“These findings suggest that fare-free transit is not an effective policy to reduce private car use and its associated externalities, even in low-income contexts with high public transit usage.” Interesting looking study from Brazil on impact of fare free travel on older adults.

motonormativity at work here, try leaving two sofas by the side of the road instead of a car we need to get over this idea that it’s acceptable to leave private property in finite public spaces for free

 #CarsRuinEverything www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

@worldbollardassoc.bsky.social Bollards win. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Look at this. It's insane. People in NYC need to rise up and flood Eric Adams' office tomorrow with calls and letters. No let up. Go after him. He's an incredible disgrace. bsky.app/profile/jflo...

I hated Elon Musk before it was cool. Specifically, after the Iraq war when we were pushing for more mass transit, like subways and high speed rail, but Elon came out against it so that he could sell his EVs, which were starting to get known. You know what’s best for the environment? NOT driving.

IMPORTANT: We put FAR too much weight on projections and models in city planning — population projections, economic projections, traffic models etc. I’ve worked with projections my whole career, and I know one thing — EVERY projection is wrong. We just don’t know by how much and in what direction.

Projections & models commonly use the past to predict the future, and that’s increasingly laughable. And they ALL are based on a whole lot of assumptions, which are often wrong. And even when projections or models appear “right," it's often a self-fulfilling prophesy resulting from the model itself.

I went to UCLA specifically because I wanted to take Don’s parking class. The best email I ever got in planning school was when Professor Shoup asked me if he could use my final paper as an example for the following year. He’s a legend.

Rest in peace to one of the best to ever do it.

RIP Donald Shoup. This day sucks

Why do I want to try this when I'm not even blind (answer: I think it's called the curb-cut effect? Where accessibility measures for disabled people end up helping everyone, like curb cuts for wheelchairs helping w/ strollers & luggage too. Or how alt text also helps searchability, context etc)

Every word I read about congestion pricing reminds me of when they reintroduced wolves in Yellowstone and the whole ecosystem started working correctly again.

Congestion pricing has been a huge success in every meaningful way, but centrist Democrats like Phil Murphy who are owned by the car and oil lobbies want Dear Leader Trump to use an EO to end it just as we see it take off.

New safety standard for Londons commercial cargo bike sector. "TfL’s new standard, which delivers on a commitment made in its Cargo Bike Action Plan, is intended to support continued sector growth while keeping all road users and pedestrians safe." vanfleetworld.co.uk/tfl-launches...

For years I've said that congestion pricing in NYC would be like banning smoking in the city—meaning after all sorts of hand wringing, implementation people would soon wonder aloud why it didn't happen sooner and ultimately have a hard time imagining life without it. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

US cities, like Indianapolis, have seen drastic changes over the last century. Today, there's a crisis of pedestrians and cyclists facing vehicular violence. This century-old Indianapolis Times drawing shows how the destruction of safer, shared streets began.

A teen DOGE staffer recently given access to government systems worked at a startup known for hiring convicted hackers. Someone using a Telegram handle associated with him also solicited a cyberattack-for-hire service in 2022. All raising questions about his vetting. www.wired.com/story/edward...

Ford's CEO said big-battery EVs may never be "resolvable." Big trucks and SUVs with huge batteries may always be expensive and never good for towing or hauling. Interestingly enough, General Motors is taking the opposite approach. Which company's theory will win out? insideevs.com/news/730796/...

Why President Musk should fire Donald Trump.

We tried it, it looks promising and even popular! #nyc #congestionpricing

“The first indications that 20mph zones could bring down the cost of car insurance – as well as cutting speeds and reducing road casualties – came in June last year, when the car insurer Esure reported that vehicle damage claims in Wales fell by a fifth after the default limit was introduced.”

When their "before" looks like many city's "afters"

By the way, Brisbane, investing in cycling infrastructure ≠ painting pictures of bicycles on the road... www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/que...

There has been great reports coming out of NYC since they switched to congestion pricing. Guess who said they want to remove it?

Say it with me: Congestion pricing works.

Yup

OpenAI says it has proof that Deepseek used its work without permission to create something meant to undermine and destroy its product. On behalf of all the authors whose novels and stories were taken as training data, oh no that must be so hard for you.

There is very little upside to a car dependent society. Glad I was pregnant in Sweden and not North America…

The free trial period for Ho Chi Minh City’s metro line ended a week ago, but the ticket machines still aren’t turned on. Unless you have a Momo account or a Mastercard, you’re stuck waiting in line to buy single-journey paper tickets with cash.

B-b-b-b-but car-brain'd people told me tradies would go out of business if we built even one (1) bike lane!!

URBANISM PSA: MAKE SURE YOUR BIKE IS IN GOOD SHAPE. Lube chains, fill tires, charge the lights

17000 is the length in km of bicycle lanes with special bicycle traffic lights in the Netherlands. #DidYouKnow

Every once in a while on X/Twitter I would get one of these “stick to city planning” replies. Immediate block. My first one here. #blocked I’m not just a city planner. I’m a human being. I won’t be stopping any time soon. Don’t like it? Unfollow. #NotSorry

The most astonishing part of Elon's and The Boring Company's idiocy in this is that they actually built not just a single-lane, but a *single-track* car tunnel rofl

Wonderful thread, wonderful article!

Thanks to the Alps, Switzerland doesn't have the kind of flat terrain that allows for high-speed rail. (Trains do reach 220 km/h+, but mostly in tunnels.) So they focus on reducing connection times between trains/buses/funiculars. A train might leave at 7:00, 7:15, 7:30 etc

Maga-Wisdom

i do not think these people could pull off an autogolpe but the probable outcome of a serious attempt to wield extralegal power is “military transitional government” and that is uh… not good

Rep. Andy Ogles' proposal to allow Donald Trump to serve a third term drew fires from members of his own party.

Reffitt, who claims Trump's pardon covers conduct including his threat to kill his kids if they reported his armed role in the 1/6 attack, is hoping the judge decides at this hearing to free him from detention resulting from a Texas charge.

On this day, 100 yrs ago, cars were given priority over pedestrians in the streets of the US. It began Jan. 24, 1925, when the 1st "jaywalker" was arrested in Los Angeles. Until then, it had been a city of walkers, with an extensive street railway network. Victim shaming started right away... 🚶‍♂️🧵

JUST IN: In an effort to combat the worsening and hazardous haze pollution in Bangkok, Thai Dep-PM and Transport Min Suriya Juangroongruangkit announces free public transport (incl. BTS Skytrain and MRT) for 7 days starting tomorrow.

America, welcome to the Duterte administration

Well, he found a way to smooth things over with the police unions

Lots of reporting suggested that, this time around, Trump and his lawyers would avoid the sloppy legal work that plagued his first administration so they’d fare better in the courts. I see no evidence of that in this round of executive orders. This is poor, slipshod work obviously assisted by AI.

Most of the solutions to climate change actually make life better, not worse. So we should be moving towards that better future with great joy and haste.

Even if you're in a liberal city, there's a good chance most of the cops are right-wing pigs who sympathize with Trump and that the PD will ignore the civilian government's policies and unofficially help with deportation.