Parking issues like this are going to keep happening as cars have gotten too big for our streets and the city is going to have to come up with a way to deal with this that isn't a fight street-by-street.

Amazing what happens when downtown areas allow families to walk and bike in the street. Commerce booms.

One thing many folks don’t know is that gas and diesel taxes haven’t been enough to cover highway costs for nearly 20 years, and the government uses regular old tax revenue to make up the shortfalls. t4america.org/2025/05/22/t...

They are raising taxes on electric vehicles but not on gasoline vehicles. It’s bad policy during an energy crisis but also during any other time too.

You see crazy stuff at LIRR stations Parking lots. Parks. Low-density retail. What you don’t see: a single apartment building. NY spends billions and billions on transit, then lets towns ban homes next to the train Build housing, not parking lots. 🚆🏗️

This tragedy involved a speeding driver on 85th Ave who lost control during a turn onto International. Adding to the tragedy is the knowledge that Oakland already has a major traffic safety project on 85th Ave which is expected to start construction this year.

This happens every single day and it's just shrugged off, meanwhile we have a moral panic around ebikes, devices that can actually get people out of dangerous cars.

If you're going to use this app to complain that a safe street project "took away all the parking", please remember that the rest of us have access to google maps.

The 163 tearing through Balboa Park has to at least be tied for it.

The 4 stages of #bicycle policy: 1. Bikes are obstacles (outright bans) 2. Bikes are toys (OK, your kids can ride around their subdivision) 3. Bikes are exercise (paths in parks that you drive to) 4. Bikes are transportation (you can mostly get from A to B without risking death)

Not in the mood to build a LaneSaber yourself? Let me build it for you! Just opened an Etsy store so those without tools can be safe too. This one is the heavy duty big boy that directly mounts to your rear rack. “Batteries Not Included”

I have MS e bikes give people like me viable options to cycle and switch on assistance when needed.

3. Bikes can help with balance and coordination, even if the motor is doing most of the work - and AARP emphasizes how important this is for us as we age. 4. It's not just about the amount of exercise you get, but how often you do it - and e-bikes increase the frequency and length of trips

It's a cultural construct that bikes are thought of more as a type of exercise than a way to get around in North America.

All I want is one single fully safe route to the beach. I don't think that should be so much to ask in America's beach city. If they just put a bike lane on Pacific Highway, like has been in the plans for a decade, it would be a 20 min easy bike ride to the beach from downtown.

This film ends with a warning about global warming and sea level rise. But in the 1950s, they didn’t know why it was happening, which must’ve been really scary. We now know it’s due to our burning of fossil fuels. The fact that we don’t stop it is very stupid.

intentional? It's the law in California to change lanes when passing bikes.

Bikes for the win. Guy hit another biker and then hit a car, tried to make a get away but was able to put my bike in the way to stop em (I'm unharmed).

man having Amtrak connecting bus/vans that are painted up in the same colors as Amtrak should come back

Anyone remember that time Robert Downey Jr just dropped this bike lane zinger on Twitter all nonchalantly? It's still up there.

“After analyzing crash data over a 13-year period in areas with separated bike lanes on city streets, researchers estimated that having a protected bike facility in a city would result in 44% fewer deaths and 50% fewer serous injuries than an average city.” Safer for ALL. Via @usa.streetsblog.org

E-bikes particularly assisted e-bikes open up so much possibilities and range for beginners, the not-so-abled, the elder cyclists, the amateur cyclists who want a little of freedom and exercise. I use it mainly to overcome challenging terrain. No judgement from me if you use an e-bike or a pushbike

Too many people are taken from us this way.

"what I call four-lane death roads notorious street designs that create large speed differentials and dangerous weaving. These predictably deadly designs have persisted in our cities for generations, as traffic engineers are fond of them because they improve the “level of service” at intersections"

The fixation on a small amount of lithium for ebikes is weird. Ebikes open up more recreational terrain, particularly for women, the elderly, and the disabled. I see nothing wrong with ebikes for recreational riding. People take recreational drives in cars all the time

BBC has started to use “e-motorbikes” instead of “e-bikes” and the accuracy continues with agency now used for crashes. See, journalists, it can be done! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Take it down a notch. It's a safety issue on shared paths so you don't accidentally walk into us.

Why would a car do this?

Our cargo bike literally replaces 4 trips a day. At a *bare* minimum, I go to daycare and back twice a day. Typically though there is either a shopping trip, kid activities, or a dinner at a friend's house. I suspect we're taking 20 trips a week with the kids on the cargo bike.

I guess they don't want to be in 40+ mph traffic either. This is why we shouldn't have 35 mph streets in the middle of downtown, especially when the avg speed is <10 with the traffic lights. The traffic engineers understand average speed challenge: impossible.

Every fucking day it’s something blocking the CCB. @deb-barber.bsky.social This trail was NOT built to support the weight of fucking semis!

Today in Chicago biking - $6 gas and lots of families in the Milwaukee Ave bike lane! #bikechi

This is why I have no tolerance for people who scold pedestrians/cyclists about road safety being a shared responsibility. People are killed by drivers while on the sidewalk in America, and the paper writes it up like the car just happened to have a life of its own

Every time I talk about our research on crash reporting, I point out how the effect on traffic is mentioned in the same breath, or even before as in this case, the details of the crash. It is absolutely important to keep first responders safe but it usually sounds more about inconveniencing drivers.

“Rising costs, a dying planet, constant traffic, the creeping sense that your daily routine revolves around a machine that drains your time, money, and attention.” 46 reasons to ditch your car (or at least stop using it for everything). Via @momentummag.bsky.social momentummag.com/reasons-to-d...

The price reflects the fact that this would be the view from your front yard. Urban freeways are, among many other things, a transfer of property value from urban neighborhoods to suburban neighborhoods.

We just received this email regarding UIC obstructing bike lanes

A "juvenile pedestrian" is also known as a child who was killed by a driver.

There's a ride in support tomorrow morning! bsky.app/profile/tran...

A bunch of people held a protest about a traffic calming project on 72nd Street just last week. One of the complaints was that people might get hit by bikes.

Watching the interconnectivity of first-rate bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure, along with a massive road diet in Southwest Philly, gives us hope for a City that works to improve the life of all of its residents. #VisionZeroPHL

If this were an ebike, the community would be really upset.

Someone on my block got a loading zone turned into two parking spaces, so now UPS/FedEx/Amazon/etc. block the bike lane and car traffic, creating massive headaches for everyone. Just another example of how hard it is to make things better on our streets but how easy it is to make things worse.

Riding into the weekend like

Mayor Katie Wilson: "Everyone poops" as she is about to cut the toilet paper ribbon on a new public bathroom in Pioneer Square at 2nd and Washington.

Some snaps from La Jolla, California

We’ve had some VERY cute dogs in our @mcbl.bike bikes… but whoa, look at this one:

I hopped over to the new Leland raised bike lane for a little de-stress ride, and saw two families riding in it right away!

wrong 1. kinetic energy goes quadratic with speed 2. posted speed limits are already too high because they are set by traffic engineering pseudoscience which is biased towards speeding up traffic flow