Permanent daylight saving time would create about 2 billion more dark commutes for schoolchildren annually. And fatal car crashes are more likely to include pedestrians and bicyclists before sunrise than after, research shows.

Under permanent daylight saving time, kids’ commutes would be a lot darker

Concerns about children’s safety before sunrise should be part of the conversation about how the U.S. manages its time zones, some biologists say.

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Mayor Katie Wilson is here to celebrate the nine new blocks of bus lane. Route 8 buses travelled three times faster at peak traffic she said, thanks to the bus lane and road redesign.

Last year they had people doing hopscotch and line dancing beating this thing, now they need that British dude who ran the mile in 3:42

Doug Trumm@metropolitanglide.bsky.social · 2mo ago

More than 150 transit advocates are getting ready to race the Route 8 bus from Denny Park to Stewart Street. They're expecting to lose after a new bus lane sped up the bus.

Hey CLE - what if the RTA Rapid had a downtown subway with multiple stations instead of just the single stop downtown at Tower City? Join @allaboardohio.org on Sept 17 for a presentation on this concept. Registration link in replies.

As I constantly say eBike share are transformative. Also here is the contrast from no bike lane to a separated one.

The Big Four is becoming the Big Three, with Kone buying TKE. Oligopoly is converging on monopoly. The only way to reverse this is to harmonize with global standards to open our market up to mid-sized European and Asian players. www.kone.com/en/news-and-...

Inside information: KONE and TKE to combine, creating a world-class company in the elevator and escalator industry

Inside information: KONE and TKE to combine, creating a world-class company in the elevator and escalator industry

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Would you like to see more Transit Oriented Development along GCRTA‘s Red Line? Plz join @allaboardohio.org this Thurs at 6:30p at Lakewood Library for a discussion on this topic. Registration link in replies. Optional Zoom if you can’t join in person. Concept for E105 & Quincy

When I worked in a cafe in NE Seattle, I saw that the bulk of our customers were from the neighborhood and just walked to our location. Most of the cars parked in front were by people who never frequented our or any other store. Cars do not drive business (pun intended).

Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY. There was also a 71% drop in air pollution. Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

If you adopted, as your guiding heuristic, "not a single voter knows a single thing about policy or politics," you wouldn't be entirely accurate, but you would be closer to the truth than the impression most people who follow politics have.

Ok, let’s do this🙄 We’ll start with an explainer covering: 🕒What is a 15-minute city 🏫What on Earth is going on with Oxford 👽Where the conspiracy theories have come from And then we’ll look at the Telegraph article 🧵 1/25

I hate that we’re having to think in these terms, but the evidence seems to be bearing out that steep fare hikes are less damaging to ridership than service cuts.

David Zipper@davidzipper.bsky.social · 11mo ago

2025 was brutal for US transit. Agencies faced budget deficits, flat ridership, and open hostility from the White House. I wrote a series of stories outlining ways to help transit endure. Lesson #1: Whatever you do, don’t cut service. Riders will leave – permanently. Here are a few others 🧵

2025 was brutal for US transit. Agencies faced budget deficits, flat ridership, and open hostility from the White House. I wrote a series of stories outlining ways to help transit endure. Lesson #1: Whatever you do, don’t cut service. Riders will leave – permanently. Here are a few others 🧵

The Last Thing US Transit Agencies Should Do Now

Rising costs and widening deficits as pandemic aid runs out are challenging bus and train operators in many cities. But cutting service needs to be a last resort.

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Loved seeing another Oonee Pod in the wild! We need more secure bike parking all around our cities. In addition to better bike lanes, minimizing bike theft is another key to getting more people out cycling. Note @thewaroncars.bsky.social Advertisement! @shabazzstuart.bsky.social

Some have argued that traffic cameras are a regressive tax on low-income people. While I agree that fines could be somewhat commensurate with income, maybe people of any income could just stop driving 15 mph above the speed limit?

Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · last yr.

