A lesson for transit supporters: cutting service will never satisfy the critics AND will generate more people resentful of their lack of service

These Machines Fight Traffic. Our @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social billboard is live.

This is a billboard with a worthwhile message. Now we need more protected bike lanes designed for all micro-mobility needs to get people on those bikes shopping, commuting, going to school, or running errands. Space for cargobikes, trikes, & wheelchairs to travel, maneuver, & park, too.

what next? what, are we gonna provide *roads* for the wealthy too? gonna have health inspectors keep contaminants out of their groceries? are we just gonna have gutters and sewer systems around rich people's homes?

This is so, so well-articulated.

Wasn't it the University Blvd bike/bus lane project where they showed that the repurposed lane WOULD slow traffic during rush hour, but the slower traffic was still above the posted speed limit?

Worth a read. Seems to me that the holes in the ground in the middle of a plaza were a kludge and were actually intended to be in the basement of a planned building. With infinite money, they'd be better off putting the station entrances on corner lots and erecting buildings on part of the plaza

DC mayoral frontrunner Janeese Lewis George's housing platform: —Zone for high density around Metro —Allow 6-unit apartments districtwide —End parking requirements citywide —Offer pre-approved building designs —Establish a social housing program —Build 72,000 homes in 5 years, double current rate

Starting the morning with some good news.

Tokyo, much more than other cities I’ve seen, loves upper-floor retail. Stores advertise their presence with facade signs (lower left) and/or perpendicular signs (upper right). It wouldn’t work in a city with a lot more driving - the parking lot would need to be too big.

The U.S. doesn’t produce enough vegetable oil to meet a new biofuels mandate, so suppliers will have to ramp up imports of vegetable oil, putting pressure on tropical forests overseas. via @insideclimatenews.org

Growing food to make fuel might have seemed like a good idea in 1990 but in 2026 it is not. Replacing transportation fuel with electricity is the only sane approach.

Cynically, it is almost impossible to relinquish power. The use of power inevitably generates resentment. One really does have the 'wolf by the ear'.

They were never all that profitable. (Then, neither are highways and roads.) But what a public service they provided! And, because they were powered by electricity...

Architects like to show you their tower designs from bird perspective at dusk with all windows lit. I'll show you what towers look like to pedestrians, at street level: #towersatstreetlevel Betsal'el Yafe St, Tel Aviv 19 03 2026 10:28

...they weren't a source of local pollution in the countryside. (Unlike steam trains). Imagine a restored electric interurban system powered by wind or solar. Many European cities have de facto electric interurban systems. Among them Karlsruhe, Germany, whose trams run far outside the city.

I look into the history of the interurban in the US and Canada in this (evergreen!) High Speed dispatch: www.highspeed.blog/interurban-n...

Oh so they are substantially increasing allowable housing density, eliminating minimum parking requirements, eliminating free parking, and accelerating greenway development? Great news!

Trying to imagine the Seattle Times running a story questioning whether a new highway extension will be "reliable" even though disruptive roadway crashes are so much more frequent than light rail outages.

"These changes have helped Paris double its modal share for bikes, which has risen from 5% of all journeys in 2020 to over 11% in 2025... the shift is highly noticeable in central Paris, where 3.5 million bikes were recorded as passing along one main avenue, the Boulevard de Sebastopol, in 2025."

God, this is amazing. I wish a single US city had this vision or courage.

governments should be giving away e-bikes and that was true before the self induced gas crisis.

prevention.

Sorry folks, but you're going to be spammed with pictures of Bologna's tram in the nect few days as one of the major section through the city center is mostly completed and my feed is full of pics I feel compelled to share

On Sat 3/14/26 6:30 pm the driver (49/M) of a 2015 Toyota Corolla going south on Montgomery Village Ave [at the shopping center] hit & injured a person (24/M) on an e-bike crossing properly in a marked crosswalk. Police (MCP27600089) found the driver at fault: "other improper action".

“Vision Zero really forced communities to say, ‘This is not OK. We’re not just going to accept this rise year-over-year as inevitable,’” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/h...

"As with gun violence, [traffic fatalities] is a uniquely American problem not shared by the country’s global peers." "In the U.S., the rate of vehicular death is more than 4Xs higher than it is in Britain & Germany" www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/h...

“Our main challenge now is securing enough EV supply to meet the growing waiting list.” No surprise? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

it would be difficult to script the American Century of Humiliation much more poignantly than this

Bus lanes can be painted in overnight. Just sayin. #bcpoli #cdnpoli #publictransit @movementyvr.bsky.social @bettertransityyj.ca

I was involved in early planning for this segment, and if this comes to pass, I’m gonna really be depressed. 2026 has chosen both large-scale and extremely-targeted ways to ruin everything.

We are deeply saddened to learn that a two-year-old girl was hit and killed by a driver on February 27, 2026 at the intersection of 4th & Channel Streets. Walk SF and Families for Safe Streets will hold a vigil for the victim at 4th and Channel Streets today,March 2 at 5PM. Please join if you can.

”In the European Union, transport remains the only major economic sector where carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions have risen since 1990.” #EU27 should not ease the regulations. theicct.org/pr-road-tran...

Them: "Cycling is only for the athletic one percent!" 😡 Cyclists:

It’s a fools errand to try and rationalize any of planning’s rules that block density. Its to “environmentally fragile” to build a sixplex on a ‘steel slope’ but we built giant highrises downtown on steeper slopes in the 1980s.

I’m not a fan of politicians trying to make people angry for votes by claiming there actually IS a “war on cars” (there isn’t — if anything there’s been a war on every OTHER way of getting around since the 1960s). A politician just made the claim on LinkedIn. Here’s the reply I posted. #UrbanTruth

been on this for awhile but its neat to see actual journalists just come out and say “we are epistemic nihilists who’s greatest aspiration is to propagate the ideas of the powerful”

My old landlord made an error and wanted to drop my security deposit off to me directly. He pulls up to my new building driving a very new Porsche. That’s who the housing shortage enriches, folks! Just build more!

Self driving systems are NOT all created equal. I am a happy Waymo customer. I would never ride in a Tesla operating in self driving mode.

Nice work by CM Katy Yaroslavsky to get coffee kiosks in all the new Metro D Line stations opening in May! cdn.mc-weblink.sg-mktg.com/weblink/MTc3...

The most insidious thing about car dependency is what it does to us. The more dependent on cars they make us, the more WE’LL fight to defend that dependency from ANY change that would allow other CHOICES in how to get around, because we’re so dependent that we can’t picture ANYONE choosing them.

#hermannknoflacher #interview #translation

There are cities were you even need a car just to cross the street ...🤔

Fascists hate walkable cities Because they show that you can build diverse communities And that these communities will stand up for eachother

“Conspiracy theories about globalist cabals, climate hoaxes and election fraud may seem ubiquitous on social media. But a report has found that they come from a tiny minority of users… just 100 users were responsible for almost 70% of online conspiracy posts…” Via @nationalobserver.com #UrbanTruth

The energy crisis of the 1970s was the last thing that made railroad executives take electrification seriously. Don’t let this one go to waste.

So, it turns out that the UK national security report on nature -only published last month thanks to an FOI request - omitted the most serious forecasts. I've updated my earlier piece here with the @itvnews.bsky.social revelations: medium.com/the-new-clim...

It's crash data update day. 105 people struck and killed on our roads since 2018, when we first committed to Vision Zero. Many fatal crashes from 2025 are still under investigation, so not entered in database docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

It's quite simple!