Mike Lydon
@mikelydon.bsky.social
Co-Founder @ Street Plans | Co-Author #TacticalUrbanism, Smart Growth Manual, Streets for Pandemic Response + Recovery | Board Member @ Congress for New Urbanism | Creator Open_Streets Project | Léo + Luca’s dad | 📍 Brooklyn, NY 🚲 🚶 🚌 🌆
“Nobody gave up. You’re creating this greenway for walking and biking and you’re connecting neighborhoods. It really does not get better than that,” Daniels said. 🙌🏻
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N.J. is finally getting its version of NYC’s elevated High Line park
After 25 years of debate, the wild urban oasis will become an elevated park that locals believe will be "cooler" than New York City's famous High Line.
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November 25, 2025 at 3:41 PM
“Nobody gave up. You’re creating this greenway for walking and biking and you’re connecting neighborhoods. It really does not get better than that,” Daniels said. 🙌🏻
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“When the bridge closed, about 25,000 vehicles crossed it daily… Six years later, 9,000 of those journeys have vanished - not diverted to other crossings, but simply evaporated. Yet the local economy has adapted, air quality has improved, and overall traffic congestion has lessened.”
I really cannot recommend this excellent piece on Hammersmith Bridge highly enough
Hammersmith Bridge
Where did 25,000 vehicles go?
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November 23, 2025 at 3:21 PM
“When the bridge closed, about 25,000 vehicles crossed it daily… Six years later, 9,000 of those journeys have vanished - not diverted to other crossings, but simply evaporated. Yet the local economy has adapted, air quality has improved, and overall traffic congestion has lessened.”
Our team and resident volunteers are wrapping up this courtyard transformation for DC’s Richardson Dwellings… as easy as 1-2-3! 🤩
November 23, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Our team and resident volunteers are wrapping up this courtyard transformation for DC’s Richardson Dwellings… as easy as 1-2-3! 🤩
A lovely but oddly deserted walk along DC’s Anacostia waterfront.
November 23, 2025 at 1:27 AM
A lovely but oddly deserted walk along DC’s Anacostia waterfront.
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WATCH: If you really STILL don’t understand how car-dependent suburbia is HEAVILY SUBSIDIZED by downtown & all the urban parts of your city, please watch this EXCELLENT video by #NotJustBikes helped by #UrbanThree & @StrongTowns.org. And then please SHARE it as much as possible. youtu.be/7Nw6qyyrTeI
November 22, 2025 at 4:57 PM
WATCH: If you really STILL don’t understand how car-dependent suburbia is HEAVILY SUBSIDIZED by downtown & all the urban parts of your city, please watch this EXCELLENT video by #NotJustBikes helped by #UrbanThree & @StrongTowns.org. And then please SHARE it as much as possible. youtu.be/7Nw6qyyrTeI
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Is Piggy referring to his attempted coup on January 6th?
November 20, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Is Piggy referring to his attempted coup on January 6th?
When delivery vehicles are properly scaled to urban streets, both bike lane and travel lane go unblocked.
November 20, 2025 at 12:23 AM
When delivery vehicles are properly scaled to urban streets, both bike lane and travel lane go unblocked.
The furnishings are in and it looks like we are days away from the permanent expansion and extension of the Pearl Street Plaza in DUMBO, which now wraps onto Plymouth Street. 🙌🏻
November 17, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The furnishings are in and it looks like we are days away from the permanent expansion and extension of the Pearl Street Plaza in DUMBO, which now wraps onto Plymouth Street. 🙌🏻
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“New York just reminded the country that the fight for democracy doesn’t only happen at the ballot box. Sometimes, it happens in the zoning code.”
More housing will give us more political power
As Democrats rightly celebrated major election night victories, it’s worth pausing on a quieter but equally consequential win. New York City voters just approved ballot proposals 2–5, a slate of ho…
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November 17, 2025 at 4:45 PM
“New York just reminded the country that the fight for democracy doesn’t only happen at the ballot box. Sometimes, it happens in the zoning code.”
White stucco. Tuck under garage. Diamond styling. Block glass… San Francisco-Upon-Kensington (Brooklyn)!
November 17, 2025 at 1:37 AM
White stucco. Tuck under garage. Diamond styling. Block glass… San Francisco-Upon-Kensington (Brooklyn)!
“When tech is the villain instead of the hero, the future feels leaderless. And a country that stops believing its innovators can make the world better stops believing in much else, too.”
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Opinion | I Worked All Over Silicon Valley. This Is How It Lost Its Spine.
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November 17, 2025 at 12:46 AM
“When tech is the villain instead of the hero, the future feels leaderless. And a country that stops believing its innovators can make the world better stops believing in much else, too.”
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An @islandpress.bsky.social book by @carterlavin.bsky.social every transportation advocate should consider picking up! And perhaps pairing it with the wonderful Life After Cars by @brooklynspoke.bsky.social @sgoodyear.bsky.social!
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 14, 2025 at 2:47 AM
An @islandpress.bsky.social book by @carterlavin.bsky.social every transportation advocate should consider picking up! And perhaps pairing it with the wonderful Life After Cars by @brooklynspoke.bsky.social @sgoodyear.bsky.social!
