Bread delivery bike ride through the heart of Berlin. 🥖🚴🏼‍♂️💨

Europe’s streets are so much safer for cyclists than America’s, but drivers the world over think their convenience is more important than others’ lives.

“The big advantage of bikes is that they go directly from where you start to where you finish, when you need to go. The advantage over cars is that they need perhaps 1/10th of the amount of space. Roads that jam up quickly with cars can carry effectively unlimited numbers of people by bicycle.”

My paper, Road Illumination and Nighttime Pedestrian Deaths: Evidence from Moonlight, is now published at Economics of Transportation. authors.elsevier.com/a/1kptw_oIvi...

“We have sidewalks and bike infrastructure that’s extremely underdeveloped, road design that allows people to drive very quickly, and limited enforcement to prevent people from driving dangerously. That’s a recipe for having a lot of fatalities.” @justintyndall.bsky.social 🚸 @civilbeat.bsky.social

Ooh... free shipping at @bookshop.org today and tomorrow as part of their "anti-Prime sale."

Includes preorders, so get your copy of Life After Cars.

bookshop.org/a/9252/97805...

An under appreciated benefit of smartphones is now accessible they’ve made transit. Prior to having one I could not keep enough of the WMATA map in my head to use buses. Now I use them all over town.

“We know that housing affordability is a crisis here in Richmond. And we've got to do everything we can through the zoning code or through affordable housing investments to be able to address that issue in our city.” @dannyavula.bsky.social 🏬🏘️ @vpm.org
rvasgotissues.vpm.org/2025/10/01/m...

Ride to Ramen
Artist: Shang Daili

Pew finds something that everybody in codes and standards knows but few will say out loud: we apply far stricter fire safety standards to apartments than to houses. www.pew.org/en/research-...

So very excited to share that I’ll be writing about housing in Los Angeles and across California for Politico www.politico.com/blogs/politi...

“Imagine you had a good bike lane in your suburb. Imagine the buses came frequently. Those things would give you choices. But in our country, despite all the talk of liberty, we're rapidly disinvesting in all the things that would give people choices.” @thewaroncars.bsky.social

“Many homes in my Richmond neighborhood have had assessment increases of 50%-70% in the last five years. That can translate to an extra $1,000 a month in taxes. I have yet to meet a person whose income is increasing at a similar rate.”

New paper uses national zoning & housing metrics to test associations between zoning, housing supply & demographics, finds:
—Increasing max. allowed density is not associated with more housing.
—But increases in housing are associated with a higher Black resident share & lower white resident share.

Sometimes drivers are beyond parody.

D.C. folks who care about OR & WA housing might enjoy this @pewtrusts.org event next month.

I think we're the only two states that have legalized co-living (aka SROs) in all multifamily zones! If that's a perfect fit for empty office buildings, sweet web.cvent.com/event/eee204...

Walkable cities means more cute cats to befriend on your way home from work.

Really good article about transit; especially the invisible costs of cars vs the visible costs of transit

The urbanism of Oranienburg. 🇩🇪

“I think it’s startling to see how many data points just driving your car through one city can add up to,” EFF’s @MGuariglia.bsky.social told @NBCNews.com. “It’s still unnerving to get a real concrete idea how ALPRs are essentially mass surveillance.”
www.nbcnews.com/tech/securi...

"I don't own a bike, but having one this week has felt healing. When I was on the bike this week I felt peace. That's priceless." - an MCBL member, after borrowing a bike for a week

Read more member stories in our full report, linked in this month's update: mplscargobikelibrary.com/2025/09/15/s...

“This is pretty ridiculous. We are now arguing about local traffic enforcement in the U.S. Congress.”

#dcstatehood @maustermuhle.bsky.social @51st.news

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

The urbanism of Neustrelitz, Germany. 🇩🇪