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I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost

submitted 15 hours ago • 286 comments

A good time to re-share the report I led on integrating transit, bicycling and micromobility! novatransit.org/uploads/stud...

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

It's all funny until people start dying. And they will. The work of government is largely invisible until we suffer the harms they help prevent - or need the help they provide in a crisis.

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

it’s insane that having empathy is becoming a political liability for so many americans

submitted 1 day ago • 167 comments

if you set the distribution of harms from pollution (e.g. cancer and asthma rates) next to the distribution of benefits from economic cooperation (e.g. income/wealth gaps) then the narrative that environmentalism is for the rich is the thing we should find surprising!

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

At 20 mph: 40 ft to stop, 13% pedestrian chance of fatality/severe injury. At 30 mph: 90 ft to stop, 40% pedestrian chance of fatality/severe injury, 50% smaller driver field of vision. At 40 mph: 155 ft to stop, 73% pedestrian chance of fatality/severe injury, 75% smaller driver field of vision.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Again, murder is legal in America if you do it with a car

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

submitted 4 days ago • 459 comments

@wmata.com World Pride 🚇 in the wild! Tag Metro when you see our welcome bus and train! #wmata

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Here’s a lesson in infrastructure: DC streets weren’t built for 67-ton tanks. Roads buckle, curbs crack, and the substructure can collapse. But we’re risking all of it to re-stage a war victory because a big boy is turning 79. (1/4)

submitted 4 days ago • 57 comments

No words

submitted 4 days ago • 64 comments

1.33 million journeys daily and growing 📈

submitted 5 days ago • 57 comments

This chart shows that in the City of London (the tiny historical part of London in red), bicycles have overtaken cars to become the most common vehicle. Let's make this throughout Greater London! www.economist.com/britain/2025...

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

just saw a headline about "Britain's most woke roundabout" and I think I'm done

submitted 5 days ago • 128 comments

I spent five weeks talking to federal workers about knowledge loss and brain drain across the federal government, and its implications, both right now and for decades to come. Their stories are frightening, but I think it's important to know what we're facing: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 5 days ago • 35 comments

“Time is the most valuable thing we have…Every day we do something well, we improve people’s lives.” - @wmatagm.bsky.social Transit doesn’t just improve lives. It saves them. It is 30-70 times safer than driving and among the most important public health interventions available to us.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

The only time I really feel like "we're cooked" is when I drive around and see every third driver literally watching or scrolling their phones while driving. Not at a red light. While navigating traffic. The addiction is total.

submitted 5 days ago • 113 comments

We should organize a letter-writing campaign where elementary school students can write Secretary Real World and tell him how they learned to ride the bus or subway all by themselves, and maybe one day he can too

submitted 6 days ago • 23 comments

Design vehicles to fit cities. Don’t design cities to fit vehicles.

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

its remarkable that left of center epople can see clearly that firearms, in spite of a constitutional right, are dangerous and need to be regulated further than they are but some of them get super confused about cars, as if they are not dangerous and as if we have a constitutional right to drive

submitted 6 days ago • 26 comments

As a reminder... Deaths on US roads in 2022: 42,514 Deaths on US transit in 2022: 340

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I am a street camera extremist. Put a robot on every single intersection; ticket every single driver who speeds or runs a red light, every single time.

submitted 6 days ago • 31 comments

Another NY Times headline reminding us that they are very sure their readers are car people. The lazy term "anti-car culture" conceals that limiting cars in cities is a matter of sharing scarce space fairly. No culture is needed to explain why big cities limit cars.

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

Fascinating post on how payroll taxes in French metropolitan areas provided the funding for French cities to reverse the ridership declines of the 1960s & pave the way for system expansion & high ridership in most cities today.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Australia won't ever tackle its transport emissions until it puts road tanks in a vice - instead the gov't actively incentivises oversized vehicles. theconversation.com/drivers-of-s...

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Cat and bus content. I am the target audience for this.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

‘Terrified’: Ex-cop jailed and deported during holiday to US A former NSW Police officer has recalled the horrific moment she was jailed and deported while visiting her husband in the US.

submitted 11 days ago • 18 comments

It's a bit of an aside from Anna's original post, but I really appreciate that @americanprogress.bsky.social puts this note on disability stories. I think it's really good when outlets are transparent about reflecting the language choices of those being featured.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

A pretty good representation of How It All Works. The bike lane was the result of years of advocacy and community engagement, tons of people use it, but two people complained at a public forum — and a few more behind closed doors — so one of Adams' final acts as mayor might be to remove it.

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

I’m always confused when people complain about cyclists not stopping at stop signs. The vast majority of drivers do a “rolling stop” (i.e., they don’t actually stop) when possible. This is so normal people don’t even see it as breaking the law, but when cyclists do the same thing, it stands out.

submitted 11 days ago • 52 comments

US Government Accountability Office finds that—as has been clear for months—the Trump Administration is committing illegal impoundment by pausing the distribution of certain transportation funds.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Just look at that steep increase after 2020. Traffic violence in all forms has just exploded in the past 5 years.

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

one underused solid argument against a car centric culture is that many people are absolutely terrible drivers

submitted 12 days ago • 17 comments

So…about AI’s energy use… “…to create a five-second video, a newer AI model uses ‘about 3.4 million joules, more than 700 times the energy required to generate a high-quality image’. That's the equivalent of running a microwave for over an hour.”

submitted 12 days ago • 103 comments

To carry 50,000 people per hour in each direction, a city needs a 175m wide road for cars. Even if those cars are electric. And then there’s all the parking. OR a city can move A LOT MORE people in a lot less space, with A LOT LESS public money and pollution. Via UITPnews

submitted 13 days ago • 17 comments

NHTSA tracked 40,901 people killed in motor vehicle traffic crashes in 2023 in the US. crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/V... Wonder how good (or not) the data tracking will be in 2025, how comparable the data...

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

Cato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.

submitted 15 days ago • 263 comments

One thing to pay attention to is the people who dismiss generative software's environmental impact always talk about PROJECTIONS - not what is happening right now Like Meta building 2.3 gigawatts (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) of fossil gas turbines to power a data centre www.fastcompany.com/91334846/met...

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments