Now happening: the thing everyone predicted would happen - except for Doug Ford's government. #ONpoli

Transportation economics is flawed The “time is money” mantra is a terrible starting point for planning and designing infrastructure.

"Induced demand explains why building for people works. Design for human flourishing and you’ll induce more of it. Build more lanes to make car travel easy, and you’ll get more car trips. Redesign a street network to make cycling easy, and you’ll get more bike trips." -Andy Boenau

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

Cancel Reply Forbidden Jay Bluesky is made with Al, the engineers and even some non-engineers use Claude code Can you ask them to stop?

Asking the forbidden question

"Cyclists are welcome to follow the rules of the road" buddy I've got some bad news for you about the success rate of -drivers- following the rules of the road, but for some reason it's not OK for me to menace them and argue in public forums they shouldn't be allowed out there

a broken up piece of road next to the sidewalk.

People on bikes aren’t swerving to annoy drivers, they’re just trying not to die or destroy their mode of transportation.
This is generally what the bike portion looks like of our “shared” roads. Glorious.

Boise took its Pride flag down. But new art has popped up at City Hall. What it cost “The flag is not our only form of expression,” a Council Member previously said.

The famous Andor line is that "tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle." Here is a perfect example of that through malicious compliance: Idaho forced the city of Boise to remove its Pride flags. So the city painted rainbows everywhere else.

If you think this is exhausting, imagine being Iranian.

Anyway, we have ample research on how living under a state of sustained terror and stress causes life-long health problems as well as intergenerational epigenetic effects. This feels like it's making you sick because it actually is making you sick.

Viral photo from some years back of a man nonchalantly mowing his yard with a tornado on the horizon .

How it feels doing literally any task right now.

What’s it going to be like to have a regional chair who doesn’t care what you think? Taking away our ability to elect the most powerful municipal official in Waterloo Region is a betrayal of local democracy, Luisa D’Amato writes

What’s it going to be like to have a regional chair who doesn’t care what you think? Taking away our ability to elect the most powerful municipal official in Waterloo Region is a betrayal of local democracy, Luisa D’Amato writes. www.therecord.com/opinion/colu...

Doug Ford working hard to bring more congestion to a neighbourhood near you. #ONpoli

A starfield filled with thousands of stars and shining clouds of dust. The Milky Way\u2019s elegant spiral structure is dominated by just two arms wrapping off the ends of a central bar of stars. Spanning more than 100,000 light-years, Earth is located along one of the galaxy\u2019s spiral arms, about halfway from the center. Credit: NASA

OH. MY. GOD.

THIS IS THE MILKY WAY SHOT BY THE ARTEMIS II CREW. LOOK AT ALL THOSE STARS!!!!

This is so disappointing to hear, especially considering how overbuilt Benton is. I’m glad to hear though that lanes could still be installed when possible.

Ontario municipalities over the barrel, again Once again, Doug Ford wants to mess with local democracy. This time, it’s in Niagara Region, where amalgamation is touted without any clear benefits.

"Repeatedly, it has been shown that municipal amalgamations fail to save taxpayers’ money but only make municipal government more distant to the residents it serves." seanmarshall.ca/2026/03/16/o...

A mid 20th Century waitress points at a sign that says 'Sorry! You were rude to me so now you get no hot dog'

Europeans when asked to help unblock the strait of Hormuz:

A comic strip titled The Amazing World of Tomorrow. A food delivery robot cooler drives down a sidewalk. It crashes into a rental scooter. It backs up. It crashes into the rental scooter again. The scooter wobbles. The scooter falls to the ground as the food delivery robot backs up again. A driverless taxi crashes into both the scooter and the food delivery robot sending them flying.

The Amazing World of Tomorrow

Seats with snow hats.

U.S. Considers Withholding H.I.V. Aid Unless Zambia Expands Minerals Access

Wtaf

So much of our urban anxiety is just the background threat of cars. We're always guarding kids, pets, and ourselves from traffic.

What if we designed that danger out of the built environment? Give the space back to people and let carefree life thrive, no matter the age or physical ability.

Cities spend millions on plastic flex posts that get flattened in a week. Meanwhile, the cheapest, most effective design tool is a boulder. They protect people, enforce behavior, and actually survive doing their job.

If you're cold, they're cold.
Bring them inside. 🔥

This is what should happen if you honk at a pedestrian in a crosswalk or creep forward while they're crossing

Cars ruin society

Don't give anything an Emmy until it's as good as this.

If you go two and a half weeks without using your car, why do you have a car?

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

At that point we can hand over the 1st generation of ION LRV's to the Waterloo Central Railway as heritage units, and they can run up to Elmira on brand new tracks.