Survive the apocalypse with walkable and bikeable cities.

“Traffic lights across the city were down, seemingly confusing the driverless cars —& halting them in their tracks. Riders and pedestrians posted videos of Waymos stuck at intersections, long lines of drivers behind them.” Less well known— driverless cars contribute to traffic congestion EVERY day.

"Denver transportation officials said an anti-car message that was displayed on traffic signs in Denver on Friday was the result of a hack. One sign, photographed by The Denver Gazette on Friday evening at E. Colfax Ave & Lincoln St near the Colorado Capitol, shared the message 'Cars ruin cities.'"

The future of transportation isn’t the #Hyperloop* or self-driving cars. It’s the bus, the bike and the elevator. Via @slate.com. AND it’s better land-use & infrastructure decisions, reprioritizing space & budgets, accessible streets, & smart pricing mechanisms. *hyperloop was always a distraction

This one’s a different kind of interview for me. If you’re interested in cities and a better approach to city planning, I hope you’ll listen and share.

"These ebikes are out of control and we need to regulate them now!"

Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social speaking at our candidate forum back in February: Congestion pricing is "a chance to transform our public transit system."

e360.yale.edu/digest/new-y... @sfcta.bsky.social can we please consider this for SF. Seems like this would definitely “Spare the Air”

“We can’t all be expected to bike.” Fair. But that’s not the point. “Not everyone can or wants to bike. But some people can & do—and they deserve a safe, efficient, affordable way to move through the city. It’s about freedom of choice.” This & other useful comebacks, in @momentummag.bsky.social.

Wonderful meeting with @repmarkdesaulnier.bsky.social at the Transportation and Education Town Hall in San Ramon today! We talked BART along I-680, importing better bike infrastructure from the Dutch (crow.nl) among other things! Looking forward to the next one!

Join us at Live Oak Elementary School in San Ramon at 11:00 a.m. tomorrow for a town hall on improving transportation and education in the East Bay. I look forward to seeing you!

Stocking stuffers! @thewaroncars.bsky.social @bart.gov @carterlavin.bsky.social crow.nl

Cars have become the new guns. It’s time for automated license revocation and speed governors!

Bike-lanes don’t cause traffic congestion. Car dependency, dumb land-use sprawl, too many (& bigger) cars being driven too much taking up too much space, highly subsidized driving costs, and not enough choices in how to get around, ALL cause traffic congestion. Think about it. THAT’S common sense.

Good luck convincing people who are buying bigger and bigger SUVs and pickup trucks so tall that they can’t see kids in front of them that what they really want is a station wagon. Imagine the pent-up demand!

Gift idea for your friends who bike! islandpress.org/books/if-you...

NYC’s mayor-elect dropped a line heard in bike lanes around the world — so we turned it into a shirt. Natural eggshell white. Unisex sizing. 100% New York attitude. Pre-orders close December 1 at midnight and ship the week of December 14, in time for the holidays!

A reminder that cars aren’t a technology problem. They’re a geometry problem.

If we had the train network we ALREADY HAD 80-100 years ago, the auto industry as we know it would be decimated.

What if you had to take your drivers test at least every 10 years? A lot changes over time. Including knowledge/memory of the road rules, driver skills and ability, and the size and deadliness of vehicles.

I ended up getting this book thanks to Not Just Bikes’ video on vehicular cycling: youtu.be/pRPduRHBhHI I’m not even an urban planner but what can I do to get this book into every American urban planner’s reading list?

A complete, connected, comfortable network of protected bike-lanes is a climate mitigation strategy. It’s a healthy cities strategy. It’s a social equity strategy. It’s an affordability strategy. It’s an economic devt strategy. It’s a smart mobility & space saving strategy. Etc. Etc. Etc. Etc.

This breaks some people’s brains. In most cities, Costco stores fuel sprawl & car dependency. In Vancouver, our full-sized downtown Costco has residential towers above & a skytrain station next door. LOTS of customers don’t drive to it. We live a block from it. We call it “the convenience store.”

The Mamdani text generator has some important messages to share.

Luxembourg touts free transit in an FT ad. And they’re not even socialist!

Finish this sentence: “The biggest obstacle to actually turning MY city into a better city for people is __________________________.”

To all my peeps in the Bay, help me get some traction with this petition: c.org/jHwSck4pQQ

In the US, even a “cheap” transit bus costs 2-3x more than in Asia or Europe -- and one agency may pay twice as much as another for nearly identical vehicles. In Bloomberg, I explored a ripe opportunity to improve transportation by applying Abundance-coded, supply-side reforms. 🧵

can the north american mind even comprehend microcars that cost less than €10,000?

NEW: @bradlander.bsky.social joins us to talk political courage, from defending bike lanes early in his career to his efforts to rein in reckless drivers to his cross endorsement of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. We are thrilled to welcome Brad to The War on Cars! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

Hats off to advocates in SF for fighting for transit funding. (And nice shirt.)

For more than a decade, Andrew Cuomo pretended he had nothing to do with deteriorating subways and endless delays — even as he siphoned off funding from the MTA he controlled.

here’s a version where the POV is blacked out whenever the driver takes their eyes off the road

Life After Cars begins...

Jon Lovett’s face when LA City Councilmember Imelda Padilla said she forced an affordable housing project to go down from six stories to three stories and add in EV charging spaces

Aggressive rock, welcome to The War on Cars.

Heard this one? The City of Barcelona traded 3 lanes of vehicle traffic for an exceptional 4.7km green pedestrian corridor in the heart of the Eixample grid. Businesses sued, & eventually won in court. Then they admitted that they actually like the change. Streets for people are good for business.

Bike investment vs. car investment.

We invited our biggest fans to show us their favorite things to do on BART during summer break!   Lucy took us on a tour of her favorite stations and told us about her amazing BART themed graduation photos and cap.

BART’s efforts to enhance safety, cleanliness, and the customer experience are paying off as June 2025 saw a 13.4% increase in ridership over a year ago, bolstered by steadily growing weekend ridership. www.bart.gov/news/article...

reasonably sure this is the first time a regional government agency has launched a new service with an elaborate broadway musical parody

After mismanaging the MTA for 10+ years as Governor, Andrew Cuomo would now like to mismanage it as Mayor.

More death and injury coming to America's highways.

Utrecht, Netherlands is about to build the largest Dutch “car-free” neighbourhood. 12K people 6K homes 1.8K social rental homes 1.5 mid-range rental & affordable owner-occupied homes 21.5K bike parking spaces 250 shared cars 2 parcel hubs Parking structures on the edge nltimes.nl/2025/02/25/u...

"Only 33% of American children between the ages of 9 and 11 are allowed to bike or walk to a friend’s house alone, according to the Mott survey... They cannot move through the world without their parents there."

That’s very good news for large cities all across America which will follow NYC’s lead.

The biggest dividing line based on this map is that Cuomo did best in neighborhoods with the most people who have cars while Mamdani won among people who take the subway.

NEW: "John Mulaney, Natasha Lyonne and the Battle of the Bike Lanes." Natasha Lyonne thinks there's no space for bike lanes in Manhattan. But cars? 🤔 Why do intelligent people say unintelligent things about bikes? @awalkerinla.bsky.social joins us to discuss. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/j...

If you build infrastructure and urban spaces for people, even in a suburban city, people will use it and livability will improve. A Monday night... Carmel, Indiana

The proposed transit cuts won’t just impact the Bay Area & LA. They’ll cut funding from transit projects in San Diego, Orange County, Sacramento, the Inland Empire & the Central Valley. A long list of projects up & down the state will be in jeopardy if these funds are withdrawn.