"as much as possible, I’d like to see the hardware stay clearly within the legal lines. The Olto, by contrast, is designed to push right against them and, whenever the boost button is hit, cross them" The absolute silence from NHTSA on blatantly illegal devices is deafening

SUGATA AI@sugataai.bsky.social · 4h ago

If your new "bike" requires you to hop and balance like a scooter, you aren't cycling; you're just pushing a motorized footstool. #InfiniteMachine https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/08/pushing-the-limits-infinite-machines-olto-is-barely-a-bicycle/

"American journeys big and small—driving to work, walking a child to school, or taking a road trip—should be safe" - USDOT www.transportation.gov/nrss/nrss-ac... "We urge Congress to restrict competitive and formula grant funding for bicycle lanes" - Also USDOT www.artba.org/wp-content/u...

The USDOT has published a new National Roadway Safety Strategy: www.transportation.gov/nrss/nrss-ac... It no longer has the objectives of Safer Speeds or improved Post-Crash Care "Designing roads to mitigate crashes helps to remove one of the primary causes of unexpected congestion"

“I kept seeing all these box stores that had to have huge amounts of parking, and it seemed like it wasn’t being used until two weeks before Christmas” - NC state Rep. Donnie Loftis, a Republican Parking reform is "free-market oriented...property rights oriented” www.governing.com/urban/north-...

North Carolina Finds a Consensus Issue in Parking Reform

North Carolina is the latest state to lift minimum parking requirements in its cities, an action it says will help the environment and lower housing costs.

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Really excited to feature some great state advocacy groups in this upcoming @bikeleague.org webinar about e-bikes, e-motos, and how states are dealing with the popularity and proliferation of these devices bikeleague.org/calendar/e-b... Happening next week, August 11th at 3 pm ET

E-bikes, E-motos, Oh My: Navigating New Devices and Laws for E-Bikes | League of American Bicyclists

Until recently, every bicycle was powered the same way, with feet on pedals. Today, e-bikes, e-scooters, and other small electrically-powered devices are very popular. While the 3-class system for e-b...

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But I was told in this self-congratulatory video that the US approach to traffic safety had made tremendous progress (even as the data showed not much progress since the 1990s) www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPGv...

David Zipper@davidzipper.bsky.social · yesterday

​New research shows that the US has been a global laggard curbing crash deaths. If the US had merely matched improvements in 14 peer nations, 500,000+ lives would have been saved from 2000-24. doi.org/10.1080/1538...

Pour one out for this school zone speed limit sign asking drivers to go 15 mph on this six lane arterial If you want people to go 15 mph, then the road can't be designed like this

Happened upon this fact sheet showing that 44 States reported using speed management strategies as part of their Congressionally-required Vulnerable Road User Safety Assessment Remnants of the (still proven) Proven Safety Countermeasures can be seen in the icons highways.dot.gov/sites/fhwa.d...

National Association of City Transportation Officials@nacto.bsky.social · 7d ago

A change on a website doesn’t change what works on our streets. That's why NACTO has archived and compiled resources for the five proven safety countermeasures recently removed from the Federal Highway Administration's website. Access the documents: nacto.org/latest/the-e...

"Increased conflation between privately operated license plate readers and standard traffic enforcement could increase public support for anti-speed enforcement bills – including the ones that won’t rein in Flock at all" Feels similar to laws restricting e-bikes and missing faster e-motos

ren they/them 🏳️‍⚧️@renzaro.com · 6d ago

Flock cameras have been used to stalk, surveil, and falsely arrest a growing number of Americans. Now, they’re fueling the war against livable streets. Read here:

"Local law enforcement can use these dollars for: State-of-the-art safety tech to curb dangerous driving behaviors" This sounds like potential #StopSuperSpeeders program funding to me @familiesforsafestreets.org www.nhtsa.gov/press-releas...

"The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials recently renewed a memorandum of understanding or MOU for two years with the Conference of Minority Transportation Officials" Nice to see this collaboration and effort aashtojournal.transportation.org/aashto-renew...

AASHTO Journal - AASHTO Renews MOU Agreement with COMTO

The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials recently renewed a memorandum of understanding or MOU for two years with the Conference of Minority Transportation Officials; bui...

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“Law enforcement is part of an answer to this but it's not the only answer...we [need to] start thinking how do we get people through an area as safely as possible, only then will things starts to change" - deputy director of the Bicycle Coalition of Maine Dan Bassett wgme.com/news/local/p...

Portland takes steps to keep bicyclists, pedestrians safe

The City of Portland is taking steps to keep bicyclists and pedestrians safe on the road.

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"In the seventeen months prior to the North Las Vegas crash, Robinson’s full driving history revealed five speeding arrests. Three out of the five were reduced to 'illegal parking'" Robinson killed 9 while driving 103 mph while intoxicated with cocaine and PCP www.ndaa.org/news/july-20...

Good things happening in Maryland, including: "A record $500+ million investment in active transportation projects programmed ... and A new Maryland Transportation Trails Strategic Plan, updated in 2025 for the first time in 16 years" mdot.maryland.gov/tso/pages/ne...

Maryland Department of Transportation Celebrates Two Years of ‘Complete Streets’ - MDOT

The Maryland Department of Transportation is a customer-driven leader that delivers safe, sustainable, intelligent, and exceptional transportation solutions in order to connect our customers to life’s...

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Proposal would "create a rebuttable presumption that a truck driver is responsible in a fatal crash involving a 'vulnerable road user' such as a cyclist or pedestrian, if that truck is not equipped with certain safety features such as side guards and backup cameras" www.nbcboston.com/news/local/t...

