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magicbroomcycle.bsky.social
Anonymous urbanist lurker with roots in the DC area. My bicycle is my magic broomstick.
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To the driver who called me a stupid shit because she didn’t notice me in a crosswalk (even though I was already clear by the time she noticed): You are lashing out because you realized you could have killed somebody with your inattention. I’m sorry you have to drive, but please don’t be rude.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

"We must place as many people as we can near the source of pollution" says planner who believes deeply in zoning - the purpose of which was supposedly to separate people from sources of pollution

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Med school isn’t the bottle neck, it’s residencies. We already graduate more doctors than there exist residencies for.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Continuing to explore the potential for Single Lot, Single Stair urbanism. This is a corner 50x122, 45% site coverage, 18 units of varying sizes.

submitted 39 days ago • 2 comments

As you've probably already seen, we launched a new think tank this morning, the Missing Middle Initiative, focused on the young, urban, middle class in Canada. And we have an ambitious vision for the country.

submitted 56 days ago • 5 comments

This is what happens when the people designing bike infrastructure don't actually use bikes. Functional design matters.

submitted 58 days ago • 6 comments

Break the vicious cycle!

submitted 58 days ago • 4 comments

As a country we are somehow simultaneously obsessed with counting our steps/tracking fitness and appalled at the idea of walking somewhere 10 minutes away.

submitted 70 days ago • 13 comments

Because so many people, planners, and engineers seem to miss the mark on proper design, I'm zooming in here to highlight the loading zone parking for commercial service vehicles, located right between the bike parking. We can remove street parking and still address the 'what abouts' effectively.

submitted 77 days ago • 3 comments

“We are rightly up in arms when something happens on an airplane and someone could have gotten hurt, and yet we let a full airplane's worth of people die every day in car crashes on our roads.” — Pete Buttigieg (who really needs to join Bluesky) in @usatoday.com #UrbanistShoutOut #VisionZero

submitted 91 days ago • 10 comments

When high-demand cities don’t allow single-family homes to be redeveloped into apartments, they will often end up redeveloped into much larger and more expensive single-family homes.

submitted 93 days ago • 8 comments

@ohtheurbanity.bsky.social has been on such a roll lately! Don’t know how they manage to put out so many high quality videos so quickly, but I appreciate it

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

This was my bus stop this morning, what’s wrong with this picture?

submitted 110 days ago • 10 comments

If you’re going to go with the “park once” model of urban design, it’s worth making sure you put the parking garage somewhere obvious, accessible, and on the edge of the urban area. Otherwise you end up with cars jammed into the center of the district, unnecessarily competing for street parking.

submitted 110 days ago • 1 comment

So glad to see @wmatagm.bsky.social on BlueSky!

submitted 110 days ago • 0 comments

@wmata.com display board at Greensboro (eastbound) is malfunctioning

submitted 110 days ago • 0 comments

@garethdennis.bsky.social anywhere in particular I should buy your book? My go to is bookshop (bookshop.org/p/books/how-...) but it says it’s back ordered there.

submitted 114 days ago • 1 comment

By request: 'Storage of private property in the street'. From my book 'From A to B'. Commentary below.

submitted 125 days ago • 7 comments

What does it take to move 1000 people? Better infrastructure supporting mobility choices that don’t take up so much space (or produce so much emissions/pollution, cost so much public money, etc). Great graphic via @SeattleSubway based on a City of Sydney graphic I spread around a lot years ago.

submitted 127 days ago • 6 comments

Riding a bike as your main form of transportation and owning a cat are the first signs of radicalization.

submitted 129 days ago • 7 comments