If you support Palestine, remember Hamas is more unpopular there than Bibi is in Israel, and the majority supports two states, to be achieved by negotiations. And if you support Israel, ditto. Terrorism failed on 7.10; let negotiations succeed at effecting two states. www.pcpsr.org/en/node/1018

Every time I go on the other place because of an interesting tweet, I start scrolling and immediately see some of the most awful, casual dehumanizing shit. Then I think back to when Elon tried to pull out of his buyout and Twitter sued him to force it and I just think it didn't have to be this way.

Lots of people drive cars in the US but that doesn't mean they want to. Car fanatics want us to believe that car-dominance is because customers love cars. But choices reveal desires only when there are real options. usa.streetsblog.org/2026/10/14/s...

New from me on @ggwash.org: WMATA's push for driverless trains must catalyze its reinvention. (A hat-tip to @alonlevy.bsky.social for introducing me to better maintenance practices.)

Metrorail’s driverless future is WMATA’s best hope for organizational reinvention

If WMATA fails to modernize itself along with its signals, a chaotic rollout of driverless train control and a scramble for costly repairs could lie in its future.

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If WMATA fails to modernize itself along with its signals, a chaotic rollout of driverless train control and a scramble for costly repairs could lie in its future.

Metrorail's driverless future is WMATA's best hope for organizational reinvention

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The silliest design for a municipal transportation event

When was the last time anyone updated these signs??

Sidebar: one of the highest-value things anybody could do for building code reform in America would be for an Ivy League or other equivalent university to snap up Mike Eriksen and all of his collaborators, to show other academics that research into building codes will be rewarded. Zoning reform...

Comments say truth so who am I to judge? www.instagram.com/reel/DbkaD-3...

Crazy Kennar 🇰🇪 on Instagram: "PUBLIC TRANSPORT IN DIFFERENT AFRICAN CITIES😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 @happy_country_ Cameo @onlylitboyofficial #STANDAGAINSTDEPRESSION #crazykennarmakingthecountryhappy"

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Making some stickers for a Vision Zero outreach booth! Thoughts? Any others I should do?

Why are we still calling this man a "Christian nationalist" and not what he very obviously is by both his beliefs and his words which is a white supremacist? People remain confused about what Christian nationalism is, but white supremacy is not nearly as open to debate.

Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Preaching that God has assigned black people to "a civilizational station of subordination and dependence" due to the Curse of Ham, Christian nationalist pastor Dale Partridge calls for a "return to European Christian colonization of African nations." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

Unpopular opinion, but there is still a lot we can do to fix US governance, from increasing the independence of administrative courts to mandating multi-member districts to banning micro targeting on social media. It's just that Congress won't actually do it. thehill.com/opinion/cong...

The Constitution has expired — we should write a new one

It’s time to set things right and write a new constitution for the 21st century.

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Again: our focus on law & order needs to start not at the beat cops but the actual system of justice and adjutication. www.notus.org/metro/dc-met...

Most Metro Fare Evasion Cases in D.C. Are Thrown Out

A convoluted process for citations — which bring a $50 fine — means few are adjudicated.

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Interesting. This was just reposted by the former director of San Francisco transportation agency. Transit executives all know this important insight. It's only the "green" politicians who don't.

Push The Needle@pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Bus emission concern is the absolute biggest waste of time

Maryland's planning process for the Chesapeake Bay Bridge buried transit options and boosted highways in an avalanche of models and suppositions so bad they're nearly parody. It needs to stop before it builds the biggest transport project in its history atop rotten data. ggwash.org/view/103837/...

Asphalt and inertia: The deeply flawed $16.4 billion Chesapeake Bay Bridge plan

This is not simply about the state’s passive acceptance of a decades-old, highways-first planning process. It is about how Maryland’s institutions, grinding through that process, doomed a transit alte...

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Not to be That Guy, but the principal reason we use flex posts rather than curbs is storm water management, which means adding or changing a curb is like an order of magnitude more expensive. The video is really about shit garbage truck procurement, and nobody asking sanitation about clear widths.

