NEW: A group of activists have built an awesome new tool to help immigration attorneys and the general public know when an ICE flight is headed to their area. gillianbrockell.com/habeas-fligh...

Lake forever, parallel approaches during ORD arrival banks

The finding really reinforces the import of effective dispatching/rescheduling in rail performance; the article from which I got it is well worth a read: lup.lub.lu.se/search/files...

India Mandelkern: "Subways do this funny thing — they make cities bigger and smaller at once. Bigger because more places are suddenly in easy reach. Smaller because distant neighborhoods become everyday destinations."

How can analyzing and visualizing network accessibility help stakeholder engagement and intergovernmental coordination for transformative transit projects? More in our latest blog post:

Front row view of the D Line Ext! Free rides from 4am Fri May 8 thru 3am Mon May 11 on Metro 🚇🚍🚲🚐 Community celebrations 12:30pm-4pm Fri at new stations + Wilshire/Western

"The Freedom to Drive"

New month, same map, different excuses.

🚌 Fast buses. 🏙️ Green social housing. ⚡ Public utilities. What do these all have in common? They’re part of a winning strategy to make life more affordable while cutting pollution. Read @cplusc.bsky.social ’ s Working Class Climate Agenda for the details: stopgreedbuildgreen.climateandcommunity.org

"We consider ourselves a city-shaping company... We create cities and then, as a utility facility, we add the stations and the railways to connect them one with another" — president of Tokyu Corporation

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

Oof, @orenbj.bsky.social just tanked my productivity. Metro Mapper LA Daily #24 (Medium) 🟩🟩🟨🟩🟨 🚇 metromapper.net

LAX APM testing

We need to keep making the connections between transportation infrastructure and public health. sph.washington.edu/news-events/...

Turning 50 today has us feeling a bit nostalgic. 🥹🤎 It’s been an honor of a lifetime being America’s Metro system. 🚇🚍🚐 Here’s to the next 50 years! 🥳

Big news for the Red Line Extension in Chicago, which the Trump Administration has been trying to de-fund on completely spurious grounds. We're now 428 days into the 2nd Trump admin, which hasn't funded a single new transit line & which has attempted to de-fund 3 lines www.urban.org/urban-wire/r...

Qatar Airways 787 (tail number A7-BHG) towed into long-term parking at ZRH

Introducing Osmix, our new high-performance OpenStreetMap toolkit for TypeScript that can read, query, merge, and transform OSM PBFs in the browser Try it for yourself at osmix.dev

Join me and the people who bring you the “No Kings” march for this webinar on stopping 21st century American concentration camps. I’m honored to help introduce Andrea Pitzer, author of “One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps.” RSVP here for this March 5 mass call.

We're sharing a new browser-first toolkit for working with #OpenStreetMap tomorrow afternoon. Even if you missed the registration for #OpenThePaths 2026, stay tuned for more details and recordings of the sessions.

Have you noticed how navigation apps include walking & waiting for public transit, but excludes parking & walking for driving? After being late a few times 😅, we finally did. We got curious: what if these apps account for parking?

Upcoming Route 1 departures: 🙂 1 min 🙂 2 min 🙂 3 min 🙃 27 min (likely cancelled) 😡 32 min #MBTA #BusBunching

God Bless America: proceeds to name every country on the continent. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

friendly reminder that post 5 pm sunsets are officially back 🌆

🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US. Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records. Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...

CAL FIRE’s thoughts are with the people and firefighters in Chile as catastrophic wildfires continue to burn across central and southern regions, forcing more than 50,000 people to evacuate and killing at least 18 people. #ChileWildfires #WildfireResponse www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

BREAKING: Judge Ana Reyes, in DC, issues a stay of DHS Sec. Noem’s decision to end Haiti’s temporary protected status (TPS) designation, a decision that was to go into effect on Tuesday and could have ended legal status for up to 350,000 people overnight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Almost daily protests at the New England ICE field office: fixice.org/protests1000... #ICEout docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I’ve been fascinated by the story of the 1st Minnesota since I first heard it. I wrote this to connect some dots that feel like they point in the same direction, even if they start 160 years apart. andrewowen.bandcamp.com/track/first-...

Would be an interesting time for the Catholic Church in the US to resuscitate the idea of the Vicariate of Solidarty, the department the Chilean wing of the church established to contend with Pinochet's abuses. They were critical record keepers of all that happened. elpais.com/chile/2026-0...

1/ They did it again. More ADS-B spoofing drawing images in ADS-B Exchange. x.com/TheIntelFrog...

Two Rice University freshmen created a website mapping ICE incidents ricethresher.org/article/fres...

Steam rising from the Chicago River on a cold morning

Seen in Los Angeles (Credit: Zurita Carpio)

Half the street corners around here have people--from every walk of life, including republicans--standing guard to watch for suspicious vehicles, which are reported to a robust and entirely decentralized network that tracks ICE vehicles and mobilizes responders.

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

If you have a 3D printer, you can now download software to print out lots of whistles, all embedded with the phone number for LUCE, the local immigrant rapid-response group. www.printables.com/model/156587...

Massachusetts stands with Minnesota Over 400 people at the New England ICE field office today demanding #ICEout now

My daughter took her first trip on public transit today without adult supervision. She and her friends went to protest against ICE abductions. Or as I am thinking about it: Using a public good for the public good.

That red eye was absolutely worth it!

This post by @pkrugman.bsky.social on "Sundowning" is worth reading. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/its-sundow... Agree with this conclusion:

I speak Midwestern: 🟢 “Hey man, you sure about that?” 🟡 “Take it easy, buddy” 🟠 “It’s time for you to head home my friend” 🔴 “I don’t plan to let you do that” ⚫️ [you are under the ice in a lake that will not thaw until Memorial Day]

This guide here is incredible. People in the Twin Cities have really thought this out and created an extremely robust system that people can just drop into.

ICE abducted two members of CWA Local 7304 at their workplace, New Flyer in St Cloud. Both men had come to the US from Laos legally as small children and had worked at New Flyer for over 20 years.

Dr. King prepared us for this moment. I remain calm despite the coordinated, unrelenting attacks on Black people, on Black bodies, on Black votes, on Black power, and Black progress. Because our ancestors wrote the blueprint for our survival.

Lots of coverage of the protests. Less coverage of what's being built: 771 new ICE detention beds coming online across NH and Maine. 1,600+ total in New England by year end. WBUR has the map: www.wbur.org/news/2025/12/23/immigration-detention-map-massachusetts-new-england

When people say transportation research should get "back to basics," what do they mean? 🙃 This exhibit comes to mind – on the 4th Fl of the MLK Library, just a few blocks from #TRBAM #CrossroadsConvening