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Congestion pricing works: "The toll plan is also on track to hit its goal of raising $15 billion in funding for critical transit repairs and improvements, the M.T.A. said. Nearly $49 million was billed to vehicles entering the zone in January, according to the latest public data from the authority."

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NEW EPISODE! "Trump v. Congestion Pricing." Congestion pricing is under attack by Trump & DOT Secretary Sean Duffy. Can they cancel the tolling program? Can Kathy Hochul save it and fight fascism? @davecolon.bsky.social from @nyc.streetsblog.org joins us to discuss. thewaroncars.org/2025/02/27/e...

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This is true, it's time for the Dems to concentrate back on the local/state elections.

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New York is one of the safest cities in the country, in part because it's so easy to navigate without having to drive

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

1. There’s a clip going around, thanks to the indefatigable @atrupar.com, of a CNN interview with that White House putz, Stephen Miller. In it, Miller defends the president’s colonization of the federal bureaucracy. bsky.app/profile/atru...

submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments

A key observation about nearly every one of the arguments against birthright citizenship; that all of them simply ignore the actual text of the Constitution in favor of a version that exists purely in their own heads.

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Harvard Magazine's new cover story delves into road safety. I explained the fallacy of blaming individuals for crashes: Americans “blame individuals for what really are systemic & societal problems...road users are just going about their daily business. It’s not their job to build a safe system.”

submitted 14 days ago • 8 comments

1. When Kamala Harris said “we’re not going back,” she was doing more than repeating a campaign slogan. She was tapping into a belief, shared among liberals and Democrats, that progress can’t be stopped.

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It started in Silicon Valley as a fringe idea: an inefficient democracy needs to die - replaced by a "red Caesar" dictatorship that would fire federal employees and govern with the latest tech Thiel, Musk and Trump are making this dystopia a reality. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

submitted 16 days ago • 77 comments

In my opinion, more than 75% of every urban planning, architecture, and landscape architecture program today should focus on “SPRAWL REPAIR”. The work is endless. And virtually nobody is teaching it.

submitted 18 days ago • 12 comments

Cambridge, MA, has just made it legal to build housing anywhere in the city as tall as a typical Parisian building (6 floors), potentially allowing the city to grow by 170%!

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

More people getting to live in big cities with lots of job opportunities is a good thing, even if rents don’t go down (which they will, if you build enough).

submitted 18 days ago • 6 comments

Community groups like to say an individual housing project won’t solve affordability. Perhaps. But veto power over each and every housing project means market prices inevitably rise.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Ahead of Kendrick’s performance today, here’s a look back at the greatest halftime show ever, including the political, cultural & social messages Prince sent through his choice of songs and the story he was telling about Black music, ownership and creative control. www.anildash.com//2021/02/05/...

submitted 19 days ago • 64 comments

In case you didn’t know, Jennifer Homendy, current chair of the NTSB, is on here. She is a champion for a safe system approach for transportation. She really gets it.

submitted 26 days ago • 3 comments

Let’s talk cost of housing and the perception some have that California is “full.” The number of homes is not the driver of population. The number of jobs is. (Look at history of Detroit if you doubt this.) The number of homes divided by the number of people drives cost of housing.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

We need reporters with subject matter expertise to report these stories in the first wave of coverage, not just to write "Trump does XXX" stories fitting the stated narrative on day one and only go back later to clarify in coverage no one sees

submitted 32 days ago • 9 comments

Once again, as we watch Congress totally abdicate its constitutional responsibilities on advice & consent at the Hegseth & Bondi hearings, I regret to inform you that the institutions are not self-enforcing.

submitted 43 days ago • 4 comments

Someone noted that the only sin the media feels it can call out is hypocrisy, since it's theoretically value neutral. And indeed, that leads precisely here

submitted 49 days ago • 4 comments

If Democrats want to stop the bleeding in major metro areas — and if they want to avoid ceding some of California's electoral votes and congressional seats to red states — they should treat the housing crisis like the five alarm fire it is.

submitted 53 days ago • 7 comments

There is no upzoning that is too small to provoke fierce NIMBY opposition, and moderating on policy does not mitigate anything. YIMBYs should just push for good policy.

submitted 53 days ago • 7 comments

Listen y'all...checking out completely isn't going to help you. Yes, we will need news and info, but we do have to compile and look for good sources like the Philadelphia Inquirer, and other indie sources.

