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David King @cityplanning.bsky.social · 7h

This is a good post. We can build places to minimize exposure to elements while preserving walkability in any climate. We don’t have to build for hours long strolls. Think in terms of only needing to be outside for a few minutes, which is fine even in a Phoenix summer or Minneapolis winter.

Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 7h

Is climate really a barrier to making cities walkable? Only if you listen too much to elites ... humantransit.org/2025/10/nobo...

"Nobody Walks Here. It's too Hot or Cold or Wet or Dry." — Human Transit

Almost everywhere I travel as a consultant, someone asks me whether it’s realistic to expect people to walk given the extremes of their climate. They don’t just ask me this in Edmonton and Singapore. ...

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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 7h

Is climate really a barrier to making cities walkable? Only if you listen too much to elites ... humantransit.org/2025/10/nobo...

"Nobody Walks Here. It's too Hot or Cold or Wet or Dry." — Human Transit

Almost everywhere I travel as a consultant, someone asks me whether it’s realistic to expect people to walk given the extremes of their climate. They don’t just ask me this in Edmonton and Singapore. ...

humantransit.org

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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 1d

That feeling when one New York Times headline clearly explains another.

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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 1d

I feel so old. I saw this in its first year!

www.opb.org/article/2025...

‘People kept showing up’: Clinton Street Theater celebrates 50 years of ‘Rocky Horror’

Portland's Clinton Street Theater has shown the cult classic “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” every Saturday since 1978, one of the longest runs in the world.

www.opb.org

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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 1d

That feeling when one New York Times headline clearly explains another.

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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 1d

Loved it!

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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 1d

US public transit has plenty of good-news stories! www.smartcitiesdive.com/news/mbta-bo...

How Boston transit leaders fixed a failing transit system

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority recovered from safety lapses that prompted the Federal Transit Administration to oversee the agency’s transit rail system in 2022.

www.smartcitiesdive.com

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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 1d

Barbed wire protecting a large patch of nothing, right on the beach in downtown Ventura, California. If we taxed land instead of buildings, people would live and work here.

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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 3d

My photos are from the cast rooms of the the V&A

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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 3d

London's Victoria and Albert Museum feels like a grandparents attic for the entire British Empire. The quantity and crowding feel like part of the point.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 3d

It's increasingly clear that the president lives in a constructed bubble of unreality designed by aides who are manipulating him in order to take control of US policy. Seems like an important story - wish media would cover it.

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Mikey 🚎🥑🏳️‍🌈 @hiimmikey.bsky.social · 3d

Agencies around the country are being subjected to massive fiscal cliffs. If your agency is in the crosshairs, consider giving your time or money to local advocates. Both are way more valuable than you’d think!

Here’s an excellent piece from the legend @humantransit.bsky.social on the topic.

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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 19d

I have a major piece in Bloomberg Citylab today. Should the US let transit fail, as Pennsylvania is already doing? And if not, what are the arguments we need to let it succeed?

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Should We Let Public Transit Die?

Urban-rural hostility is fueling a public transportation crisis in US cities. But demands to abandon bus and train riders ignore the economic and social costs of cutting service.

www.bloomberg.com

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Brooke Jackson-Glidden @jacksonglidden.bsky.social · 4d

Anyone read anything… disgustingly out of touch and arguably dangerous about Portland lately?

A headline from the New York Times that reads: “What Happens When Socialists Are in Charge? Portland Offers a Glimpse.”

A headline from the Atlantic that reads: “Portland’s ‘War Zone’ Is Like Burning Man for the Terminally Online.”

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 5d

Rumor is that Gavin Newsom is wavering on housing and might veto SB 79. If you live in California, please reach out to the governor’s office today: cayimby.org/call-sb-79/

Call the Governor to sign SB 79!

Please call the Governor and urge him to sign SB 79!

cayimby.org

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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 6d

It is a statement of fact. Most US transit agencies are spending 20 to 40% of their budgets on paratransit.

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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 6d

Amazing place.

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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 7d

Unpopular opinion: Paratransit for disabled persons is liberating for its users but also fantastically expensive for transit agencies. "Free" is not a realistic fare, at least not outside a context where the whole network is free, which no big city in the world does. denverite.com/2025/09/30/r...

People with disabilities would pay more for on-demand rides if RTD approves changes

A proposal to charge a $6.50 base fare for Access-on-Demand rides is drawing fierce pushback.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 7d

I would like to request the the members of the National Guard still inexplicably deployed to DC kindly remember to walk to the left and stand to the right on the escalator

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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 8d

"Save Twice as Many Dolphins!" (A 2005 post from my soon-defunct personal blog.) Have environmentalist fundraising comms evolved at all since then?

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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 9d

The personal blog I wrote for 15 years will vanish tomorrow, due to the shutdown of @typepad. It included travel narratives and essays on cities, books, and plants. For a few more hours, it's here: urbanist.typepad.com

Downloading it now, deciding what to save.

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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 9d

More from #WarRavagedPortland.

(Note: Our curbs still have hitching posts for horses because @pbotinfo.bsky.social replaces them after they rebuild a sidewalk.)

Joshua McNichols @joshuamcnichols.bsky.social · 9d

I spent a lovely, relaxing weekend in Portland, Oregon with my spouse. As always, I love looking at the wide variety of middle housing types, from small apartment buildings to duplexes to stacked flats.

Fun detail: many curbs still have iron rings for hitching horses.

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Building H @buildingh.bsky.social · 9d

The most popular story from our newsletter this weekend was our featured piece, from @humantransit.bsky.social, on the political/financial crisis in public transit:

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Should We Let Public Transit Die?

Urban-rural hostility is fueling a public transportation crisis in US cities. But demands to abandon bus and train riders ignore the economic and social costs of cutting service.

www.bloomberg.com

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Ben Werdmuller @werd.io · 11d

War ravaged Portland

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 11d

War-ravaged Portland

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Joan McCarter @joanmccarter.com · 11d

Happening now in war ravaged Portland: the city's Parks and Recreation Department (the most subversive of all government entities, is giving away trees.

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