So smart to rebrand the "Reconnecting Communities" program as "repairing" American infrastructure, by reimagining things like downtown highways as people-first places that can address housing shortages, create jobs, and more. This shouldn't be partisan; it's just good policy.

Cars are now being programmed to violate traffic rules. What could go wrong? Me, in @fastcompany.com. (no paywall) 🧵

What is the worst transportation idea of 2025? @davidzipper.bsky.social: "I'd like to give this award to the American transportation secretary, Sean Duffy."

4.7 billion hours is apparently ~536,530 years lost to congestion According to NHTSA data, in 2022 motor vehicle crashes led to 1,522,463 years of lost life for all ages 3x the lost time due to lives cut short than to people sitting in traffic This is why we need to prioritize #SafetyOverSpeed

Bike trail wish list! @capegazette.bsky.social (OK so we're not sure about the later ones but the Milton spur and a better canal crossing? 💯%!)

A Decade-Long Study Shows Cycling Helps Older Adults Live Longer, Healthier Lives. momentummag.com/a-decade-lon...

"Zombie" cars are just one of the traffic-increasing effects of practical robot car technology.

Microtransit is a threat to public transportation, not its savior. Case in point: In Dallas, wealthy suburbs are using microtransit as an excuse to ditch DART, the regional transit system.

In the U.S., the toll of the tragedy has climbed steadily for over a decade. Since 2010, we’ve seen an 87% increase in bicyclist deaths in the United States, with consecutive all-time records for the most deaths in the last two years of available data.

"If you don't hate John Forester, it's because you haven't read what he actually wrote" www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRPd...

Remember all the hype about how Uber and Lyft would allow people to live car-free? Well, it turns out ridehail has no discernible impact on car ownership at all. Analysis from Glenn Mercer's excellent newsletter: glennmercer.substack.com/p/the-impact...

@capegazette.bsky.social: Bicycle council recommends signs to ban mopeds from trails

A really interesting new study showing that the smaller the area at which we plan for development, the more restrictive policies become. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Decorations delight along the Lewes-to-Georgetown Trail

Alright alright alright!

THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE, MIKE JOHNSON, SAYS "IT'S GETTING REALLY UGLY" IN PORTLAND WHICH IS INCREDIBLY RUDE. I AM NEVER RUDE EVEN THOUGH OTHER PEOPLE ARE OFTEN VERY MEAN TO ME I SAY "IF YOU CAN'T SAY SOMETHING NICE DON'T SAY ANYTHING AT ALL." THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

More than Seattle. More than Sacramento. More than anyplace on the East Coast south of DC. Wilmington has the 14th highest Amtrak ridership in the U.S. (and also has a smaller population than all of the 12 cities above it on the list). Source: www.bts.gov/browse-stati... @mattmeyerde.bsky.social

THIS IS A SAVAGE AND UNCIVILIZED REBELLION AGAINST AMERICAN MODESTY LIKE NO ONE HAS EVER SEEN BEFORE. THE PRESIDENT MUST INVOKE THE INSURRECTION ACT IMMEDIATELY!!! THANK YOU FOR AVERTING YOUR EYES FROM THIS MATTER.

Today at 12:00pm! The High Cost of Free Parking - Exploring the Benefits of Parking Reform. Please join the conversation by registering here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @strongtowns.org @parkingreform.org

New research finds that midblock bus stops are particularly dangerous for people on foot. doi.org/10.1016/j.js...

More evidence that biking is really good for you: After reviewing 23 studies, researchers concluded that there a "positive association between cycling and cognition" in adults 45+. doi.org/10.1016/j.jc...

Trump is rescinding road safety grants all over the country, in blue states and red ones. The reason: those projects are "hostile" to cars. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

You cannot freeway your way to economic vitality and human connection. Larger parking lots and wider lanes will never create cleaner air. A healthier America is one where everyone is able to get to their destination without needing a car. Every community benefits from less car dependancy.