Marco Chitti@chittimarco.bsky.social · 5mo ago

US: flexpost is infrastructure Lyon: how about adding an edge on top of the curb, just to be extra sure nobody parks on the sidewalk?

Small town NIMBYism is a problem. youtube.com/shorts/h4SDm...

They know how to save rural communities. They just won’t do it.

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It's notable also because the UAE is firmly in the US alliance system, so that 1-2 orders of magnitude fewer leftists are screaming about the genocide in Darfur than about the Gaza war is not about Campism. I've seen more people here blame Israel for RSF (for being allied to the UAE) than the UAE.

Isaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer@isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 5mo ago

people associate tel aviv with murder and dubai with opulence, even though one of the two is 90% slaves and it isn't the former

Something I may never understand is the love of Putinism by European leftists. I *kind of* understand the love of leftist autocracies, but if you claim to be anti-racist and pro-LGBTQ+ rights, then Putinism (and Hamas, and the PRC) is the distillation of everything you claim to despise.

My sibling in Christ: I think you have bigger problems than cankles here.... (real ad spotted in the wild on @smbccomics.bsky.social)

Using AI to generate more ideas of Marin County hearaldry, this time for San Anselmo. The red for Red Hill; the Y for its history as a junction; Sugarloaf (of course) or a book (for St. Anselm); the wavy lines for the creek; gold for Bald Hill; and a wreath of redwood and bay laurel or poppies.

Is this an adherent of the libertarian tea party or just someone who happens to like snakes?

A couple of ideas for a Marin County Coat of Arms. The tower is the Civic Center spire; the scalloping on the shield are intended to evoke the Civic Center's roof. The electric wheel is for both the Interurban and the mountain bike. The wreath is bay laurel. Art is AI; symbolism is mine.

I firmly believe that Musk, and therefore Trump, is responsible for more death than any other single person this century so far.

Charlie Warzel@cwarzel.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I genuinely think some people do not want to look this in the eye/think about it because it is so awful. We wrote what I thought was a pretty eye-opening story about all this and I was surprised by the lack of engagement tbh

People occasionally ask me what you might need a fat-tired bike for...

Jarrett Walker@humantransit.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Your reminder that the mud along San Francisco Bay is a bit too deep for off-road cycling.

Sustainable Safety (and STOMP!) principles in action. This doesn't require better planning (though that's good). It requires fundamentally restructuring how engineers and politicians approach the compromises inherent in road design. For example: ggwash.org/view/101492/...

Complete Compromises: DC roads’ safety crisis is DDOT’s own making

Opinion: Don’t be reassured when DDOT says it’s committed to road safety. Under the Complete Streets road-design philosophy, the agency can weigh safety as just one among many priorities.

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Hackney Cyclist@hackneycyclist.bsky.social · 7mo ago

When Dutch engineers design a new road junction, cycling isn’t squeezed in at the edges - it’s built in from the start. That’s what it looks like when cycling is treated as real transport. 📍 Naaldwijk, Netherlands

If you're in the US, you can (usually) afford to repave. If you're in Ghana, urbanists need to think about something OECDers usually don't: paving to stop the bumpy bumpy. www.instagram.com/reel/DWjniwL...

People are fighting to save the Great Salt Lake. Good! California needs to do the same for Owens Lake and Mono Lake. A concerted effort to rebuild Tule Lake would be a major win for the state's natural world and the people (and peoples) who rely on them. www.nbcnews.com/science/envi...

The audacious plan to refill the Great Salt Lake

A "Herculean" goal to replenish the water in Utah's Great Salt Lake by the 2034 Olympics is gaining momentum and attracting strange bedfellows.

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One of the hardest things in our standards today is the lack of scalable widths for shared use paths based on volumes. It is critical we take paths and sidewalks as seriously as we do any street.

Gravel Influencer@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Cyclists and pedestrians are on the same side, and conflicts like these arise because we are all being crammed into small slivers of space not taken by cars. Cyclists need to be courteous, yes, but a lot of this is solved by better infrastructure. Also, most cyclists are not riding at 20 mph.

Parking management and bikeway design are necessary components of an effective plan.

Congestion can be reduced in Columbia Heights. Here’s how

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