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Get BARTmogged, gasmaxxers!!

Calling for a more coherent policy response to driving harm Abstract. High rates of population-level driving are associated with multiple adverse health outcomes arising from road crashes, air and noise pollution, p

NEW STUDY: “Thanks to the influence of the road lobby, the harms of driving are underestimated & overlooked, while measures that make walking, cycling, & public transport the easiest option are viewed with suspicion. Policy responses to reducing population-level driving…can create positive change.”

Recent weeks show our reliance on cars, but cycling can help. Most 2024 journeys were under 5 miles, ideal for cycling. Swapping short car trips saves £, pollution & fossil fuel use. Safer roads matter, which is why backing #MyRideOurRight helps everyone.

cyclinguk.org/my-ride-our-right

Work to begin on Oak Bay cycling routes; Esquimalt adding more bike lanes The new bikeways in Oak Bay will have a speed limit of 30 kilometres per hour and traffic-calming measures such as speed humps and crossing controls.

This article cites my research indicating "peak car" and increasing demand for non-auto travel. Local travellers want better sidewalks, crosswalks and bikeway. See my "Active Transportation Investment Talking Points" (www.vtpi.org/CRD_AT_TP.pdf )

www.timescolonist.com/local-news/w...

Gas is expensive. Biking and transit don't surge price you. They're consistent, affordable, and they work. For a lot of people, that's not a lifestyle choice. Options matter.

#RailAndTrail

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To Combat Climate Change, Electrification needs Compact Cities for Full Impact The research is clear: without aggressively tackling rising global temperatures, there will be catastrophic global consequences within the coming decades. This year, reports have indicated that to kee...

“Electrification has been touted as a silver bullet: an easy solution that alleviates the GHG burden from car owners worldwide. This isn’t the case. Extensive vehicle electrification only lowers emissions by a portion of what’s needed.” Via @wrirosscities.bsky.social
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Proud to see that my representatives in Sacramento, Asm. Wicks (@buffywicks.bsky.social) and Sen. Jesse Arreguin (@jessearreguin.bsky.social) both received better than perfect scores on the @streetsforall.org 2025 Mobility Report Card.

Check out your legislators!

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I want to be taxed 51% of my income so I can have healthcare, educated neighbors and trains. Thanks for asking.

Silicon Valley's Push Into Transportation Has Been a Miserable Failure The titans of tech brought plenty of disruption to our broken transportation system but delivered little in the way of innovation.

“Elon Musk admitted to his biographer that the reason the Hyperloop was announced—even though he had no intention of pursuing it—was to try to disrupt the California high-speed rail project to get in the way of that actually succeeding.” — @parismarx.com in @gizmodo.com. #UrbanTruth

Imagine all the cool, fast trains we could have with the billions we spend on bombs.

i don't know that it's sustainable, but i think saving $5500 is pretty fuckin sustainable. not an insignificant amount towards potentially putting some one payroll or 5 months of my own rent. i am willing to find out.

thanks for coming to my ted talk.

Cartoon by Dave Walker showing different types of private belongings stored on the street. Credit: davewalker.com

Bosh.

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Suburbia is Subsidized: Here's the Math [ST07] YouTube video by Not Just Bikes

WATCH: If you STILL don’t understand how car-dependent suburbia is HEAVILY SUBSIDIZED by downtown and all the urban parts of your city, watch this EXCELLENT video by #NotJustBikes with #Urban3 & @strongtowns.bsky.social. And PLEASE SHARE it as much as possible.

I’ve sent it to a LOT of politicians.

Urban Truth Collective: Straight Talk About The Joy Of Cities In An Age Of Disinformation — Streetsblog USA The Three Tenors of Urbanism explain their latest effort: The Urban Truth Collective.

NEW: “We’ve let the lies be far too successful, & that’s significantly hurt our cities. No more.”

@grantennis.bsky.social @tomflood.bsky.social & I have a blunt new @usa.streetsblog.org op-ed telling the story of why we’ve created @urbantruth.bsky.social.

Please help share it! @nyc.streetsblog.org

That’s gets us all rail electrified in CA in about a month?

How come “How are you going to pay for it?” is never asked about endless war?

Do car-free zones hurt disabled people? We asked experts. City planners and advocates are seeing "accessibility used as a political football."

“…disabled people are actually less likely to drive than nondisabled people and more likely to get around by walking and rolling and taking transit. Car-heavy cities are also disproportionately dangerous for disabled folks…”

@nondriver.bsky.social in @motherjones.com #Accessibility

A blue T-shirt that says “Tax me, daddy! Proud supporter of public services” in yellow letters.

Whee! It’s here! Thank you, @seebo429.bsky.social !

Kevin is fantastic!

Try a search for flangeway fillers, they just used them on a new rail trail in Eureka, CA

This one hits hard.

Do we have enough ‘find out’ phase now or do we have to keep going?

Technology I’m excited about

When you let the NIMBYs win and you’re still regretting it 100 years later.

The 1 % of the population accountable for 63 % of all violent crime convictions Population-based studies on violent crime and background factors may provide an understanding of the relationships between susceptibility factors and crime. We aimed to determine the distribution of violent crime convictions in the Swedish ...

One thing I've been pondering for a while is how a relatively tiny number of assholes can disrupt an otherwise positive and peaceful system that benefits large groups of people. You see it replicated over & over again at different scales.

A Tunnel to Transform Los Angeles The ambitious Sepulveda Transit Corridor project — an automated subway line underneath Bel Air — aims to do something rare in LA: Get people out of their cars.

“A year after the $1.1 billion overhaul,” which added a new lane each direction, “the 405’s rush hour drive times were a minute slower than they were before the workers broke ground. Five years later, traffic was worse at all times of day.”

www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Want to run social media for an aggressively reform-minded NYCDOT?

Now's your chance.

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