I raked my stormdrains: Going Off the Rails on a Crazy Drain, Bruce Drain, & Drain the Rock Johnson. My favorites are: Purple Drain, Shania Drain, Singin’ in the Drain, No Rain No Drain, It’s Draining Men, & The Grate Beyond. Adopt! adopt-a-catch-basin-2-durhamnc.hub.arcgis.com

<Duke leaders> should we develop Central Campus? No, we’re broke; let’s use it to throw another fundraiser party

Bus me rapidly, Durham. East-West, right through the Center. www.durhamnc.gov/5395/Central...

DPS October menus are posted! If you want corn dog 🌽 🐕 nuggets in your calendar, go here and share with all your DPS parent friends and neighbors: github.com/davidbradway...

Stephen Colbert’s Late Show may have been canceled, but the Americone Dream lives on

Amazon Subscribe & Save is just Columbia House CD Club without the cheap stuff introductory offer, as I am making sure they don’t send me stuff I don’t need…

It is still August. It is not spooky season, Pumpkin Spice latte season or Pumpkin beer season. Oktoberfest season is questionable, only because I love it. </end rant>

⚠️ Warning, Durham the Duke undergrad scooter kids are back ‼️

It’s giving Taco Bell vibes

Hello Durham Public School parents! As you prepare for the start of the school year, add your children's school lunch menus to your family calendar or planner! I gather all the menu PDFs from the DPS website and upload them to Google Calendars, which you can access here: github.com/davidbradway...

Towerview Rd sure would look good with some bike lanes on it, Duke

A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. buff.ly/cnl5KKl

Who paints over a mural? I am mad about this. Reply if you know the location.

Just a normal, street-legal vehicle in the ol’ US of A. Could have probably fit in one parking space, but didn’t bother. 🙄

Common Market in Durham has a little free library for coffee mugs. Today I left some. Got get a mug and a cup of coffee soon

Shout out to my Apple “Find My” voice who always ends notifications with rising tone? He’s my own personal king of upspeak? He’s not sure if I left my iPad or AirTag somewhere while I’m on a run? Not at all definitive? Leaving some room for doubt? Love it?

Thoughts on Pope Leo XIV: 1. XIV, isn’t Elon Musk’s kid? No, that was X Æ A-12. 2. Charlie XCX doesn’t understand Roman numerals. 3. XIV is a cool name. I’d pronounced it “ziv”

I’ve added May menus to the calendars I host. github.com/davidbradway... The DPS website that hosts the PDF menus changed. You can get the PDFs here: www.dpsnc.net/documents/de...

DPS parents! April menus are live on the calendar feeds 📅 Welcome back from Spring Break 🌺

The pollening is coming

The long-awaited crosswalk light is coming to EK Powe at Ninth St. With already reduced speed limit, added flexposts, and removal of the Knox St. slip lane, safety for kids walking and biking is improving. Now how do we get driver parents off Ninth and onto Edith to use the drop-off line?

Shots fired usa.streetsblog.org/2025/03/12/b...

Get ready for blossoms then pollen season

Downtown Bike Route designs and map are up for feedback meadhunt.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappv...

This is the year to take the GoDurham 6 bus to Duke Gardens and avoid parking altogether! Parking changes due to the Garden Gateway construction project: * No visitor parking M-F * Limited parking Sat & Sun in the H lot, next to the temporary entrance at 2000 Lewis St. gardens.duke.edu

I have five new neighborhoods to run to get back to 💯% on CityStrides. #everysinglestreet

@aaronlubeck.bsky.social I’m interested in sketching the most reasonable home that couldn’t be built under the OWD NPO and the craziest thing that could. I don’t want NPOs to survive the UDO rewrite, without tweaks at least.

Y’all, our city owns a roller rink. How cool is that? It is super fun, and I definitely recommend. I will be back.

Shout out to Durham Transportation Department. I put in a OneCall request about this right turn only sign at Main and Buchanan despite the lane being removed during restriping. They fixed it THE SAME DAY! Looking forward to the protection planned for the bike lanes between here and Broad

Road safety will improve at EK Powe with a community project funded by a Duke-Durham Neighborhood Partnership Grant. We will redesign the closed-off vehicle slip-lane at Knox St and 9th St into a vibrant space featuring a kid-designed mural and vertical elements such as planters or bike racks.

