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alexkarner.bsky.social
associate professor//community & regional planning. mobility justice, transportation equity, civil rights, environmental justice, accessibility, GIScience, etc. views my own.
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USDOT Secretary Sean Duffy went on CBS News earlier this week to explain why he's trying to cancel congestion pricing in New York City. So we had beloved congestion pricing expert @davecolon.bsky.social explain why Sec. Duffy has no idea what he's talking about. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ax_o...

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Hey students: if you are angry at how your higher ed institution is handling things, let me tell you: You have far more power than you know. (1/x)

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

FUNDED BY NIH if that isn't front and center, people won't understand the cost of science infrastructure and funding being demolished in the US

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If you believe they're going to support more direct costs, I've got a bridge I'd like to sell you

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It seems...odd that Trump is celebrating Black History Month as we're being asked to shut down our Black student organizations. Wtf is going on here??

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Professors please pull up a chair. I’ve been talking to my classes about what has been going on. I explained indirect costs to them. I talked to them about what a probationary employee is in the government. At the end of class they asked if we could talk about it more. (1/)

submitted 5 days ago • 91 comments

The likelihood that the April report gets released seems very low.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

The notion that you can put single-occupancy vehicles in "tunnels under cities to solve traffic" is completely asinine. May we all have the confidence of an unqualified white man.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Here's the piece

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Really proud of this piece!! And it was actually enjoyable to engage in the back-and-forth commentary with reviewers. Hopefully a model for future UAR articles. Not sure what it means in the current moment, but the takeaway is hopeful--ideas about mobility justice can influence real-world projects.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

lol my favorite kind of transportation research finding

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

ICYMI - our op-ed on canceled transportation research is worth a read. The folks constantly whining about cancel culture and free speech seem to be very happy to censor ideas they don't agree with 🤔

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Has anyone written a solid piece yet about how absurd this position is? With basic facts about why the Civil Rights Act became law and what it intended to accomplish? It just feels like we’re living in a bizarro world

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Check out our @usa.streetsblog.org op-ed about @trb.org's recent decision to cancel (now) 11 contracts worth ~$4.7 million in research funding because the agency found it necessary to take "certain actions" in response to the recent exec orders. Pls read and share. This is the tip of the spear.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Allowing political considerations to hollow out and cancel ongoing research is not only harmful to whatever domain the administration deems a threat, but it sets an alarming precedent for research at large, setting us on a path leading backward rather than forward.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

We've identified two more projects, bringing the current total to $4.7 million in canceled research at all stages of completion.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Scientific research is political. It’s been clear to see that in which research projects are being canceled and the justification. Read this piece by @alexkarner.bsky.social and others in @usa.streetsblog.org today. usa.streetsblog.org/2025/02/12/o... #Transportation

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Am I the only one upset that the weekly @trb.org emails fail to mention they've canceled > $3M in research contracts? I'd love to read up on concrete overlay repair, but I've completely lost faith in your organization. Can they at least put out a statement with some kind of rationale?

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

If you know of a transportation research project being cancelled or put on hold this week, you can share the info here: form.jotform.com/250308176856...

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Have you been a victim of cancel culture?? DM/email me if you’ve had a transportation research project canceled in the past week. Affected work seems mostly to be XCRP but we’re interested in all funders. Goal is to quantify the collective impact on the field and chronicle the undone science.

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

Heard yesterday that one of my National Academies contracts was canceled. We were about halfway through a two-year project looking at travel needs and barriers. I know a lot of other folks received similar orders. The work will continue, but students will feel the near-term impact.

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

Perusall is a game changer for engaging students in course readings. I can track: * Whether they're reading at all * What they're having the most trouble with * What ideas are exciting them And I can engage in discussion with them prior to class. In class I can bring up specific points they made.

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

Come see my PhD student Minyu Situ talk about bus network redesigns and equity analysis this morning at 10:15 in 146A!!

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