why are septa buses the quietest motorized vehicles on the road

To the FOPS fops, have we considered offering modal filtering? Shut down Pine and Spruce as thru streets for cars, so they don’t need to worry about blocking the car travel lane? Could even put the bike lane down the middle so they wouldn’t need to fear death by bike

Hey now, exactly what Angelo’s should be doing 😍🥳

When you're stuck in traffic, think of me

Density is the solution for traffic, actually

“They call me Claritin *D* because the benefits of *deez* policies can’t get any clearer”

Philadelphia's desirability keeps increasing. It's very hard to imagine that long term the best use of its central waterfront is a major highway with existing alternative routes.

Picture this: a world with cargo bikes instead of delivery trucks That’s it, that’s the tweet

Bing bong y’all open.substack.com/pub/makedriv...

Anyone have a list of Philly CM blue sky accounts? Search is killing me tbh

its spreading! huge news, cant wait to see it in more places and maybe made to be full time instead of just 1 day every so often.

Wrote about this many years ago on Twitter, but your actual goal should be 5 trains/buses an hour - so a 12 minute interval. This breaks a couple of important psychological barriers for people, based on research by TfL (London's transport operator). Will explain. 🧵 /1

I'm ..still going on about LVT. And the People's Budget. If anyone has the ear of folks in CM KB's office or API PA, have them give it a look. I am very pro-A-Budget-For-The-People, but it's gotta be one that.. actually is for the people.

..has anyone told CM Brooks about LVT yet A wealth tax will only hurt Philly residents, not help the city, and continue to let nonresidents exploit the city while extracting its wealth #LVT #theRealPeoplesBudget ajustphiladelphia.org

TIL Philly has an amusement tax? “Why is it so hard for artists and venues to thrive in Philly I don’t get it!!” 🙄 Yes, this relates to driving and urban design (Tax on events = higher price = prioritize rich suburbanites = parking lots, among other things) www.phila.gov/services/bus...

“We think this is a great pilot program and put us in a position to make sure that young people are traveling to and from school in the safest possible way” Thank you for your leadership @cmthomasphl.bsky.social

Might be a hot take here, but if you think you have to drive over the flex posts to park, you’re the asshole

With the Angelo’s article in Inky, I'm noodling (ha, except they do pizza, not pasta) on some ideas for a vision for Angelo’s. All ideas being thrown around that operate in the system as it is really don’t feel great to me. So here's a thread

If your argument against bike infrastructure is “I drive because I have to”—exactly. The goal is that you won’t have to. Obviously, there are plenty of socioeconomic reasons you currently have to—but those should be solved *also*, not *instead*.

“The [LVT] hits keep coming, and they don’t stop coming” –Smash Mouth, 1999, true visionaries of a better world (and fiscal policy)

I decided to look a bit more closely at what it would take to replace ALL Philly taxes with LVT (and thus shift financial burden towards landowners, particularly in wealthier parts of the city) Here’s some napkin math:

Just bumping a decades-old inquirer article about Harrisburg’s SEPTA funding conundrum is self-imposed Lmk if I blinked and this changed

Hot toddy karate, how do we feel about the Substack AI-generated video voiceovers? 😵‍💫

We know what works: daylighting corners (30% fewer crashes), speed cameras (91% less speeding on Roosevelt), raised crosswalks. What's blocking progress? Not money (well, not only money), but councilmanic prerogative. Oslo, Helsinki—even Hoboken —didn't get to zero deaths with a patchwork approach

Tetris and Frogger: fundamental lessons of urban design

A city-bounded wealth tax would inherently only hurt those without the means to leave ..right? Under that framework, nonresidents that own Philly land can still freely extract that profit, while functionally dodging all burden to contribute to the city Land value tax is the real people’s tax plan

🎶What if god were one of us / 🎶just a slob like one of us / 🎶just a stranger complaining about daylighting to their council member and markedly increasing the likelihood of a kid getting struck by a moving vehicle all for the sake of a free parking spot in the most walkable city in the states? 🎶🎶🎶🎶

Enough is enough. Too many have been lost to cyclists. Concrete protection for car doors now!

Giving it the ol’ pin-post to get that sweet plug on the board makedrivingsuckless.com