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

Abolish parking minimums and introduce paid street parking everywhere.

submitted 57 days ago • 6 comments

“As pickups transitioned from workhorses to lifestyle vehicles, their design shifted accordingly: Cabs expanded for more passengers, while beds shrank. The first generation of F-150s was 36% cab & 64% bed by length. By 2021, the ratio flipped, with 63% cab & 37% bed.” www.axios.com/2023/01/23/p...

submitted 60 days ago • 34 comments

Truth. Cars are given exponentially more space in cities than any other form of transit and in many cases, all other forms combined, especially if you include parking. In cities where there are more real choices, people routinely choose other forms of transit for multipe reasons.

submitted 65 days ago • 1 comment

Editors and reporters make it hard to tell if they’re in the business of exploitation or exploration. www.urbanismspeakeasy.com/p/daylightin...

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Many North American cities have essentially given up on the idea of more downtown housing, right when it’s more important that ever. Other cities want downtown housing, but are skipping over all the changes they need to make to support livability. Every downtown should look at our #Sacramento work.

submitted 68 days ago • 3 comments

Just read @nondriver.bsky.social's wonderful new book, "When Driving Is Not an Option," on US car dependency—& the people who cannot partake in that system. Anna Zivarts pulls together stories & striking facts: >25% of Americans are nondrivers. Worth checking out: bookshop.org/p/books/when...

submitted 74 days ago • 4 comments

I have arrived in Taiwan to study public transit for a week & lessons for CA! I’m already finding the high speed MRT from Taoyuan airport to Taipei to be a seamless. The airport feeds you straight to the MRT, and payment was simply tapping my credit card at the gates. @seamlessbayareaca.bsky.social

submitted 75 days ago • 3 comments

Amsterdam wasn’t inevitable, it was shaped by tough, deliberate choices to prioritize what makes it vibrant and livable. Cities thrive when they protect their essence, not when they let unchecked growth or cars take over and erode it.

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

I've been hit by a car, low speed, on my bike with a 6-year-old on a seat. We rolled up onto hood and nobody was even noticeably bruised. The bike was fine. With a taller vehicle, we'd have been under the wheels.

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

Bike parking facility in the basement of Utrecht's former main post office. Open almost all week round the clock, space for more than 700 bicycles, charging points for e-bikes, toilet, buggy rental and direct access to the supermarket. 🚲🚲👌

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"I’m worried that truthful, verified information is becoming unaffordable to many Americans, while disinformation is free for all," writes @sulliview.bsky.social on Substack (irony noted). It would take a doctoral-length dissertation to unpack all that's happening in just one important sentence.

submitted 81 days ago • 9 comments

Paris definitely wasn’t always this way. This is very recent. It wasn’t magic. It just took vision and leadership. Your city could choose leadership too. Great pic via @JBPssx

submitted 81 days ago • 32 comments

”The benefits of a ‘car-less’ household are myriad, but few are as quantifiable as the $ people sink into a depreciating asset that sits unused 95% of the time. I haven’t had to think about the many costs of car ownership for many years, which is incredibly liberating.” dailyhive.com/vancouver/bi...

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NYC estimates that this "city of yes" policy will add 80,000 housing units over 15 years. For context, NYC added about 248,000 units between 2010–2020, so assuming that baseline construction rate continues, this policy would equal a roughly 22% increase on top of that, or 301,000 units/10 years.

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