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Mobility, safety, and dignity for people walking and rolling. 🚲🚶🛴👩‍🦽‍➡️ Transportation planning ➡️ traffic safety research. Currently in Iowa.
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For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 1%, it can collect $13. For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 0.1%, it can collect $26. Laying off 7,000 IRS employees (during tax season) isn't about efficiency. It's about making it easier for the rich to evade taxes.

submitted 5 days ago • 250 comments

The playbook: 1. Acknowledge the pain 2. Offer a villain 3. Promise a solution

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Just had a thought: the difference between a "food desert" and a "car dependent neighborhood" is the income of the residents. Both are food deserts (there are no supermarkets, etc) one just has enough ppl with cars for it to not matter.

submitted 29 days ago • 14 comments

This line from “Killed by a Traffic Engineer” is a good example of why it’s a fun read: “What happens when the street network comes after the functional classification system? The result often resembles a branchy deciduous tree with streets named after the trees we cut down to build it.”

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

this is incredible stuff. most state DOTs would spend tens of billions on highway expansions to try and see numbers like this (that wouldn’t even pan out anyway thanks to induced demand lol)

submitted 43 days ago • 165 comments

Some raw truth about cars

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Waymo is peak American innovation. With way less money they could have built a reliable public transport network, but instead someone was like "what if we could find a way for empty vehicles to contribute to traffic too? There's no reason we can't have more cars on the road than there are drivers"

submitted 57 days ago • 120 comments

And so it begins, our e-bike era. We intentionally purchased an e-bike that fits a wide range of heights and can haul plenty of groceries. We’ll be selling our 2nd car, which will save our household an estimated $3,000 in 2025.

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

Merry Christmas to me!

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

The Gate.

submitted 79 days ago • 5 comments

Always good to remember that people in cars are the number one danger to themselves

submitted 85 days ago • 3 comments

not a landslide

submitted 98 days ago • 1098 comments

"We're not going to lower our own bar ... just because of the outcome of this election. We'll negotiate to make progress along the way, but we're not going to be changing our North Star.” usa.streetsblog.org/2024/11/13/t...

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

The latest manifestation of this problem in my community is the delay to safety improvements on a connecting locally-owned corridor. Becuase the state is replacing a nearby bridge in 2028, the city is forgoeing a long-planned 1mi road diet until that project is done. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

submitted 104 days ago • 1 comment