I may be the spouse of a librarian and therefore slightly biased, but given that the head of the bike cops unknowingly insulted my parenting choices as a cargo e-bike rider and said their officers aren't willing to put in any effort on traffic enforcement at a community meeting, 100%.

jad 📸@aerojad.bsky.social · 8h ago

the average librarian has done more good for their community by 3pm than the average cop does in a month

Great line from @bethosborne.bsky.social in this @strongtowns.org video Only adding carrots to transportation ignores the political conflicts, and precludes fundamental change. So we bounce from Dems building highways plus pennies for new stuff, and GOP going back to highways. youtu.be/8w1ss8BXCw8

Dealing with an injury that limits walking, but not driving or biking. If it weren't for cars I could use my bike or other mobility devices to get around. Because of cars, my only option now for most errands is a car, with all of the burdens operating high-speed heavy equipment entails.

Good interview with @humantransit.bsky.social , including implicitly how much reliance on pro-cyclical fare revenue to fund operations has harmed transit since COVID by forcing service cuts. Park and ride commuters only forced onto transit by rush hour traffic are not coming back! 🧵

The War on Cars@thewaroncars.bsky.social · yesterday

New episode up! We talk with transit planner Jarrett Walker, author of the recently reissued classic Human Transit, about why buses are so great, how we can make them better, & how advocates should fight for public transit in a hostile federal funding environment. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

“This is the kind of life I've had. Drunk, and in charge of a bicycle, as an Irish police report once put it. Drunk with life, that is, and not knowing where off to next. But you're on your way before dawn. And the trip? Exactly one half terror, exactly one half exhilaration.” ― Ray Bradbury

Stunning display of motornormativity here from the BBC. No, they are not "closing down streets" - if they were doing that they would be shut off from everyone. Rather, they are changing who is using the space. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Leeds: The city closing down streets so children can play

In Leeds, streets are being temporarily closed to traffic so kids have more space to safely play - an initiative proving beneficial to both children and adults.

bbc.co.uk

Awful crash. Awful that drivers can just flee anonymously. Protected multiuse paths are for protecting everyone not in a car. This road is a disaster, it should be fixed, and we need to replace the sort of "engineer" who stamped it with people who value human life. www.wsbradio.com/news/local/a...

Atlanta police searching for driver accused of hitting elderly man in wheelchair

The investigation is ongoing.

wsbradio.com

I've built a map displaying where on the Amtrak network you can take your bike, line-by-line and station-by-station. This data isn't available anywhere else, check out where you can go! amtrak-bike-map.transittools.dev

Amtrak Bicycle Access

Explore carry-on, checked, and station-level bicycle access across the Amtrak rail network.

amtrak-bike-map.transittools.dev

A forced 20 min ad watching before driving a car would be more effective than any road safety policy America will consider, and car makers could get on board with a new revenue stream from each new sale.

Matt Thrower@mattthr.bsky.social · yesterday

BWM cars now showing owners and unskippable ad for the new Spider Man Film whenever they start the vehicle. This shit needs to become illegal, yesterday, else how long before you have to watch it *before* you can start the vehicle.

Speed cameras are great. Compared to transit fares + large gates, the cameras are not physically hostile, less invasive of privacy, only fine people who violate rules, save many lives, and could raise more revenue. It's revealing how and why our carbrain legislators oppose ubiquitous speed cameras

David Zipper@davidzipper.bsky.social · yesterday

A story of cause and effect: Last November, Ontario banned cities from using speed safety cameras to issue tickets. Reckless speeding immediately surged in Toronto, Ottawa, Guelph, and cities throughout the province. A 🧵 about my latest in Bloomberg (gift link)

“It’s perverse that people who want to walk and cycle are penalised because the motor traffic is too polluting". National Highways closes cycling and walking routes beside heavily polluted roads lauralaker.substack.com/p/national-h...

National Highways closes walking and cycling routes beside heavily polluted roads

Roads body accused of 'perversely penalising' walkers and cyclists for motor traffic pollution

lauralaker.substack.com

www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/03/m... Tax revenue is more stable than fare revenue (eg the Covid drop) and distributionally better than user fees plus means tests. But maybe the key for Democrats allocating Federal funds is sending more transportation $ to cities, rather than the default of highways.

Pointing to Massachusetts’s fare-free experiment, Markey, Pressley press for a $25 billion federal free transit plan - The Boston Globe

The proposed legislation points to the success of free bus pilots that federal lawmakers say made Massachusetts a “national leader in fare-free transit policy."

bostonglobe.com

good new video about shade optimization for pedestrians in Singapore from NJB youtu.be/E_SJ1NBMrH0

Is This Peak Hot-Weather Urbanism?

YouTube video by Not Just Bikes

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Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 3d ago

Almost every city in the world needs to urgently understand the need to get really good at planning and designing for shade. #UrbanHeat

There are obvious engineering solutions to stop phone users from driving. To understand why they're outside the Overton window, imagine you're out and see somebody carrying a gun pointing it vaguely at you, while looking at their phone. How would you react, and why is it different?

Politics of Cars@thismachinekillsfascists.bike · 6d ago

Maybe big tech is forcing phone users to play audio without headphones in public and scroll while driving or maybe people rotting their brains on anti social networks are becoming more anti social

Papers? Please kids & Urbanism personal detail: I'll lug around a huge bag of things my kids might want if we're walking. But I'm temperamentally allergic to carrying my drivers license on me unless I have a specific need. Gross. Servile.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king@raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 3d ago

this is my new belief system btw i’m going chud but from an unexpected angle. ‘driving is soy’

An object lesson for understanding the relationship between being pro-kids and pro-urbanism in the US are the Villages, rich right wingers who replaced their need to use vehicular violence by paying a developer to segregate instead. Ban 55+ communities and tax breaks www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dcv-...

