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“Nobody will cycle to a furniture store on the edge of town...”
Meanwhile, in the Netherlands: build high-quality cycle infrastructure to the store from the city centre, provide ample bike parking, and add e-bike charging.
Turns out, lots of people cycle to a furniture store on the edge of town.
Meanwhile, in the Netherlands: build high-quality cycle infrastructure to the store from the city centre, provide ample bike parking, and add e-bike charging.
Turns out, lots of people cycle to a furniture store on the edge of town.
January 16, 2026 at 8:44 PM
“Nobody will cycle to a furniture store on the edge of town...”
Meanwhile, in the Netherlands: build high-quality cycle infrastructure to the store from the city centre, provide ample bike parking, and add e-bike charging.
Turns out, lots of people cycle to a furniture store on the edge of town.
Meanwhile, in the Netherlands: build high-quality cycle infrastructure to the store from the city centre, provide ample bike parking, and add e-bike charging.
Turns out, lots of people cycle to a furniture store on the edge of town.
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We are visiting my family in Tennessee and it's amazing how much more willing the Chattanooga Department of Public works is to install this prefab traffic calming than pretty much any city in Northern California.
It's truly all over the place in the neighborhoods.
It's truly all over the place in the neighborhoods.
January 9, 2026 at 10:27 PM
We are visiting my family in Tennessee and it's amazing how much more willing the Chattanooga Department of Public works is to install this prefab traffic calming than pretty much any city in Northern California.
It's truly all over the place in the neighborhoods.
It's truly all over the place in the neighborhoods.
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Planning commissions asking for stuff like "mitigation of facade length" is one of the reasons why so many new buildings look awful. Where do planning commissions' preferences for fake village-looking buildings come from? A goofy attempt to make buildings look smaller?
'We Don't Want a Monolithic Block.' Facade Length Sparks Ire at City Hall
A project scraped through the SLC Planning Commission last week, but not without leaving part of its undercarriage at City Hall.
buildingsaltlake.com
January 5, 2026 at 10:19 PM
Planning commissions asking for stuff like "mitigation of facade length" is one of the reasons why so many new buildings look awful. Where do planning commissions' preferences for fake village-looking buildings come from? A goofy attempt to make buildings look smaller?
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I would like to direct all speeders to this chart
January 1, 2026 at 5:00 PM
I would like to direct all speeders to this chart
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The Buddhist monks participating in a 2,300-mile "walk for peace" from Texas to Washington, D.C/ passed right outside of Atlanta today. Here are some photos from yours truly:
(cc: @kalahunter.bsky.social)
(cc: @kalahunter.bsky.social)
December 31, 2025 at 5:30 AM
The Buddhist monks participating in a 2,300-mile "walk for peace" from Texas to Washington, D.C/ passed right outside of Atlanta today. Here are some photos from yours truly:
(cc: @kalahunter.bsky.social)
(cc: @kalahunter.bsky.social)
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I wrote about this exact policy on my substack months ago and it is very nice to see it get the press it deserves in the NYT
there should not be a single free parking space in Manhattan imo
bettercities.substack.com/p/10-thought...
there should not be a single free parking space in Manhattan imo
bettercities.substack.com/p/10-thought...
December 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I wrote about this exact policy on my substack months ago and it is very nice to see it get the press it deserves in the NYT
there should not be a single free parking space in Manhattan imo
bettercities.substack.com/p/10-thought...
there should not be a single free parking space in Manhattan imo
bettercities.substack.com/p/10-thought...
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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.
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“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”
Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.
www.politico.eu
November 17, 2025 at 6:31 AM
“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”
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If you could easily lose your life riding in a painted bike gutter, always and unapologetically ride your bike on the sidewalk.
November 15, 2025 at 8:43 PM
If you could easily lose your life riding in a painted bike gutter, always and unapologetically ride your bike on the sidewalk.
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This is interesting — a recent study of mode share (the % share of transportation trips by car, transit, walking, biking etc) relative to city size and income levels in almost 800 cities in 61 countries. Interesting results. HT @davidzipper.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 15, 2025 at 8:43 PM
This is interesting — a recent study of mode share (the % share of transportation trips by car, transit, walking, biking etc) relative to city size and income levels in almost 800 cities in 61 countries. Interesting results. HT @davidzipper.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Very cool article about how our fragmentation of local tax bases allows some suburbs to effectively act as tax havens at the expense of central metro areas.
