The people are crying out for trains!!

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...

They did, but they ran out and forgot how to make new ones.

The point of my statement is that congestion pricing was successful (and being popular is a big component to success in policy) because it was implemented where there’s already viable alternatives in place but yeah sure accuse me of not having imagination or whatever

NYC is the only place in the country where more than half of households don't own a car. People take transit in NYC not because they're all transit nerds, but because it's more convenient. That was true before congestion pricing in Manhattan.

Reducing car dependency is enacting a right to travel by means other than a car. It's the opposite of infringing on a right to travel. It's giving people more options. This is good for everyone, but specifically it's good for drivers because it means fewer other cars on the road.

i too have begun watching the straight man hockey podcasts discuss heated rivalry. this is the forum of athens to me

“The neighborhood is so peaceful and quiet because all the transplants went back to Ohio.” No they didn’t. It’s Christmas, they’re inside with their family/friends, and all the stores are closed.

The point I wish got emphasized more is that the big winners from congestion pricing are *people who urgently need to drive*. Because they are ones that travel times really matter for. I always thought that instead of congestion pricing it should be called "free streets" - free from other cars.

A YouTuber visualized a redesign of Elston & Ashland, and this looks like a dream - protected bike lane, shorter cross walks, and clearer no more chaotic intersection youtube.com/shorts/YWQyz...

I feel like I'm going to get a lot of use out of this Pluribus screencap

when i eat too much tylenol

Protecting the prairie means a stop to sprawl, which also means sustainable growth needs to come from the areas we’ve already built out: infill and density. And making the urban core *more* auto-dependent blows a hole in the simple geometry of making more space for more people.

A master and commander movie where the entire runtime is just the crew showing Aubrey around the ship and explaining the names and purposes of the individual sails and riggings.

Increasingly yes.

Sorry, but you shouldn't need fucking hiking boots with spikes to walk around your neighborhood

If a roadway carried as high a risk of personal injury to drivers for weeks on end as this icy sidewalk does for pedestrians, wouldn’t the City of Chicago do something about it?

@chicagocta.bsky.social You gotta figure out the bus bunching. Please.

for anyone unaware since I have moots with this person, @climateandtransit.bsky.social is out here today being super ableist and gross! you would think a climate and transit activist would have more care for people with disabilities but I guess not.

This piece is so good

I’ll be the first to remove the facade: I DO have an emotionally driven hatred of cars!

The Discourse is about speed cameras and ignition interlocks. Neither of these are carceral, because they are alternatives to police and prisons. Speed cameras remove racist and violent cops from enforcement of speeding, and interlocks prevent multiple offenses - or crashes - that lead to jail time.

It is literally life and death if you speed

for whatever reason, the victims of traffic violence never factor into the calculation. no urgency there. but do something that might affect a suburban lawyer who had a few drinks and then it becomes an “equity” issue

Is it just me, or do Chicago alders have way too much power?

It's gonna be overcast and freezing in Chicago for another 4 months, isn't it

it's my time, the people are reaching for the term Secular Calvinism they just need it to be handed to them

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I came across *the* example I have been hammering with these food delivery robots. A man with a mobility aid is forced to step aside because there is not room for him because the robot will not make room for a person (esp. those with a mobility aid who need addditional room)

i don't get the love for waymo in certain urbanist circles. it's safer cars, at least it seems that way from available data, but it's more cars. more cars are bad! we should want less cars!

Imagine getting off the bus at this stop on a major arterial street in Chicago. The ramp comes down and you roll off with a wheelchair or walker. I use this stop often with my kids. The packed ice is about 4 inches thick. The trampled boot path is around 12 inches wide.

How much of our lack of non-car mobility infrastructure can be summed up this way? The city doesn't provide it because no one uses it. --> No one uses it because the city doesn't provide it. --> The city doesn't provide it because no one uses it. And on and on...

this must feel so good if ur a sidewalk

RT to scare a Chicago alderperson #PlowTheSidewalks

Woman fatally struck by CTA bus after apparent slip in South Shore: Chicago police What a tragedy. #PlowTheSidewalks is literally a matter of life and death in Chicago. wgntv.com/news/chicago...

lmao

This op-ed is truly terrible. A few obvious failures: 🔹 Why are Waymo's self-reported data treated as fact? 🔹 Why does the writer ignore myriad ways to save lives that are cheaper, more reliable, and quicker than waiting for AVs? 🔹 Why doesn't he mention he's a VC partner?

The other thing that would be a transformative public safety breakthrough would be a massive build-out of public transit. Further entrenching car-dominance is not the answer.

Yes, but important caveat at the end:

How do you enter the house? Nevermind, it’s better you don’t

Cyber what now? And what has coffee to do with cyber anything? Stop with all the delivery subscriptions. Go visit your local coffee shop. Leave your house, fart around.

The 82 bus stop in front of the Home Depot on Kimball is ~440ft from the bus stop by Addison. There's no crosswalk there, so you have to walk up to Addison anyway if you want to cross safely. Remove it!

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

Save your brain, ride the train

One hour of leaf blowing generates as much pollution as driving a car for over 1,000 miles!

I haven't owned a car in over a decade and I'm finding that the longer I go, the more anxiety I have about driving, or even being driven places. I'll take an occasional Lyft if I have to, but it makes me anxious.

The cost of time for transit in (some) metro areas is only because we built every damn thing to prioritize cars over transit, not because of some innate, natural law.

What is going on??

THERES NO MORE TRAFFIC JAMS IN LOWER MANHATTAN!