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Dustin Black

@engineerdustin.bsky.social

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Casually sharing two decades of city-building knowledge while trying to put the civil back in engineering.

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Dustin Black @engineerdustin.bsky.social · Nov 9

Welcome to all the new people joining! 👋 I’m a public transportation engineer who thinks critically about what car-centric public spaces really mean for our cities, our pocketbooks, and our planet. I regularly share articles about transportation urbanism and stories from my local advocacy work.

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Dustin Black @engineerdustin.bsky.social · 1d

Despicable

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

#WarRavagedPortland

Dustin Black @engineerdustin.bsky.social · 7d

“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it"

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Dustin Black @engineerdustin.bsky.social · 8d

Thinking about the time I was checking out the new play street and this swol lifted diesel blows by, slams on its brakes, and reverses back to me.

I’m thinking, “ok, here we go…”

Gruff diesel dude: “That’s a f-ing sweet bike, man!”

I know, my man. I know.

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Dustin Black @engineerdustin.bsky.social · 8d

We have a local council person who donates their old campaign signs. Roll on some primer and they’re a perfect canvas for advocacy signs. The kids love them!

Dustin Black @engineerdustin.bsky.social · 8d

Recruiting for my neighborhood bike bus is going…okay. But the apathy is real.

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Dustin Black @engineerdustin.bsky.social · 9d

Who’s to say whether they’re good or bad? 🤷

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Seattle Department of Transportation @seattledot.bsky.social · 9d

This weekend, SDOT crews delivered hardened protection along the E Yesler Way bike lanes between Boren Ave and 14th Ave, funded by the Seattle Transportation Levy.

See where else Even Better Bike Lanes are coming soon: www.seattle.gov/transportati...

Daytime shot of a section of the newly installed hardened bike lane protection.

SDOT crew member hammers rebar into the street to hold a curb-stop style bike lane protector into place.

Drilling pilot holes for rebar in curb-stop bike lane protectors.

Lowering a Toronto-style bike lane barrier into place.

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Dustin Black @engineerdustin.bsky.social · 10d

“Prepping” for my next meeting.

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Active Transportation Alliance @atalliance.bsky.social · 10d

"The solution to pedestrian deaths isn't "defensive walking," as NPR says, but investment in public transit. Don't give us advice on how best to play Frogger on roads full of texting drivers, give us buses that give those drivers a safer place to text."

Read More: www.jalopnik.com/1979666/defe...

No, Defensive Walking Isn't The Solution For Road Deaths - Jalopnik

It's victim-blaming, it's bull, and it's not the solution we need.

www.jalopnik.com

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Dustin Black @engineerdustin.bsky.social · 10d

Itty bitty first haul from the bloom and gloom garden this year.

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Adrienne Pass @h3xadecimal.theoverpowered.com · 13d

You can fit a ridiculous number of pumpkins on a cargo bike 🎃

A young child sits in a red eBullit cargo bike, his lower half buried under a pile of gigantic orange and white and pink pumpkins. There's three more pumpkins attached to the back rack of the bike. Kiddo and dad are giving thumbs up to the camera before they take off for the ride home.

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Dustin Black @engineerdustin.bsky.social · 12d

Do it for the fellas

Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 13d

the political policy cure for “male loneliness” is

- more time to hang with the fellas (4 day work week)

- more money to spend with the fellas (higher wages)

- more things to do with the fellas (taxing the rich and building 3rd spaces)

Dustin Black @engineerdustin.bsky.social · 13d

It was!

Dustin Black @engineerdustin.bsky.social · 13d

In case anyone was wondering how it went.

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Dustin Black @engineerdustin.bsky.social · 13d

Making it smaller makes it more fun.

Dustin Black @engineerdustin.bsky.social · 14d

The best “infrastructure” is really boring. In this case, it’s the humble elevator for the win!

Matthew Lewis is ready for progressive federalism @mateosfo.bsky.social · 14d

Perhaps the coolest thing I've learned from the rapidly-growing YIMBY tent -- the most carbon-efficient electric vehicle is one we've all used our whole lives:

The elevator.

Elevators not only move people under 100% electric power, they dramatically reduce pollution across the entire economy.

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Dustin Black @engineerdustin.bsky.social · 19d

The cargo bike be cargo biking.

#carryshitolympics

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Dustin Black @engineerdustin.bsky.social · 20d

Participating in a university-led sustainability summit today and all the info so far has been about where to park your car. #airball

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 21d

So Flint, Michigan gave $1,500 to all pregnant people, plus $500 each month for the first year of the child’s young life.

It saved Flint $6.2 million dollars a year, due to lower rates of rates of prematurity and low birth weight, with fewer corresponding admissions.

The right thing, AND cheaper.

The US town that pays every pregnant woman $1,500: ‘We’re not OK with our babies being born into poverty’

Infants in Rx Kids in Flint, Michigan, saw lower rates of prematurity and other issues, saving millions in NICU visits

www.theguardian.com

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Dustin Black @engineerdustin.bsky.social · 20d

Next time!

Dustin Black @engineerdustin.bsky.social · 21d

Biking through a city at night can sometimes be a spiritual experience. The glow of traffic lights. The reflections on wet pavement. You notice everything but no one really notices you. It’s perfect.

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Dustin Black @engineerdustin.bsky.social · 21d

Hosting our first Park(ing) Day event in Kalamazoo this Friday. Come join us if you’re around.

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Dustin Black @engineerdustin.bsky.social · 21d

And having a reliable car is the other 60%.

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Joseph Miscimarra 🇺🇸 @jmisci.bsky.social · 22d

🧵Quick thread about how dense neighborhoods cultivate community (and FUN!)

My fiancée and I switch off planning date nights. But this week we had to improvise since we are both super busy. I saw on TikTok that a band was playing a free concert on the lake, so we biked over on a whim. It was PACKED.

Chicago’s lakefront under a gorgeous sunset with many people gathered to watch a concert

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