e-bikes are no kidding good for national security bsky.app/profile/cost...

Massachusetts’ housing crisis didn’t just happen to us… we created it. Half-century-old, exclusionary zoning policies still handcuff us today. There’s no single fix or overnight solution, but another year of delay and slow-walking reform is simply unacceptable & unsustainable.

Been seeing a lot of hate online for California's new FAST law which basically allows the DMV to auto-revoke your license for a speeding ticket... IF you're going 100+ mph Can we please be so ffr rn. Nobody NEEDS to be going over 100mph 🤦‍♀️ You deserve to get your license revoked at that point

Trump says they're going to make a "lot of money" from Venezuela's oil, oil companies say that's not possible, Rubio says they're not doing regime change and is now in charge of the government but there's still a Venezuelan government in place, they said it's about fentanyl but no charges mention it

12 apartments built behind an historic facade, in Barcelona. By AMOO Architects Love the pale mint green features!

I thoroughly resent the fact that the last ten years have been wasted on Donald Trump rather than building this vision of America.

Don't forget folks: allowing yourself a vision of the future you'd want for our country and planet - not the one you'd settle for, not the one you fear, but the future of your dreams - isn't naive, it's a vital cognitive skill. That's how we articulate what we most value. What's worth fighting for.

Took the words right out of my mouth. Yes. Co-signed

this kinda stuff is prohibited in the EU thanks to all the "red tape" that's "slowing down innovation" that big tech constantly complains about

Okay here’s an actual take: the fascist international is at war with the very concept of legitimacy.

The mayor says something really important about something that's bugged me for a long time: that we force grieving families to relive their trauma over and over again as they lobby elected officials asking them to do the right thing. I am so glad to hear him say those days are over.

"I'm so sorry that we could not have done this earlier...to have saved the loved ones in your life. But I thank you fopr the work that you have done...to ensure that this pain not be felt by others who call this same city home." — Mayor Mamdani at McGuinness Blvd. presser youtube.com/shorts/uwAYI...

Many such cases etc

Yes, it’s true, Republican presidents have been violating the law & Constitution with impunity for my entire life.

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

Jinan didn't even have a metro when I left in 2015. It opened in 2019

One thing I wrote about here is how technology has made buses *way* more convenient while techno-futurists were obsessed with flying taxis and self-driving cars.

Good science fiction predicts not the car, but the traffic jam

This prediction was on the money! A 2021 study showed that traffic congestion leads people to want bigger cars (which automakers have gladly built): "We have found credible and robust empirical evidence that congestion delays affect vehicle size choice." Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.je...

Montgomery County's leaders have been committing more of their limited resources to housing policy in recent years.

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A List of Predictions Made in 1926 About 2026 🧵

shades of truth here, with lessons in the shortfall: ancient, enduring factors site cities and drive growth, so it's expensive to distance from those optima. The temporary abundance of petro resources enabled the creation of vast areas of unsustainable sub-urban sprawl.

There will be so many cars that none of them will be able to move

Guangzhou really do be working those external elevator retrofits.

Honestly pretty shocking it was just 50% before the pandemic but falling by half in 5 years is horrifying

This is 100% my expectation as well and if we (researchers, policy people, etc.) don’t think that outcome is obvious, then we need to make plain the effects of changes that indirectly facilitate it.

A worry I have with AVs is the tech will be used as an excuse to further maximize traffic flow at the expense of people not in cars. This is part of that process.

2025 was an odd year

Let that thIng DROP

Make da money pig

We salute the dauntless drivers of PRT on this snowy night

I think we take for granted that transit needs a certain level of density to make sense and apply that reasoning to everything when bike infrastructure can work at much lower densities that are already common across the country

Waymo cars, way mo problems

It's interesting that people think congestion pricing only works if you have New York density and transit -- folk wisdom. Congestion pricing can work anywhere you use it. Most car trips in the USA are under 3 miles. Congestion pricing removes both implied and explicit subsidies to drive everywhere.

#PennsylvaniaUrbanism is one of the commonwealth's great (oft-neglected) strengths. Communities of all sizes are so often just a few buses short of being car-optional

An astonishing percentage of Americans are open to car-free living. The problem isn't attitudes. The problem is the failure to invest in viable options. humantransit.org/2025/12/many...

Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true

Pope Strength Alignment Miracle ...👀👀👀👀

There’s a narrative that it’s economically much harder to densify already-developed urban areas, so YIMBYism won’t do much. This has some truth, but it can’t explain why the *densest* urban tracts have added substantially more housing than inner-ring suburbs since 2014

🗣️ What do w want? 👥 Little <$25k meep meeps!

will never cease to amaze me that china built out it's HSR infra for about a trillion dollars - while the US spends roughly 1.5 trillion a year just on *car ownership*

These two images of Chinese train driver Han Junjia were taken less than 30 years apart. Transformative change is possible when it is relentlessly pursued.

extremely post-Brexit UK coded

Ship Shapes… You could probably colour these in, if you were so inclined. #Spaceships #SciFi #Illustration

In the past few days a bunch of new High Speed Railway lines opened in China. Pushing China's HSR network to over 50,000km in length. But what does...

Xmas Day 04... supplies are dwindling

All of the money that changed hands in the Teapot Dome scandal totaled less than $10 million after adjusting for inflation, and it was considered so corrupt we still teach it in high school government classes a century later.