A New Jersey bill meant to stop e-moto deaths among teens ended up requiring driver's licenses for people on e-bikes. The state regulated a visible driver nuisance rather than the vehicles actually causing harm. usa.streetsblog.org/2026/08/05/s...

State Lawmakers Aim At Illegal E-Motos, But Hit E-Bikes Instead — Streetsblog USA

A deceptive and widespread marketing tactic has tricked families into purchasing dangerous e-motos and fooled lawmakers into pushing laws that would make streets even less safe.

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The use of biological metaphors in traffic engineering is irritating af. “Arterials?” As in arteries? Really? If we must use biological metaphors, arterials should be rebranded as “lacerationals” on the face of our communities.

Walking through a town without any semblance of a walking culture is a rather fraught exercise, one I, for reasons unknown to me, commit to daily.

Air conditioned buses in NC in August. 🤌🏼

Vision Zero has had a mixed record in U.S. cities. Perhaps it's time to ask more fundamental questions about the purpose of our public spaces. The latest Infrastructure and Its Discontents essay is up: sethlajeunesse.substack.com/p/what-and-w...

What and Who is a Street For?

Infrastructure and Its Discontents, Essay No. 10

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Can we agree that satisfying legal definitions of “accessible” does not automatically render such places “usable?”

Milwaukee's mayor protecting "decades of established traffic patterns" from a boulevard that would free 16 acres and add $16M/year in tax revenue. Which patterns count as the unquestioned default, and which have to prove themselves? usa.streetsblog.org/2026/07/23/m...

Milwaukee Mayor Abandons Highway Teardown To Calm Irrational Fears Of Driver Class — Streetsblog USA

Mayor Cavalier Johnson has set aside years of findings that highway removals help revitalize Rust Belt downtowns for the 21st century.

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Rebuilding the BQE costs 3x what removing it and building light rail would. Off-Ramp NYC ran the numbers. Street-level transit beats elevated highways every time: cheaper, pays for itself in tax and farebox revenue. We need to make highway removal a thing. www.nydailynews.com/2026/07/21/t...

The BQE’s broken math (and opportunity)

For decades, the city Department of Transportation has asked, “How should we rebuild the crumbling triple cantilever of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE)?”

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It’s 12:27am in Madrid, Spain, and fewer than 3% of Madrileños have had dinner.

Good morning. “The south is not red; it’s voter suppressed.” -Amanda Nelson

The bike, a #MultiSolving tool, that provides freedom, independence, and social interaction for many people, and with safe infrastructure could provide same for more people. #ClimateAction #Transportation #Financial #Community #WellBeing @sethlaj.bsky.social @finnbike.bsky.social

Bill McKibben@billmckibben.bsky.social · 3w ago

The bike: miracle or DEI? (Or both!) open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...

Surface parking has cratered 50% of Carrboro, NC’s downtown. Ergo, I walk 50% more steps than I would have if 0% of downtown was cratered by parking. Turns out surface parking is a public health win! 🏅

A freeway split Santa Monica's Pico Neighborhood 60 years ago. The city just funded a study asking: repair it, or undo it? Where else are we choosing the band-aid because removal feels too big to study? www.smdp.com/santa-monica...

Santa Monica Accepts $2M Federal Grant for I-10 Capping Study

Santa Monica City Council unanimously approved a $2 million federal grant to study capping the Interstate 10 freeway with parks between 11th and 20th streets in the Pico Neighborhood.

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This is Greenville, SC’s Saturday farmers’ market. This is Downtown. This is Main Street. Nary a car passing through or edging into a parking spot in sight. This shouldn’t be exceptional.

Note the crossing signs on the side of this Main Street in Carrboro, NC. Also note the lack of a marked crosswalk. Question: when only ~20% of drivers yield to peds WITH a marked crosswalk at this location, what % are likely to yield WITHOUT a marked crosswalk?

BRT is often dismissed as the "cheap option." Guadalajara built one that serves 325K trips/day with universal accessibility across 46 stations. Maybe the consolation prize framing is the problem. itdp.org/2026/06/23/i...

