Carter Lavin
@carterlavin.bsky.social
Training folks to win transportation changes like bus lanes, bike lanes, & car-free plazas. Author of "If you want to win, you've got to fight: a guide to effective transportation advocacy" https://islandpress.org/books/if-you-want-win-youve-got-fight#desc
"This is the book I have been looking for since 2022"
"I've been waiting for this book for years"
I wrote this #bike #transit street safety advocacy book in part because I wished I had it when I was younger. Heartening to see it help other people, too
www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
"I've been waiting for this book for years"
I wrote this #bike #transit street safety advocacy book in part because I wished I had it when I was younger. Heartening to see it help other people, too
www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
If You Want to Win, You've Got to Fight: A Guide to Eff…
Your transit and street safety dreams are within your r…
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November 25, 2025 at 5:23 PM
"This is the book I have been looking for since 2022"
"I've been waiting for this book for years"
I wrote this #bike #transit street safety advocacy book in part because I wished I had it when I was younger. Heartening to see it help other people, too
www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
"I've been waiting for this book for years"
I wrote this #bike #transit street safety advocacy book in part because I wished I had it when I was younger. Heartening to see it help other people, too
www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
Reposted by Carter Lavin
Got some new reading in the mail today. Thanks for writing and sharing your thoughts, @carterlavin.bsky.social!
November 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Got some new reading in the mail today. Thanks for writing and sharing your thoughts, @carterlavin.bsky.social!
"Tactics for The War on Cars in These Increasingly Trying Times" a review of my new book!
islandpress.org/blog/tactics...
islandpress.org/blog/tactics...
Tactics for The War on Cars in These Increasingly Trying Times
In his just released book, If You Want to Win, You’ve Got to Fight, Carter Lavin lays out a concise game plan for promoting green mobility with proven tactics for promoting green mobility infrastructu...
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November 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
"Tactics for The War on Cars in These Increasingly Trying Times" a review of my new book!
islandpress.org/blog/tactics...
islandpress.org/blog/tactics...
Cities partner with community members ALL the time in building. Cities set up permitting & inspection processes on all sorts of things. If they can't build the improvements we need, then they should at least set up a permitting process so we can do it ourselves
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Could Cities Partner With Guerilla Urbanists For Safer Streets?
Los Angeles failed to eliminate traffic fatalities, so Angelenos are taking Vision Zero into their own hands – one bucket of paint at a time.
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November 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Cities partner with community members ALL the time in building. Cities set up permitting & inspection processes on all sorts of things. If they can't build the improvements we need, then they should at least set up a permitting process so we can do it ourselves
nextcity.org/urbanist-new...
nextcity.org/urbanist-new...
If You Want To Win, You've Got To Fight: A Guide To Effective Transportation Advocacy has now been on:
AC Transit
LA Metro
BART!
Get your copy today at
islandpress.org/books/if-you... and snap a pic next time you're reading it on the bus or train
AC Transit
LA Metro
BART!
Get your copy today at
islandpress.org/books/if-you... and snap a pic next time you're reading it on the bus or train
November 24, 2025 at 3:29 AM
If You Want To Win, You've Got To Fight: A Guide To Effective Transportation Advocacy has now been on:
AC Transit
LA Metro
BART!
Get your copy today at
islandpress.org/books/if-you... and snap a pic next time you're reading it on the bus or train
AC Transit
LA Metro
BART!
Get your copy today at
islandpress.org/books/if-you... and snap a pic next time you're reading it on the bus or train
Ever read a book that:
-Lays out the details of a societal problem
-Explains the solutions
-Ends by encouraging you to take political action (but lacks details of what that means)
This book picks up where those books end & is a step by step guide to winning change
islandpress.org/books/if-you...
-Lays out the details of a societal problem
-Explains the solutions
-Ends by encouraging you to take political action (but lacks details of what that means)
This book picks up where those books end & is a step by step guide to winning change
islandpress.org/books/if-you...
