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This morning, HUD instituted a policy of searching bags and putting everyone through a metal detector. By 8 a.m., employees had already been waiting in line for an hour, a HUD source says.

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Want to know why DC’s Metro is underfunded? Listen to this episode of City Cast DC where we get wonky discussing why the nation’s capital constantly fails to fund its public transit system. 🚇💸 open.spotify.com/episode/7n0g...

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Cambridge city council just legalized midrise apartments citywide. Last summer, MA legislature legalized ADUs in residential areas statewide. Both policies make it easier to build homes of varying shapes & sizes but differ in specifics. Let's use clear, accurate language to describe policy changes.

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“Federally supported projects have been canceled, experts have been fired, and datasets have disappeared. The Transportation Research Board (TRB), a longtime bridge between academia and government, now faces existential questions about its future.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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“They consider taking public transport beneath them. And then that creates a vicious cycle because then public transportation is not as well developed as it should be. And then they complain, why there's so much traffic.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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“They consider taking public transport beneath them. And then that creates a vicious cycle because then public transportation is not as well developed as it should be. And then they complain, why there's so much traffic.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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Today on @theconversation.com I wrote about how NZTA’s own commissioned study shows speed limit reductions provide big economic benefits and a massive drop in fatalities and serious injuries—yet the government is still increasing speed limits. theconversation.com/false-econom...

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Mass timber parking garage in Germany Only ramps and stairs are made of concrete. Floors are timber with a layer of asphalt on top All timber elements can be reused at end of life. Floor heights are tall enough to convert floors to apartments www.archdaily.com/1026856/wood...

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This is what Vision Zero looks like.

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We live in the world where cycling to grab lunch is more surprising than driving to walk on the treadmill.

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This is one of the most-discussed housing reforms in state legislatures right now, and here is empirical proof that it’s safe, definitively refuting the only argument being made against single-stair building code reform.

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Ten eggs for under 2€. Germany is a wonderful place. 🇩🇪

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I joined the @redlinemaryland.bsky.social team this morning to discuss overall @mtamaryland.bsky.social initiatives and the status of the project. The team is working hard to advance the project!

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I’m at the @ggwash.org @smartgrowthusa.bsky.social Transit Equity teach-in and already learning things: Peter Stephan from the DC Office of Disability Rights shared that a recent study found that 54% of DC’s sidewalks are not ADA accessible. 54%!

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“Housing is much more valuable, in part because planning laws have become much more restrictive. So now that means there's just more wealth around that people can pass on to their children.” 🏘️💰 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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No crosswalks at all here & 4 lanes of traffic www.google.com/maps/@37.503...

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For real though, is there any realm of policy in modern history that’s more regressive than housing? Where else do we actually have the opposite of luxury taxes, and make it easiest to build the most luxury product (detached mansions), and next to impossible to build the economy housing?

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“The majority of respondents are supportive of allowing fourplexes in single-family-only zones, where they currently cannot be built: 69% of white residents, 52% of Black residents, and 54.4% of non-Black residents of color support fourplexes.” 🏘️ @ggwash.org ggwash.org/view/98531/p...

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Transportation for America's @bethosborne.bsky.social really comes out swingin', calling it like it is on the @thewaroncars.bsky.social podcast today: thewaroncars.org/2025/02/25/e...

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The bus lane is bussin!

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“Virginia lawmakers delivered a last-minute compromise on a contentious safety bill — ushering in high-tech school zone cameras and speed camera guardrails — just as the General Assembly wrapped up its session.” 🚸 @statesnewsroom.com virginiamercury.com/2025/02/25/h...

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Trust me, an affordable housing development is not going to ruin your precious home value when you live 10 min from the Amazon HQ2 and the Pentagon. The value is there no matter what.

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Unless overcome, blue state NIMBYism is going to grow Republicans' electoral college advantage and price millions of people from targeted populations out of the opportunity to find sanctuary under anti-MAGA legal regimes.

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“Pedestrians are now twice as likely to be killed in D.C. as they were a decade ago, even as more local leaders promise safer streets. For the third consecutive year in 2024, the Washington region recorded more than 100 pedestrian deaths.” @jdharden.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

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Every single parent in America knows that the biggest day-to-day threat to their kid is getting run over by a car. And yet, 99% of them just shrug their shoulders and say, "well, I guess we gotta buy a huge car and never let them walk/bike anywhere."

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Under Trump and Musk, America will fall behind every nation in terms of economic success, academic research, scientific breakthroughs, and more. But we'll still be a world leader in traffic deaths.