The fact that SF cameras have already caught thousands of people going more than 15 miles over the speed limit is a perfect illustration of why these cameras were needed in the first place. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/s...

12. Speaking of abnormally easy terrain for HSR: Chicago-Detroit and Chicago-Cleveland, both via Toledo.

TTC: turnstyle jumpers beware. Provincial Offence Officers on the scene. P.O.O. On every bus n train. You’ve been warned? Us: we don’t want POO on public transit. TTC: IT’S NOT FUNNY. This is your second warning! Us: So it’s warning… number 2? TTC: Yes. and there will not be a turd

Reminder: more than 60% of four year institutions let in at least 75% of applicants. A school with an admissions rate of 65% is one of the more selective schools in the country. College admissions shit is entirely elite neuroses about like 100 schools, or total bullshit.

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · last yr.

oh, we have some straightforward gutter racism. “the blacks and the browns are the reason white people can’t get ahead” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

look I can’t predict how this is going to go, but even as rhetoric it’s leagues above anything that leaders in the states have even sniffed at. They’ve been content to keep trying Rube Goldberg-esque tax credits in hopes of barely nudging the margins.

Mark Carney@mark-carney.bsky.social · 2y ago

We've solved a housing crisis before. Here’s how we’ll do it again.

A "direct inverse correlation" between fluoride exposure and low IQ" means the more fluoride you get, the higher your IQ. What he's looking for is a "direct correlation," but he doesn't know what any of these words mean or how science works.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2y ago

RFK Jr: "We found that there's a direct inverse correlation between fluoride exposure and low IQ in children. So the more you get, the stupider you are."

i'm often asked what are some shortcomings of seattle's single stair legislation that i'd like to see changed. to start - what's allowed. 6 stories. 4 units per stair/floor. corridor separating units from stair. pressurized stair. max 2 instances per parcel. text here: up.codes/viewer/seatt...

Chapter 10 Means of Egress: Means of Egress, Seattle Building Code 2021 | UpCodes

UpCodes offers a consolidated resource of construction and building code grouped by jurisdiction

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Can’t make it in person but still want to participate? Take the Access Ohio 2025 survey. Make special note of question number 8, when they ask about passenger rail and rank your choices! publicinput.com/v54281

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Access Ohio 2050 is the Ohio s long-range multi-modal transportation plan developed by the Ohio Department of Transportation that will guide the state s transportation policies and investments for the...

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Mark your calendars 🗓️ to attend one of the 12 in person events across the state for the Access Ohio 2050 planning sessions! Be sure to tell ODOT how we want more passenger rail in our state 🚊

It is fascinating to me how every conversation about cycling invites dozens of comments like this. It’s true that some cyclists are rude! It’s also true that this is not relevant to whether traffic laws should be changed bsky.app/profile/leth...

ex-Lethality Jane@lethalityjane.bsky.social · 2y ago

There is a certain type of cyclist who acts like a fucking asshole whenever sharing a space with pedestrians and whenever you mention it a million of them go "well cars are worse" okay thank you for screaming at my child for daring to walk on a mixed use path I guess.

rebranding the 15 min city.

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

They should have just called The Pitt “NewER”.

Regular reminder that Republicans are substantially less likely to understand how marginal tax rates work

DaveO@daveon.bsky.social · 2y ago

I have a doctor friend I had to explain marginal tax rates too. She’d got to 50 and really thought her tax rate was on all income.

It's funny how there's an inverse correlation with nominally supporting the idea of "degrowth" and the outcomes of the associated policies. To be clear, DOGE = degrowth, decel, and stagnation. Big fiscal policies like the Green New Deal = growth, acceleration, and abundance.

James Medlock@jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 2y ago

There’s a lot of great stuff coming out about “abundance” and meanwhile the titans of the tech industry have embraced bizarro world degrowtherism, blocking housing in their backyards, destroying basic science research, and fearmongering about vaccines. Sad!