If you are in the Reno area and free on Tuesday night, come join us at Brewer's Cabinet at 6 pm to talk road safety as part of the Truckee Meadows Bicycle Alliance World Day of Remembrance for victims of traffic violence. Thanks to @talbright.bsky.social for inviting me.

Today, Circulate joined elected officials and Families for Safe Streets to honor lives lost to traffic violence. As we commemorate these lives, we also call on our elected officials to invest in safety measures to ensure that more San Diegans do not lose loved ones on city streets.

The city skipped adding any bike infrastructure when they redid Selkirk a couple years ago, in favour of keeping this a high-speed, high-traffic corridor for people who live further out.

Apparently Whole Foods has never heard of someone picking up groceries on a bicycle

"Contrast this with the majority of American cities today, where you are 3 to 4 times more likely to get killed walking on a road. There is no way for my kids to ride their bikes to school without riding on a highway. The walking street is a single block long." marylandmatters.org/2025/11/15/w...

As it’s Sunday, take a moment to imagine how good life would be if your neighbourhood was built for people.

can't make this stuff up 🤦‍♂️

Indiana now has the chonkiest protected bike lane in the city.

Building new housing does not destroy neighborhoods. Single family homes are the most expensive and luxurious form of housing, which is why nearly all rich people live in them.

Biking on the painted bike lanes of Pacific Highway is tolerable when you get rid of the 6 lanes of speeding car drivers. #BikeInfrastructure #ButWeGaveYouABikeLane #Highway99 #PacificHighway

5p, tonight www.eventbrite.com/e/life-after...

Here’s the thing—things like suburban sprawl have insulated people in anti-social enclaves. A pro-social built environment would not only make them less susceptible to narratives of the “Other” it would make gerrymandering much harder and leas effective.

Bikes Win @nyc.streetsblog.org @transalt.org @bikeleague.org @ourstreetsmn.org @lauragmitchell.com @revborfo.bsky.social soundcloud.com/biketalk/254...

The School Safety Zone: VISION ZERO at #WorldBicycleDay Elementary School in Witaszyce is now a reality: 20 km/h, speed humps, lighting, & visible signage. This was about changing minds. After 2 years the first VISION ZERO school safety zone in Poland is official. Safer streets are nation-building.

Your reminder that it is the law in California to change lanes when passing bikes. #safestreets #bikesky

Next livestream recording is this Thursday, Nov 20 at 5p ET. Join us on YouTube (or listen later on any pod platform): www.youtube.com/watch?v=Suvj... On the agenda: 🔹 Trump's plan to kill federal transit funding 🔹 Europe's urbanist backlash 🔹 The meaning of "access"

Here it is, your #BlueSky #Bike Content of the Day for Saturday, 11/15/25, @thewaroncars.bsky.social edition! Sorry they are in San Diego for a rare rainy weekend, but, it was still quite bikeable out there today -

Just about every elected official is a coward when it comes to street safety. They're more afraid of angering a few drivers than they are of those drivers killing and maiming their own constituents. It's pathetic and unforgivable. Vote out any local official who doesn't prioritize safe streets.

Walk. Bike. Ride the bus. Stop buying monster trucks to commute to work and get groceries.

Close Telegraph to cars immediately! Berkeley voted years ago to close it by rebuilding the street, but it can be closed to cars immediately with plastic posts and signs Safety can't wait any longer

Every car in your city represents $8-12K/year being sucked out of your local economy instead of being spent on housing, goods & services. I wish more parking-obsessed retailers & elected officials understood this. #WindshieldBias

Me: We're looking for a city or region where we can live in a walkable community with easy access to trains, groceries, and restaurants. My Mom, who lives in the boonies: But why, when you can just have a car? Me:

Trigger warning. “In crashes, SUVs are more likely to strike vital organs in the core of adults’ bodies & heads of children. Hitting pedestrians above their center of gravity means they’re more likely to be knocked forward & down and then be driven over.” Plus more likely to hit in the 1st place.

Car-free Telegraph when

Stopped into Hey Books! in San Diego and they had LIFE AFTER CARS in the window! They’ll be supplying books for our event here at the Adams Avenue Theater Sunday evening.

It says it all

If the bike lane is too narrow to fit the bike symbol, it's too narrow to be safe for the majority of people.