I went to America’s baby boomer "utopia"

YouTube video by Phil Edwards

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Addison Del Mastro@ad-mastro.bsky.social · 4d ago

American politics “un-bundles” these two issues in ways that can make it difficult to synthesize them, because of the distrust between left and right, and the mutual suspicion that each cause is a Trojan horse for a more radical cause.

Of all the tragedies involving cars, hot car deaths seem to be disproportionately charged as serious crimes. That's backwards, and reflects the same lack of introspection by drivers who think all crashes are accidents. Ban cars. Build alternatives. www.ajc.com/news/2026/08...

Attorney says mother in Lawrenceville hot car death made ‘good faith’ mistake

Deja Coleman, who is accused in her baby's death after he was left in a car outside her workplace, was described by her attorney as a sleep-deprived, single mother of three.

ajc.com

For context Tianjin is a city of 14 million. We talk about how many generations it'll take to rebuild and fix the harm that road construction and parking caused to US cities. But maybe it's clearer to talk about how long it'll take to elect politicians who aren't carbrains. Then, just do it.

Melissa & Chris Bruntlett@modacitylife.com · 4d ago

In 2015, Tianjin launched the Urban Transport Improvement Project—the largest active mobility investment ever supported by the World Bank. Instead of focusing solely on roads or transit, it sought to create an integrated system where walking, cycling, buses and metro would work seamlessly together.🧵

This, from @kevinmkruse.bsky.social , captures the root political problem still blocking American transportation reform. Segregationist carbrains both want all the subsidies for themselves, and to block poorer non-drivers from being able to move around. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

James Longhurst@jameslonghurst.bsky.social · 4d ago

I just emailed you. Maybe what you're looking for is Kevin Kruse? White Flight and The New Suburban History? press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Does anybody have a book recommendation about the rise and fall of US school buses, as the leading form of mass transportation? Ie what about US sprawl and transportation led them to be popular here? To what extent are recent cuts caused by the same people who don't want taxes to fund transit? etc

Thrasher is no longer here? yes, cops drive instead of walking. Although if they did walk then even more of them would die in car crashes. In US car dominance, drivers and traffic "engineers" disproportionately kill poorer darker skinned non-drivers without a steel cage for protection

Has anybody seen an estimate of how much Ukranian attacks are reducing Russian oil exports?

@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social sorry to pester with a question, but this is for political science. Do you like bike lanes? compare to bsky.app/profile/radi...

Wandering Hoo@wanderlib.bsky.social · 5d ago

Nichols lost his party to fascists and at no point has he reevaluated his views or really examined why. Kristol lost his party to fascists and internalized a lot of previous criticisms from liberals. Nichols wants to be a Republican again. Kristol doesn't.

Nobody uses the unprotected bike lane youtu.be/SChm4DyivOU

Pro Riders vs Impossible Bike Obstacle Course Race

YouTube video by Red Bull Bike

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PSA: getting the largest truck is about choosing violence, not about protecting your family. Like leaving loaded guns around the house, the statistics do not align with the delusions of people who think they're the heroes of an action movie. www.iihs.org/news/detail/...

Supersizing vehicles offers minimal safety benefits — but substantial dangers

The safety benefits of larger vehicles top out quickly once curb weights exceed the fleet average, a new IIHS study shows.

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David Zipper@davidzipper.bsky.social · 5d ago

Which vehicles most endanger the drivers of other cars? Giant pickup trucks — and the Dodge Charger Source: www.iihs.org/news/detail/...

A more political version of the Insurance theory, to @obcycler.bsky.social 's point about liability as a third prong to road design and enforcement, is that if drivers regularly paid fair premiums they would demand safer streets from politicians as a matter of self-interest.

Politics of Cars@thismachinekillsfascists.bike · 5d ago

Yes, plus the mandatory minimums in the Netherlands are ~100x the US (varies by state). 5 million euros personal injury liability coverage! Under-compensation to victims is a subsidy for US drivers, and the most dangerous drivers get the largest subsidy. www.finassverzekert.nl/en/blogs/ins...

Does anybody doubt that he'd do it? US auto manufacturing is falling further behind and will collapse whenever tariff barriers fall. This one US manufacturer has a major EV factory that can hire talent in the world's top market. It might get sold for the sake of financial engineering shenanigans.

John Voelcker@johnvoelcker.bsky.social · 5d ago

So @wsj.com reported that #Tesla might sell its China operations to make it easier to merge the company into #SpaceX. CEO Musk denied it angrily, as is his wont. It would definitely help SpaceX. The shareholders, however? Not so much, at least per this @liamdenning.bsky.social piece. [GIFT LINK]

US school buses have higher daily ridership than transit on school days. Much higher in many cities. It's a successful US transportation policy for reducing driving. Is it fair that some families with expensive SUVs drive while classmates ride a free bus? No, because the *drivers* should pay more.

Politics of Cars@thismachinekillsfascists.bike · 6d ago

Advocates of fare revenue over tax revenue might tell you that US schools should defund buses and spend budgets on classroom instruction, like better performing schools in peer countries. But free high-quality bussing should be part of public schools in the US! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

We should have more lifetime bans from driving. One advantage is that killers like this could put their energy towards improving alternatives for themselves, like transit or bike lanes, rather than advocating for killing more people through car dominance.

Chris@chrisbybikes.bsky.social · 6d ago

He killed a passenger in his car and was found guilty of vehicular manslaughter. The passenger was Pulitzer Prize winning journalist David Halberstam.

Maybe big tech is forcing phone users to play audio without headphones in public and scroll while driving or maybe people rotting their brains on anti social networks are becoming more anti social