Can we get Cristian off soon, too? 🙏

Pike Place Market just released new sales data for Feb 2026. Looks like Jan+Feb 2026 had 11% higher sales than Jan+Feb 2025 (before the pedestrian pilot)! Congrats Seattle, you managed to find a way to shop at the market in the dead of winter without driving your cars through the middle of it.

Oil just dropped 11% on news the Strait of Hormuz is “open.”

But “open” doesn’t mean normal.

Right now, 800+ tankers are stuck in the Gulf. The strait is effectively a 3-lane highway merging into 1. ~400 loaded ships trying to exit. ~100 empty ships willing to enter.

3 years until normal.

"Those taxes you just paid? The money is going straight into Trump's pocket" would be good messaging

Is Induced Travel Covered in Transportation Engineering Textbooks? Not Very Well - Kelcie Ralph, Ellen Oettinger White, 2026 Induced travel is the new travel that materializes after expanding infrastructure, and accounting for it is essential for accurately describing the long-term be...

Concerning findings @bloustein.rutgers.edu's Kelcie Ralph & @sunyofficial.bsky.social's E.O. White: the next generation of transportation engineers are, at best, getting an incomplete education about induced travel, and at worst aren't getting taught it at all.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Neighborhood scale upzonings increased housing production in many NYC neighborhoods

Upzoned block faces saw significant increases in housing unit permits in Philadelphia

How do upzonings impact housing supply?

In brand-new research published today @urbaninstitute.bsky.social, we show that big upzonings in New York City & Philadelphia had large, statistically significant effects on supply & permitting with several years of reforms.

www.urban.org/research/pub...

Congrats! NBD!!!

Whistleblower says Trump officials thought USAID did 'just abortions,' asked for 'Barney-style' slides before gutting agency, per new book Read an exclusive excerpt from Nicholas Enrich's "Into the Wood Chipper"

NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health.

'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

Fresh off his trip to Hungary where he begged Hungarians to back Viktor Orban, J.D. Vance has decided world leaders shouldn't meddle in other countries' politics.

Facility and route optimization on road network graphs can solve countless problems across many industries.

However, these solvers often require expensive software to set up and run them, or expensive, rate-limited travel-time matrix APIs.

The spopt-r R package offers a solution.

Quality bike lanes can magically create new cyclists out of thin air.

"The installation of protected and buffered bicycle lanes was consistently and significantly associated with increased bicycle commuting."

doi.org/10.1177/0361...

Is this theater the most San Francisco place in San Francisco? How has a small movie theater in the outer limits of the Outer Richmond survived 100 years, when so many others closed? It may be the most San Francisco spot in the city.

How has a small movie theater in the outer limits of the Outer Richmond survived 100 years, when so many others closed? It may be the most San Francisco spot in the city.

pic of Dana White, Rubio, and Trump

Secretary of State Marco Rubio at UFC in Miami tonight as diplomatic negotiations with Iran fail

(Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AFP via Getty)

Exclusive: Here’s what’s opening — and when — at S.F.’s big new food hall After years of anticipation, the team behind an ambitious new food hall overlooking San Francisco Bay in the Presidio is finally announcing when it will open and details about its food lineup.

After years of anticipation, the team behind an ambitious new food hall overlooking San Francisco Bay in the Presidio is finally announcing when it will open and details about its food lineup.

Vance, who wasn’t keen on Iran war, now tasked with trying to end it
The weekend’s peace talks in Islamabad mark Vance’s highest-profile assignment as vice president, with concomitant political risk.
Today at 5:00 a.m. ET

How Vance Became the Point Man to End a War He Didn’t Want The anti-interventionist vice president is now inextricably linked to the outcome of the war with Iran

JD Vance PR team really getting their moneys worth from American papers. Blatant propaganda.

Artemis II splashing down exactly when predicted, to the minute, after traveling like 700,000 miles is why we need dedicated bus lanes tbqh.

