I feel so much more comfortable with a patient @waymo.bsky.social behind my 5 year old than an impatient distracted human driver.

L.A. is so broke that the best we can do is put a sign over a trip hazard. We now spend more on lawsuit settlements than we do fixing our infrastructure.

Some of the most important work of my life has been working on SB-79, a bill that will build a lot more housing in California near transit stops. IT JUST PASSED THE SENATE (over LA's opposition) and heads to Governor Newsom for his signature!! www.latimes.com/california/s...

Plane to street by 🚲

I left my house in LA yesterday, biked to @laxairport.bsky.social, folded up my @bromptonbicycle.bsky.social, put it in the overhead bin, and biked to my hotel on the other end in Washington DC. 🎥 by Caro Vilain

In DC at the Abundance conference with two of the best mayors

Great @freerangekids.bsky.social presentation at TED on how we need to let our kids roam and do more things on their own to make them (and us) less anxious. www.ted.com/talks/lenore...

It’s so funny to me that locally people scream “socialism!” about common sense bills like SB-79, when those same people are silent when the Federal Government is actually doing socialism: www.axios.com/2025/08/25/t...

Only in LA is it acceptable for a sidewalk to double as a driveway and loading zone for parking. This city prioritizes cars over people to an insane degree.

Was quite disappointed to hear several allies in Council today rally against SB-79, without offering any real solutions to our housing crisis. Do we want a city where only the rich can live? I don’t. We need real solutions. SB-79 is a huge step in the right direction.

The crash that killed nine year old Nadir Gavarrete two weeks ago in Koreatown was entirely preventable. The city has a plan and has been working to implement it for *14 years* My latest in the @latimes.com: www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

A fundamentally broken system where sidewalks get worse and we pay out more in liability claims than fixing them. “In roughly the past five years, the city has paid out more than $86 million because of lawsuits relating to sidewalks.” abc7.com/post/la-side...

I’ve been biking to LAX for years. Hardly anyone in LA owns a Riese and Muller Load 75. My bike on left, theirs on right. Who is this!?

Rush hour in Manhattan

This is a boring ADA compliant curb ramp in NYC. The city’s full of them. In LA, the city claims they can’t build these for less than $50,000 per ramp. Under ADA, every change we make to our streets requires them. Want faster progress? Figure out how to build these cheaper.

Gridlock to my right Joy to my left Build it and they’ll come. Every damn time.

At $8.50 per person, a family of 5 needs to spend $42.50 just on the @jfkairport.bsky.social AirTrain alone. Add subway fare of $2.90 pp, and you’re at $57. The AirTrain should be free. It’s driverless. Charging this much encourages people to drive, not take transit.

This is a 24/7 bus lane in nyc. They are perpetually blocked by deliveries. It doesn’t serve transit riders like this, and yet deliveries need to be made. We should have commercial loading zones on all side streets closest to major arterials to solve this.

I have many friends in NYC fighting to make biking safer and better. And I know the grass is always greener. But I have to say after taking my family around for the last few days, NYC is miles ahead of LA - protected bike lane network - wide lanes - green carpet 👏👏

Anyone wanna ask him for a favor? Or a scone/muffin?

Someone’s having a bad Saturday

Love this town

Anyone know who originally created this? I want to speak with him/her.

Good morning. I hope you woke up in as good a mood as the founder of Ticketmaster did.

Landed at LAX but Kat didn’t have her bike with her so I’m her Uber driver

LAX’s “roadway modernization plan” is 18+ miles of new roadway, encouraging more people to drive to LAX, despite billions of dollars of investment in a people mover and rail connectivity. It will also make getting into the central terminal area hostile to pedestrians & cyclists.

Streets For All is committed to making Los Angeles’ streets safer for everyone - no matter how you get around. As our Organization of the Month for July, we met up with @michaelschneider.com from @streetsforall.org to talk about these projects and more!

I’d rather have clean, safe, reliable transit that comes often, than fare free transit.

Does this open the door to every 501c3 being able to endorse political candidates?

“I don't think there's enough bike advocates in almost any North American city to pass a bike-specific ballot measure on its own. I think you have to reach out and explain the benefits to the larger population. It can't just be about bikes.” 🚸 @michaelschneider.com @streetsforall.org

“I thought I would get a new car. Instead, I started biking around. I was never in traffic. I never had to look for parking, and I felt like I had hacked my city and couldn't believe it was a legal and fun way to get around that I had just never known.” 🚴🏿🚴🏻‍♂️🚴🏽‍♀️ @michaelschneider.com @streetsforall.org

Crescent Heights, West Hollywood, 5pm

Want to never be in traffic in LA? Use a bike! In this case, an electric cargo bike.

Big news in the advocacy world! Excited to work with Robin and @streetsforallsf.org to improve all of California!

“We talk about climate change, housing shortages, mental health, or polarization as separate problems. But they share a common root: the way we design cities. If you design for cars, you get traffic. If you design for people, you get life.” 👏 @thecoolgeek.bsky.social

“Car free Olympics” Paris: - rail with good headways - bus rapid transit with good headways - protected bike lane network LA: Forget all that old stuff we haven’t tried, we need flying taxis! www.latimes.com/business/sto...

NYC’s congestion pricing is a policy miracle: Less traffic, less noise, faster transit, more business sales, more transit revenue. And it hasn’t produced the negative effects outside the cordon zone we were afraid of. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Feels odd to live rent free in Fred Rosen’s head

I wrote something about Mayor Bass’ proposed budget “Do we want to live in a city where we can’t safely walk to the park because the sidewalks are too broken and the streetlights are out, and the park’s hours have been reduced because of staffing cuts?” www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Enjoyed speaking with Spectrum News last week about LA being the smoggiest city in the country 25 years running, and what we need to do to change that. @streetsforall.org

We're going to try and get flying cars before we truly invest in bike lanes, bus lanes, and electric rail in California. 🤦

@gabrielledrolet.bsky.social is the artist with caption by @jackhauen.bsky.social

I’ve never understood why Americans don’t want the same kinds of environments they love when they travel, at home.

✅ @cleverhood.bsky.social rain cape to keep me dry ✅ Load 75 with cover to keep kids dry ✅ Burley trailer with tarp to keep luggage dry Biking to LAX even in the rain is 💯 michaelschneider.medium.com/biking-to-la...

Nothing gives me more joy than biking with my girls. Nothing motivates my quest for safer streets more than biking with my girls.

The city of Palm Desert is doing it right. Imagine how many in LA would choose to bike instead of drive for many of their trips if our infrastructure looked like this.

Most of the media has a huge windshield bias. Here the LA Daily News can’t even write about a pedestrian that was mowed down by a speeding driver without pointing out they weren’t in a crosswalk. @streetsforall.org helped decriminalize jaywalking 2 years ago. Stop the victim blaming!

It almost doesn’t matter what Trump does now with tariffs. He’s broken the biggest thing we had going for us: the US as a stable place to do business. Our brand is tarnished. Even if he reverses everything it’s going to take a long time for that to come back.

This was….five months ago