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We will see enormous progress on our city streets under Mamdani. But we can do more and everything. Here is just a starter pack!
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5 Vital Streetfilms for Mayor-Elect Mamdani, his staff & supporters to watch about urbanism (And then use!) — Streetfilms
Congratulations to NYC Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani and his team & volunteers. And now it’s time put NYC on a fast track to making our streets more safe & fair to all modes. I’ve chosen 5 Street...
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November 12, 2025 at 12:02 AM
We will see enormous progress on our city streets under Mamdani. But we can do more and everything. Here is just a starter pack!
www.streetfilms.org/featured/5-s...
www.streetfilms.org/featured/5-s...
Our subway system had the safest October on record in 2025. But, who cares about facts?!
We gotta listen to this guy piss and moan about subway crime and he's out here saying "I can't guarantee safety"
Sean Duffy: "I can't guarantee safety"
November 11, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Our subway system had the safest October on record in 2025. But, who cares about facts?!
As a firm we use Google Workspace, but are often having to collaborate with clients or other firms on SharePoint. Inevitably, it’s a terrible experience for all so this email blast caught my eye, lol.
November 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
As a firm we use Google Workspace, but are often having to collaborate with clients or other firms on SharePoint. Inevitably, it’s a terrible experience for all so this email blast caught my eye, lol.
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The administration is deliberately starving poor people so that Dems will agree to radically slash the healthcare available to poor people.
Do not let its familiarity dull your outrage. This is monstrous, unforgivable shit.
Do not let its familiarity dull your outrage. This is monstrous, unforgivable shit.
The Trump administration told states that they must “immediately undo” any actions to provide full food stamp benefits to low-income families, in a move that added to the chaos surrounding the nation’s largest anti-hunger program during the government shutdown. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...
November 9, 2025 at 7:56 PM
The administration is deliberately starving poor people so that Dems will agree to radically slash the healthcare available to poor people.
Do not let its familiarity dull your outrage. This is monstrous, unforgivable shit.
Do not let its familiarity dull your outrage. This is monstrous, unforgivable shit.
Google Maps caught the edge striping (before the paint fill) at Mallory/Lexington in Jersey City. The job description of every tactical urbanist is essentially this: undo everything traffic engineers did for 80 years.
November 10, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Google Maps caught the edge striping (before the paint fill) at Mallory/Lexington in Jersey City. The job description of every tactical urbanist is essentially this: undo everything traffic engineers did for 80 years.
“…Mamdani wasn't just running as a "Socialist" — he was running, and winning, as an urbanist.”
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Cycle of Rage: Honeymoons Don't Need to End, Mr. Mayor-Elect - Streetsblog New York City
They drove that bus, so they'd better get their fast-and-free ride on Jan. 1. If not, the grace period will end quickly, our columnist says.
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November 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
“…Mamdani wasn't just running as a "Socialist" — he was running, and winning, as an urbanist.”
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It’s easy to be a good pedestrian. What’s hard is for news outlets to address the systemic solutions to traffic violence.
How to be a good pedestrian; It's harder than you think: https://www.khon2.com/top-stories/how-to-be-a-good-pedestrian-its-harder-than-you-think/
November 6, 2025 at 12:37 AM
It’s easy to be a good pedestrian. What’s hard is for news outlets to address the systemic solutions to traffic violence.
Four years of negativity, corruption, and visionless leadership feels like it’s been lifted tonight. Congrats, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social for running a near flawless campaign!
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New York City Mayoral Election Live Results 2025: Mamdani Wins
Get live results and maps from the 2025 New York City mayoral election.
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November 5, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Four years of negativity, corruption, and visionless leadership feels like it’s been lifted tonight. Congrats, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social for running a near flawless campaign!
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Today is Election Day in New York City! Polls are open until 9 pm. Our Voter Guide has all the info you need to help elect pro-safe streets, pro-public transit candidates, topped by Zohran Mamdani for Mayor. Read about all 18 of the candidates we've endorsed here: www.streetspac.org/election_day...
November 4, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is Election Day in New York City! Polls are open until 9 pm. Our Voter Guide has all the info you need to help elect pro-safe streets, pro-public transit candidates, topped by Zohran Mamdani for Mayor. Read about all 18 of the candidates we've endorsed here: www.streetspac.org/election_day...
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One thing I've really come to appreciate over the course of my career is how easy it is to write a big article or book about How Everything Should Change and how difficult it is to actually change any single thing.
November 3, 2025 at 6:41 PM
One thing I've really come to appreciate over the course of my career is how easy it is to write a big article or book about How Everything Should Change and how difficult it is to actually change any single thing.
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If Mamdani wins I will leave New York. I will go live in one of the other 5 houses I have, perhaps the one in South Florida, or the one in Paris, or Napa, or Cabo, but I will definitely leave New York. I will keep my apartment, though, because it's awesome and New York is great. But I will leave.
November 4, 2025 at 1:59 AM
If Mamdani wins I will leave New York. I will go live in one of the other 5 houses I have, perhaps the one in South Florida, or the one in Paris, or Napa, or Cabo, but I will definitely leave New York. I will keep my apartment, though, because it's awesome and New York is great. But I will leave.
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November 4, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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