If You Want to Win, You've Got to Fight
islandpress.org
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Ever read a book that:
-Lays out the details of a societal problem
-Explains the solutions
-Ends by encouraging you to take political action (but lacks details of what that means)
This book picks up where those books end & is a step by step guide to winning change
islandpress.org/books/if-you...
-Lays out the details of a societal problem
-Explains the solutions
-Ends by encouraging you to take political action (but lacks details of what that means)
This book picks up where those books end & is a step by step guide to winning change
islandpress.org/books/if-you...
You're invited to the online event "If You Want to Win, You’ve Got to Fight: A Guide to Effective High-Speed Rail Advocacy" hosted by @hsrail.bsky.social next month. Check it out and help spread the word
www.hsrail.org/events/if-yo...
www.hsrail.org/events/if-yo...
If You Want to Win, You’ve Got to Fight: A Guide to Effective High-Speed Rail Advocacy | High Speed Rail Alliance
Speaker: Carter Lavin, author and activist Whether you’re pushing for high-speed rail, better buses, or safer streets, transportation advocate Carter […]
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November 22, 2025 at 5:18 PM
You're invited to the online event "If You Want to Win, You’ve Got to Fight: A Guide to Effective High-Speed Rail Advocacy" hosted by @hsrail.bsky.social next month. Check it out and help spread the word
www.hsrail.org/events/if-yo...
www.hsrail.org/events/if-yo...
Bike, transit, and street safety advocacy can (and often should!) be lots of fun.
Building community and making the world a better place is fun! And the better you get at it, the more fun/less stressful it is.*
This book will help you have an easier time of it
islandpress.org/books/if-you...
Building community and making the world a better place is fun! And the better you get at it, the more fun/less stressful it is.*
This book will help you have an easier time of it
islandpress.org/books/if-you...
If You Want to Win, You've Got to Fight
islandpress.org
November 22, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Bike, transit, and street safety advocacy can (and often should!) be lots of fun.
Building community and making the world a better place is fun! And the better you get at it, the more fun/less stressful it is.*
This book will help you have an easier time of it
islandpress.org/books/if-you...
Building community and making the world a better place is fun! And the better you get at it, the more fun/less stressful it is.*
This book will help you have an easier time of it
islandpress.org/books/if-you...
"I just wanted more bike lanes, safe streets, and a city that allowed women to feel on bikes the way men feel in big trucks:, powerful and invincible. Or at least safe."
👏👏👏 Well said Patty!
👏👏👏 Well said Patty!
How exciting! My book made it to @shifter.info gift guide this year right along with Life After Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social @sgoodyear.bsky.social @brooklynspoke.bsky.social youtu.be/j01meiJyLeI
Cycling Gift Guide 2025: Things I Actually Use
YouTube video by Shifter
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November 22, 2025 at 3:48 AM
"I just wanted more bike lanes, safe streets, and a city that allowed women to feel on bikes the way men feel in big trucks:, powerful and invincible. Or at least safe."
👏👏👏 Well said Patty!
👏👏👏 Well said Patty!
Help prevent massive cuts to Caltrain, sign up to support the By Area Transit Funding Measure!
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November 21, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Help prevent massive cuts to Caltrain, sign up to support the By Area Transit Funding Measure!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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In November 2026 the Bay Area will vote on whether or not to save & improve its transit service.
The Bay will also be voting on the next Governor of California.
I look forward to seeing which candidates for Governor also stump for the regional measure to fund transit
The Bay will also be voting on the next Governor of California.
I look forward to seeing which candidates for Governor also stump for the regional measure to fund transit
November 21, 2025 at 5:59 AM
In November 2026 the Bay Area will vote on whether or not to save & improve its transit service.
The Bay will also be voting on the next Governor of California.
I look forward to seeing which candidates for Governor also stump for the regional measure to fund transit
The Bay will also be voting on the next Governor of California.
I look forward to seeing which candidates for Governor also stump for the regional measure to fund transit
Reposted by Carter Lavin
Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.
November 21, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.
Tonight! Volunteer meeting about how we save our transit in the Bay Area. Tune in to get up to speed and plugged into the effort to help keep our communities moving
actionnetwork.org/events/weekl...
actionnetwork.org/events/weekl...