The Walltown Small Area Plan recommends bike and ped infrastructure, traffic calming, and speed bumps on West Club, Guess Road and Sedgefield Street respectively. Do you agree? An engagement session will be March 29, 10:30-12:00 at Walltown Rec Center, 1308 W Club Boulevard. bit.ly/3QG9bpa

DPS March Menu Madness! Calendars were just updated! We now have calendar files for: Breakfast in the Classroom, Breakfast K-12, Elementary School Lunch, Middle School Lunch, High School Lunch, After School Snacks, Whitted Pre-K: Breakfast, Lunch, Snack! buff.ly/6PSsTIR

Durham's last Bike+Walk Plan highlighted corridors to enhance cycling connectivity to downtown Durham, greenways, and nearby neighborhoods. A project will soon design and install bicycle amenities and traffic calming along three of the routes. Participate in March! buff.ly/42YtoOn

Do you like Safe Streets & Roads for All, the Durham-to-Roxboro Rail Trail, Reimagining the Durham Freeway, Safe & Equitable Streets, or Active Regional Transportation & Neighborhood Equity? If so, contact your senators, because these projects are in Trump, Duffy, and Bradbury’s crosshairs.

Deputy Secretary at USDOT might be Steven Bradbury, author of Project 2025's chapter on transportation. Opposed to federal funding for Transit & Vision Zero, Big Business loves him. His confirmation hearing is Thu and $41M is at stake for Durham. Call Senators Tillis and Budd to save our approved $!

USDOT Sec. Duffy is a Reality TV star turned politician-sound familiar? https://buff.ly/4hQq38J Transportation because he was on Road Rules. But now his son drives siblings to school, so he cares about safety. With 7 kids, I bet it’s a Suburban 🙄

Please take a minute to sign a petition to keep Durham buses fare free. Please share with Durham folks and repost https://buff.ly/4igOsEd

Did your kid lose busing when DPS introduced Family Responsibility Zones? Do you want to find safer walking or biking routes? I built a map for that. Click and zoom in on your school: https://buff.ly/431IMcC

I like this flexpost daylighted crosswalk near Ponysaurus. It keeps cars from parking too close to the intersection, improves visibility, and reduces crossing distance. I’d like to see this on Ninth st. Where else would it help? Probably downtown and DIY district?

👏🏾 MORE 👏🏾 BOULDERS 👏🏾 AS 👏🏾 TRAFFIC 👏🏾 CALMING 👏🏾

Second full day in the classroom since before Valentine’s Day!! 🎊 🍻🎉🥳

I like this flexpost daylighted crosswalk near Ponysaurus. It keeps cars from parking too close to the intersection, improves visibility, and reduces crossing distance. I’d like to see this on Ninth st. Where else would it help? Probably downtown and DIY district?

There’s clearly enough room for this to be a roundabout. If buses didn’t use this intersection and it wasn’t a NCDOT intersection it might be feasible. The same people that love doing donuts probably hate roundabouts. 🍩

I don’t always get a physical newspaper, but I do when my kid and I are in it! Call me a boomer, because I’m drinking coffee and flipping through the pages of the INDY newspaper 📰🗞️☕️ There’s a copy online too: https://buff.ly/419MoXy

I'm thrilled that all 18 DPS menu calendars are now accessible on any calendar app you prefer! This has been a big time-saver since it was introduced with the elementary school lunch menu. We're now including EVERY menu on the DPS site. Click the link to find your calendar ID:

Join me Monday at the Bike Durham Community Meeting at Durty Bull at 7pm. It’s local gov budget season, and there are lots of projects in the pipeline. https://buff.ly/4i5pBmE

Next month there are Open Houses and Pop Ups for some new Durham bike lane projects - Thu, Mar 20, 5-7pm - Durham Armory - Thu, Mar 27, 5-7pm - E.K. Powe Elementary Cafeteria - Fri, Mar 28, 5-7pm - Durham Coop Market Save a date: https://buff.ly/42YtoOn

This snow day I’m struck by how quiet the streets are. The falling snow absorb sound, and even more importantly, very few people are driving around. Cities aren’t loud; cars and trucks are.

And now, thanks to open-source contributions from Patrick W., we have calendars for Middle and High school!

Attention DPS families: If you ever struggle with the accessing the elementary school lunch menus, boy have I got good news for you. I am now hosting calendars in English and Spanish that you can add to Google or Apple Calendar. See the link here and share widely. sites.duke.edu/davidbradway...