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Grateful to Silvia Casorran Martos, godmother of Superilles, and Manuel Valdes, Director of Autoritat del Transport Metropolità, for two days of Barcelona tours. Glad to talk success and failure, politics and recovery

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This is how those of us of a certain age first learned about April 19, 1775. Still inspires. youtu.be/Y6ikO6LMxF4?...

submitted 11 days ago • 35 comments

Good Friday is the story of a man unjustly arrested and rushed to judgment. Diana Butler Bass tells it for our time, using only pictures from the last two weeks, and it hits so heavy open.substack.com/pub/dianabut...

submitted 13 days ago • 8 comments

Learned that March 18th saw 531,000 passengers, 7% higher ridership than the average ridership in March. It’s ~35,000 additional rides. I can’t say for sure how much of that is due to my SF Transit Operator Day Project. A huge thank you to everyone for riding Muni! www.sfmta.com/blog/thank-y...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Gràcies Barcelona Metro for making your ticketing system so welcoming to visitors and 1st time users, esp unlimited 2 3 4 & 5-day passes

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

Bless the Catalonians, who quickly switch from Catalan to Castilian for me, then patiently endure my dreadful Spanish until I cry uncle in English. Only then do they switch to fluent English. Because practice is the only way to learn

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

SF: ✔️ Embarcadero Fwy demolished 1991 ✔️ Central Fwy -> Octavia Blvd 2005 ✔️ JFK Promenade 2022 ✔️ Great Hwy -> pedestrian promenade 2025 youtu.be/v599lY1z6Is?... Welcome to Sunset Dunes Park, linking Lake Merced, Fort Funston and Golden Gate parks

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Street finds its own uses for Waymo's mobile on-demand job/sex/etc board. Pics of notes reportedly found in Waymo robots in San Francisco. I remember when Craigslist was a weekly email of SF 'happenings' and now the SF happenings robot to you. Story at link: www.msn.com/en-us/news/t...

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

Valencia a remarkable midsize city for mobility integration. Great bikeshare and protected bikeway network. Great integration among metro, light rail and bus. Transit ticketing system a surprising weakness for visitors

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

Really interesting article on autonomous vehicles (Waymo's robotaxis, here) and how they interact with pedestrians based on social norms and cues, rather than the law. Toxic in my view. HT @katjadiehl.bsky.social & @jackthurston.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

Speed-Limiting Technology Gets a Foothold in State Law www.governing.com/transportati...

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The new Great Highway park is a contentious flashpoint of an open space. But when you actually arrive the vibes are immaculate. 10 ways to explore Sunset Dunes, San Francisco’s newest park. My fun guide with @jachristian.bsky.social! 🌁☀️❤️ Gift link!! 🎁 www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202...

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

In my latest for @theflytrapmedia.bsky.social, I looked into why so many trans people are seemingly into transit and urban planning. Here's my report (subscribe for $25/yr to read): theflytrap.beehiiv.com/p/why-are-so...

submitted 22 days ago • 17 comments

Busman's Holiday continues to Valencia. Valencia makes it work because: 1. Modes separated, but all spaces shared 2. Everyone considerate to others 3. Low speeds everywhere 4. Pragmatic approach to ROW constraints

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

There’s a lesson here for every Big Law firm, university and media company if they care to learn it.

submitted 23 days ago • 7 comments

If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.

submitted 26 days ago • 721 comments

The purpose of these tariffs is to be able to lift them to those who bow down to him and sacrifice their dignity. That is what he did to the GOP, the billionaires, and is doing now to Big Law. Those who stand up will be punished, those who bend a knee and humiliate themselves will be rewarded.

submitted 27 days ago • 644 comments

So would you break a nail to put these vault covers back in the right order? Asking for a friend - Plaça do Rossio, Lisbon

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

"They want to make you feel powerless. But you are not powerless"

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Yeah, this checks out. Planning New York. www.tiktok.com/@nbcsnl/vide...

submitted 29 days ago • 5 comments

Tuesday's Most Read # 1 - New Virginia Bill Would Force Reckless Drivers To Install Speed Limiters In Their Vehicles bit.ly/43ux0rF @jalopnik.bsky.social

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Lisbon's ~19th C transit infrastructure is glorious. Elevador de Santa Justa en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_J... and Ascensor da Bica are two of many urban elevators and funiculars en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascenso...

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Almost every square or neighborhood park in central Lisbon has a quiosque (kiosk) that serves coffee, drinks and snacks. Often they're adjacent to an awesome playground. So kids and parents can both live best lives while in view of each other

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Almost every square or neighborhood park in central Lisbon has a quiosque (kiosk) that serves coffee, drinks and snacks. Often they're adjacent to an awesome playground. So kids and parents can both live best lives while in view of each other

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

It's overhyped, but Lisbon's "Pink Street" is an interesting intervention. Merchants, owners and city collaborate to move loading to early morning and cross streets. City adds simple art and paints street pink. 1/3

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

We're pumped for the new bike zone near the Great Highway & Sloat Boulevard! This all-ages park feature includes a pump track & skills area w/ rollers, jumps, & ramps. A special thanks to the SF Urban Riders & Friends of @oceanbeachpark.org for making this possible!

submitted 30 days ago • 4 comments

Top Wall Street institutions are prepping for global warming that blows past the Paris Agreement. "We now expect a 3°C world," Morgan Stanley analysts wrote, a scenario in which harvest failures are widespread and sea-level rise is measured in feet rather than inches. www.eenews.net/articles/big...

submitted 30 days ago • 27 comments

Trump Says He Won’t Rule Out Third Reich

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US cities: Min cross section for 2-way streetcar +Cars +Delivery and garbage trucks +Commercial sidewalks = 60' Lisbon: hold my beer

submitted 30 days ago • 5 comments

We're excited to share that a Nature Exploration Area has been installed as part of the effort to convert the Great Highway into a park. The new park feature has a logwork course made from downed trees from the recent storms, as well as 2 forest huts to inspire curiosity.

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

we’re not gonna use ai to make Studio Ghibli art, but we will direct you towards local artist Ben Seto who makes really cool Ghibli-inspired SF art. Blacksheepcomics.com

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 33 days ago • 13 comments