Weekly Volunteer Meeting: Bay Area Transit Funding Measure
Your community is on the verge of losing transit service as BART, Caltrain, Muni, and AC Transit face HUGE cuts. For example, BART could drop from 4,200 trains/week to just 500. But we can save famil...
actionnetwork.org
November 21, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Tonight! Volunteer meeting about how we save our transit in the Bay Area. Tune in to get up to speed and plugged into the effort to help keep our communities moving
actionnetwork.org/events/weekl...
actionnetwork.org/events/weekl...
Surprised to learn that my book about how to be a more effective bike, transit, and street safety advocate is outselling a Senator's memoir! I would have assumed he had a pretty big email list pitch his book to. Sounds like he should be posting about it more
islandpress.org/books/if-you...
islandpress.org/books/if-you...
November 20, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Surprised to learn that my book about how to be a more effective bike, transit, and street safety advocate is outselling a Senator's memoir! I would have assumed he had a pretty big email list pitch his book to. Sounds like he should be posting about it more
islandpress.org/books/if-you...
islandpress.org/books/if-you...
First pic of my book -- If You Want To Win, You've Got To Fight: A Guide To Effective Transportation Advocacy -- on LA Metro!
(Sent in from a friend)
(Sent in from a friend)
November 20, 2025 at 3:14 AM
First pic of my book -- If You Want To Win, You've Got To Fight: A Guide To Effective Transportation Advocacy -- on LA Metro!
(Sent in from a friend)
(Sent in from a friend)
Reposted by Carter Lavin
I spy @carterlavin.bsky.social 's book too!
🗺️Posters made it to @mapcenter.com where they met the new “Life After Cars” hard copy by @thewaroncars.bsky.social and the delightful “Walkable Providence” map by @2feet2bucks.com
🎤Live show & book talk at Providence’s Uptown Theater Dec. 2nd!
🎟️Tickets: events.uptownpvd.com/events/life-...
🎤Live show & book talk at Providence’s Uptown Theater Dec. 2nd!
🎟️Tickets: events.uptownpvd.com/events/life-...
November 20, 2025 at 2:42 AM
I spy @carterlavin.bsky.social 's book too!
Reposted by Carter Lavin
This Author Wrote the Book on How to Be a Better Transportation Advocate - usa.streetsblog.org/2025/11/18/h... via @usa.streetsblog.org, @keawilson.bsky.social, and @carterlavin.bsky.social
This Author Wrote the Book on How to Be a Better Transportation Advocate — Streetsblog USA
Step one: read this book.
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November 19, 2025 at 10:13 PM
This Author Wrote the Book on How to Be a Better Transportation Advocate - usa.streetsblog.org/2025/11/18/h... via @usa.streetsblog.org, @keawilson.bsky.social, and @carterlavin.bsky.social
A super cool part about having authored a book on how people can improve their bike, transit, and street safety advocacy is getting to meet folks all around the country who are fighting the good fight & working to get better at it!
Great time talking with a crew in Columbia, Missouri today 🩵
Great time talking with a crew in Columbia, Missouri today 🩵
November 19, 2025 at 8:46 PM
A super cool part about having authored a book on how people can improve their bike, transit, and street safety advocacy is getting to meet folks all around the country who are fighting the good fight & working to get better at it!
Great time talking with a crew in Columbia, Missouri today 🩵
Great time talking with a crew in Columbia, Missouri today 🩵
Reposted by Carter Lavin
It's our friend @carterlavin.bsky.social on #TheBrake, SBUSA's podcast. Check it out!
On this episode of The Brake, we're joined by Carter Lavin’s to discuss his new book, "If You Want to Win, You’ve Got To Fight: A Guide to Effective Transportation Advocacy," which host Kea Wilson called, “The book the transportation reform movement has been waiting for."
This Author Wrote the Book on How to Be a Better Transportation Advocate — Streetsblog USA
Step one: read this book.
buff.ly
November 19, 2025 at 6:46 PM
It's our friend @carterlavin.bsky.social on #TheBrake, SBUSA's podcast. Check it out!