Senate agrees to limited use of cameras to enforce speed limits in Mass.

The amendment would allow installation of cameras in school and safety zones and active construction areas to monitor speeding and send fines.

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"Duffy’s choice to include this language could also simply be political messaging for a base that hates bike lanes" Except Trump voters support bike lanes - a 2025 YouGov survey found that 64% of Trump voters strongly or somewhat support bike lanes in their local area

Jon Orcutt@jonorcutt.bsky.social · 2w ago

For the millionth time, the idiocy is not a bug @usa.streetsblog.org usa.streetsblog.org/2026/07/23/t...

I often hear that it would be "too expensive" to add bicyclist detection to new vehicles in the US - where new vehicles already average ~$50k But here's a $8,350 kei car in Japan that pulls it off because New Car Assessment has made it effectively standard www.automotiveworld.com/topics/softw...

Daihatsu Smart Assist adds cyclist detection to kei cars | Automotive World

Daihatsu Smart Assist now covers turning scenarios, on a car that costs less than a mid-range family hatchback

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Tesla manager says self-driving vehicle team was so overworked that cars were ‘rolling hazards on public streets,’ lawsuit reveals

Tesla manager claims self-driving team pushed to point of ‘systemic safety breakdown’

Exclusive: ‘I was really trying to let them know how serious this was,’ fired Tesla manager Javier Medrano told The Independent. ‘‘But there was no sense of urgency’

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"'We can say pretty clearly that the systems in place on the Zoox exceed the equivalent performance ​requirements of a compliant vehicle," [NHTSA Administrator Jonathan] Morrison said in an interview. "But we still want to make sure that the automated driving system will operate appropriately.'"

Reuters@reuters.com · 6d ago

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon's Zoox wins first US approval for paid robotaxis without human controls reut.rs/4wvEBBP

"A 2025 YouGov survey found that 75% of US adults support having bike lanes where they live. Thirty-three per cent said they want more; 37% wanted the existing number." In the crosstabs, 64% of Trump voters somewhat or strongly support bike lanes where they live, 21% want more, 16% want less

Peter Cheung@bostonaruban.bsky.social · 6d ago

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"Technologies such as GIS and AI can help improve the built environment as officials seek to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)" I really like that they put a reflective vest on this robot, and it's great to have better sidewalk data www.govtech.com/gov-experien...

The FHWA may have removed speed safety cameras from their Proven Safety Countermeasures but state DOTs are touting their benefits in work zones because “Speeding in work zones is the top safety concern we hear from the people who work on our roads” aashtojournal.transportation.org/state-dots-e...

AASHTO Journal - State DOTs Expand Use of Work Zone Speed Cameras

Several state departments of transportation are expanding their use of automated speed cameras in highway work zones across their respective regions to beef up protections for roadway workers and moto...

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The US has a federal "Older Driver and Pedestrians Special Rule" but the way that it has been implemented has focused more on accommodating older drivers There's a 2014 federal handbook on "Designing Roadways for the Aging Population" that could use an update data.bikeleague.org/benchmarking...

Benchmarking Insights On Older Adults - Benchmarking Report By the League of American Bicyclists

The League of American Bicyclists is dedicated to building a Bicycle Friendly America for everyone. As part of working with the CDC’s Active People, Healthy Nation initiative to get 27 million people ...

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Lloyd Alter@lloydalter.bsky.social · 6d ago

Demographics being what they are, “walking while old” is going to be a growing problem. I have been banging on about this for years www.treehugger.com/complaining-...

I like the network focus of this article, but "No Complete Streets policies that I am aware of mention the [rural-to-urban] Transect" misses the work of Florida that has the transect front-and-center State complete streets policies feel a little stalled out, so good to see some critique

Reconnect Rochester@reconnectroc.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Great article on the importance of expanding Complete Streets policies to push DOTs to consider walkability even when there is no historical context for it. www.cnu.org/publicsquare...

"Wheelhouse clients Behl and Lykins said they want to work. But there are few jobs within walking distance from their tent encampment." Bicycle transportation can be a lifeline for many people If a car is required to work, it is a huge barrier and burden for people seeking work

burdsandwurds@burdsandwurds.bsky.social · last wk.

“Taking the bus or the streetcar to work is a luxury often limited to larger cities. Ohio’s rural areas and small cities have fewer or no options; 25 Ohio counties have no public transit system at all. The Wheelhouse Christian Bicycle Cooperative hopes a different set of wheels can fill the gap.”

Lunch speakers at AASHTO Council on Active Transportation and Committee on Planning meeting are the State Highway Administrator - who was great And Harriett Tregoning- who is talking about the housing crossing, which is a very atypical topic as land use and transportation is perennially overlooked

New session at the AASHTO Council on Active Transportation and Committee on Planning meeting "Did it work? Measuring Active Transportation Project Impacts" Starts with Professor @jenniferdillpsu.bsky.social who is also working on a research roadmap update onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/n...

Day Two of the AASHTO meeting of the Council on Active Transportation and Committee on Planning Starts with a session about data needs and collection methods Speaker from StreetLight Data discusses changes in data collection and data availability due to privacy law changes

Final session today at the AASHTO Council of Active Transportation and Committee on Planning meeting is on Freight and Modal Interactions Moderator from New Jersey discusses how freight is now part of their Complete Streets policy For goods delivery, freight often involves walking

Next session with AASHTO "Integrating Active Transportation into State DOT Structures and Decision-Making" A survey of state DOTs conducted by AASHTO identified funding as the biggest gap and fiscal constraints as the biggest barrier to integrating active transportation