As we were sitting in San Diego’s Balboa Park doing an interview with KPBS someone came by on a bike and recognized us. Turns out Aidan is a listener and supporter – note the water bottle – and was just wrapping up a cross-country bike ride! What an awesome coincidence.

"'I love not owning a car,' said Teal Burns of Halifax. Many others said the same thing in slightly different ways. Those who previously owned a car say they don't miss the cost and hassle of owning a car or the stress of driving." Same. www.cbc.ca/news/climate...

Was having a blessed day. Biked over 20 miles, got a sausage at vanguard, pie at honey pie, stopped at beth eaton's for gifts, and got verbally assaulted for asking this car not to park in a bike lane. And there was open parking Some days, I don't like people 😾

Walkable Cities: My kid can walk over to her bestie’s house, so I get an hour to myself.

Drivers crash into children and kill them: •At crosswalks (pedestrian crossings) •While waiting for the bus •Innocently playing at daycare •Walking or riding from school Oh and now they’ve up it to shooting children because killing them with their vehicle clearly wasn’t enough. smh

I’ve worked on parking policies in a lot of cities, and every city should be looking at getting rid of minimum parking requirements, while considering maximum parking requirements downtown & around transit stations. At an absolute minimum though, REMOVE PARKING REQUIREMENTS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING.

how many pedestrians have been killed by uber drivers? is the statistic even counted?

In high-demand urban areas, premiums for homes on well connected greenways can reach 10–20% when directly connected to a high-quality bike/ped greenway.

It's honestly kind of nuts that people spend like $10,000 a year just to kill the planet more and get home slower than they would on an ebike.

Hey BLU, I got a USPS hat trick on my ride home today. What do I win??? 🎩 🧢 👒 🎓🪖⛑️🤠🥳 @bikelaneuprising.bsky.social #BikeChi

Most money spent on cars and their infrastructure is extracted from local economics. This extraction devastates local businesses which keep more money in their local economics than businesses like Walmart who offer cheaper goods. It leaves local businesses vulnerable to being wiped out in recessions

Indicators of safe cycling infrastructure: 🐶 Dogs in baskets 🛞 Wheelie kids 👫 Families riding side-by-side 💃 Dressed in ordinary clothing 👵 Yer granny on a trike 🧑🏿‍🦽‍➡️ Mobility scooters in bike lanes

Right after my PM crossing guard shift, one block from school and on a street heavily used by children riding bikes. WTF?!??

Damn e-bikes are always all over the sidewalk

The City of Los Angeles has 43,700 homeless people. Seven of them die on the streets every day. Mobilizing the planning department to slow-walk new mixed income housing near the train stations that taxpayers spent billions of dollars building reflects perverse priorities at best.

Mainstream publications often call livable streets advocates "bike activists" and "avid cyclists." Streetsblog has started calling anti-Complete Streets NIMBYs "car activists" and "avid drivers." 😜 chi.streetsblog.org/2025/11/12/c...

With $3 billion you could easily 10x transit service for the 1 million+ people in Santa Clara County

The hidden costs of car dependency.

I'm beginning to suspect that the Trump administration wants a major increase in homelessness because they believe the resulting horrors will all be blamed on big city mayors. So many of their recent actions on food support, housing support, and healthcare all point this way.

Living in Alberta the pickup trucks scare me as an adult pedestrian. Whether they see me or not, the height means major head and upper body trauma on impact. Shorter cars meant you might recover from your injuries to lower extremities, not anymore with the mega sized killer pickups.

“The rise in high-fronted SUVs poses a clear and growing threat to public safety, especially for children,” states the report. “With no benefit to society, it’s time for lawmakers at all levels to act.” Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. Cap SUV/truck hood heights. And ban unsafe designs.

"Daylighting isn’t a culture war issue; it’s a common-sense one. Whether you walk, drive, bike, or push a stroller, we all want to get home safely. And if that means giving up the illusion of one extra parking spot per block, I’d call that a fair trade."

If you're around on Monday Nov 24 10am, please plan to come support me at the Board of Public Works meeting at LA City Hall. I did a write-up about what #MeasureHLA appeals the BPW will be deciding that day labikas.wordpress.com/2025/11/14/f...