Reposted by Carter Lavin
Call to action (erm, 📨email to action): Mayor Lurie needs to hear your desire for a robust and fully funded Muni _this week_. Background follows.
Next November, with a little luck, there will be two measures on your ballot to fund transit. Both have to pass for Muni to not cut up to 50% of service.
Next November, with a little luck, there will be two measures on your ballot to fund transit. Both have to pass for Muni to not cut up to 50% of service.
November 19, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Call to action (erm, 📨email to action): Mayor Lurie needs to hear your desire for a robust and fully funded Muni _this week_. Background follows.
Next November, with a little luck, there will be two measures on your ballot to fund transit. Both have to pass for Muni to not cut up to 50% of service.
Next November, with a little luck, there will be two measures on your ballot to fund transit. Both have to pass for Muni to not cut up to 50% of service.
Such a good example of how "things being bad" is not enough to win change. People can get used to bad stuff!
That's why if you want change you have to actively organize & fight for it
That's why if you want change you have to actively organize & fight for it
Those earlier fires got less attention because we had normalized living with pollution. People weren't fed up yet. Time had to use the wrong photo because when it caught fire nobody snapped a picture of it (and I was wrong it caught fire at least a dozen times)
Cuyahoga River Fire - The Blaze That Started a National Discussion | Cleveland Historical
The story of the Cuyahoga River fire of 1969 - the event that sparked pop songs, lit the imagination of an entire nation, and badly tarnished a city's reputation - is built more on myths than rea...
clevelandhistorical.org
November 19, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Such a good example of how "things being bad" is not enough to win change. People can get used to bad stuff!
That's why if you want change you have to actively organize & fight for it
That's why if you want change you have to actively organize & fight for it
Reposted by Carter Lavin
On this episode of The Brake, we're joined by Carter Lavin’s to discuss his new book, "If You Want to Win, You’ve Got To Fight: A Guide to Effective Transportation Advocacy," which host Kea Wilson called, “The book the transportation reform movement has been waiting for."
This Author Wrote the Book on How to Be a Better Transportation Advocate — Streetsblog USA
Step one: read this book.
buff.ly
November 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
On this episode of The Brake, we're joined by Carter Lavin’s to discuss his new book, "If You Want to Win, You’ve Got To Fight: A Guide to Effective Transportation Advocacy," which host Kea Wilson called, “The book the transportation reform movement has been waiting for."
A weird thing about becoming a published author is it's totally changed how I read books. I both:
-Read with an editor's eye (and WAY more critically, especially on matters of clarity)
-Am extremely sympathetic to authors since writing a book is a whole ordeal!
-Read with an editor's eye (and WAY more critically, especially on matters of clarity)
-Am extremely sympathetic to authors since writing a book is a whole ordeal!
November 19, 2025 at 6:25 AM
A weird thing about becoming a published author is it's totally changed how I read books. I both:
-Read with an editor's eye (and WAY more critically, especially on matters of clarity)
-Am extremely sympathetic to authors since writing a book is a whole ordeal!
-Read with an editor's eye (and WAY more critically, especially on matters of clarity)
-Am extremely sympathetic to authors since writing a book is a whole ordeal!
Transportation inherently impacts others, so we're stuck with politics. Doesn't matter if you hate it or not, the question is how are you going to become politically powerful & skilled so that you win -- hear the rest! open.spotify.com/episode/7kwG...
How to Be a Better Transportation Advocate (Carter Lavin)
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November 19, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Transportation inherently impacts others, so we're stuck with politics. Doesn't matter if you hate it or not, the question is how are you going to become politically powerful & skilled so that you win -- hear the rest! open.spotify.com/episode/7kwG...
Btw, if any East coaster could snap a version of this pic on the NEC Amtrak, I'd appreciate it!
If You Want To Win, You've Got To Fight: A Guide To Effective Transportation Advocacy 's first AC Transit bus ride!
Looking forward to seeing more book in transit pics from folks!
Looking forward to seeing more book in transit pics from folks!
November 19, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Btw, if any East coaster could snap a version of this pic on the NEC Amtrak, I'd appreciate it!