Dear GI How are you? Nice story about JE in NY mag. You look great on the picture. I know you are very busy flying all over the world. How was Palm Beach? I cannot wait to go down. Give me a call when you are back in NY. Have a great time! Love, Melania

Melania: “I never had a relationship with Ghislaine Maxwell.”

Almost all US refugees are now from South Africa, as Trump focuses on Afrikaners Virtually all of the refugees let into the U.S. over the past six months are from South Africa. President Trump prioritized white South Africans after dramatically cutting the program’s annual cap.

“All but three of the 4,499 refugees let into the United States this fiscal year so far have come from South Africa.” www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics...

Trend in average number of cars per household. City of Paris shown in light blue; Paris metropolis overall in middle blue; Paris metropolis outside of Paris in dark blue.

Trend in gas sales in Paris and the near suburbs, in thousands of tons.

Gas stations in Paris metropolis. Light blue dots show stations that were open in 2024. Dark blue dots show stations that closed between 2019 and 2024.

Paris metropolis: Striking reductions in car use due to proactive efforts to encourage bike, walking, transit:
—Less car ownership: From 0.5 cars/HH in Paris to 0.36, 1999–2022. Outside of Paris: 0.88➡️0.8
—35% less gas sold 2005–24
—15% fewer gas stations between 2019–24
www.apur.org/sites/defaul...

Love the acronym, and glad to see this coming to life!

BUILD Research Network - Better Urbanism, Infrastructure, and Land-use Decisions The BUILD (Better Urbanism, Infrastructure, and Land-use Decisions) Research Network connects researchers, policymakers, and funders working to improve housing, energy, and transportation systems.

Are you a researcher or policymaker working on housing, energy, or transportation issues?

Welcome to the BUILD Research Network! A project of
@ssrc.org w/ support from @arnoldventures.bsky.social, BUILD is a new platform for strengthening the research-to-policy pipeline.

build.ssrc.org

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Obviously not a substitute for Congress doing its job, but now would be a good time for Clinton, W, Obama, and Biden to say something jointly.

Washington Post Trump warns ‘a whole civilization will die’ if Iran doesn’t make a deal The president had issued a deadline of 8 p.m. Eastern time for Iran to open up the Strait of Hormuz, pledging destruction by midnight if leaders don’t comply. April 7, 2026 at 9:22 a.m. EDT26 minutes ago 2 min

Completely unstable and perilous. The House must bring up impeachment articles, and the Senate needs to remove a president who wants to commit war crimes. We cannot sit idly by as Donald Trump threatens to end an entire civilization.

Rad Power Bikes given new life after acquisition FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (BRAIN) — Life Electric Vehicles CEO Rob Provost has high expectations for Rad Power Bikes after officially acquiring the beleaguered brand for $13.3 million March 5. And he's lo...

Missed this a few weeks ago. I'm hoping this gives Rad bikes a new lease on life and they can sort out their finance and battery issues to remain viable as an affordable e-bike maker. www.bicycleretailer.com/industry-new...

I understand the impulse not to let this guy's statements dictate the news cycle but the fact that he can say shit like this and it barely causes a ripple in the media is a key to his ability to maintain power. Constantly pushing the bar of normality downwards, no pressure to take responsibility.

If you were reading a history of the Gilded Age and encountered a tycoon who kept pushing insane conspiracy theories about declining white birth rates and who used his vast influence to kill off nearly a million people in Africa, you'd very easily conclude that person was a white supremacist.

This kind of explicit gutter racism goes beyond what Buckley would have been willing to publish in his pro-Jim Crow days

Bike share Paris has made space for cyclists in a way that I simply have not seen in any other city

First dispatch from Paris! In which I become totally and unsurprisingly enamored with the bike infrastructure

Saving money on gas starts with smarter alternatives to owning a car.

With an e-bike that can handle groceries, commutes, and school drop-offs, you can transition to a one-car family, using it for daily trips and saving thousands each year.

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