In Conversation with Diego Monraz Villaseñor, Secretary of Transport for Jalisco, Mexico

In the metropolitan area of Guadalajara, located in Mexico’s State of Jalisco, the region’s newest bus rapid transit (BRT) corridor, Mi Macro Periférico, officially launched in 2022. It has become one...

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Worth remembering that a lot of people do not “prefer” to drive despite their driving behavior. No, these people drive because all alternatives have been made objectively unsafe, uncomfortable, impractical, or all three. Read: “revealed preference” is bs.

If we are serious about seeing more than 1-3% cycling mode share, we need to rally behind “minimum viable network density” policies. No more of these separated bike lane islands.

Not sure what those in power expect people, including those of us more and less able bodied, to do here, but…

I don't have time to write more, but I wanted to shar this essay with you all.

Seth LaJeunesse@sethlaj.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A teenager can hear his classmates playing baseball from his stoop. The road between them has no crosswalk, no signal, trucks doing 40. He sometimes makes it across. When he does, someone tells him to get in left field. New essay ↓

A teenager can hear his classmates playing baseball from his stoop. The road between them has no crosswalk, no signal, trucks doing 40. He sometimes makes it across. When he does, someone tells him to get in left field. New essay ↓

The "right to the city" started as a radical demand. Now it shows up in displacement-inducing development proposals and community organizing campaigns against it. What happened to the concept and does it still impart critical force? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The right to the city: Prospects and provocations from the journals of the Urban Affairs Association

The “right to the city” is a powerful political slogan with intuitive emotional appeal. Originating from the writing of Henri Lefebvre, the concept has gained both remarkable traction and profound ...

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Cities track every car parking space but often have no idea where cyclists can lock up. Las Vegas residents are fixing that themselves. This is both civic spirit and the city outsourcing its own planning failure. usa.streetsblog.org/2026/06/01/t...

These Advocates Are Mapping — and Grading — Every Bike Rack In Town — Streetsblog USA

...and you can, too. Here's why that's so vital.

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I’m heartened to see a growing number of people beginning to recognize the biggest contributor to road trauma: Driving. Multi-ton machines. Where people live.

It’s remarkable to consider how the U.S. was just as bad as their wealthy peers in the ‘90s, but damn have we shown our American exceptionalism in recent decades!

Cosáin Climate@cosaingalway.bsky.social · 5mo ago

International best practice (OECD/ITF) is to use three main indicators: Total road deaths (absolute scale of the problem) Deaths per 100,000 population (public health burden) Deaths per billion vehicle km travelled (risk per exposure). The USA is a notable outlier among developed nations.

California may gut its climate transit fund to hand free pollution permits to oil companies. Gas prices are the excuse. Transit riders, housing advocates, and the climate will no doubt pay the price. cal.streetsblog.org/2026/05/26/c...

California Climate Funding Fight Pits Transit and Housing Advocates Against Oil Industry Giveaways - Streetsblog California

In a time when global events are screaming, "WE NEED TO MOVE AWAY FROM FOSSIL FUELS," California considers a measure to cut transit (and affordable housing) funding to reduce oil prices.

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Hey look: A floating bus boarding island with protected bike lane in Chapel Hill, NC. More of these—thanks!

“…make driving less necessary.” @peternorton.bsky.social reminding us what we’ve known for more than a century.

Grant Ennis@grantennis.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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New essay Thursday: a girl who lives beside a highway, who has woods behind her house she has stopped going to, who wonders what the birds are saying and has no way to get close enough to find out. The argument isn't about mobility. It's about who the infrastructure won't let her become.

The BUILD America 250 Act promises "safe, accessible transit and bike infrastructure." That's a floor statement. The actual allocation happens in markup. Now is when it matters, not after the vote. transportationtodaynews.com/news/37819-r...

Reps. Graves, Larsen announce bipartisan Surface Transportation Reauthorization Act - Transportation Today

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