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“You can't have housing be a commodity that declines as a share of wallet over time, and have housing be an asset which you expect to appreciate over time. Well, which is it? Because the two things can't be true at the same time.” @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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People of the Red Line episode 2 is out! Learn about the positive transformation this new light rail line with have for Baltimore.

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sure makes you feel great about getting on the highway... if parents were required to buy separate airplane tickets, more would choose instead to drive and "more kids would die in car crashes than would be saved in planes if car seats and separate tickets were required." apnews.com/article/toro...

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“Walkable neighborhoods have now become a luxury good. In the 🇺🇸 you cannot rent in a walkable neighborhood unless you’re affluent, and it dovetails with the fallacious idea that walkable neighborhoods are elitist. @dieworkwear.bsky.social @thewaroncars.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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Just did a quick trip in a very efficient EV and noticed the energy used was about 20 times more than it would have been by an ebike. 🚲 ⚡ 🚗 ⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡ Ebikes are key to transport decarbonisation

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On 3/3 Richmond Planning Dept will host the 2nd Street Summit Strategies Community Meeting to review and discuss the revised strategies for 2nd Street. They are looking for public input!

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“Public art, and murals in general, are the heartbeat of a city. They talk about what a community stands for, believes in, and is going through in the moment. They speak to a community’s history too.” @vpm.org podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

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Boulevard Burger and Brew reopened this past Monday after four months. The closure was due to a car plowing straight through the front of the building and ripping up the

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A group is trying to effectively sabotage the Fall Line trail’s path through Bryan Park. Sign BikeWalk RVA’s petition here to tell City leadership you support the trail! www.sportsbackers.org/program/bike...

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I love how Brandenburg an der Havel’s streetcar system embraces the city’s history with wraps and ceilings mirroring interiors of local historic buildings. 🚃

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Fell In Love With A Train. “Such a shame that the US doesn't do it like Japan and Europe do with dedicated train routes to all of our cities like this. We've done entire tours in Japan by train”

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In many ways it's fitting that the showdown between monarchy and democracy ends up being over NYC congestion pricing. Cities are where the power of kings were first challenged, and few things are more fundamental to government than control of public space. The cameras are staying on!

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“About 72 per cent of Deutsche Bahn’s intercity trains arrived within 10 minutes of their scheduled arrival time in the year to January 2025, compared with 78 per cent of British long-distance trains.” on.ft.com/4hFj02v

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So happy my colleague @ceceliablack.bsky.social is leading the conversation around wheelchair accessible housing, density and nondriver access 👇

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I hadn't seen this StoryMap about #redlining, environmental inequity, and health outcomes before. Many of the data links are now broken (an all-too-common problem with StoryMaps!), but the visual communication of the data is still really effective: gisweb.nbbj.com/arcgis/apps/...

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“America's first bike lane required a local government revolution. Painted in the sleepy college town of Davis, California, in 1967, it was a small project, a little less than a mile long.” 🚴🏿🚴🏼‍♀️🚴🏽‍♂️ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

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This video reminded me of @tomflood.bsky.social’s famous quote: “Bicycles deliver the freedom that auto ads promise.”

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'Suspended service affects all systemwide bus routes, paratransit service, the Tide Light Rail, Elizabeth River Ferry, OnDemand ridesharing and the Base Express at Naval Station Norfolk.'

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“Due to parking minimums there was a grotesque over-provision of parking spaces. So much so that Professor Donald Shoup calculated that 14% of the land surface of Los Angeles County was covered by parking spaces. Just oceans of unproductive asphalt.” www.economist.com/obituary/202...

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Had a great talk with @yappelbaum.bsky.social about his new book Stuck and the causes and casualties of declining American mobility for @bloomberg.com . In the 19th century, 1 in 3 US residents moved every year. Today it’s down to 1 in 13, many of them wealthy www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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“In California you have the combination of perhaps the worst land use and housing policy regime anywhere in the world. California has several markets that are world beating in terms of how awful they are at producing a supply of new homes.” @birdyword.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

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Everyone, please check out the Queer Urbanism/Transit Nerds Starter Pack! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚍🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚇🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚲🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚶🏾‍♂️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️👨🏾‍🦽🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏙️ go.bsky.app/Au2Sq7Q

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I’ve been thinking lately about parallels between autistic and blind experiences of space-connections here in @langealexandra.bsky.social’s article that discusses traffic noise. ht @theoverheadwire.bsky.social

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