(The link preview is bad, but it's:
Tax base fragmentation as a dimension of metropolitan inequality
by Manduca, Highsmith, & Waggoner)
(The link preview is bad, but it's:
Tax base fragmentation as a dimension of metropolitan inequality
by Manduca, Highsmith, & Waggoner)
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academic.oup.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Very cool article about how our fragmentation of local tax bases allows some suburbs to effectively act as tax havens at the expense of central metro areas.
(The link preview is bad, but it's:
Tax base fragmentation as a dimension of metropolitan inequality
by Manduca, Highsmith, & Waggoner)
(The link preview is bad, but it's:
Tax base fragmentation as a dimension of metropolitan inequality
by Manduca, Highsmith, & Waggoner)
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Vancouver has spent decades building up a now well-earned reputation for leadership on environmental sustainability.
Apparently, the mayor and ABC majority don't see the value in it.
Hard to imagine a better way to damage the city's brand.
Apparently, the mayor and ABC majority don't see the value in it.
Hard to imagine a better way to damage the city's brand.
NEW: Councillors and sources inside the City of Vancouver say the city's mayor, Ken Sim, will put forth a budget Wednesday that will eliminate the city's celebrated climate and sustainability department.
Vancouver mayor plans to eliminate city's climate and sustainability department
Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim is planning to eliminate the city's sustainability and climate department under the guise of a push to prevent increases to property taxes. Canada's National Observer learned a...
www.nationalobserver.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Vancouver has spent decades building up a now well-earned reputation for leadership on environmental sustainability.
Apparently, the mayor and ABC majority don't see the value in it.
Hard to imagine a better way to damage the city's brand.
Apparently, the mayor and ABC majority don't see the value in it.
Hard to imagine a better way to damage the city's brand.
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What an expensive way to preventably kill children.
Get 'em while they're young
electric bubble car for kids drives them to places on its own and without adults on board
www.designboom.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
What an expensive way to preventably kill children.
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The most successful cities will be the ones that give people safe, affordable, efficient, enjoyable freedom of choice in transportation.
November 6, 2025 at 9:28 PM
The most successful cities will be the ones that give people safe, affordable, efficient, enjoyable freedom of choice in transportation.
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And, of course, it wouldn't be Canada if it hadn't a cluster of apt buildings cornered between two huge arterials and a strip mall.
"TOD urbanism is my passion" meme
"TOD urbanism is my passion" meme
November 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
And, of course, it wouldn't be Canada if it hadn't a cluster of apt buildings cornered between two huge arterials and a strip mall.
"TOD urbanism is my passion" meme
"TOD urbanism is my passion" meme
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A new book looks at the destructive 20th-century urban development style — freeways, downtown office towers, suburban housing developments — that keeps Americans so dependent on their cars.
Book Excerpt Special: The Incomplete Freeway Revolt - Streetsblog New York City
A new book looks at the destructive 20th-century urban development style — freeways, downtown office towers, suburban housing developments — that keeps Americans so dependent on their cars. Here's an…
buff.ly
November 6, 2025 at 2:47 PM
A new book looks at the destructive 20th-century urban development style — freeways, downtown office towers, suburban housing developments — that keeps Americans so dependent on their cars.
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PEDESTRIAN SAFETY CRISIS
FREE webinar next Tuesday
• Why it's happening
• What we can do about it
• And why we haven't done it already
My guest is Angie Schmitt, author of Right of Way.
Webinar Tues. Nov. 11 at 11am EST / 4pm UTC
FREE register & share:
bit.ly/496lCVt
FREE webinar next Tuesday
• Why it's happening
• What we can do about it
• And why we haven't done it already
My guest is Angie Schmitt, author of Right of Way.
Webinar Tues. Nov. 11 at 11am EST / 4pm UTC
FREE register & share:
bit.ly/496lCVt
November 4, 2025 at 6:08 PM
PEDESTRIAN SAFETY CRISIS
FREE webinar next Tuesday
• Why it's happening
• What we can do about it
• And why we haven't done it already
My guest is Angie Schmitt, author of Right of Way.
Webinar Tues. Nov. 11 at 11am EST / 4pm UTC
FREE register & share:
bit.ly/496lCVt
FREE webinar next Tuesday
• Why it's happening
• What we can do about it
• And why we haven't done it already
My guest is Angie Schmitt, author of Right of Way.
Webinar Tues. Nov. 11 at 11am EST / 4pm UTC
FREE register & share:
bit.ly/496lCVt
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Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest.
The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.
"I could smell the onions and mustard."
The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.
"I could smell the onions and mustard."
November 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest.
The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.
"I could smell the onions and mustard."
The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.
"I could smell the onions and mustard."
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I saw this without sound on the train.
Now I am back at "home" and wanted to share this minute pressing tears in to my eyes, weakening my heart.
But - sorry Martin - the music didn´t match my feelings.
So I was free to put some other on it.
Humans have one USP:
they will wipe themselves out.
Now I am back at "home" and wanted to share this minute pressing tears in to my eyes, weakening my heart.
But - sorry Martin - the music didn´t match my feelings.
So I was free to put some other on it.
Humans have one USP:
they will wipe themselves out.
November 3, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I saw this without sound on the train.
Now I am back at "home" and wanted to share this minute pressing tears in to my eyes, weakening my heart.
But - sorry Martin - the music didn´t match my feelings.
So I was free to put some other on it.
Humans have one USP:
they will wipe themselves out.
Now I am back at "home" and wanted to share this minute pressing tears in to my eyes, weakening my heart.
But - sorry Martin - the music didn´t match my feelings.
So I was free to put some other on it.
Humans have one USP:
they will wipe themselves out.
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Spotted in Germany 🔥🔥🔥
Really incredible to see these messages out in the world.
📸 @bumm0r.bsky.social
Really incredible to see these messages out in the world.
📸 @bumm0r.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Spotted in Germany 🔥🔥🔥
Really incredible to see these messages out in the world.
📸 @bumm0r.bsky.social
Really incredible to see these messages out in the world.
📸 @bumm0r.bsky.social
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Housing counselors are the frontline workers who help people stay housed in the middle of our #HousingCrisis, but now they're one of the The Administration's many targets facing deep funding and staffing cuts.
Learn more in our new blog by @sjccorn.bsky.social ⤵️
consumerfed.org/frontline-wo...
Learn more in our new blog by @sjccorn.bsky.social ⤵️
consumerfed.org/frontline-wo...
October 24, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Housing counselors are the frontline workers who help people stay housed in the middle of our #HousingCrisis, but now they're one of the The Administration's many targets facing deep funding and staffing cuts.
Learn more in our new blog by @sjccorn.bsky.social ⤵️
consumerfed.org/frontline-wo...
Learn more in our new blog by @sjccorn.bsky.social ⤵️
consumerfed.org/frontline-wo...
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Of course this won't happen but imagine what an absolute blessing it would be for any city if the million biggest assholes in it left.
You laugh, but this is how the exododus went extinct
November 3, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Of course this won't happen but imagine what an absolute blessing it would be for any city if the million biggest assholes in it left.
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Raising money for the Utah Food Bank because — waves hands frenetically — the current situation.
Here’s a link:
www.justgiving.com/page/slsees-...
And if you donate $50 or more, DM me and I’ll send you one of my SLC coffee cups! Wow — what a deal!
Let’s feed some hungry Utahns!
Here’s a link:
www.justgiving.com/page/slsees-...
And if you donate $50 or more, DM me and I’ll send you one of my SLC coffee cups! Wow — what a deal!
Let’s feed some hungry Utahns!
November 3, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Raising money for the Utah Food Bank because — waves hands frenetically — the current situation.
Here’s a link:
www.justgiving.com/page/slsees-...
And if you donate $50 or more, DM me and I’ll send you one of my SLC coffee cups! Wow — what a deal!
Let’s feed some hungry Utahns!
Here’s a link:
www.justgiving.com/page/slsees-...
And if you donate $50 or more, DM me and I’ll send you one of my SLC coffee cups! Wow — what a deal!
Let’s feed some hungry Utahns!
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My friend Bryant is raising money for the Utah Food Bank. If you live in Utah, please consider donating! You'll also get one of his cool urbanist mugs if you donate $50 or more.
Raising money for the Utah Food Bank because — waves hands frenetically — the current situation.
Here’s a link:
www.justgiving.com/page/slsees-...
And if you donate $50 or more, DM me and I’ll send you one of my SLC coffee cups! Wow — what a deal!
Let’s feed some hungry Utahns!
Here’s a link:
www.justgiving.com/page/slsees-...
And if you donate $50 or more, DM me and I’ll send you one of my SLC coffee cups! Wow — what a deal!
Let’s feed some hungry Utahns!
November 3, 2025 at 6:42 PM
My friend Bryant is raising money for the Utah Food Bank. If you live in Utah, please consider donating! You'll also get one of his cool urbanist mugs if you donate $50 or more.