It's not just Seattle. The two things I wish I could get cities to understand are: 1. We have to think of cycling as real transportation and not simply recreation and 2. Transportation planning is not about predicting, it is about choosing.

A few years ago, Bill Nye the science guy debated creationist Ken Ham about evolution. The last question was "what would change your mind?" Bill Nye said "Evidence." Ken Ham said "Nothing can possibly change my mind about this." I think about that a lot.

@hankgreen.bsky.social thanks to you I now have a lot to say about this CAPTCHA.

They are beating people who maybe once had a broken taillight and sending them to foreign slave prisons while freeing the worst fraudsters and every corrupt pol. The juxtaposition is so stark and appalling.

RIP Claude 😢🐊

“Between 2010 and 2022, structural fires in Berkeley injured an average of 2 people per year, while between just 2017 and 2022, traffic accidents injured or killed an average of 694 people annually.”

Kudos to @liveablekirkland.org!

Some people live in the 21st century.

This is how it's done.

Something something doth protest too much something something

Going after the last 5% of electricity supply CO2 reduction without reducing transportation emissions is lunacy. I worry about mining for EV batteries, too. But we can have a better quality of life if we substitute private cars for bikes, transit, infill development

Johnny Harris is on a kick lately and I'm here for it.

This kind of shit is not only factually wrong, but incredibly counterproductive.

And here I thought the hoops I had to jump through for Bixi when visiting Montreal were onerous. It was cheap, though!

Funded inclusionary zoning is good!

I was one of these people, because NYC Penn Station to New Haven, CT for $8? Yes please. I wish we had this in more of our metropolitan areas. To quote my friend Justin, "Trains are great. America could do a better job, though."

good work guys you picked a fight in which Dems can stand up out of their permanent defensive crouch and go “our guy is a fucking astronaut and you’re an alcoholic tv host”

It is amazing to me that people try to argue for outlawing smaller homes by saying "One size does not fit all." Exactly. It's why we need to allow smaller homes.🤦

Listening to this episode, I just kept thinking back to what I've said many times: The thing about unsustainable things is that they cannot be sustained. It's just a matter of how we're going to get there, and how painful we're going to make it for ourselves and future generations.

I get why people are excited about Waymos. I really do. But, I think we can also look back at the effects of a century of enthusiasm for cars and say, “Going all in for cars hasn’t worked out well at all.” And from that, try to see what the next century holds, and try to do better *now*.

Love to see this in the wild! Thanks for supporting #BuildTheDamnTrains If you want a mug like Kurt's: www.bonfire.com/store/transp...

20 before and afters of streets in Paris in one minute.

Finally! @thewaroncars.bsky.social

The worst part is that most of the damage done to our cities was after we already understood this.

Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

Further evidence that "luxury" just means "new" now.

Everyone quits smoking eventually.

My friend Barron has a talk that I think gets at the heart of why I'm an urbanist. Please give it a watch! 👀

City lights 😊 Heidelberg Gemany 🇩🇪 #Heidelberg #Germany

Enjoying my new mug! @transpochoices.bsky.social #BuildTheDamnTrains

Despite significant spending to steer the Kirkland City Council toward a more slow growth direction, voters elected progressives in 3 out of 4 races. In the end, the election seemed to show Kirkland residents are happy with the city's current direction. Story: www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/21/k...

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Is it possible to build a better internet? Patreon’s CEO, Jack Conte, thinks so. He outlined his vision for an internet that puts people, not ad revenues, first.

I am 6'3". 🫤

NEW // Book Review: How a Highway Map Wrecked Baltimore Book review by Valentina Vaneeva via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/19/b...

Saw The Beths last night at the Moore. Great show! If you don't listen to The Beths, what are you doing with your life?

a “Space Force”, if you will

Just ordered me one of those sweet shirts. Lookin' good @kirkhovenkotter.com!

Me: Brain, it is time to sleep Brain: No, it is time to thiiiiiink Me: OK. Can we think about important things? Brain: No, we will think about stupid things. Sigh.

For taxpayers, every piece of cycling infrastructure is a gift that keeps on giving. An asset that returns annual savings in congestion, pollution, maintenance, safety and healthcare over its lifetime. Stop asking whether your city can afford to invest in cycling. Ask whether it can afford not to.

Someone please explain this to me. (don't actually)

Still think about you every day, dad. But, particularly grateful for you on this Veterans' Day 🫡

Not everyone gets to score in every game :)

Sign up for text alerts. Seriously. Just do it. You'll be notified if there's a problem with your ballot as soon as it is detected and you'll have the chance to fix it. Don't make work for some volunteer who has to track you down. info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...

Leadership.

Design vehicles to fit the streets rather than streets designed to fit the vehicles.

Meanwhile in the car-dependent US, we're paying $1000/mo to wait in traffic and die in huge numbers. #thisisfine

I think a thing we'll learn tonight is that people fucking hate what is going on and they will straight ticket vote against anyone involved in starving people while pillaging the country and kidnapping their neighbors. I don't think it matters at all who that person is.

Get your ballot into a drop box by 8pm tonight! Find a dropbox: www.sos.wa.gov/elections/vo... You can still register/vote in-person today, even without a WA license! kingcounty.gov/en/dept/elec... You can print a ballot if you lost yours! kingcounty.gov/en/dept/elec...

As a PSA, if you haven't returned your ballot yet, make sure to use a blue drop box, DON'T mail it. Postmarks are very possibly NOT going to be able to be made in time to make your vote count. Here's where to find a ballot drop box: kingcounty.gov/en/dept/elec...