest cities, the center-left and radical left: (1) allied (Lyon), (2) stayed split (Paris), and (3) consolidated without any alliance (Marseille). And... they won all 3.

What is Emmanuel Grégoire, the new Paris mayor, planning for the city over his new term in office? —60,000 new social housing units —15 express bus routes —Completion of city's full bike network —Transformation of ring highway into a boulevard —1000 new pedestrian streets —300 new hectares of parks

Merci !

Grégoire says he's riding to city hall on a bike as a "homage to this mobility revolution that brings to much. And, ultimately, it's nicer to do this by biking than by driving."

Currently on France TV, the new mayor of Paris Grégoire celebrating his victory by biking around on a bike share. He’s now taking an interview while riding.

It’s a nice spring day, but hardly peak cherry blossom crowds down by the National Mall and Tidal Basin. But the 15th Street protected lane that the Trump administration will start tearing out next week was still busy with people on bikes and scooters; locals and tourists alike.

I just noticed my kid built a bike share in his Lego City. It even has a shrub and lighting at the station. I'm impressed and proud!

Secondary point but “children’s entertainer” is not a respectful label. She is an educator and has a master’s degree in music education. Fred Rogers was not a “children’s entertainer” either.

Real ones in public life are rare.

In 2014, NYC lowered the citywide default speed limit from 30 mph to 25 mph. In the year that followed: - Traffic fatalities fell by more than 22% - Pedestrian fatalities fell by more than 25% Yes, adding physical traffic calming is imperative but just lowering the limit can have a halo effect.

Without Bovino's caravan of CBP agents causing mayhem for propaganda ops, feds have been able to operate more swiftly as they perform their preferred "targeted" arrests. Because of this, we tend to believe current reports represent an undercount/detentions may be happening without being recorded.

There were more scattered kidnappings and sightings across the near suburbs today.

"Live in one of the three walkable U.S. cities."

@waba.org has a petition up and is rallying Monday afternoon!

"No human who has been alive during cherry blossom season ever thinks, ‘What we need is more room for cars to get around.’ It is cyclists and pedestrians that take over, and this is going to make the chaos infinitely worse.”

Incredible that they are using the "dart/dash" excuse for someone 87 years old. Usually the cops reserve that bullshit for when drivers hit children.

A Mexican teen migrant dies in a Florida jail holding ICE detainees www.npr.org/2026/03/20/n...

Let it shine

@brooklynspoke.bsky.social @sgoodyear.bsky.social and TONY FREAKIN' KUSHNER discussing one of my favorite books of all time is the endorphin rush I didn't know I needed. Seriously, a wonderful episode. Thanks you. P.S. Dagnabbit, Sarah -- now I really want a Chipwich.

Public transit is so wholesome. Let's fund it.

NEW: Transportation industry money has been pouring into the congressional campaign of Michael Alfonso, a 26-year-old political unknown from Wisconsin. His father-in-law happens to be Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy.

BREAKING: Mayor Mamdani is ending the Adams/Tisch-era policy of slapping cyclists and e-bike riders with criminal summonses for low-level traffic offenses. -- with @sophlebo.bsky.social nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/03/18/m...