Last week in Massachusetts a woman killed a 10-year-old girl days after police found her under the influence, asleep behind the wheel with her car in a crosswalk. Her license was not even suspended.
Mayor Mamdani and a group of children hold hands while running through red tape in a hallway.
For too long, bureaucracy kept 7 child care centers across our city empty — spaces that should have been alive with laughter instead collected dust.
We've run through that red tape. This fall, all 7 will open their doors, bringing an additional 240 free 3-K seats & real relief to working families.
Benches are microcosms of an expansive debate about who belongs in urban public spaces. When they are removed or made uninviting, we lose more than just a place to rest.
From journalist Gabrielle Bruney: "The Disappearance of the Public Bench"
National Library Workers Day sign
Library workers are a special kind of civil servant. Our mandate is to give you and everyone else free access to some of the best things you can have: learning, self-enrichment, community, contemplation, fun, and simple peace and quiet. the best way to appreciate us is to come use us. 🙂 📚
After seeing the aftermath of Abdul El-Sayed asking Olivia Reingold what she meant by a Jewish state, I became convinced it's a question that should be asked more often. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Book cover: "A Physical Education: How I Escaped Diet Culture and Gained the Power of Lifting" by Casey Johnston. Green, red, and purple of woman's back. In the upper left of pic is a yellow The War on Cars sticker.
Episode prep. I'm excited for this one!
cc: @caseyjohnston.bsky.social
I will absolutrly criticize people for attending. It’s a grotesque spectacle nobody who cares about press freedom should dignify with their presence.
Trump claimed "Operation Metro Surge" targeted the "worst of the worst." In reality, ICE ripped 70 kids away from their families, friends, and schools.
Our children deserve justice and accountability. That starts with abolishing ICE.
sahanjournal.com/immigration/...
LIFE AFTER CARS spraypainted in yellow on asphalt
Hey @thewaroncars.bsky.social I see signs of life in Harvard Square
Yellow, black and white cover of Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile. Features yellow circle saying "National Bestseller" and an image of a traffic light covered in vines.
It's been exactly 6 months since LIFE AFTER CARS was published.
Our book tour has taken us to 27 cities around North America and seen us do more than 100 press interviews with many more to come.
Thanks to everyone who's bought the book and spread the word!
www.lifeaftercars.com
Tucker Carlson is misleading people about having misled people. It's good that the MAGA coalition is fracturing, but you don't gotta hand it to any of these folks.
Note that Tucker's apology for misleading people is followed immediately by him saying "It was not intentional" in case you want to know how sincere he is.
There is no way to solve the "congestion problem" by expanding roadway capacity; no such approach exists.
No surprise, though, to watch an administration that denies the fact of climate change opt to reject the science on induced demand, too.
yeah, to a point made by @positivesubway.bsky.social, it wouldn't take much for someone with out of state plates to put a fake placard on the dash or park illegally in a visitor-only zone and just leave their car their forever.
This was the Citi Bike approach! Not if it was going to happen, but how. Community Boards had some input over individual station placement, but when DOT came to each board with the number of stations that needed to go in they said, "We're doing this."
"Public meetings frequently attract only a narrow group of participants—typically residents who have the time, resources, and political motivation to attend—rather than reflecting the full community affected by transportation projects."
Rachel Weinberger did a presentation to our CB many years ago and the big takeaway was that in a NYC context RPPs are a bad idea.
Repurpose parking into higher and better uses that benefit more than just car owners, leave spaces for loading zones, people with disability parking permits, and meter the spaces that remain to discourage long-term car storage. Remember that NYC didn't allow overnight parking until 1950!
And once again I'll say that paid residential parking permits would give drivers even more of a sense of entitlement and ownership of the curb, which would make it harder to put in bike lanes, bus lanes, bioswales, containerized garbage, etc.
Not saying it can't happen anywhere, but residential parking in neighborhoods where demand outstrips supply wouldn't work. Let's say you have 60 spaces on a block but 150+ households on the same block with cars. To limit demand you'd have to prince things so high it wouldn't fly politically.
My latest for Streetsblog! The recent DOT announcement that it is going to redesign Grand Army Plaza is excellent news. Now, with the leadership of Mayor Mamdani and Commissioner Mike Flynn, there's an opportunity to be even bolder. Let's not miss the moment.
So many book clubs are reading Life After Cars. It's been fun to see. Thank you to everyone for your support!
An under-regulated Waymo will be a disaster for cities just like under-regulated TNCs were. This has been staring us in the face for tears.
There are real safety problems here. But trying to make safety the main/only framing is distracting from the biggest structural risk: an explosion in VMT.
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#mobilitédurable
Lemme introduce you to my chariot, which moves 1 million butts per day.
As the old saying about Sean Duffy goes, "When you're scared of transit, every solution looks like a highway."
I think it's also possible that his fear/hatred of transit and cycling biases him toward being pro-car and highway building because he's an incurious, unintelligent buffoon.
NYC has fewer pedestrian deaths than LA not just on a per capita basis, but in aggregate.
In 2025,
NYC: 111 deaths
LA: >150 deaths
America is one giant experiment in induced demand. This time will be different somehow!
Not my line, but the only solution to traffic is viable alternatives to driving. Something tells me Sean Duffy isn't going all in on transit, bike lanes, or even road pricing and taxes to fund those things.