Whoever submitted this photo is our hero. (Back to school in Lewes.)

Don't these look like AI-generated images? (They're not.)

Places where we meet each other "in real life" (i.e. with all our three dimensional, physical selves not just behind a screen name) may be even more important in the Age of the Internet than they were in the past. @mattmeyerde.bsky.social t.co/ubVtBOHDfK

One way of describing this is that traffic forecasting is a bit of a black art. Another way of describing this is that traffic forecasting is bullshit.

"Between 2018 and 2023, six crashes involving bicyclists or pedestrians occurred within a half mile of this proposed trail corridor, including the tragic death of a bicyclist near Towanda last year" Apparently safety and economic development is "no longer aligned with the department’s priorities"

Kicking off something new: my Substack! It’s where I’ll go deeper on Delaware’s challenges, opportunities, and vision for the future. Hope you’ll follow along, and be sure to subscribe for updates. mattmeyerde.substack.com

#FirstCommuter #FirstState

No fewer than half of all trips in Delft are made by bike, a success replicated in cities and towns across the country. But the Dutch blueprint for urban vitality was forged on these streets decades ago, when the strategic decision was made to build a network and to build it as quickly as possible.🧵

As part of their successful campaign to get anti-stroad legislation passed in 2025 in Delaware, @bikede.bsky.social produced an excellent "Introduction to Stroads". Worth sharing.

The 39th Annual #RideForPie (aka the Amish Country Bike Tour) is Saturday, September 6.

We appreciate the Cape Gazette's longstanding interest in and coverage of bicycle safety issues.

Can you read the helmets in the photo below? When the bicycle becomes an inspiration for art, that's a sign that cycling has become interwoven into the culture of a place. #BikeLewes

8 years ago, these authors published a previous study using smartphone data to understand people's activity but couldn’t distinguish between 2 possible conclusions: does just living in a city make people walk more? Or do active people just choose to live there? 🤔

Looks AI generated but isn't.

I’ll close with a line from The City in History that might be Mumford’s most famous: “The assumed right of the private motor car to go any place in the city and park anywhere is nothing less than a license to destroy the city.”

I think decision making in school siting is an important frontier in land use policy reform. Lots of states have regulations or guidelines that either require or suggest very large sites for new schools.

Amtrak says it'd cost more than $100 billion to build high-speed rail on the Northeast Corridor. @alonlevy.bsky.social says Amtrak's wrong. New Statecraft on why. www.statecraft.pub/p/how-cheapl...

Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year, municipal officials revealed this week.

Both housing and transportation (the two largest household expenses) are savagely unaffordable for working class people in Delaware and that's mostly the fault of decades of astonishingly unwise government decisions. We need to keep working - every single day - to fix that.

A disproof for Betteridge's law of headlines!!! YES, they are safer!!!

Parents let two children, 10 and 7, walk to a grocery store ten minutes away. One of the children is struck by a car and killed. In an act of cruelty that is hard to fathom, the district attorney, Travis Page, charges the parents with involuntary manslaughter and sets bail at $1.5 million.

This is the School Lane Trail in New Castle. It got its start when the City of New Castle applied for, and won, a small Bikeway Innovation Grant. What about where you live? The deadline to apply for one of these tiny - but mighty - grants is next month. www.bikede.org/wp-content/u...

A timely study shows how bus service reductions harm seniors: "People could not reach their usual range of destinations, travelled less often, and felt a sense of entrapment in their homes...People experienced a loss of freedom, independence, and control over their lives." doi.org/10.1016/j.jt...

Public transit is great, but it is not a public good, that's not what that means!! A public good is non-excludable and non-rivalrous. Public transit is excludable (assuming there's a fare) and rivarlous (only so many seats on a train, bus can get stuck in traffic, etc).

Police arrest a suspect for hit-and-run that killed a cyclist yesterday.

9 out of 10 mathematicians agree: multimodal streets are more efficient.